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David P. Woodruff

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Preprint Aug 2026

TCS-BENCH: Benchmarking State-of-the-Art Generative AI Theoretical Computer Science Research Ability

We introduce TCS-Bench, a benchmark for evaluating Large Language Models (LLMs) on research-level Theoretical Computer Science (TCS) proof generation. TCS-Bench consists of theorem-proving tasks from papers published at top theoretical computer science venues (STOC, FOCS, and SODA). Each task provides the necessary context to derive a self-contained proof for a target result. We evaluate state-of-the-art models on this benchmark. We verify the correctness of generated proofs via a verification agent, and further benchmark the verifier against human-expert proof judgements on a set of target statements and generated proofs pairs. Our reference verifier achieves over 90% accuracy on the expert labeled set.

Vincent Cohen-Addad, Dimitris Paparas, E. V. Wijland et al. · 1 citation
Preprint Aug 2026

Pairwise-Independent Dithering for Single-Stage Hadamard Quantization

Quantizing high-dimensional vectors is fundamental to similarity search, distributed learning, and model compression. Feng, Indyk, Kapralov, Krachun, and Prokhorov established sharp guarantees for an unbiased dithered quantizer based on a randomized Hadamard transform [FIK+26]. Their $1/d$-scale inner-product estimator, however, uses a second randomized transform and residual quantization, increasing both communication and the leading constant in the proved bound. We show that this extra stage is unnecessary: pairwise-independent dithers across Hadamard coordinates suffice. The resulting unbiased single-stage estimator uses $b$ bits per coordinate and achieves \[ \mathbb{E}\!\left[ \left|\left\langle y,\widehat{x}-x\right\rangle\right|^2 \right] \leq \left(\frac{3\pi\sqrt{3}}{2}+o(1)\right) \frac{\lVert y\rVert_2^2}{d\,4^b}, \] as $b\to\infty$, with a dimension-free $o(1)$ term uniform over unit inputs and fixed queries. Compared with the two-stage construction of Feng et al., it eliminates the residual-stage $O(d)$-bit payload and reduces the leading upper-bound constant by a factor of approximately $5.93$. The proof was first obtained using a fully automated Gemini-based agentic system developed internally at Google. The authors have verified the proof and edited it for clarity of presentation.

Honghao Lin, V. Mirrokni, David P. Woodruff · 0 citations
Review Jun 2026

Towards Automating Scientific Review with Google's Paper Assistant Tool

The Paper Assistant Tool is introduced, an agentic AI framework built for deep scientific review and verification and able to identify deeper issues than a single model call alone, achieving a 34% improvement over zero-shot recall on mathematical errors in the SPOT benchmark.

Rajesh Jayaram, Drew Tyler, David P. Woodruff et al. · 0 citations