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We give several new lower bounds on size of homogeneous non-commutative circuits. We present an explicit homogeneous bivariate polynomial of degree $d$ which requires homogeneous non-commutative circuit of size $\Omega(d/\log d)$. For an…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Prerona Chatterjee , Pavel Hrubeš

We address the black-box polynomial identity testing (PIT) problem for non-commutative polynomials computed by $+$-regular circuits, a class of homogeneous circuits introduced by [AJMR](STOC 2017, Theory of Computing 2019). These circuits…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-02-11 G V Sumukha Bharadwaj , S Raja

We consider the problem of computing the second elementary symmetric polynomial S^2_n(X) using depth-three arithmetic circuits of the form "sum of products of linear forms". We consider this problem over several fields and determine EXACTLY…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Jaikumar Radhakrishnan , Pranab Sen , Sundar Vishwanathan

In this paper we obtain complexity bounds for computational problems on algebraic power series over several commuting variables. The power series are specified by systems of polynomial equations: a formalism closely related to weighted…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Nikhil Balaji , Lorenzo Clemente , Klara Nosan , Mahsa Shirmohammadi , James Worrell

A polynomial identity testing algorithm must determine whether a given input polynomial is identically equal to 0. We give a deterministic black-box identity testing algorithm for univariate polynomials of the form $\sum_{j=0}^t c_j…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2009-12-08 Pascal Koiran

A natural measure of smoothness of a Boolean function is its sensitivity (the largest number of Hamming neighbors of a point which differ from it in function value). The structure of smooth or equivalently low-sensitivity functions is still…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-08-12 Parikshit Gopalan , Noam Nisan , Rocco A. Servedio , Kunal Talwar , Avi Wigderson

A monotone Boolean circuit is composed of OR gates, AND gates and input gates corresponding to the input variables and the Boolean constants. It is $q$-multilinear if for each its output gate $o$ and for each prime implicant $s$ of the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Andrzej Lingas , Mia Persson

We characterize the monotone bounded depth formula complexity for graph homomorphism and colored isomorphism polynomials using a graph parameter called the cost of bounded product depth baggy elimination tree. Using this characterization,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Balagopal Komarath , Rohit Narayanan

Most classical results in circuit complexity theory concern circuits over the Boolean domain. Besides their simplicity and the ease of comparing different languages, the actual architecture of computers is also an important motivating…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Piotr Kawałek , Jacek Krzaczkowski

We consider the following basic problem: given an $n$-variate degree-$d$ homogeneous polynomial $f$ with real coefficients, compute a unit vector $x \in \mathbb{R}^n$ that maximizes $|f(x)|$. Besides its fundamental nature, this problem…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-04-25 Vijay Bhattiprolu , Mrinalkanti Ghosh , Venkatesan Guruswami , Euiwoong Lee , Madhur Tulsiani

In this paper we present a generic construction to obtain an optimal T depth quantum circuit for any arbitrary $n$-input $m$-output Boolean function $f: \{0,1\}^n \rightarrow \{0,1\}^m$ having algebraic degree $k\leq n$, and it achieves an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-03 Suman Dutta , Anik Basu Bhaumik , Anupam Chattopadhyay , Subhamoy Maitra

The degree of a polynomial representing (or approximating) a function f is a lower bound for the number of quantum queries needed to compute f. This observation has been a source of many lower bounds on quantum algorithms. It has been an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-05-12 Andris Ambainis

We show that static data structure lower bounds in the group (linear) model imply semi-explicit lower bounds on matrix rigidity. In particular, we prove that an explicit lower bound of $t \geq \omega(\log^2 n)$ on the cell-probe complexity…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-02-15 Zeev Dvir , Alexander Golovnev , Omri Weinstein

In arXiv:1710.08163 a generalization of Boolean circuits to arbitrary finite algebras had been introduced and applied to sketch P versus NP-complete borderline for circuits satisfiability over algebras from congruence modular varieties.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Paweł M. Idziak , Piotr Kawałek , Jacek Krzaczkowski

The approximate degree of a Boolean function f is the least degree of a real polynomial that approximates f pointwise to error at most 1/3. Approximate degree is known to be a lower bound on quantum query complexity. We resolve or nearly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-20 Mark Bun , Robin Kothari , Justin Thaler

In studying the expressiveness of neural networks, an important question is whether there are functions which can only be approximated by sufficiently deep networks, assuming their size is bounded. However, for constant depths, existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Gal Vardi , Ohad Shamir

Low-degree polynomials have emerged as a powerful paradigm for providing evidence of statistical-computational gaps across a variety of high-dimensional statistical models [Wein25]. For detection problems -- where the goal is to test a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-01-06 Alexandra Carpentier , Simone Maria Giancola , Christophe Giraud , Nicolas Verzelen

Arithmetic circuits (AC) are circuits over the real numbers with 0/1-valued input variables whose gates compute the sum or the product of their inputs. Positive AC -- that is, AC representing non-negative functions -- subsume many…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Alexis de Colnet , Stefan Mengel

Nisan and Szegedy (CC 1994) showed that any Boolean function $f:\{0,1\}^n\rightarrow \{0,1\}$ that depends on all its input variables, when represented as a real-valued multivariate polynomial $P(x_1,\ldots,x_n)$, has degree at least $\log…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Srikanth Srinivasan , S. Venkitesh

To determine the dimension of null space of any given linearized polynomial is one of vital problems in finite field theory, with concern to design of modern symmetric cryptosystems. But, the known general theory for this task is much far…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-29 Sihem Mesnager , Kwang Ho Kim , Myong Song Jo