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Compositionality is believed to be fundamental to intelligence. In humans, it underlies the structure of thought, language, and higher-level reasoning. In AI, compositional representations can enable a powerful form of out-of-distribution…

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Let $G:\mathbb{R\rightarrow R}$ be a continuous function. Under some assumptions on $G$, $s,\alpha ,p$ and $q$ we prove that \begin{equation*} \{G(f):f\in A_{p,q}^{s}(\mathbb{R}^{n},|\cdot |^{\alpha })\}\subset…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-25 Douadi Drihem

While LLMs have emerged as performant architectures for reasoning tasks, their compositional generalization capabilities have been questioned. In this work, we introduce a Compositional Generalization Challenge for Graph-based Commonsense…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Xiyan Fu , Anette Frank

We prove a lower bound on the communication complexity of computing the $n$-fold xor of an arbitrary function $f$, in terms of the communication complexity and rank of $f$. We prove that $D(f^{\oplus n}) \geq n \cdot…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Siddharth Iyer , Anup Rao

The functional decomposition of polynomials has been a topic of great interest and importance in pure and computer algebra and their applications. The structure of compositions of (suitably normalized) polynomials f=g(h) over finite fields…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2010-05-11 Joachim von zur Gathen , Mark Giesbrecht , Konstantin Ziegler

An open problem in communication complexity proposed by several authors is to prove that for every Boolean function f, the task of computing f(x AND y) has polynomially related classical and quantum bounded-error complexities. We solve a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-02-03 Alexander A. Sherstov

We study the complexity of computing majority as a composition of local functions: \[ \text{Maj}_n = h(g_1,\ldots,g_m), \] where each $g_j :\{0,1\}^{n} \to \{0,1\}$ is an arbitrary function that queries only $k \ll n$ variables and $h :…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Victor Lecomte , Prasanna Ramakrishnan , Li-Yang Tan

Representation stability is a theory describing a way in which a sequence of representations of different groups is related, and essentially contains a finite amount of information. Starting with Church-Ellenberg-Farb's theory of…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2017-04-11 Nir Gadish

Approximating functions of a large number of variables poses particular challenges often subsumed under the term ``Curse of Dimensionality'' (CoD). Unless the approximated function exhibits a very high level of smoothness the CoD can be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-16 Wolfgang Dahmen

We define a new model of communication complexity, called the garden-hose model. Informally, the garden-hose complexity of a function f:{0,1}^n x {0,1}^n to {0,1} is given by the minimal number of water pipes that need to be shared between…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-07 Harry Buhrman , Serge Fehr , Christian Schaffner , Florian Speelman

We prove new lower bounds for bounded error quantum communication complexity. Our methods are based on the Fourier transform of the considered functions. First we generalize a method for proving classical communication complexity lower…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hartmut Klauck

Compositional generalization (the ability to respond correctly to novel combinations of familiar components) is thought to be a cornerstone of intelligent behavior. Compositionally structured (e.g. disentangled) representations support this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Samuel Lippl , Kim Stachenfeld

Let $f: \{0,1\}^n \to \{0, 1\}$ be a boolean function, and let $f_\land (x, y) = f(x \land y)$ denote the AND-function of $f$, where $x \land y$ denotes bit-wise AND. We study the deterministic communication complexity of $f_\land$ and show…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Alexander Knop , Shachar Lovett , Sam McGuire , Weiqiang Yuan

High-order interdependencies are central features of complex systems, yet a mechanistic explanation for their emergence remains elusive. Currently, it is unknown under what conditions high-order interdependencies, quantified by the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-03-03 Enrico Caprioglio , Pedro A. M. Mediano , Luc Berthouze

Systematic compositionality is the ability to recombine meaningful units with regular and predictable outcomes, and it's seen as key to humans' capacity for generalization in language. Recent work has studied systematic compositionality in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-20 João Loula , Marco Baroni , Brenden M. Lake

We initiate the theory of communication complexity of individual inputs held by the agents, rather than worst-case or average-case. We consider total, partial, and partially correct protocols, one-way versus two-way, with and without help…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Harry Buhrman , Hartmut Klauck , Nikolai Vereshchagin , Paul Vitanyi

The quantum version of communication complexity allows the two communicating parties to exchange qubits and/or to make use of prior entanglement (shared EPR-pairs). Some lower bound techniques are available for qubit communication…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Harry Buhrman , Ronald de Wolf

The literature on concurrency theory offers a wealth of examples of characteristic-formula constructions for various behavioural relations over finite labelled transition systems and Kripke structures that are defined in terms of fixed…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2009-11-11 Luca Aceto , Anna Ingolfsdottir , Joshua Sack

Compositionality in knowledge and language--the ability to represent complex concepts as a combination of simpler ones--is a hallmark of human cognition and communication. Despite recent advances, deep neural networks still struggle to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Rafael Elberg , Felipe del Rio , Mircea Petrache , Denis Parra

Compositional generalization is the capability of a model to understand novel compositions composed of seen concepts. There are multiple levels of novel compositions including phrase-phrase level, phrase-word level, and word-word level.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Chuanhao Li , Zhen Li , Chenchen Jing , Xiaomeng Fan , Wenbo Ye , Yuwei Wu , Yunde Jia