11. Finding a Planted Vector
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Problem 11.1.
[Erik Waingarten] Suppose we have $n$ vectors in the unit sphere of $\ell_2^{O(\log n)}$ drawn uniformly at random. We place an extra vector at distance $0.1$ from one of the random vectors. Can this vector be found in $O(n \text{ polylog } n)$ time?
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