We study the problem of function inversion with preprocessing where, given a function $f : [N] \to [N]$ and a point $y$ in its image, the goal is to find an $x$ such that $f(x) = y$ using at most $T$ oracle queries to $f$ and $S$ bits of preprocessed ... more >>>
We demonstrate that under believable cryptographic hardness assumptions, Gap versions of standard meta-complexity problems, such as the Minimum Circuit Size problem (MCSP) and the Minimum Time-Bounded Kolmogorov Complexity problem (MKTP) are not NP-complete w.r.t. Levin (i.e., witness-preserving many-to-one) reductions.
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- Assuming the existence of indistinguishability obfuscation, and ...
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We give a corrected proof that if PP $\subseteq$ BQP/qpoly, then the Counting Hierarchy collapses, as originally claimed by [Aaronson, CCC 2006]. This recovers the related unconditional claim that PP does not have circuits of any fixed size $n^k$ even with quantum advice. We do so by proving that YQP*, ... more >>>