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Boolean and quantum circuits have commonalities and differences. To formalize the syntactical commonality we introduce syntactic circuits where the gates are black boxes. Syntactic circuits support various semantics. One semantics is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-15 Andreas Blass , Yuri Gurevich

Rossman [In $\textit{Proc. $34$th Comput. Complexity Conf.}$, 2019] introduced the notion of $\textit{criticality}$. The criticality of a Boolean function $f : \{0,1\}^n \to \{0,1\}$ is the minimum $\lambda \geq 1$ such that for all…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-01-06 Prahladh Harsha , Tulasi mohan Molli , Ashutosh Shankar

We study the size blow-up that is necessary to convert an algebraic circuit of product-depth $\Delta+1$ to one of product-depth $\Delta$ in the multilinear setting. We show that for every positive $\Delta = \Delta(n) = o(\log n/\log \log…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Suryajith Chillara , Christian Engels , Nutan Limaye , Srikanth Srinivasan

Bennett's notion of depth is usually considered to describe the usefulness and internal organization of the information encoded into an object such as an infinite binary sequence. We consider a natural way to relativize the notion of depth…

Logic · Mathematics 2021-12-09 Laurent Bienvenu , Valentino Delle Rose , Wolfgang Merkle

We present a novel automated technique for parallelizing quantum circuits via forward and backward translation to measurement-based quantum computing patterns and analyze the trade off in terms of depth and space complexity. As a result we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-02-22 Anne Broadbent , Elham Kashefi

The approximate degree of a Boolean function $f \colon \{-1, 1\}^n \rightarrow \{-1, 1\}$ is the least degree of a real polynomial that approximates $f$ pointwise to error at most $1/3$. We introduce a generic method for increasing the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-03-20 Mark Bun , Justin Thaler

In this paper we show derivations among logarithmic space bounded counting classes based on closure properties of $\#L$ that leads us to the result that $NL=C_=L\subseteq PL$.

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-04-28 V. Janaki , S. Madhan , T. C. Vijayaraghavan

The description complexity of a model is the length of the shortest formula that defines the model. We study the description complexity of unary structures in first-order logic FO, also drawing links to semantic complexity in the form of…

Logic · Mathematics 2024-09-27 Reijo Jaakkola , Antti Kuusisto , Miikka Vilander

In this paper, we consider bounded width circuits and nondeterministic circuits in three somewhat new directions. In the first part of this paper, we mainly consider bounded width circuits. The main purpose of this part is to prove that…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Hiroki Morizumi

We introduce a new algebraic proof system, which has tight connections to (algebraic) circuit complexity. In particular, we show that any super-polynomial lower bound on any Boolean tautology in our proof system implies that the permanent…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-04-16 Joshua A. Grochow , Toniann Pitassi

We consider efficiency in the implementation of deep neural networks. Hardware accelerators are gaining interest as machine learning becomes one of the drivers of high-performance computing. In these accelerators, the directed graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-28 George A. Constantinides

We propose a new algorithm for compiling Bayesian network classifier (BNC) into class formulas. Class formulas are logical formulas that represent a classifier's input-output behavior, and are crucial in the recent line of work that uses…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Yaofang Zhang , Adnan Darwiche

It is widely accepted that noisy quantum devices are limited to logarithmic depth circuits unless mid-circuit measurements and error correction are employed. However, this conclusion holds only for unital error channels, such as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-08 Oles Shtanko , Kunal Sharma

The past decade has seen a significant interest in learning tractable probabilistic representations. Arithmetic circuits (ACs) were among the first proposed tractable representations, with some subsequent representations being instances of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-08-25 Arthur Choi , Adnan Darwiche

We show that there is a randomized algorithm that, when given a small constant-depth Boolean circuit $C$ made up of gates that compute constant-degree Polynomial Threshold functions or PTFs (i.e., Boolean functions that compute signs of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-09-18 Swapnam Bajpai , Vaibhav Krishan , Deepanshu Kush , Nutan Limaye , Srikanth Srinivasan

We investigate machine models similar to Turing machines that are augmented by the operations of a first-order structure $\mathcal{R}$, and we show that under weak conditions on $\mathcal{R}$, the complexity class $\text{NP}(\mathcal{R})$…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Jeremy C. Kirn , Lucas Meijer , Tillmann Miltzow , Hans L. Bodlaender

A caveat to many applications of the current Deep Learning approach is the need for large-scale data. One improvement suggested by Kolmogorov Complexity results is to apply the minimum description length principle with computationally…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Brieuc Pinon , Raphaël Jungers , Jean-Charles Delvenne

We present a framework for studying circuit complexity that is inspired by techniques that are used for analyzing the complexity of CSPs. We prove that the circuit complexity of a Boolean function $f$ is characterized by the partial…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-05-10 Gustav Nordh

Input-output maps are prevalent throughout science and technology. They are empirically observed to be biased towards simple outputs, but we don't understand why. To address this puzzle, we study the archetypal input-output map: a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-03-03 Thomas M. A. Fink

The best known size lower bounds against unrestricted circuits have remained around $3n$ for several decades. Moreover, the only known technique for proving lower bounds in this model, gate elimination, is inherently limited to proving…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Alexander Golovnev , Alexander S. Kulikov , R. Ryan Williams