Rahul Santhanam

Orcid: 0000-0002-8716-6091

Affiliations:
  • University of Oxford, UK


According to our database1, Rahul Santhanam authored at least 99 papers between 2001 and 2025.

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2025
AC<sup>0</sup>[p]-Frege Cannot Efficiently Prove that Constant-Depth Algebraic Circuit Lower Bounds are Hard.
CoRR, September, 2025

Computational Complexity of Discrete Problems (Dagstuhl Seminar 25111).
Dagstuhl Reports, March, 2025

How to Construct Random Strings.
Proceedings of the 40th Computational Complexity Conference, 2025

2024
Impagliazzo's Worlds Through the Lens of Conditional Kolmogorov Complexity.
Proceedings of the 51st International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming, 2024

From Proof Complexity to Circuit Complexity via Interactive Protocols.
Proceedings of the 51st International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming, 2024

On the Complexity of Avoiding Heavy Elements.
Proceedings of the 65th IEEE Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, 2024

2023
Computational Complexity of Discrete Problems (Dagstuhl Seminar 23111).
Dagstuhl Reports, March, 2023

Towards P $\neq$ NP from Extended Frege Lower Bounds.
Electron. Colloquium Comput. Complex., 2023

Polynomial-Time Pseudodeterministic Construction of Primes.
Proceedings of the 64th IEEE Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, 2023

An Algorithmic Approach to Uniform Lower Bounds.
Proceedings of the 38th Computational Complexity Conference, 2023

Pebbles and Branching Programs for Tree Evaluation.
Proceedings of the Logic, 2023

2022
Robustness of average-case meta-complexity via pseudorandomness.
Proceedings of the STOC '22: 54th Annual ACM SIGACT Symposium on Theory of Computing, Rome, Italy, June 20, 2022

A Relativization Perspective on Meta-Complexity.
Proceedings of the 39th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science, 2022

Excluding PH Pessiland.
Proceedings of the 13th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference, 2022

Errorless Versus Error-Prone Average-Case Complexity.
Proceedings of the 13th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference, 2022

Learning Algorithms Versus Automatability of Frege Systems.
Proceedings of the 49th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming, 2022

Why MCSP Is a More Important Problem Than SAT (Invited Talk).
Proceedings of the 42nd IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science, 2022

On the Range Avoidance Problem for Circuits.
Proceedings of the 63rd IEEE Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, 2022

On Randomized Reductions to the Random Strings.
Proceedings of the 37th Computational Complexity Conference, 2022

2021
Hardness on any Samplable Distribution Suffices: New Characterizations of One-Way Functions by Meta-Complexity.
Electron. Colloquium Comput. Complex., 2021

Computational Complexity of Discrete Problems (Dagstuhl Seminar 21121).
Dagstuhl Reports, 2021

Iterated lower bound formulas: a diagonalization-based approach to proof complexity.
Proceedings of the STOC '21: 53rd Annual ACM SIGACT Symposium on Theory of Computing, 2021

Strong co-nondeterministic lower bounds for NP cannot be proved feasibly.
Proceedings of the STOC '21: 53rd Annual ACM SIGACT Symposium on Theory of Computing, 2021

Pseudodeterministic algorithms and the structure of probabilistic time.
Proceedings of the STOC '21: 53rd Annual ACM SIGACT Symposium on Theory of Computing, 2021

Constructive Separations and Their Consequences.
Proceedings of the 62nd IEEE Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, 2021

Hardness of KT Characterizes Parallel Cryptography.
Proceedings of the 36th Computational Complexity Conference, 2021

On the Pseudo-Deterministic Query Complexity of NP Search Problems.
Proceedings of the 36th Computational Complexity Conference, 2021

On the Structure of Learnability Beyond P/Poly.
Proceedings of the Approximation, 2021

2020
Pseudorandomness and the Minimum Circuit Size Problem.
Proceedings of the 11th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference, 2020

Beyond Natural Proofs: Hardness Magnification and Locality.
Proceedings of the 11th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference, 2020

Circuit Lower Bounds from NP-Hardness of MCSP Under Turing Reductions.
Proceedings of the 35th Computational Complexity Conference, 2020

