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We establish novel connections between magic in quantum circuits and communication complexity. In particular, we show that functions computable with low magic have low communication cost. Our first result shows that the $\mathsf{D}\|$…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-09 Uma Girish , Alex May , Natalie Parham , Henry Yuen

We prove a general structural theorem for a wide family of local algorithms, which includes property testers, local decoders, and PCPs of proximity. Namely, we show that the structure of every algorithm that makes $q$ adaptive queries and…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Marcel Dall'Agnol , Tom Gur , Oded Lachish

In the area of query complexity of Boolean functions, the most widely studied cost measure of an algorithm is the worst-case number of queries made by it on an input. Motivated by the most natural cost measure studied in online algorithms,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Alison Hsiang-Hsuan Liu , Nikhil S. Mande

We study the problem of learning nonparametric distributions in a finite mixture, and establish tight bounds on the sample complexity for learning the component distributions in such models. Namely, we are given i.i.d. samples from a pdf…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Bryon Aragam , Wai Ming Tai

It is already shown that a Boolean function for a NP-complete problem can be computed by a polynomial-sized circuit if its variables have enough number of automorphisms. Looking at this previous study from the different perspective gives us…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-04-24 Satoshi Tazawa

We extend the convergence law for sparse random graphs proven by Lynch to arbitrary relational languages. We consider a finite relational vocabulary $\sigma$ and a first order theory $T$ for $\sigma$ composed of symmetry and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-06-15 Lázaro Alberto Larrauri

Coherence plays a very important role in Grover search algorithm (GSA). In this paper, we define the normalization coherence N(C), where C is a coherence measurement. In virtue of the constraint of large N and Shannon's maximum entropy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-22 Minghua Pan , Haozhen Situ , Shenggen Zheng

In this short note, we initiate the study of the Linear Isomorphism Testing Problem in the setting of communication complexity, a natural linear algebraic generalization of the classical Equality problem. Given Boolean functions $f, g :…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Swarnalipa Datta , Arijit Ghosh , Chandrima Kayal , Manaswi Paraashar , Manmatha Roy

The Forrelation problem, introduced by Aaronson [A10] and Aaronson and Ambainis [AA15], is a well studied problem in the context of separating quantum and classical models. Variants of this problem were used to give exponential separations…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-07-08 Uma Girish , Ran Raz , Wei Zhan

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

In this work, we unify several quantum algorithmic frameworks for boolean functions that are based on the quantum adversary bound. First, we show that the $st$-connectivity framework subsumes the (adaptive/extended) learning graph…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-10 Arjan Cornelissen

The existence of string functions, which are not polynomial time computable, but whose graph is checkable in polynomial time, is a basic assumption in cryptography. We prove that in the framework of algebraic complexity, there are no such…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-12-18 Peter Bürgisser

For a Boolean function $\Phi\colon\{0,1\}^d\to\{0,1\}$ and an assignment to its variables $\mathbf{x}=(x_1, x_2, \dots, x_d)$ we consider the problem of finding the subsets of the variables that are sufficient to determine the function…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-06-19 Stephan Wäldchen , Jan Macdonald , Sascha Hauch , Gitta Kutyniok

This paper establishes quantitative correlation inequalities between monotone events and structured threshold objects in both the discrete cube and Gaussian space. We prove that for any increasing balanced family, there exists a linear…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-03-26 Yiming Chen , Guozheng Dai

We propose an algorithm for answering conjunctive queries with negation, where the negated relations have bounded degree. Its data complexity matches that of the best known algorithms for the positive subquery of the input query and is…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Mahmoud Abo Khamis , Hung Q. Ngo , Dan Olteanu , Dan Suciu

We study the data complexity of consistent query answering (CQA) on databases that may violate the primary key constraints. A repair is a maximal consistent subset of the database. For a Boolean query $q$, the problem…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Paraschos Koutris , Xiating Ouyang , Jef Wijsen

We prove a new lower bound on the parity decision tree complexity $\mathsf{D}_{\oplus}(f)$ of a Boolean function $f$. Namely, granularity of the Boolean function $f$ is the smallest $k$ such that all Fourier coefficients of $f$ are integer…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-10-29 Anastasiya Chistopolskaya , Vladimir V. Podolskii

We study nondeterministic quantum algorithms for Boolean functions f. Such algorithms have positive acceptance probability on input x iff f(x)=1. In the setting of query complexity, we show that the nondeterministic quantum complexity of a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Ronald de Wolf

We prove that with high probability over the choice of a random graph $G$ from the Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi distribution $G(n,1/2)$, the $n^{O(d)}$-time degree $d$ Sum-of-Squares semidefinite programming relaxation for the clique problem will give…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-04-13 Boaz Barak , Samuel B. Hopkins , Jonathan Kelner , Pravesh K. Kothari , Ankur Moitra , Aaron Potechin

We present connections between the recent literature on multigroup fairness for prediction algorithms and classical results in computational complexity. Multiaccurate predictors are correct in expectation on each member of an arbitrary…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Sílvia Casacuberta , Cynthia Dwork , Salil Vadhan