all research papers

1. Colourful TFNP and Propositional Proofs
   • Ben Davis and Robert Robere.
   • To appear at CCC 2023. [ECCC]
2. On Low End Obfuscation and Learning
   • Elette Boyle, Yuval Ishai, Pierre Meyer, Robert Robere, Gal Yehuda.
   • ITCS 2023.
3. Separations in Proof Complexity and TFNP
   • Mika Göös, Alexandros Hollender, Siddhartha Jain, Gilbert Maystre, William Pires, Robert Robere, Ran Tao.
   • FOCS 2022. [ECCC]
4. Further Collapses in TFNP
   • Mika Göös, Alexandros Hollender, Siddhartha Jain, Gilbert Maystre, William Pires, Robert Robere, Ran Tao.
   • CCC 2022. [ECCC] [DROPS]
   • Contributed presentation at HALG 2022.
5. Proofs, Circuits, and Communication
   • Susanna de Rezende, Mika Göös, Robert Robere.
   • SIGACT News Complexity Theory Column, March 2022. [ArXiV] [Talk at BIRS]
6. Extremely Deep Proofs
   • Noah Fleming, Toniann Pitassi, Robert Robere
   • ITCS 2022. [ECCC] [Talk at ITCS]
7. Pseudorandom Self-Reductions for NP-Complete Problems
   • Reyad Abed Elrazik, Robert Robere, Assaf Schuster, Gal Yehuda.
   • ITCS 2022. [ECCC] [Talk at ITCS]
8. On Semi-Algebraic Proofs and Algorithms
   • Noah Fleming, Mika Göös, Stefan Grosser, Robert Robere
   • ITCS 2022. [ECCC] [Talk at ITCS]
9. Amortized Circuit Complexity, Formal Complexity Measures, and Catalytic Algorithms
   • Robert Robere, Jeroen Zuiddam.
   • FOCS 2021. [ECCC] [Talk at FOCS] [Talk at IAS]
10. On the Power and Limitations of Branch and Cut
    • Noah Fleming, Mika Göös, Russell Impagliazzo, Toniann Pitassi, Robert Robere, Li-Yang Tan, Avi Wigderson
    • CCC 2021. [ECCC] [arXiv]
    • Invited to the special journal issue for CCC 2021.
11. Automating Algebraic Proof Systems is NP-Hard
    • Susanna F. de Rezende, Mika Göös, Jakob Nördstrom, Toniann Pitassi, Robert Robere, Dmitry Sokolov.
    • STOC 2021. [ECCC]
12. KRW Composition Theorems via Lifting
    • Susanna F. de Rezende, Or Meir, Jakob Nördstrom, Toniann Pitassi, Robert Robere
    • FOCS 2020. [ECCC]
13. Lifting with Simple Gadgets and Applications to Circuit and Proof Complexity
    • Susanna F. de Rezende, Or Meir, Jakob Nördstrom, Toniann Pitassi, Robert Robere, Marc Vinyals.
    • FOCS 2020. [ECCC]
14. Lower Bounds for (Non-monotone) Comparator Circuits
    • Anna Gál, Robert Robere
    • ITCS 2020. [ECCC] [DROPS]
15. Nullstellensatz Size-Degree Trade-Offs from Reversible Pebbling
    • Suzanna F. de Rezende, Or Meir, Jakob Nördstrom, Robert Robere.
    • CCC 2019. [ECCC] [DROPS]
    • Computational Complexity 30, 4 (2021)
16. Adventures in Monotone Complexity and TFNP
    • Mika Göös, Pritish Kamath, Robert Robere, Dmitry Sokolov
    • ITCS 2019. [ECCC] [DROPS]
17. Learning-Sensitive Backdoors with Restarts
    • Edward Zulkoski, Ruben Martins, Christoph M. Wintersteiger, Robert Robere, Jia Liang, Krzysztof Czarnecki and Vijay Ganesh
    • CP 2018.
18. The Proof Complexity of SMT Solvers
    • Robert Robere, Antonina Kolokolova, Vijay Ganesh.
    • CAV 2018.
19. Lifting Nullstellensatz to Monotone Span Programs over any Field.
    • Toniann Pitassi, Robert Robere.
    • STOC 2018. [ECCC] [Talk at Simons Institute]
20. Stabbing Planes.
    • Paul Beame, Noah Fleming, Russell Impagliazzo, Antonina Kolokolova, Denis Pankratov, Toniann Pitassi, Robert Robere.
    • ITCS 2018. [ECCC]
21. Random Θ(log n)-CNFs are Hard for Cutting Planes.
    • Noah Fleming, Denis Pankratov, Toniann Pitassi, Robert Robere.
    • FOCS 2017. [ECCC]
    • J. ACM 69(3) (2022)
22. Strongly Exponential Lower Bounds for Monotone Computation.
    • Toniann Pitassi, Robert Robere.
    • STOC 2017. [ECCC] [Slides]
23. Exponential Lower Bounds for Monotone Span Programs.
    • Robert Robere, Toniann Pitassi, Benjamin Rossman, Stephen A. Cook.
    • FOCS 2016. [ECCC] [Slides] [Talk at BIRS] [Talk at FOCS 2016]
    • Invited to the special journal issue for FOCS 2016.
24. When Thinking Never Comes To A Halt: Using Formal Methods in Making Sure Your AI Gets the Job Done Good Enough
    • Tarek R. Besold and Robert Robere
    • Fundamental Issues of Artificial Intelligence (2016). Volume 376:43-62. [DOI]
25. Path Graphs, Clique Trees, and Flowers.
    • Lalla Mouatadid and Robert Robere.
    • Manuscript 2015. [ArXiv]
26. When Almost Is Not Even Close: Remarks on the Approximability of HDTP.
    • Tarek R. Besold and Robert Robere.
    • AGI 2013. [DOI]
    • Awarded the Cognitive Science Society Prize for Best Student Paper.
27. A Note on Tractability and Artificial Intelligence.
    • Tarek R. Besold and Robert Robere.
    • AGI 2013. [DOI]
28. Average Case Lower Bounds for Monotone Switching Networks.
    • Stephen A. Cook, Yuval Filmus, Toniann Pitassi, Robert Robere.
    • FOCS 2013. [ECCC]
29. Complex Analogies: Remarks on the Complexity of HDTP.
    • Tarek R. Besold and Robert Robere.
    • Australasian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI 2012). [DOI]
30. A Change for the Better? Assessing the Computational Cost of Re-representation.
    • Todd Wareham, Robert Robere and Iris van Rooij.
    • International Conference on Cognitive Modeling [ICCM 2012].

theses

• • Unified Lower Bounds for Monotone Computation
  • Robert Robere
  • PhD Thesis (2018).
  • Awarded the 2019 EATCS Distinguished Dissertation Award.
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• • Average Case Lower Bounds for Monotone Switching Networks
  • Robert Robere
  • Masters Thesis (2013).
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