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Average-case lattice problem variants by filtering

Give polynomial-time quantum algorithms for three average-case lattice problems in parameter regimes where none was known: the short integer solution problem under the infinity norm, the learning-with-errors problem when the input is supplied as LWE-like quantum states rather than classical samples, and the extrapolated dihedral coset problem.

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  • Record typeLiterature reference
  • Speedup class (secondary source)Exponential
  • Primary source on the speedupStated by the primary source: "Still, no classical or quantum polynomial-time algorithms were known for the variants of SIS and LWE we consider."
  • Reported costPolynomial time in the lattice dimension n, for each of the three problems, in the stated parameter regimes. The paper gives the regimes rather than an exponent: the short integer solution result holds for a number of samples m in Ω((q−c)³ · n^(c+1) · q · log q), and the two quantum-state problems for m in Ω(n · q/η²).
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A part this method uses, worked through

This page says together with a quantum Fourier transform step — here is a concrete, runnable instance of it.

QFT then its inverse, on |0101⟩

4 qubits, starting at |0101⟩, applying the QFT then immediately undoing it.

q0q1q2q3XXQFT(4)QFT inverse(4)

Where it ends up

  • 0101100%

The register reads 0101 again, exactly: the QFT and its inverse cancel, the way any unitary and its adjoint do.

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References

  • Quantum Algorithms for Variants of Average-Case Lattice Problems via Filtering

    Yilei Chen, Qipeng Liu, Mark Zhandry · 2021

    Primary source, and the source of this record's cost claim. Consult it above all for the boundary of the result: the abstract's statement that the variants solved are not in the parameter regimes known to be as hard as worst-case lattice problems, the remark after Theorem 8 that Gaussian noise is not covered, and the future-directions section where the authors state the work does not appear to affect the security of any lattice-based cryptosystem in use. The proofs in sections 4 through 7 were not read for this record.

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Method
Curation only. The problem statement was recorded from the literature; the speedup class is checked against the record's own primary paper, which states it; the primary reference's title, authors and submission year were read from its arXiv abs page; the complexity claim was taken from a clause of that paper's abstract (abstract of arXiv:2108.11015: "We show polynomial-time quantum algorithms for the following problems: 1. Short integer solution (SIS) problem under the infinity norm… 2. Learning with errors (LWE) problem given LWE-like quantum states… 3. Extrapolated dihedral coset problem (EDCP) with certain parameters."; section 1.1.1, Theorem 2, for the SIS regime; section 1.1.2, Theorem 8: "there exist polynomial-time quantum algorithms that solve C|LWE⟩n,m,q,f and S|LWE⟩n,m,q,f". Read for this record: the abstract, the whole of section 1 including the future-directions discussion, section 2, the theorem statements, and the references. The technical proofs in sections 4 through 7 were not retrieved and were not read, so the record covers what the paper claims and under what conditions, not how the claims are established.). No circuit was constructed, simulated or run.
Result
Pass · the record's problem, speedup class and primary reference agree with the two sources named above.
Caveat
This is a literature record: nothing was constructed, compiled, simulated or run, and no lattice instance was solved here. The single most important thing about this result is what it does not cover, and the abstract says it in the paper's own words: the standard forms of these problems are as hard as worst-case lattice problems, but the variants solved here are not in the parameter regimes known to be as hard as worst-case lattice problems. The learning-with-errors result assumes the input arrives as quantum states, not as classical samples, and it does not cover Gaussian noise — the paper says the theorem does not cover the case where the noise distribution is Gaussian, covering instead super-Gaussian and bounded uniform distributions. The authors state plainly that the results do not appear to affect the security of any lattice-based cryptosystem in use, and separately that the work does not improve attacks on the Dilithium signature scheme because the sample count required is very large. For the dihedral coset problem, the paper notes that the parameters of its own theorem had already been handled by earlier work with similar complexity. The Zoo's class for this entry is "Exponential"; the paper's own comparison is the narrower statement quoted on this record, that no polynomial-time algorithm classical or quantum was known for these variants. Finally, this record was written from the abstract, the introduction and the theorem statements; the proofs were not read, so nothing here reports on how the results are established.
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lattice problemslearning with errorsshort integer solutionfilteringpost-quantum cryptography

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