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Undergrad Complexity at CMU - Hardness within P

Ryan O'Donnell via YouTube

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This lecture examines fine-grained complexity and hardness within polynomial time, focusing on running-time models, reductions, and conditional lower bounds for problems including graph diameter, clique, and context-free grammar parsing.

Syllabus

Introduction
Time Hierarchy Theorem
Strong Exponential Time Hypothesis
All pairs shortest paths
K clique problem
Contextfree grammar parsing
New hardness results
Finegrained complexity
Reductions
Contrapositive
Reduction algorithms
Open Question

Taught by

Ryan O'Donnell

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