2019
Computational Complexity of Discrete Problems (Dagstuhl Seminar 19121).
Dagstuhl Reports, 2019

Expander-Based Cryptography Meets Natural Proofs.
Proceedings of the 10th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference, 2019

Why are Proof Complexity Lower Bounds Hard?
Proceedings of the 60th IEEE Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, 2019

Parity Helps to Compute Majority.
Proceedings of the 34th Computational Complexity Conference, 2019

Hardness Magnification near State-Of-The-Art Lower Bounds.
Proceedings of the 34th Computational Complexity Conference, 2019

2018
Proof Complexity (Dagstuhl Seminar 18051).
Dagstuhl Reports, 2018

Deterministically Counting Satisfying Assignments for Constant-Depth Circuits with Parity Gates, with Implications for Lower Bounds.
Proceedings of the 43rd International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science, 2018

An Average-Case Lower Bound Against \mathsf ACC^0 ACC 0.
Proceedings of the LATIN 2018: Theoretical Informatics, 2018

Hardness Magnification for Natural Problems.
Proceedings of the 59th IEEE Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, 2018

NP-hardness of Minimum Circuit Size Problem for OR-AND-MOD Circuits.
Proceedings of the 33rd Computational Complexity Conference, 2018

Pseudo-Derandomizing Learning and Approximation.
Proceedings of the Approximation, 2018

2017
An Average-Case Lower Bound against ACC^0.
Electron. Colloquium Comput. Complex., 2017

Pseudodeterministic constructions in subexponential time.
Proceedings of the 49th Annual ACM SIGACT Symposium on Theory of Computing, 2017

Conspiracies Between Learning Algorithms, Circuit Lower Bounds, and Pseudorandomness.
Proceedings of the 32nd Computational Complexity Conference, 2017

On the Average-Case Complexity of MCSP and Its Variants.
Proceedings of the 32nd Computational Complexity Conference, 2017

2016
Special Section on the Forty-Fourth Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC 2012).
SIAM J. Comput., 2016

Satisfiability on Mixed Instances.
Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science, 2016

Exponential Time Paradigms Through the Polynomial Time Lens.
Proceedings of the 24th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms, 2016

New Non-Uniform Lower Bounds for Uniform Classes.
Proceedings of the 31st Conference on Computational Complexity, 2016

Average-Case Lower Bounds and Satisfiability Algorithms for Small Threshold Circuits.
Proceedings of the 31st Conference on Computational Complexity, 2016

2015
Beating Exhaustive Search for Quantified Boolean Formulas and Connections to Circuit Complexity.
Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, 2015

Improved Algorithms for Sparse MAX-SAT and MAX-k-CSP.
Proceedings of the Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing - SAT 2015, 2015

Majority is Incompressible by AC^0[p] Circuits.
Proceedings of the 30th Conference on Computational Complexity, 2015

2014
Majority is incompressible by AC<sup>0</sup>[p] circuits.
Electron. Colloquium Comput. Complex., 2014

Hierarchies Against Sublinear Advice.
Electron. Colloquium Comput. Complex., 2014

Optimal algorithms and proofs (Dagstuhl Seminar 14421).
Dagstuhl Reports, 2014

On Uniformity and Circuit Lower Bounds.
Comput. Complex., 2014

2013
New Algorithms for QBF Satisfiability and Implications for Circuit Complexity.
Electron. Colloquium Comput. Complex., 2013

On Medium-Uniformity and Circuit Lower Bounds.
Proceedings of the 28th Conference on Computational Complexity, 2013

2012
Pebbles and Branching Programs for Tree Evaluation.
ACM Trans. Comput. Theory, 2012

Uniform Circuits, Lower Bounds, and QBF Algorithms.
Electron. Colloquium Comput. Complex., 2012

Ironic Complicity: Satisfiability Algorithms and Circuit Lower Bounds.
Electron. Colloquium Comput. Complex., 2012

Macroscopes: models for collective decision making
CoRR, 2012

Stronger Lower Bounds and Randomness-Hardness Trade-Offs Using Associated Algebraic Complexity Classes.
Proceedings of the 29th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science, 2012

