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We consider the task of compression of information when the source of the information and the destination do not agree on the prior, i.e., the distribution from which the information is being generated. This setting was considered…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-11-27 Elad Haramaty , Madhu Sudan

Recently, Brassard et. al. conjectured that the fact that the maximal possible correlations between two non-local parties are the quantum-mechanical ones is linked to a reasonable restriction on communication complexity. We provide further…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Samuel Marcovitch , Benni Reznik

We present a simple communication complexity problem where three parties benefit from sharing bound entanglement. This demonstrates that entanglement distillability of the shared state is not necessary in order to surpass classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-03-08 Michael Epping , Caslav Brukner

We show that almost all known lower bound methods for communication complexity are also lower bounds for the information complexity. In particular, we define a relaxed version of the partition bound of Jain and Klauck and prove that it…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-01-21 Iordanis Kerenidis , Sophie Laplante , Virginie Lerays , Jérémie Roland , David Xiao

The private simultaneous messages model is a non-interactive version of the multiparty secure computation, which has been intensively studied to examine the communication cost of the secure computation. We consider its quantum counterpart,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-18 Akinori Kawachi , Harumichi Nishimura

We study the effect of rounds of interaction on the common randomness generation (CRG) problem. In the CRG problem, two parties, Alice and Bob, receive samples $X_i$ and $Y_i$, respectively, drawn jointly from a source distribution $\mu$.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Noah Golowich , Madhu Sudan

In this paper, we consider fundamental communication limits over a compound channel. Covert communication in the information-theoretic context has been primarily concerned with fundamental limits when the transmitter wishes to communicate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Sadaf Salehkalaibar , Mohammad Hossein Yassaee , Vincent Y. F. Tan

Sharing correlated random variables is a resource for a number of information theoretic tasks such as privacy amplification, simultaneous message passing, secret sharing and many more. In this article, we show that to establish such a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-03 Tamal Guha , Mir Alimuddin , Sumit Rout , Amit Mukherjee , Some Sankar Bhattacharya , Manik Banik

We exhibit an $n$-bit partial function with randomized communication complexity $O(\log n)$ but such that any completion of this function into a total one requires randomized communication complexity $n^{\Omega(1)}$. In particular, this…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Mika Göös , Nathaniel Harms , Artur Riazanov , Anastasia Sofronova , Dmitry Sokolov , Weiqiang Yuan

We study the problem of distributed cooperative learning, where a group of agents seeks to agree on a set of hypotheses that best describes a sequence of private observations. In the scenario where the set of hypotheses is large, we propose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Mohammad Taha Toghani , César A. Uribe

Error-correcting codes are efficient methods for handling \emph{noisy} communication channels in the context of technological networks. However, such elaborate methods differ a lot from the unsophisticated way biological entities are…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-05-24 Pierre Fraigniaud , Emanuele Natale

Efficient distributed computing offers a scalable strategy for solving resource-demanding tasks such as parallel computation and circuit optimisation. Crucially, the communication overhead introduced by the allotment process should be…

The classical communication complexity of testing closeness of discrete distributions has recently been studied by Andoni, Malkin and Nosatzki (ICALP'19). In this problem, two players each receive $t$ samples from one distribution over…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Aleksandrs Belovs , Arturo Castellanos , François Le Gall , Guillaume Malod , Alexander A. Sherstov

We initiate the study of a quantity that we call coordination complexity. In a distributed optimization problem, the information defining a problem instance is distributed among $n$ parties, who need to each choose an action, which jointly…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-01-06 Rachel Cummings , Katrina Ligett , Jaikumar Radhakrishnan , Aaron Roth , Zhiwei Steven Wu

Communication in poor network environment is always a difficult problem, since troubles such as bit errors and packet loss may often occur. It is generally believed that it is impossible to transmit data both accurately and efficiently in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Ye Tianyi

We study randomized and quantum efficiency lower bounds in communication complexity. These arise from the study of zero-communication protocols in which players are allowed to abort. Our scenario is inspired by the physics setup of Bell…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-03 S. Laplante , V. Lerays , J. Roland

An important part of the information theory folklore had been about the output statistics of codes that achieve the capacity and how the empirical distributions compare to the output distributions induced by the optimal input in the channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Alptug Aytekin , Mohamed Nomeir , Lei Hu , Sennur Ulukus

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

A two-party quantum communication process with classical inputs and outcomes can be simulated by replacing the quantum channel with a classical one. The minimal amount of classical communication required to reproduce the statistics of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-20 A. Hansen , A. Montina , S. Wolf

We study the problem of simulating protocols in a quantum communication setting over noisy channels. This problem falls at the intersection of quantum information theory and quantum communication complexity, and it will be of importance for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-12 Gilles Brassard , Ashwin Nayak , Alain Tapp , Dave Touchette , Falk Unger