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This work studies distributed learning in the spirit of Yao's model of communication complexity: consider a two-party setting, where each of the players gets a list of labelled examples and they communicate in order to jointly perform some…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Daniel M. Kane , Roi Livni , Shay Moran , Amir Yehudayoff

The communication complexity of many fundamental problems reduces greatly when the communicating parties share randomness that is independent of the inputs to the communication task. Natural communication processes (say between humans)…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Clément L. Canonne , Venkatesan Guruswami , Raghu Meka , Madhu Sudan

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

We study the role of interaction in the Common Randomness Generation (CRG) and Secret Key Generation (SKG) problems. In the CRG problem, two players, Alice and Bob, respectively get samples $X_1,X_2,\dots$ and $Y_1,Y_2,\dots$ with the pairs…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Mitali Bafna , Badih Ghazi , Noah Golowich , Madhu Sudan

We define the Streaming Communication model that combines the main aspects of communication complexity and streaming. We consider two agents that want to compute some function that depends on inputs that are distributed to each agent. The…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-09-23 Lucas Boczkowski , Iordanis Kerenidis , Frédéric Magniez

We study the communication complexity of linear algebraic problems over finite fields in the multi-player message passing model, proving a number of tight lower bounds. Specifically, for a matrix which is distributed among a number of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-07-18 Yi Li , Xiaoming Sun , Chengu Wang , David P. Woodruff

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

We prove the existence of (one-way) communication tasks with a subconstant versus superconstant asymptotic gap, which we call "doubly infinite," between their quantum information and communication complexities. We do so by studying the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-09 Zi-Wen Liu , Christopher Perry , Yechao Zhu , Dax Enshan Koh , Scott Aaronson

We study the one-way two-party communication complexity of Maximum Matching in the semi-robust setting where the edges of a maximum matching are randomly partitioned between Alice and Bob, but all remaining edges of the input graph are…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Gabriel Cipriani Huete , Adithya Diddapur , Pavel Dvořák , Christian Konrad

We consider the communication complexity of finding an approximate maximum matching in a graph in a multi-party message-passing communication model. The maximum matching problem is one of the most fundamental graph combinatorial problems,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-04-28 Zengfeng Huang , Bozidar Radunovic , Milan Vojnovic , Qin Zhang

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

The game of SET is a popular card game in which the objective is to form Sets using cards from a special deck. In this paper we study single- and multi-round variations of this game from the computational complexity point of view and…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-09-26 Michael Lampis , Valia Mitsou

In this paper, we consider the problem of guessing a sequence subject to a distortion constraint. Specifically, we assume the following game between Alice and Bob: Alice has a sequence $\bx$ of length $n$. Bob wishes to guess $\bx$, yet he…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Asaf Cohen , Neri Merhav

We prove an optimal $\Omega(n)$ lower bound on the randomized communication complexity of the much-studied Gap-Hamming-Distance problem. As a consequence, we obtain essentially optimal multi-pass space lower bounds in the data stream model…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2012-07-02 Amit Chakrabarti , Oded Regev

Consider a family of sets and a single set, called the query set. How can one quickly find a member of the family which has a maximal intersection with the query set? Time constraints on the query and on a possible preprocessing of the set…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2010-04-02 Benjamin Hoffmann , Mikhail Lifshits , Yury Lifshits , Dirk Nowotka

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

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

We investigate certain word-construction games with variable turn orders. In these games, Alice and Bob take turns on choosing consecutive letters of a word of fixed length, with Alice winning if the result lies in a predetermined target…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Pierre Marcus , Ilkka Törmä

The increasing wireless communication capabilities of vehicles creates opportunities for more efficient intersection management strategies. One promising approach is the replacement of traffic lights with a system wherein vehicles run…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Kaya Alpturer , Joseph Y. Halpern , Ron van der Meyden

This letter introduces an abstract learning problem called the "set embedding": The objective is to map sets into probability distributions so as to lose less information. We relate set union and intersection operations with corresponding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-13 Ke Sun , Frank Nielsen