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Pravesh K. Kothari

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Papers indexed

50

Venues

9

Active years

2015–2026

Best venue rank

A*

Where they publish

Papers

50 indexed papers, newest first.

YearVenueTitleAuthors
2026COLTDimension Reduction via Sum-of-Squares and Improved Clustering Algorithms for Non-Spherical Mixtures.Prashanti Anderson, Mitali Bafna, Rares-Darius Buhai, Pravesh K. Kothari, David Steurer
2026SODASparsifying Sums of Positive Semidefinite Matrices.Arpon Basu, Pravesh K. Kothari, Yang P. Liu, Raghu Meka
2026SODASmooth Trade-off for Tensor PCA via Sharp Bounds for Kikuchi Matrices.Pravesh K. Kothari, Jeff Xu
2026STOCSNARGs for NP and Non-signaling PCPs, Revisited.Lalita Devadas, Samuel B. Hopkins, Yael Tauman Kalai, Pravesh K. Kothari, Alex Lombardi, Surya Mathialagan
2026STOCRigorous Implications of the Low-Degree Heuristic.Jun-Ting Hsieh, Daniel M. Kane, Pravesh K. Kothari, Jerry Li, Sidhanth Mohanty, Stefan Tiegel
2026STOCLearning Mixture Models via Efficient High-Dimensional Sparse Fourier Transforms.Alkis Kalavasis, Pravesh K. Kothari, Shuchen Li, Manolis Zampetakis
2025FOCSImproved Lower Bounds for all Odd-Query Locally Decodable Codes.Arpon Basu, Jun-Ting Hsieh, Pravesh K. Kothari, Andrew D. Lin
2025FOCSThe Quasi-Polynomial Low-Degree Conjecture is False.Rares-Darius Buhai, Jun-Ting Hsieh, Aayush Jain, Pravesh K. Kothari
2025FOCSOvercomplete Tensor Decomposition via Koszul-Young Flattenings.Pravesh K. Kothari, Ankur Moitra, Alexander S. Wein
2025STOCRounding Large Independent Sets on Expanders.Mitali Bafna, Jun-Ting Hsieh, Pravesh K. Kothari
2024FOCSEfficient Certificates of Anti-Concentration Beyond Gaussians.Ainesh Bakshi, Pravesh K. Kothari, Goutham Rajendran, Madhur Tulsiani, Aravindan Vijayaraghavan
2024FOCSSemirandom Planted Clique and the Restricted Isometry Property.Jaroslaw Blasiok, Rares-Darius Buhai, Pravesh K. Kothari, David Steurer
2024FOCSExponential Lower Bounds for Smooth 3-LCCs and Sharp Bounds for Designs.Pravesh K. Kothari, Peter Manohar
2024SODANew SDP Roundings and Certifiable Approximation for Cubic Optimization.Jun-Ting Hsieh, Pravesh K. Kothari, Lucas Pesenti, Luca Trevisan
2024STOCAn Exponential Lower Bound for Linear 3-Query Locally Correctable Codes.Pravesh K. Kothari, Peter Manohar
2024STOCSum-of-Squares Lower Bounds for Independent Set on Ultra-Sparse Random Graphs.Pravesh K. Kothari, Aaron Potechin, Jeff Xu
2023FOCSEfficient Algorithms for Semirandom Planted CSPs at the Refutation Threshold.Venkatesan Guruswami, Jun-Ting Hsieh, Pravesh K. Kothari, Peter Manohar
2023FOCSBeyond Moments: Robustly Learning Affine Transformations with Asymptotically Optimal Error.He Jia, Pravesh K. Kothari, Santosh S. Vempala
2023ICALPApproximating Max-Cut on Bounded Degree Graphs: Tighter Analysis of the FKL Algorithm.Jun-Ting Hsieh, Pravesh K. Kothari
2023ICALPEllipsoid Fitting up to a Constant.Jun-Ting Hsieh, Pravesh K. Kothari, Aaron Potechin, Jeff Xu
2023SODAA simple and sharper proof of the hypergraph Moore bound.Jun-Ting Hsieh, Pravesh K. Kothari, Sidhanth Mohanty
2023STOCPrivately Estimating a Gaussian: Efficient, Robust, and Optimal.Daniel Alabi, Pravesh K. Kothari, Pranay Tankala, Prayaag Venkat, Fred Zhang
2023STOCA Near-Cubic Lower Bound for 3-Query Locally Decodable Codes from Semirandom CSP Refutation.Omar Alrabiah, Venkatesan Guruswami, Pravesh K. Kothari, Peter Manohar
