Approximate Voronoi cells for lattices, revisited

Abstract We revisit the approximate Voronoi cells approach for solving the closest vector problem with preprocessing (CVPP) on high-dimensional lattices, and settle the open problem of Doulgerakis–Laarhoven–De Weger [PQCrypto, 2019] of determining exact asymptotics on the volume of these Voronoi cells under the Gaussian heuristic. As a result, we obtain improved upper bounds on the time complexity of the randomized iterative slicer when using less than 2 0.076 d + o ( d ) $2^{0.076d + o(d)}$ memory, and we show how to obtain time–memory trade-offs even when using less than 2 0.048 d + o ( d ) $2^{0.048d + o(d)}$ memory. We also settle the open problem of obtaining a continuous trade-off between the size of the advice and the query time complexity, as the time complexity with subexponential advice in our approach scales as d d / 2 + o ( d ) $d^{d/2 + o(d)}$ matching worst-case enumeration bounds, and achieving the same asymptotic scaling as average-case enumeration algorithms for the closest vector problem.