How to generate cryptographically strong sequences of pseudo-random bits
SIAM Journal on Computing
Average case complete problems
SIAM Journal on Computing
Journal of Computer and System Sciences
Oracles and queries that are sufficient for exact learning
Journal of Computer and System Sciences
Pseudorandom generators without the XOR lemma
Journal of Computer and System Sciences - Special issue on the fourteenth annual IEE conference on computational complexity
Relations between average case complexity and approximation complexity
STOC '02 Proceedings of the thiry-fourth annual ACM symposium on Theory of computing
Pseudo-random generators for all hardnesses
STOC '02 Proceedings of the thiry-fourth annual ACM symposium on Theory of computing
Foundations of Cryptography: Basic Tools
Foundations of Cryptography: Basic Tools
In search of an easy witness: exponential time vs. probabilistic polynomial time
Journal of Computer and System Sciences - Complexity 2001
Randomness vs. Time: De-Randomization under a Uniform Assumption
FOCS '98 Proceedings of the 39th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science
A personal view of average-case complexity
SCT '95 Proceedings of the 10th Annual Structure in Complexity Theory Conference (SCT'95)
Pseudorandomness and Average-Case Complexity via Uniform Reductions
CCC '02 Proceedings of the 17th IEEE Annual Conference on Computational Complexity
FOCS '01 Proceedings of the 42nd IEEE symposium on Foundations of Computer Science
More on Average Case vs Approximation Complexity
FOCS '03 Proceedings of the 44th Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science
On Worst-Case to Average-Case Reductions for NP Problems
FOCS '03 Proceedings of the 44th Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science
Foundations of Cryptography: Volume 2, Basic Applications
Foundations of Cryptography: Volume 2, Basic Applications
Simple extractors for all min-entropies and a new pseudorandom generator
Journal of the ACM (JACM)
On Constructing Parallel Pseudorandom Generators from One-Way Functions
CCC '05 Proceedings of the 20th Annual IEEE Conference on Computational Complexity
If NP Languages are Hard on the Worst-Case Then It is Easy to Find Their Hard Instances
CCC '05 Proceedings of the 20th Annual IEEE Conference on Computational Complexity
Holographic Proofs and Derandomization
SIAM Journal on Computing
On the solution-space geometry of random constraint satisfaction problems
Proceedings of the thirty-eighth annual ACM symposium on Theory of computing
Theory and application of trapdoor functions
SFCS '82 Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science
On proving circuit lower bounds against the polynomial-time hierarchy: positive and negative results
COCOON'03 Proceedings of the 9th annual international conference on Computing and combinatorics
Super-polynomial versus half-exponential circuit size in the exponential hierarchy
COCOON'99 Proceedings of the 5th annual international conference on Computing and combinatorics
On learning random DNF formulas under the uniform distribution
APPROX'05/RANDOM'05 Proceedings of the 8th international workshop on Approximation, Randomization and Combinatorial Optimization Problems, and Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Randamization and Computation: algorithms and techniques
The 1-versus-2 queries problem revisited
ISAAC'07 Proceedings of the 18th international conference on Algorithms and computation
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We prove several results about the average-case complexity of problems in the Polynomial Hierarchy (PH). We give a connection among average-case, worst-case, and non-uniform complexity of optimization problems. Specifically, we show that if PNP is hard in the worst-case then it is either hard on the average (in the sense of Levin) or it is non-uniformly hard (i.e. it does not have small circuits). Recently, Gutfreund, Shaltiel and Ta-Shma (IEEE Conference on Computational Complexity, 2005) showed an interesting worst-case to average-case connection for languages in NP, under a notion of average-case hardness defined using uniform adversaries. We show that extending their connection to hardness against quasi-polynomial time would imply that NEXP doesn't have polynomial-size circuits. Finally we prove an unconditional average-case hardness result. We show that for each k, there is an explicit language in P$^{\Sigma_2}$ which is hard on average for circuits of size nk.