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Formalizing the Hidden Number Problem in Isabelle/HOL

Sage Binder,Eric Ren,Katherine Kosaian

2025 · DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ITP.2025.23
International Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving · 0 Citations

TLDR

This work formalizes the hidden number problem, as introduced in a seminal work by Boneh and Venkatesan in 1996, in Isabelle/HOL, and makes use of an instance of Babai’s nearest plane algorithm, which solves the approximate closest vector problem.