Valentin Imbach

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1since 2021 · last 2025
0009-0008-7357-6867ORCID · reported

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Theory of computation · 1 · 1 since 2021

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Theoretical computer science
1 paper
Computational complexity · 91% Combinatorics and discrete mathematics · 9%

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TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Computational complexity
communication complexity
0.912025
Sign-Rank of k-Hamming Distance is Constant · FOCS 2025
Computational complexity › communication complexity
randomized communication complexity
0.912025
Sign-Rank of k-Hamming Distance is Constant · FOCS 2025
Computational complexity › communication complexity
sign-rank
0.912025
Sign-Rank of k-Hamming Distance is Constant · FOCS 2025
Combinatorics and discrete mathematics
matrix theory
0.312025
Sign-Rank of k-Hamming Distance is Constant · FOCS 2025
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2025 Sign-Rank of k-Hamming Distance is Constant
abstract
We prove that the sign-rank of the k Hamming Distance matrix on n bits is $2^{O(k)}$, independent of the number of bits n. This strongly refutes the conjecture of Hatami, Hatami, Pires, Tao, and Zhao (random 2022), and Hatami, Hosseini, and Meng (STOC 2023), repeated in several other papers, that the sign-rank should depend on n. This conjecture would have qualitatively separated margin from sign-rank (or, equivalently, bounded-error from unbounded-error randomized communication). In fact, our technique gives constant sign-rank upper bounds for all matrices which reduce to k-Hamming Distance, as well as large-margin matrices recently shown to be irreducible to k-Hamming Distance.
Mika Göös, Nathaniel Harms, Valentin Imbach, Dmitry Sokolov 0001
FOCS3