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Very recently, Jain, Pietrzak, and Tentes (TCC 2012) gave a hardness-preserving construction of a PRF that makes only \\(O(log\u2061q)\\) calls to the underlying PRG when \\(q=2^{n^{\\epsilon }}\\) and \\(\\epsilon \\geq \\frac{1}{2}\\). This dramatically improves upon the efficiency of the construction of Goldreich, Goldwasser, and Micali (FOCS 1984). However, they explicitly left open the question of whether such constructions exist when \\(\\epsilon &lt;\\frac{1}{2}\\). In this work, we give constructions of PRFs that make only \\(O(log\u2061q)\\) calls to the underlying PRG when \\(q=2^{n^{\\epsilon }}\\), for \\(0&lt;\\epsilon &lt;1\\); our PRF outputs \\(O(n^{2\\epsilon })\\) bits (on every input), as opposed to the construction of Jain <em class=\"EmphasisTypeItalic \">et al.<\/em> that outputs \\(n\\) bits. That is, our PRF is not length preserving; however it outputs more bits than the PRF of Jain <em class=\"EmphasisTypeItalic \">et al.<\/em> when \\(\\epsilon >\\frac{1}{2}\\). We obtain our construction through the use of information-theoretic tools such as <em class=\"EmphasisTypeItalic \">almost<\/em>\\(\\alpha\\)-wise independent hash functions coupled with a novel proof strategy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We revisit hardness-preserving constructions of a pseudo-random function (PRF) from any length doubling pseudo-random generator (PRG) when there is a non-trivial upper bound on the number of queries that the adversary can make to the PRF. 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