Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II

We shall discuss new pseudorandom generators for regular read-once branching programs of small width. A branching program is regular if the in-degree of every vertex in it is (either 0 or) 2. For every width d and length n, the pseudorandom generator uses a seed of length O((log d + log log n + log(1/p)) log n) to produce n bits that cannot be distinguished from a uniformly random string by any regular width d length n read-once branching program, except with probability p > 0. Joint work with M. Braverman, A. Rao and R. Raz.