Sampling Permutations is Hard
Thoughts 2025-11-15
Summary:
Today I woke up a little earlier than usual, and now I know why: Yaroslav Alekseev, Mika Göös, Konstantin Myasnikov, Artur Riazanov, Dmitry Sokolov have just posted what looks like an amazing paper. They prove a sampling lower bound for permutations, something which had resisted many attacks. I suspect their result introduces new techniques in […]