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Consensus is one of the most thoroughly studied problems in distributed computing, yet there are still complexity gaps that have not been bridged for decades. In particular, in the classical message-passing setting with processes' crashes,…

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In analogy of classical Kolmogorov complexity we develop a theory of the algorithmic information in bits contained in any one of continuously many pure quantum states: quantum Kolmogorov complexity. Classical Kolmogorov complexity coincides…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Paul Vitanyi

The quantum version of communication complexity allows the two communicating parties to exchange qubits and/or to make use of prior entanglement (shared EPR-pairs). Some lower bound techniques are available for qubit communication…

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

Due to M\"{u}ller's theorem, the Kolmogorov complexity of a string was shown to be equal to its quantum Kolmogorov complexity. Thus there are no benefits to using quantum mechanics to compress classical information. The quantitative amount…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Samuel Epstein

We study the problem of identifying correlations in multivariate data, under information constraints: Either on the amount of memory that can be used by the algorithm, or the amount of communication when the data is distributed across…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-07 Yuval Dagan , Ohad Shamir

We introduce a simple model illustrating the role of context in communication and the challenge posed by uncertainty of knowledge of context. We consider a variant of distributional communication complexity where Alice gets some information…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-07-21 Badih Ghazi , Ilan Komargodski , Pravesh Kothari , Madhu Sudan

We exhibit an $n$-bit partial function with randomized communication complexity $O(\log n)$ but such that any completion of this function into a total one requires randomized communication complexity $n^{\Omega(1)}$. In particular, this…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Mika Göös , Nathaniel Harms , Artur Riazanov , Anastasia Sofronova , Dmitry Sokolov , Weiqiang Yuan

We formulate and analyze the compound information bottleneck programming. In this problem, a Markov chain $ \mathsf{X} \rightarrow \mathsf{Y} \rightarrow \mathsf{Z} $ is assumed with fixed marginal distributions $\mathsf{P}_{\mathsf{X}}$…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Michael Dikshtein , Nir Weinberger , Shlomo Shamai

Communication complexity, which quantifies the minimum communication required for distributed computation, offers a natural setting for investigating the capabilities and limitations of quantum mechanics in information processing. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-12 Nikolai Miklin , Prabhav Jain , Mariami Gachechiladze

In some scenarios there are ways of conveying information with many fewer, even exponentially fewer, qubits than possible classically. Moreover, some of these methods have a very simple structure--they involve only few message exchanges…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-22 Hartmut Klauck , Ashwin Nayak , Amnon Ta-Shma , David Zuckerman

We study nondeterministic multiparty quantum communication with a quantum generalization of broadcasts. We show that, with number-in-hand classical inputs, the communication complexity of a Boolean function in this communication model…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-13 Harry Buhrman , Matthias Christandl , Jeroen Zuiddam

There is a parallelism between Shannon information theory and algorithmic information theory. In particular, the same linear inequalities are true for Shannon entropies of tuples of random variables and Kolmogorov complexities of tuples of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-12 Bruno Bauwens , Peter Gács , Andrei Romashchenko , Alexander Shen

We show that classical and quantum Kolmogorov complexity of binary strings agree up to an additive constant. Both complexities are defined as the minimal length of any (classical resp. quantum) computer program that outputs the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-06-09 Markus Mueller

We present a new approach to formal language theory using Kolmogorov complexity. The main results presented here are an alternative for pumping lemma(s), a new characterization for regular languages, and a new method to separate…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Ming Li , Paul Vitanyi

We present a linear program for the one-way version of the partition bound (denoted $\mathsf{prt}^1_\varepsilon(f)$). We show that it characterizes one-way randomized communication complexity $\mathsf{R}_\varepsilon^1(f)$ with shared…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Srinivasan Arunachalam , João F. Doriguello , Rahul Jain

A fundamental problem in the study of complex networks is to provide quantitative measures of correlation and information flow between different parts of a system. To this end, several notions of communicability have been introduced and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-04-08 Ernesto Estrada , Naomichi Hatano , Michele Benzi

While rectangular and box-shaped objects dominate the classic discourse of theoretic investigations, a fascinating frontier lies in packing more complex shapes. Given recent insights that convex polygons do not allow for constant…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Tim Gerlach , Benjamin Hennies , Linda Kleist

Optical orthogonal codes (OOCs) are sets of $(0,1)$-sequences with good auto- and cross-correlation properties. They were originally introduced for use in multi-access communication, particularly in the setting of optical CDMA…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-01-15 Sophie Huczynska , Siaw-Lynn Ng

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

The fine approach to measure information dependence is based on the total conditional complexity CT(y|x), which is defined as the minimal length of a total program that outputs y on the input x. It is known that the total conditional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Nikolay Vereshchagin