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Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-25 Carl Leake

Modular composition is the problem of computing the coefficient vector of the polynomial $f(g(x)) \bmod h(x)$, given as input the coefficient vectors of univariate polynomials $f$, $g$, and $h$ over an underlying field $\mathbb{F}$. While…

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This work addresses the problem of distributed computation of linearly separable functions, where a master node with access to $K$ datasets, employs $N$ servers to compute $L$ user-requested functions, each defined over the datasets.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-30 K. K. Krishnan Namboodiri , Elizabath Peter , Derya Malak , Petros Elia

We introduce CRAFT, a multi-agent benchmark for evaluating pragmatic communication in large language models under strict partial information. In this setting, multiple agents with complementary but incomplete views must coordinate through…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Abhijnan Nath , Hannah VanderHoeven , Nikhil Krishnaswamy

In this paper we revisit the problem of constructing randomized composable coresets for bipartite matching. In this problem the input graph is randomly partitioned across $k$ players, each of which sends a single message to a coordinator,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Michael Kapralov , Gilbert Maystre , Jakab Tardos

Communication complexity is the amount of communication needed to compute a function when the function inputs are distributed over multiple parties. In its simplest form, one-way communication complexity, Alice and Bob compute a function…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Naresh Goud Boddu , Rahul Jain , Han-Hsuan Lin

Representations of Boolean functions by real polynomials play an important role in complexity theory. Typically, one is interested in the least degree of a polynomial p(x_1,...,x_n) that approximates or sign-represents a given Boolean…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2008-05-15 Alexander A. Sherstov

A receiver wants to compute a function of two correlated sources separately observed by two transmitters. One of the transmitters may send a possibly private message to the other transmitter in a cooperation phase before both transmitters…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-08 Milad Sefidgaran , Aslan Tchamkerten

Internet supercomputing is an approach to solving partitionable, computation-intensive problems by harnessing the power of a vast number of interconnected computers. This paper presents a new algorithm for the problem of using network…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-07-03 Seda Davtyan , Kishori M. Konwar , Alexander Russell , Alexander A. Shvartsman

We define nondeterministic communication complexity in the model of communication complexity with help of Babai, Hayes and Kimmel. We use it to prove logarithmic lower bounds on the NOF communication complexity of explicit graph functions,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-10-26 Adi Shraibman

This work establishes the fundamental limits of the classical problem of multi-user distributed computing of linearly separable functions. In particular, we consider a distributed computing setting involving $L$ users, each requesting a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-16 K. K. Krishnan Namboodiri , Elizabath Peter , Derya Malak , Petros Elia

Suppose that a transmitter Alice potentially wishes to communicate with a receiver Bob over an adversarially jammed binary channel. An active adversary James eavesdrops on their communication over a binary symmetric channel (BSC(q)), and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Qiaosheng Zhang , Mayank Bakshi , Sidharth Jaggi

In the standard model of computing multi-output functions in logspace ($\mathsf{FL}$), we are given a read-only tape holding $x$ and a logarithmic length worktape, and must print $f(x)$ to a dedicated write-only tape. However, there has…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-10-15 James Cook , Surendra Ghentiyala , Ian Mertz , Edward Pyne , Nathan S. Sheffield

In this paper we consider an application of the recently proposed quantum hashing technique for computing Boolean functions in the quantum communication model. The combination of binary functions on non-binary quantum hash function is done…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-08 Alexander Vasiliev

The $\textit{von Neumann Computer Architecture}$ has a distinction between computation and memory. In contrast, the brain has an integrated architecture where computation and memory are indistinguishable. Motivated by the architecture of…

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We propose a coded computing strategy and examine communication costs of coded computing algorithms to make distributed Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) resilient to errors during the computation. We apply maximum distance separable (MDS) codes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-28 Haewon Jeong , Tze Meng Low , Pulkit Grover

In this work we revisit the Boolean Hidden Matching communication problem, which was the first communication problem in the one-way model to demonstrate an exponential classical-quantum communication separation. In this problem, Alice's…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-18 João F. Doriguello , Ashley Montanaro

Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) serves multiple users by superposing their distinct message signals. The desired message signal is decoded at the receiver by applying successive interference cancellation (SIC). Using the theory of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-14 Hina Tabassum , Ekram Hossain , Md. Jahangir Hossain

$\newcommand{\F}{\mathbb{F}}$We study the Boolean function parameters sensitivity ($s$), block sensitivity ($bs$), and alternation ($alt$) under specially designed affine transforms. For a function $f:\F_2^n\to \{0,1\}$, and $A=Mx+b$ for $M…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Krishnamoorthy Dinesh , Jayalal Sarma

Coordinating the behaviour of self-interested agents in the presence of multiple Nash equilibria is a major research challenge for multi-agent systems. Pre-game communication between all the players can aid coordination in cases where the…

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