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Communication lower bounds have long been established for matrix multiplication algorithms. However, most methods of asymptotic analysis have either ignored the constant factors or not obtained the tightest possible values. Recent work has…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Hussam Al Daas , Grey Ballard , Laura Grigori , Suraj Kumar , Kathryn Rouse

We study the following one-way asymmetric transmission problem, also a variant of model-based compressed sensing: a resource-limited encoder has to report a small set $S$ from a universe of $N$ items to a more powerful decoder (server). The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Alexandr Andoni , Javad Ghaderi , Daniel Hsu , Dan Rubenstein , Omri Weinstein

This paper concerns {\em randomized} leader election in synchronous distributed networks. A distributed leader election algorithm is presented for complete $n$-node networks that runs in O(1) rounds and (with high probability) uses only…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-05-16 Shay Kutten , Gopal Pandurangan , David Peleg , Peter Robinson , Amitabh Trehan

In this work, we present an $\Omega\left(\min\{\log \Delta, \sqrt{\log n}\}\right)$ lower bound for Maximal Matching (MM) in $\Delta$-ary trees against randomized algorithms. By a folklore reduction, the same lower bound applies to Maximal…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Seri Khoury , Aaron Schild

The communication cost of algorithms (also known as I/O-complexity) is shown to be closely related to the expansion properties of the corresponding computation graphs. We demonstrate this on Strassen's and other fast matrix multiplication…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-09-12 Grey Ballard , James Demmel , Olga Holtz , Oded Schwartz

Recently, Arjevani et al. [1] established a lower bound of iteration complexity for the first-order optimization under an $L$-smooth condition and a bounded noise variance assumption. However, a thorough review of existing literature on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Bohan Wang , Jingwen Fu , Huishuai Zhang , Nanning Zheng , Wei Chen

Communication is a major factor determining the performance of algorithms on current computing systems; it is therefore valuable to provide tight lower bounds on the communication complexity of computations. This paper presents a lower…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Gianfranco Bilardi , Michele Scquizzato , Francesco Silvestri

We present new lower bounds that show that a polynomial number of passes are necessary for solving some fundamental graph problems in the streaming model of computation. For instance, we show that any streaming algorithm that finds a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Sepehr Assadi , Yu Chen , Sanjeev Khanna

This paper studies the one-way communication complexity of the subgroup membership problem, a classical problem closely related to basic questions in quantum computing. Here Alice receives, as input, a subgroup $H$ of a finite group $G$;…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Scott Aaronson , François Le Gall , Alexander Russell , Seiichiro Tani

We investigate the problem of approximating the product $a^TBc$, where $a,c\in S^{n-1}$ and $B\in O_n$, in models of communication complexity and streaming algorithms. The worst meaningful approximation is to simply decide whether the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-12-25 Hartmut Klauck , Debbie Lim

In the decades-old Pattern Matching with Edits problem, given a length-$n$ string $T$ (the text), a length-$m$ string $P$ (the pattern), and a positive integer $k$ (the threshold), the task is to list the $k$-error occurrences of $P$ in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Tomasz Kociumaka , Jakob Nogler , Philip Wellnitz

We prove the existence of (one-way) communication tasks with a subconstant versus superconstant asymptotic gap, which we call "doubly infinite," between their quantum information and communication complexities. We do so by studying the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-09 Zi-Wen Liu , Christopher Perry , Yechao Zhu , Dax Enshan Koh , Scott Aaronson

This paper develops a new technique for proving amortized, randomized cell-probe lower bounds on dynamic data structure problems. We introduce a new randomized nondeterministic four-party communication model that enables "accelerated",…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-04-12 Omri Weinstein , Huacheng Yu

This paper initiates the study of the impact of failures on the fundamental problem of \emph{information spreading} in the Vertex-Congest model, in which in every round, each of the $n$ nodes sends the same $O(\log{n})$-bit message to all…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-07-07 Keren Censor-Hillel , Tariq Toukan

We consider the streaming complexity of a fundamental task in approximate pattern matching: the $k$-mismatch problem. It asks to compute Hamming distances between a pattern of length $n$ and all length-$n$ substrings of a text for which the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Raphaël Clifford , Tomasz Kociumaka , Ely Porat

We study the NP-hard problem of approximating a Minimum Routing Cost Spanning Tree in the message passing model with limited bandwidth (CONGEST model). In this problem one tries to find a spanning tree of a graph $G$ over $n$ nodes that…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-06-06 Alexandra Hochuli , Stephan Holzer , Roger Wattenhofer

We study the tradeoff between the statistical error and communication cost of distributed statistical estimation problems in high dimensions. In the distributed sparse Gaussian mean estimation problem, each of the $m$ machines receives $n$…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-05-11 Mark Braverman , Ankit Garg , Tengyu Ma , Huy L. Nguyen , David P. Woodruff

We study space-pass tradeoffs in graph streaming algorithms for parameter estimation and property testing problems such as estimating the size of maximum matchings and maximum cuts, weight of minimum spanning trees, or testing if a graph is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Sepehr Assadi , Vishvajeet N

This paper studies the online scheduling problem of minimizing total flow time for $n$ jobs on $m$ identical machines. A classical $\Omega(n)$ lower bound shows that no deterministic single-machine algorithm can beat the trivial greedy,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Yutong Geng , Enze Sun , Zonghan Yang , Yuhao Zhang

The problem of communication among nodes in an \emph{extended network} is considered, where radio power decay and interference are limiting factors. It has been shown previously that, with simple multi-hopping, the achievable total…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2008-05-26 Sam Vakil , Ben Liang