2023STOCAlgorithms Approaching the Threshold for Semi-random Planted Clique.Rares-Darius Buhai, Pravesh K. Kothari, David Steurer
2023STOCA Moment-Matching Approach to Testable Learning and a New Characterization of Rademacher Complexity.Aravind Gollakota, Adam R. Klivans, Pravesh K. Kothari
2023TCCPublic-Key Encryption, Local Pseudorandom Generators, and the Low-Degree Method.Andrej Bogdanov, Pravesh K. Kothari, Alon Rosen
2022ALTPolynomial-Time Sum-of-Squares Can Robustly Estimate Mean and Covariance of Gaussians Optimally.Pravesh K. Kothari, Peter Manohar, Brian Hu Zhang
2022FOCSPolynomial-Time Power-Sum Decomposition of Polynomials.Mitali Bafna, Jun-Ting Hsieh, Pravesh K. Kothari, Jeff Xu
2022SODAAlgorithmic Thresholds for Refuting Random Polynomial Systems.Jun-Ting Hsieh, Pravesh K. Kothari
2022STOCRobustly learning mixtures ofAinesh Bakshi, Ilias Diakonikolas, He Jia, Daniel M. Kane, Pravesh K. Kothari, Santosh S. Vempala
2022STOCAlgorithms and certificates for Boolean CSP refutation: smoothed is no harder than random.Venkatesan Guruswami, Pravesh K. Kothari, Peter Manohar
2022STOCList-decodable covariance estimation.Misha Ivkov, Pravesh K. Kothari
2021SODAStrongly refuting all semi-random Boolean CSPs.Jackson Abascal, Venkatesan Guruswami, Pravesh K. Kothari
2021SODAList-Decodable Subspace Recovery: Dimension Independent Error in Polynomial Time.Ainesh Bakshi, Pravesh K. Kothari
2021STOCPlaying unique games on certified small-set expanders.Mitali Bafna, Boaz Barak, Pravesh K. Kothari, Tselil Schramm, David Steurer
2020ALTOn the Expressive Power of Kernel Methods and the Efficiency of Kernel Learning by Association Schemes.Pravesh K. Kothari, Roi Livni
2020FOCSOutlier-Robust Clustering of Gaussians and Other Non-Spherical Mixtures.Ainesh Bakshi, Ilias Diakonikolas, Samuel B. Hopkins, Daniel Kane, Sushrut Karmalkar, Pravesh K. Kothari
2020FOCSSparse PCA: Algorithms, Adversarial Perturbations and Certificates.Tommaso d'Orsi, Pravesh K. Kothari, Gleb Novikov, David Steurer
2019COMADThe Social Network Effect on Surprise in Elections.Palash Dey, Pravesh K. Kothari, Swaprava Nath
2018COLTAn Analysis of the t-SNE Algorithm for Data Visualization.Sanjeev Arora, Wei Hu, Pravesh K. Kothari
2018COLTEfficient Algorithms for Outlier-Robust Regression.Adam R. Klivans, Pravesh K. Kothari, Raghu Meka
2018EuroCryptLimits on Low-Degree Pseudorandom Generators (Or: Sum-of-Squares Meets Program Obfuscation).Boaz Barak, Zvika Brakerski, Ilan Komargodski, Pravesh K. Kothari
2018STOCSum-of-squares meets nash: lower bounds for finding any equilibrium.Pravesh K. Kothari, Ruta Mehta
2018STOCRobust moment estimation and improved clustering via sum of squares.Pravesh K. Kothari, Jacob Steinhardt, David Steurer
2017FOCSThe Power of Sum-of-Squares for Detecting Hidden Structures.Samuel B. Hopkins, Pravesh K. Kothari, Aaron Potechin, Prasad Raghavendra, Tselil Schramm, David Steurer
2017STOCQuantum entanglement, sum of squares, and the log rank conjecture.Boaz Barak, Pravesh K. Kothari, David Steurer
2017STOCSum of squares lower bounds for refuting any CSP.Pravesh K. Kothari, Ryuhei Mori, Ryan O'Donnell, David Witmer
2017STOCApproximating rectangles by juntas and weakly-exponential lower bounds for LP relaxations of CSPs.Pravesh K. Kothari, Raghu Meka, Prasad Raghavendra
2015STOCSum of Squares Lower Bounds from Pairwise Independence.Boaz Barak, Siu On Chan, Pravesh K. Kothari
2015STOCAlmost Optimal Pseudorandom Generators for Spherical Caps: Extended Abstract.Pravesh K. Kothari, Raghu Meka