Best Paper Awards (FOCS)

2000-2018

Posted by pxzhang on December 31, 2018
Year Title Authors
2018 Classical Verification of Quantum Computation Urmila Mahadev, University of California Berkeley
2018 Approximating Edit Distance Within Constant Factor in Truly Sub-Quadratic Time Diptarka Chakraborty, Computer Science Institute of Charles University
Debarati Das, Computer Science Institute of Charles University
Elazar Goldenberg, The Academic College Of Tel Aviv-Yaffo
Michal Koucký, Computer Science Institute of Charles University
Michael Saks, Rutgers University
2018 Pseudorandom Sets in Grassmann Graph have Near-Perfect Expansion Subhash Khot, New York University
Dor Minzer, Tel-Aviv University
Muli Safra, Tel-Aviv University
2017 A dichotomy theorem for nonuniform CSPs Andrei A. Bulatov, Simon Fraser University
2017 The Matching Problem in General Graphs is in Quasi-NC Ola Svensson & Jakub Tarnawski, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
2017 The Proof of CSP Dichotomy Conjecture Dmitriy Zhuk, Lomonosov Moscow State University
2016 Settling the Complexity of Computing Approximate Two-Player Nash Equilibria Aviad Rubinstein, University of California Berkeley
2016 Fast Learning Requires Good Memory: A Time-Space Lower Bound for Parity Learning Ran Raz, Weizmann Institute of Science
2015 An average-case depth hierarchy theorem for Boolean circuits Benjamin Rossman, National Institute of Informatics
Rocco A. Servedio, Columbia University
Li-Yang Tan, University of California Berkeley
2014 Path Finding Methods for Linear Programming: Solving Linear Programs in O(sqrt(rank)) Iterations and Faster Algorithms for Maximum Flow Yin Tat Lee & Aaron Sidford, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2013 Navigating Central Path with Electrical Flows: from Flows to Matchings, and Back Aleksander Mądry, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
2012 A multi-prover interactive proof for NEXP sound against entangled provers Tsuyoshi Ito, NEC Labs America
Thomas Vidick, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2012 A Polylogarithimic Approximation Algorithm for Edge-Disjoint Paths with Congestion 2 Julia Chuzhoy, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago
Shi Li, Princeton University
2011 A Randomized Rounding Approach to the Traveling Salesman Problem Shayan Oveis Gharan, Stanford University
Amin Saberi, Stanford University
Mohit Singh, McGill University
2011 A Polylogarithmic-Competitive Algorithm for the k-Server Problem Nikhil Bansal, IBM Research
Niv Buchbinder, Open University
Aleksander Mądry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Joseph Naor, Technion
2011 Approximating Graphic TSP by Matchings Tobia M¨o;mke & Ola Svensson, Royal Institute of Technology
2010 Approximation Algorithms for the Edge-Disjoint Paths Problem via Raecke Decompositions Matthew Andrews, Bell Labs
2010 Subexponential Algorithms for Unique Games and Related Problems Sanjeev Arora, Princeton University
Boaz Barak, Princeton University
David Steurer, Princeton University
2010 Computational Transition at the Uniqueness Threshold Allan Sly, Microsoft Research
2008 Two Query PCP with Sub-Constant Error Dana Moshkovitz & Ran Raz, Weizmann Institute of Science
2007 Space-Efficient Identity Based Encryption Without Pairings Dan Boneh, Stanford University
Craig Gentry, Stanford University
Michael Hamburg, Stanford University
2006 Settling the Complexity of 2-Player Nash Equilibrium Xi Chen, Tsinghua University
Xiaotie Deng, City University of Hong Kong
2005 The Unique Games Conjecture, Integrality Gap for Cut Problems and Embeddability of Negative Type Metrics into L1 Subhash A. Khot, Georgia Institute of Technology
Nisheeth K. Vishnoi, IBM Research
2005 Correcting Errors Beyond the Guruswami-Sudan Radius in Polynomial Time Farzad Parvaresh & Alexander Vardy, University of California San Diego
2004 Cryptography in NC0 Benny Applebaum, Technion
Yuval Ishai, Technion
Eyal Kushilevitz, Technion
2004 Hardness of Approximating the Shortest Vector Problem in Lattices Subhash Khot, Georgia Institute of Technology
2003 On the Impossibility of Dimension Reduction in L1 Bo Brinkman & Moses Charikar, Princeton University
2002 A Dichotomy Theorem for Constraints on a Three-Element Set Andrei A. Bulatov, University of Oxford
2002 Minimizing Congestion in General Networks Harald Räcke, Paderborn University
2002 Constant-Round Coin-Tossing with a Man in the Middle or Realizing the Shared Random String Model Boaz Barak, Weizmann Institute of Science