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We present a method to detect lower bounds to the classical capacity of quantum communication channels by means of few local measurements (i.e. without complete process tomography), reconstruction of sets of conditional probabilities, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-30 Chiara Macchiavello , Massimiliano F. Sacchi

Broadcast protocols enable a set of $n$ parties to agree on the input of a designated sender, even facing attacks by malicious parties. In the honest-majority setting, randomization and cryptography were harnessed to achieve…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Erica Blum , Elette Boyle , Ran Cohen , Chen-Da Liu-Zhang

The question of how much communication is required between collaborating parties to compute a function of their data is of fundamental importance in the fields of theoretical computer science and information theory. In this work, the focus…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-09 Shijin Rajakrishnan , Sundara Rajan S , Vinod Prabhakaran

In this article we establish new bounds on the quantum communication complexity of distributed problems. Specifically, we consider the amount of communication that is required to transform a bipartite state into another, typically more…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Wim van Dam , Patrick Hayden

We establish novel connections between magic in quantum circuits and communication complexity. In particular, we show that functions computable with low magic have low communication cost. Our first result shows that the $\mathsf{D}\|$…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-09 Uma Girish , Alex May , Natalie Parham , Henry Yuen

Upper bounds on the communication complexity of finding the nearest lattice point in a given lattice $\Lambda \subset \mathbb{R}^2$ was considered in earlier works~\cite{VB:2017}, for a two party, interactive communication model. Here we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Vinay A. Vaishampayan

The growing demands of remote detection and increasing amount of training data make distributed machine learning under communication constraints a critical issue. This work provides a communication-efficient quantum algorithm that tackles…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-26 Hao Tang , Boning Li , Guoqing Wang , Haowei Xu , Changhao Li , Ariel Barr , Paola Cappellaro , Ju Li

We propose a probabilistic two-party communication complexity scenario with a prior nonmaximally entangled state, which results in less communication than that is required with only classical random correlations. A simple all-optical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-17 Peng Xue , Yun-Feng Huang , Yong-Sheng Zhang , Chuan-Feng Li , Guang-Can Guo

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

Recently, there has been an increasing interest in designing distributed convex optimization algorithms under the setting where the data matrix is partitioned on features. Algorithms under this setting sometimes have many advantages over…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-12-05 Zihao Chen , Luo Luo , Zhihua Zhang

We study quantum communication protocols, in which the players' storage starts out in a state where one qubit is in a pure state, and all other qubits are totally mixed (i.e. in a random state), and no other storage is available (for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-01 Hartmut Klauck , Debbie Lim

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

Communication complexity, which quantifies the minimum communication required for distributed computation, offers a natural setting for investigating the capabilities and limitations of quantum mechanics in information processing. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-12 Nikolai Miklin , Prabhav Jain , Mariami Gachechiladze

Consider a control problem with a communication channel connecting the observer of a linear stochastic system to the controller. The goal of the controller is to minimize a quadratic cost function in the state variables and control signal,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Victoria Kostina , Babak Hassibi

Deterministic and probabilistic communication protocols are introduced in which parties can exchange the values of polynomials (rather than bits in the usual setting). It is established a sharp lower bound $2n$ on the communication…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-10-16 Dima Grigoriev

We define a quantum model for multiparty communication complexity and prove a simulation theorem between the classical and quantum models. As a result of our simulation, we show that if the quantum k-party communication complexity of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Iordanis Kerenidis

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

In this paper, we discuss the maximum flow problem in the two-party communication model, where two parties, each holding a subset of edges on a common vertex set, aim to compute the maximum flow of the union graph with minimal…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Hossein Gholizadeh , Yonggang Jiang

In secure multiparty computation (MPC), mutually distrusting users collaborate to compute a function of their private data without revealing any additional information about their data to other users. While it is known that information…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Deepesh Data , Vinod M. Prabhakaran , Manoj M. Prabhakaran

We study a model of communication complexity that encompasses many well-studied problems, including classical and quantum communication complexity, the complexity of simulating distributions arising from bipartite measurements of shared…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-07-08 Julien Degorre , Marc Kaplan , Sophie Laplante , Jérémie Roland