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The information complexity of a function $f$ is the minimum amount of information Alice and Bob need to exchange to compute the function $f$. In this paper we provide an algorithm for approximating the information complexity of an arbitrary…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-02-11 Mark Braverman , Jon Schneider

Understanding how information can efficiently spread in distributed systems under noisy communications is a fundamental question in both biological research and artificial system design. When agents are able to control whom they interact…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Niccolò D'Archivio , Amos Korman , Emanuele Natale , Robin Vacus

In this paper, we study the problem of channel simulation via interactive communication, known as the coordination capacity, in a two-terminal network. We assume that two terminals observe i.i.d.\ copies of two random variables and would…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-21 Mohammad Hossein Yassaee , Amin Gohari , Mohammad Reza Aref

We study distribution testing with communication and memory constraints in the following computational models: (1) The {\em one-pass streaming model} where the goal is to minimize the sample complexity of the protocol subject to a memory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Ilias Diakonikolas , Themis Gouleakis , Daniel M. Kane , Sankeerth Rao

We define a new notion of information cost for quantum protocols, and a corresponding notion of quantum information complexity for bipartite quantum channels, and then investigate the properties of such quantities. These are the fully…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-04-16 Dave Touchette

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

We consider the standard two-party communication model. The central problem studied in this article is how much one can save in information complexity by allowing an error of $\epsilon$. For arbitrary functions, we obtain lower bounds and…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-11-22 Yuval Dagan , Yuval Filmus , Hamed Hatami , Yaqiao Li

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

We propose a protocol for Alice to implement a multiqubit quantum operation from the restricted sets on distant qubits possessed by Bob, and then we investigate the communication complexity of the task in different communication scenarios.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-10-11 Haozhen Situ , Daowen Qiu

We study the effect that the amount of correlation in a bipartite distribution has on the communication complexity of a problem under that distribution. We introduce a new family of complexity measures that interpolates between the two…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-08-25 Ralph C. Bottesch , Dmitry Gavinsky , Hartmut Klauck

The standard population protocol model assumes that when two agents interact, each observes the entire state of the other agent. We initiate the study of $\textit{message complexity}$ for population protocols, where the state of an agent is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Talley Amir , James Aspnes , David Doty , Mahsa Eftekhari , Eric Severson

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

We define the complexity of a continuous-time linear system to be the minimum number of bits required to describe its forward increments to a desired level of fidelity, and compute this quantity using the rate distortion function of a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-06 Eric Wendel , John Baillieul , Joseph Hollmann

We show how to efficiently simulate the sending of a message M to a receiver who has partial information about the message, so that the expected number of bits communicated in the simulation is close to the amount of additional information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-06-21 Mark Braverman , Anup Rao

Quantum information processing is the emerging field that defines and realizes computing devices that make use of quantum mechanical principles, like the superposition principle, entanglement, and interference. In this review we study the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Harry Buhrman , Richard Cleve , Serge Massar , Ronald de Wolf

We establish a connection between non-deterministic communication complexity and instance complexity, a measure of information based on algorithmic entropy. Let $\overline{x}$, $\overline{y}$ and $Y_1(\overline{x})$ be respectively the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2009-01-20 Armando Matos , Andreia Teixeira , Andre Souto

We present efficient and practical algorithms for a large, distributed system of processors to achieve reliable computations in a secure manner. Specifically, we address the problem of computing a general function of several private inputs…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Donald Rozinak Beaver

We introduce a simple model illustrating the role of context in communication and the challenge posed by uncertainty of knowledge of context. We consider a variant of distributional communication complexity where Alice gets some information…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-07-21 Badih Ghazi , Ilan Komargodski , Pravesh Kothari , Madhu Sudan

Dynamic spectrum sharing is a promising technology for improving the spectrum utilization. In this paper, we study how secondary users can share the spectrum in a distributed fashion based on social imitations. The imitation-based mechanism…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-05-13 Xu Chen , Jianwei Huang

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