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This paper presents stronger methods of achieving perfect completeness in quantum interactive proofs. First, it is proved that any problem in QMA has a two-message quantum interactive proof system of perfect completeness with constant…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-25 Hirotada Kobayashi , François Le Gall , Harumichi Nishimura

We introduce some classical complexity-theoretic techniques to Parameterized Complexity. First, we study relativization for the machine models that were used by Chen, Flum, and Grohe (2005) to characterize a number of parameterized…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-07-18 Ralph Christian Bottesch

We survey lower-bound results in complexity theory that have been obtained via newfound interconnections between propositional proof complexity, boolean circuit complexity, and query/communication complexity. We advocate for the theory of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-02-21 Susanna F. de Rezende , Mika Göös , Robert Robere

We investigate the randomized and quantum communication complexity of the Hamming Distance problem, which is to determine if the Hamming distance between two n-bit strings is no less than a threshold d. We prove a quantum lower bound of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-04 Wei Huang , Yaoyun Shi , Shengyu Zhang , Yufan Zhu

The communication complexity of a quantum channel is the minimal amount of classical communication required for classically simulating the process of preparation, transmission through the channel, and subsequent measurement of a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-12-24 A. Montina , M. Pfaffhauser , S. Wolf

We introduce a class of communication tests where the task is to communicate partial ignorance by means of a physical system. We present a full characterization of the implementations of these tests in the qubit case and partial results for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-04 Teiko Heinosaari , Oskari Kerppo

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

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

Communication games are crucial tools for investigating the limitations of physical theories. The communication complexity (CC) problem is a typical example, for which several distributed parties attempt to jointly calculate a given…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-23 Zhih-Ahn Jia , Lu Wei , Yu-Chun Wu , Guang-Can Guo

Quantum-inspired classical algorithms provide us with a new way to understand the computational power of quantum computers for practically-relevant problems, especially in machine learning. In the past several years, numerous efficient…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-15 Nikhil S. Mande , Changpeng Shao

This work studies distributed learning in the spirit of Yao's model of communication complexity: consider a two-party setting, where each of the players gets a list of labelled examples and they communicate in order to jointly perform some…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Daniel M. Kane , Roi Livni , Shay Moran , Amir Yehudayoff

BellQMA protocols are a subclass of multi-prover quantum Merlin-Arthur protocols in which the verifier is restricted to perform nonadaptive,unentangled measurements on the quantum states received from each Merlin. In this paper, we prove…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-11-04 Jing Chen , Andrew Drucker

We study space-bounded communication complexity for unitary implementation in distributed quantum processors, where we restrict the number of qubits per processor to ensure practical relevance and technical non-triviality. We model…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-07 Longcheng Li , Xiaoming Sun , Jialin Zhang , Jiadong Zhu

In this paper we provide new bounds on classical and quantum distributional communication complexity in the two-party, one-way model of communication. In the classical model, our bound extends the well known upper bound of Kremer, Nisan and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-02-29 Rahul Jain , Shengyu Zhang

We study the communication complexity of computing functions $F:\{0,1\}^n\times \{0,1\}^n \rightarrow \{0,1\}$ in the memoryless communication model. Here, Alice is given $x\in \{0,1\}^n$, Bob is given $y\in \{0,1\}^n$ and their goal is to…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-09-10 Srinivasan Arunachalam , Supartha Podder

Communication complexity is a fundamental aspect of information science, concerned with the amount of communication required to solve a problem distributed among multiple parties. The standard quantification of one-way communication…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-25 Satyaki Manna , Anubhav Chaturvedi , Debashis Saha

We prove that NP differs from coNP and coNP is not a subset of MA in the number-on-forehead model of multiparty communication complexity for up to k = (1-\epsilon)log(n) players, where \epsilon>0 is any constant. Specifically, we construct…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Dmytro Gavinsky , Alexander A. Sherstov

The round complexity of interactive proof systems is a key question of practical and theoretical relevance in complexity theory and cryptography. Moreover, results such as QIP = QIP(3) (STOC'00) show that quantum resources significantly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-29 Alex B. Grilo , Philippe Lamontagne

We present a simple and general simulation technique that transforms any black-box quantum algorithm (a la Grover's database search algorithm) to a quantum communication protocol for a related problem, in a way that fully exploits the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Harry Buhrman , Richard Cleve , Avi Wigderson

We consider a variation of the multi-party communication complexity scenario where the parties are supplied with an extra resource: particles in an entangled quantum state. We show that, although a prior quantum entanglement cannot be used…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Harry Buhrman , Richard Cleve , Wim van Dam