Certifying Euclidean Sections and Finding Planted Sparse Vectors Beyond the $\sqrt{n}$ Dimension Threshold
(2405.05373)Abstract
We consider the task of certifying that a random $d$-dimensional subspace $X$ in $\mathbb{R}n$ is well-spread - every vector $x \in X$ satisfies $c\sqrt{n} |x|2 \leq |x|1 \leq \sqrt{n}|x|_2$. In a seminal work, Barak et. al. showed a polynomial-time certification algorithm when $d \leq O(\sqrt{n})$. On the other hand, when $d \gg \sqrt{n}$, the certification task is information-theoretically possible but there is evidence that it is computationally hard [MW21,Cd22], a phenomenon known as the information-computation gap. In this paper, we give subexponential-time certification algorithms in the $d \gg \sqrt{n}$ regime. Our algorithm runs in time $\exp(\widetilde{O}(n{\varepsilon}))$ when $d \leq \widetilde{O}(n{(1+\varepsilon)/2})$, establishing a smooth trade-off between runtime and the dimension. Our techniques naturally extend to the related planted problem, where the task is to recover a sparse vector planted in a random subspace. Our algorithm achieves the same runtime and dimension trade-off for this task.
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