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We study when partial Boolean functions can (and cannot) exhibit superpolynomial quantum query speedups, and develop a general framework for ruling out such speedups via two complementary lenses: promise-aware complexity measures and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-01 Thomas Huffstutler , Upendra Kapshikar , David Miloschewsky , Supartha Podder

Link prediction methods use patterns in known network data to infer which connections may be missing. Previous work has shown that continuous-time quantum walks can be used to represent path-based link prediction, which we further study…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-01 João P. Moutinho , Duarte Magano , Bruno Coutinho

Classical complexity theory measures the cost of computing a function, but many computational tasks require committing to one valid output among several. We introduce determination depth -- the minimum number of sequential layers of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Joseph M. Hellerstein

The development of randomized algorithms for numerical linear algebra, e.g. for computing approximate QR and SVD factorizations, has recently become an intense area of research. This paper studies one of the most frequently discussed…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2013-08-28 Rafi Witten , Emmanuel Candes

The polynomial method from circuit complexity has been applied to several fundamental problems and obtains the state-of-the-art running times. As observed in [Alman and Williams, STOC 2017], almost all applications of the polynomial method…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Lijie Chen , Ruosong Wang

A fundamental problem in computer science is to find all the common zeroes of $m$ quadratic polynomials in $n$ unknowns over $\mathbb{F}_2$. The cryptanalysis of several modern ciphers reduces to this problem. Up to now, the best complexity…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Magali Bardet , Jean-Charles Faugère , Bruno Salvy , Pierre-Jean Spaenlehauer

Span programs characterize the quantum query complexity of binary functions $f:\{0,\ldots,\ell\}^n \to \{0,1\}$ up to a constant factor. In this paper we generalize the notion of span programs for functions with non-binary input/output…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-31 Salman Beigi , Leila Taghavi

Pseudoentropy characterizations provide a quantitatively precise demonstration of the close relationship between computational hardness and computational randomness. We prove a unified pseudoentropy characterization that generalizes and…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Lunjia Hu , Salil Vadhan

We establish a general framework for developing approximation algorithms for a class of counting problems. Our framework is based on the cluster expansion of abstract polymer models formalism of Koteck\'y and Preiss. We apply our framework…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-18 Ryan L. Mann , Romy M. Minko

We completely (that is, up to a logarithmic factor) characterize the bounded-error quantum communication complexity of every predicate $f(x,y)$ depending only on $|x\cap y|$ ($x,y\subseteq [n]$). Namely, for a predicate $D$ on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Alexander Razborov

Computational complexity is examined using the principle of increasing entropy. To consider computation as a physical process from an initial instance to the final acceptance is motivated because many natural processes have been recognized…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2012-03-20 Arto Annila

Motivated by recent progress in quantum technologies and in particular quantum software, research and industrial communities have been trying to discover new applications of quantum algorithms such as quantum optimization and machine…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-23 Ebrahim Ardeshir-Larijani

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

One of the best lower bound methods for the quantum communication complexity of a function H (with or without shared entanglement) is the logarithm of the approximate rank of the communication matrix of H. This measure is essentially…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-25 Anurag Anshu , Shalev Ben-David , Ankit Garg , Rahul Jain , Robin Kothari , Troy Lee

We show that any boolean function can be evaluated optimally by a quantum query algorithm that alternates a certain fixed, input-independent reflection with a second reflection that coherently queries the input string. Originally introduced…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-07-26 Ben W. Reichardt

We give a simpler proof, via query elimination, of a result due to O'Donnell, Saks, Schramm and Servedio, which shows a lower bound on the zero-error randomized query complexity of a function f in terms of the maximum influence of any…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-02-24 Rahul Jain , Shengyu Zhang

Quantum computers can sometimes exponentially outperform classical ones, but only for problems with sufficient structure. While it is well known that query problems with full permutation symmetry can have at most polynomial quantum speedup…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-29 Andrew M. Childs , Daochen Wang

We study a class of functional problems reducible to computing $f^{(n)}(x)$ for inputs $n$ and $x$, where $f$ is a polynomial-time bijection. As we prove, the definition is robust against variations in the type of reduction used in its…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-02-14 David Eppstein

Quantum algorithms and complexity have recently been studied not only for discrete, but also for some numerical problems. Most attention has been paid so far to the integration problem, for which a speed-up is shown by quantum computers…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Boleslaw Kacewicz

Quantum-inspired classical algorithms has received much attention due to its exponential speedup compared to existing algorithms, under certain data storage assumptions. The improvements are noticeable in fundamental linear algebra tasks.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-08 Hyunho Cha , Jungwoo Lee