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Read-$k$ oblivious algebraic branching programs are a natural generalization of the well-studied model of read-once oblivious algebraic branching program (ROABPs). In this work, we give an exponential lower bound of $\exp(n/k^{O(k)})$ on…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-11-24 Matthew Anderson , Michael A. Forbes , Ramprasad Saptharishi , Amir Shpilka , Ben Lee Volk

We introduce a new structural graph parameter called \emph{partial matching width}. For each (sufficiently large) integer $k \geq 1$, we introduce a class $\mathcal{G}_k$ of graphs of treewidth at most $k$ and max-degree $7$ such that for…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-09-28 Igor Razgon

We study the complexity of multiplication in noncommutative group algebras which is closely related to the complexity of matrix multiplication. We characterize such semisimple group algebras of the minimal bilinear complexity and show…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-03-25 Alexey Pospelov

We prove a lower bound of $\Omega\left(n^{1.5}\right)$ for the number of product gates in non-commutative arithmetic circuits for an explicit $n$-variate degree-$n$ polynomial $f_{n}$ (over every field). We observe that this implies that…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Ran Raz

For each $n$, let RD$(n)$ denote the minimum $d$ for which there exists a formula for the general polynomial of degree $n$ in algebraic functions of at most $d$ variables. In this paper, we recover an algorithm of Sylvester for determining…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-11-15 Curtis Heberle , Alexander J. Sutherland

We study in this paper lower bounds for the generalization error of models derived from multi-layer neural networks, in the regime where the size of the layers is commensurate with the number of samples in the training data. We show that…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-07-08 Inbar Seroussi , Ofer Zeitouni

We apply polynomial techniques (linear programming) to obtain lower and upper bounds on the covering radius of spherical designs as function of their dimension, strength, and cardinality. In terms of inner products we improve the lower…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-07-14 Peter Boyvalenkov , Maya Stoyanova

In the study of extensions of polytopes of combinatorial optimization problems, a notorious open question is that for the size of the smallest extended formulation of the Minimum Spanning Tree problem on a complete graph with $n$ nodes. The…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-01-03 Kaveh Khoshkhah , Dirk Oliver Theis

We obtain upper bounds, independent of the ambient dimension, for the number of realizable zero-nonzero patterns and (over ordered fields) sign conditions of a finite family of polynomials $\mathcal P$ restricted to an algebraic subset $V$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-05 Saugata Basu , Laxmi Parida

The rank of the matrix multiplication operator for nxn matrices is one of the most studied quantities in algebraic complexity theory. I prove that the rank is at least n^2-o(n^2). More precisely, for any integer p\leq n -1, the rank is at…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-10-31 J. M. Landsberg

We revisit the main result of Carmosino et al \cite{CILM18} which shows that an $\Omega(n^{\omega/2+\epsilon})$ size noncommutative arithmetic circuit size lower bound (where $\omega$ is the matrix multiplication exponent) for a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-08-10 V. Arvind , Abhranil Chatterjee

This paper investigates linear programming based branch-and-bound using general disjunctions, also known as stabbing planes, for solving integer programs. We derive the first sub-exponential lower bound (in the encoding length $L$ of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-13 Max Gläser , Marc E. Pfetsch

The motivating question for this work is a long standing open problem, posed by Nisan (1991), regarding the relative powers of algebraic branching programs (ABPs) and formulas in the non-commutative setting. Even though the general question…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Prerona Chatterjee

In this paper, we show that while almost all functions require exponential size branching programs to compute, for all functions $f$ there is a branching program computing a doubly exponential number of copies of $f$ which has linear size…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-02-23 Aaron Potechin

Let $A(n, d)$ denote the maximum size of a binary code of length $n$ and minimum Hamming distance $d$. Studying $A(n, d)$, including efforts to determine it as well to derive bounds on $A(n, d)$ for large $n$'s, is one of the most…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-25 James Chin-Jen Pang , Hessam Mahdavifar , S. Sandeep Pradhan

In this article, we propose a geometric programming method in order to compute lower bounds for real polynomials. We provide new sufficient conditions for polynomials to be nonnegative as well as to have a sum of binomial squares…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-02-26 Sadik Iliman , Timo de Wolff

The *algebrization barrier*, proposed by Aaronson and Wigderson (STOC '08, ToCT '09), captures the limitations of many complexity-theoretic techniques based on arithmetization. Notably, several circuit lower bounds that overcome the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Lijie Chen , Yang Hu , Hanlin Ren

In the study of extensions of polytopes of combinatorial optimization problems, a notorious open question is that for the size of the smallest extended formulation of the Minimum Spanning Tree problem on a complete graph with $n$ nodes. The…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-02-07 Kaveh Khoshkhah , Dirk Oliver Theis

Multiplication is one of the most fundamental computational problems, yet its true complexity remains elusive. The best known upper bound, by F\"{u}rer, shows that two $n$-bit numbers can be multiplied via a boolean circuit of size $O(n \lg…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-03-01 Peyman Afshani , Casper Benjamin Freksen , Lior Kamma , Kasper Green Larsen

A formulation of "Ne\v{c}iporuk's lower bound method" slightly more inclusive than the usual complexity-measure-specific formulation is presented. Using this general formulation, limitations to lower bounds achievable by the method are…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Paul Beame , Nathan Grosshans , Pierre McKenzie , Luc Segoufin