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Distributed optimization finds applications in large-scale machine learning, data processing and classification over multi-agent networks. In real-world scenarios, the communication network of agents may encounter latency that may affect…

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Set-disjointness problems are one of the most fundamental problems in communication complexity and have been extensively studied in past decades. Given its importance, many lower bound techniques were introduced to prove communication lower…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Guangxu Yang , Jiapeng Zhang

One of the main challenges within the growing research area of learned indexing is the lack of adaptability to dynamically expanding datasets. This paper explores the dynamization of a static learned index for complex data through…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Terézia Slanináková , Jaroslav Olha , David Procházka , Matej Antol , Vlastislav Dohnal

In this paper, we revisit the communication vs. distributed computing trade-off, studied within the framework of MapReduce in [1]. An implicit assumption in the aforementioned work is that each server performs all possible computations on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-26 Yahya H. Ezzeldin , Mohammed Karmoose , Christina Fragouli

Frequency estimation in data streams is one of the classical problems in streaming algorithms. Following much research, there are now almost matching upper and lower bounds for the trade-off needed between the number of samples and the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-01-16 Shachar Lovett , Jiapeng Zhang

We introduce a new information-theoretic complexity measure $IC_\infty$ for 2-party functions which is a lower-bound on communication complexity, and has the two leading lower-bounds on communication complexity as its natural relaxations:…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-06-29 Manoj M. Prabhakaran , Vinod M. Prabhakaran

Consensus is one of the most thoroughly studied problems in distributed computing, yet there are still complexity gaps that have not been bridged for decades. In particular, in the classical message-passing setting with processes' crashes,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-25 MohammadTaghi HajiAghayi , Dariusz R. Kowalski , Jan Olkowski

We present a new approach to encourage neural machine translation to satisfy lexical constraints. Our method acts at the training step and thereby avoiding the introduction of any extra computational overhead at inference step. The proposed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Melissa Ailem , Jinghsu Liu , Raheel Qader

We propose a linear algebraic method, rooted in the spectral properties of graphs, that can be used to prove lower bounds in communication complexity. Our proof technique effectively marries spectral bounds with information-theoretic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Geoffroy Caillat-Grenier , Andrei Romashchenko

Rodrigo de Miguel et al 2007 J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 40 5241-5260: A noisy vector channel operating under a strict complexity constraint at the receiver is introduced. According to this constraint, detected bits, obtained by performing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-11-11 Rodrigo de Miguel , Ori Shental , Ralf R. Muller , Ido Kanter

We consider the issue of multiple agents learning to communicate through reinforcement learning within partially observable environments, with a focus on information asymmetry in the second part of our work. We provide a review of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Mohamed Salah Zaïem , Etienne Bennequin

This paper characterizes convex information costs using an axiomatic approach. We employ mixture convexity and sub-additivity, which capture the idea that producing "balanced" outputs is less costly than producing ``extreme'' ones. Our…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-09-03 Davide Bordoli , Ryota Iijima

In this paper, we initiate the study of the multiplicative bidding language adopted by major Internet search companies. In multiplicative bidding, the effective bid on a particular search auction is the product of a base bid and bid…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-04-29 MohammadHossein Bateni , Jon Feldman , Vahab Mirrokni , Sam Chiu-wai Wong

We present a unified framework for proving memory lower bounds for multi-pass streaming algorithms that detect planted structures. Planted structures -- such as cliques or bicliques in graphs, and sparse signals in high-dimensional data --…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Sumegha Garg , Jabari Hastings , Chirag Pabbaraju , Vatsal Sharan

Incrementality is ubiquitous in human-human interaction and beneficial for human-computer interaction. It has been a topic of research in different parts of the NLP community, mostly with focus on the specific topic at hand even though…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-15 Arne Köhn

There is a close relationship between the communication complexity and information complexity of communication problems, as demonstrated by results such as Shannon's noiseless source coding theorem, and the Slepian-Wolf theorem. Here, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Gurleen Padda , Dave Touchette

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved near-human performance across diverse reasoning tasks, yet their deployment on resource-constrained Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices remains impractical due to massive parameter footprints and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Mingyu Sung , Vikas Palakonda , Suhwan Im , Sunghwan Moon , Il-Min Kim , Sangseok Yun , Jae-Mo Kang

Multilingual transformer-based models demonstrate remarkable zero and few-shot transfer across languages by learning and reusing language-agnostic features. However, as a fixed-size model acquires more languages, its performance across all…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-08 William Held , Diyi Yang

The apparent dichotomy between information-processing and dynamical approaches to complexity science forces researchers to choose between two diverging sets of tools and explanations, creating conflict and often hindering scientific…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-01-26 Pedro A. M. Mediano , Fernando E. Rosas , Juan Carlos Farah , Murray Shanahan , Daniel Bor , Adam B. Barrett

Large language models improve with scale, yet feedback-based alignment still exhibits systematic deviations from intended behavior. Motivated by bounded rationality in economics and cognitive science, we view judgment as resource-limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Wenjun Cao