Instance Compression for the Polynomial Hierarchy and beyond.
Proceedings of the Parameterized and Exact Computation - 7th International Symposium, 2012

Marginal hitting sets imply super-polynomial lower bounds for permanent.
Proceedings of the Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science 2012, 2012

On the Limits of Sparsification.
Proceedings of the Automata, Languages, and Programming - 39th International Colloquium, 2012

Lower Bounds on Interactive Compressibility by Constant-Depth Circuits.
Proceedings of the 53rd Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, 2012

2011
Stronger Lower Bounds and Randomness-Hardness Tradeoffs using Associated Algebraic Complexity Classes.
Electron. Colloquium Comput. Complex., 2011

Permanent Does Not Have Succinct Polynomial Size Arithmetic Circuits of Constant Depth.
Proceedings of the Automata, Languages and Programming - 38th International Colloquium, 2011

Robust Simulations and Significant Separations.
Proceedings of the Automata, Languages and Programming - 38th International Colloquium, 2011

Exponential Lower Bounds for AC<sup>0</sup>-Frege Imply Superpolynomial Frege Lower Bounds.
Proceedings of the Automata, Languages and Programming - 38th International Colloquium, 2011

2010
Effectively Polynomial Simulations.
Proceedings of the Innovations in Computer Science, 2010

Bounding Rationality by Discounting Time.
Proceedings of the Innovations in Computer Science, 2010

Fighting Perebor: New and Improved Algorithms for Formula and QBF Satisfiability.
Proceedings of the 51th Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, 2010

The Complexity of Explicit Constructions.
Proceedings of the Programs, Proofs, Processes, 6th Conference on Computability in Europe, 2010

2009
Branching Programs for Tree Evaluation.
Proceedings of the Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science 2009, 2009

Fractional Pebbling and Thrifty Branching Programs.
Proceedings of the IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science, 2009

Unconditional Lower Bounds against Advice.
Proceedings of the Algebraic Methods in Computational Complexity, 11.10. - 16.10.2009, 2009

Fixed-Polynomial Size Circuit Bounds.
Proceedings of the 24th Annual IEEE Conference on Computational Complexity, 2009

2008
Infeasibility of instance compression and succinct PCPs for NP.
Proceedings of the 40th Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing, 2008

2007
Time Hierarchies: A Survey.
Electron. Colloquium Comput. Complex., 2007

Circuit lower bounds for Merlin-Arthur classes.
Proceedings of the 39th Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing, 2007

2006
Fixed-Polynomial Size Circuit Bounds.
Electron. Colloquium Comput. Complex., 2006

Uniform Hardness Amplification in NP via Monotone Codes.
Electron. Colloquium Comput. Complex., 2006

Graph splicing systems.
Discret. Appl. Math., 2006

Graph model selection using maximum likelihood.
Proceedings of the Machine Learning, 2006

Some Results on Average-Case Hardness Within the Polynomial Hierarchy.
Proceedings of the FSTTCS 2006: Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science, 2006

Making Hard Problems Harder.
Proceedings of the 21st Annual IEEE Conference on Computational Complexity (CCC 2006), 2006

2005
Holographic Proofs and Derandmization.
SIAM J. Comput., 2005

Hierarchies for semantic classes.
Proceedings of the 37th Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing, 2005

2004
Promise Hierarchies
Electron. Colloquium Comput. Complex., 2004

Hierarchy Theorems for Probabilistic Polynomial Time.
Proceedings of the 45th Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, 2004

2003
Holographic Proofs and Derandomization.
Proceedings of the 18th Annual IEEE Conference on Computational Complexity (Complexity 2003), 2003

2002
Resource Tradeoffs and Derandomization
Electron. Colloquium Comput. Complex., 2002

2001
Lower bounds on the complexity of recognizing SAT by Turing machines.
Inf. Process. Lett., 2001

On segregators, separators and time versus space
Electron. Colloquium Comput. Complex., 2001

On Separators, Segregators and Time versus Space.
Proceedings of the 16th Annual IEEE Conference on Computational Complexity, 2001


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