Best Paper Awards (STOC)

2003-2018

Posted by pxzhang on January 3, 2019
Year Title Authors
2018 A Constant-Factor Approximation Algorithm for the Asymmetric Traveling Salesman Problem Ola Svensson, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Jakub Tarnawski, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
László A. Végh, London School of Economics
2017 Explicit, Almost Optimal, Epsilon-Balanced Codes Amnon Ta-Shma, Tel-Aviv University
2017 A Weighted Linear Matroid Parity Algorithm Satoru Iwata, University of Tokyo
Yusuke Kobayashi, University of Tsukuba
2017 Deciding Parity Games in Quasipolynomial Time Cristian S. Calude, University of Auckland
Sanjay Jain, National University of Singapore
Bakhadyr Khoussainov, University of Auckland
Wei Li, National University of Singapore
Frank Stephan, National University of Singapore
2016 Explicit Two-Source Extractors and Resilient Functions Eshan Chattopadhyay & David Zuckerman, University of Texas at Austin
2016 Graph Isomorphism in Quasipolynomial Time László Babaí, University of Chicago
2016 Reed-Muller Codes Achieve Capacity on Erasure Channels Shrinivas Kudekar, Qualcomm Research
Santhosh Kumar, Texas A&M University
Marco Mondelli, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Henry D. Pfister, Duke University
Eren Sasoglu, Intel
Rudiger Urbanke, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
2015 Exponential Separation of Information and Communication for Boolean Functions Anat Ganor, Weizmann Institute of Science
Gillat Kol, Princeton University
Ran Raz, Weizmann Institute of Science
2015 2-Server PIR with sub-polynomial communication Zeev Dvir & Sivakanth Gopi, Princeton University
2015 Lower Bounds on the Size of Semidefinite Programming Relaxations James R. Lee, University of Washington
Prasad Raghavendra, University of California Berkeley
David Steurer, Cornell University
2014 The matching polytope has exponential extension complexity Thomas Rothvoß, University of Washington
2013 Approximation Resistance from Pairwise Independent Subgroups Siu On Chan, University of California Berkeley
2013 Low Rank Approximation and Regression in Input Sparsity Time Kenneth L. Clarkson & David P. Woodruff, IBM Research
2012 Linear vs. Semidefinite Extended Formulations: Exponential Separation and Strong Lower Bounds Samuel Fiorini, Université libre de Bruxelles
Serge Massar, Université libre de Bruxelles
Sebastian Pokutta, Universität Erlangen Nürnberg
Hans Tiwary, Université libre de Bruxelles
Ronald de Wolf, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica
2012 The Cell Probe Complexity of Dynamic Range Counting Kasper Larsen, Aarhus University
2011 Electrical flows, laplacian systems, and faster approximation of maximum flow in undirected graphs Paul Christiano, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jonathan A. Kelner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Aleksander Mądry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Daniel A. Spielman, Yale University
Shang-Hua Teng, University of Southern California
2011 Subexponential lower bounds for randomized pivoting rules for the simplex algorithm Oliver Friedmann, University of Munich
Thomas Dueholm Hansen, Aarhus University
Uri Zwick, Tel-Aviv University
2010 An improved LP-based approximation for steiner tree Jaroslaw Byrka, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Fabrizio Grandoni, University of Tor Vergata
Thomas Rothvoß, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Laura Sanità, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
2010 QIP = PSPACE Rahul Jain, National University of Singapore
Zhengfeng Ji, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Sarvagya Upadhyay, University of Waterloo
John Watrous, University of Waterloo
2009 A constructive proof of the Lovász local lemma Robin A. Moser, ETH Zurich
2009 Public-Key Cryptosystems from the Worst-Case Shortest Vector Problem Chris Peikert, SRI International
2008 Optimal algorithms and inapproximability results for every CSP? Prasad Raghavendra, University of Washington
2008 Optimal hierarchical decompositions for congestion minimization in networks Harald Räcke, University of Warwick
2007 Faster integer multiplication Martin Fürer, Pennsylvania State University
2007 Towards 3-query locally decodable codes of subexponential length Sergey Yekhanin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2006 The PCP theorem by gap amplification Irit Dinur, Hebrew University
2005 Undirected ST-connectivity in log-space Omer Reingold, Weizmann Institute of Science
2004 Multi-linear formulas for permanent and determinant are of super-polynomial size Ran Raz, Weizmann Institute of Science
2004 Expander flows, geometric embeddings and graph partitioning Sanjeev Arora, Princeton University
Satish Rao, University of California Berkeley
Umesh Vazirani, University of California Berkeley
2003 Derandomizing polynomial identity tests means proving circuit lower bounds Valentine Kabanets & Russell Impagliazzo, University of California San Diego
2003 New lattice-based cryptographic constructions Oded Regev, Tel-Aviv University