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In this paper, we introduce the hybrid query complexity, denoted as $\mathrm{Q}(f;q)$, which is the minimal query number needed to compute $f$, when a classical decision tree is allowed to call $q'$-query quantum subroutines for any $q'\leq…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Xiaoming Sun , Yufan Zheng

The quantum query complexity of Boolean matrix multiplication is typically studied as a function of the matrix dimension, n, as well as the number of 1s in the output, \ell. We prove an upper bound of O (n\sqrt{\ell}) for all values of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-17 Stacey Jeffery , Robin Kothari , Frédéric Magniez

In Exact Quantum Query model, almost all of the Boolean functions for which non-trivial query algorithms exist are symmetric in nature. The most well known techniques in this domain exploit parity decision trees, in which the parity of two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-18 Chandra Sekhar Mukherjee , Subhamoy Maitra

The approximate degree of a Boolean function f is the least degree of a real polynomial that approximates f pointwise to error at most 1/3. Approximate degree is known to be a lower bound on quantum query complexity. We resolve or nearly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-20 Mark Bun , Robin Kothari , Justin Thaler

We describe a quantum black-box network computing the majority of N bits with zero-sided error eps using only 2N/3 + O(sqrt{N (log log N + log 1/eps)}) queries: the algorithm returns the correct answer with probability at least 1 - eps, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Thomas Hayes , Samuel Kutin , Dieter van Melkebeek

We show a partial Boolean function $f$ together with an input $x\in f^{-1}\left(*\right)$ such that both $C_{\bar{0}}\left(f,x\right)$ and $C_{\bar{1}}\left(f,x\right)$ are at least $C\left(f\right)^{2-o\left(1\right)}$. Due to recent…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Kaspars Balodis

Herein, we investigate the zero-error randomized complexity, which is the least cost against the worst input, of AND-OR tree computation by imposing various restrictions on the algorithm to find the Boolean value of the root of that tree…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Fuki Ito , Toshio Suzuki

Let $f:\{0,1\}^n \rightarrow \{0,1\}$ be a Boolean function. The certificate complexity $C(f)$ is a complexity measure that is quadratically tight for the zero-error randomized query complexity $R_0(f)$: $C(f) \leq R_0(f) \leq C(f)^2$. In…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-08-03 Dmitry Gavinsky , Rahul Jain , Hartmut Klauck , Srijita Kundu , Troy Lee , Miklos Santha , Swagato Sanyal , Jevgenijs Vihrovs

We introduce a generalized Fourier ratio, the \(\ell^1/\ell^2\) norm ratio of coefficients in an \emph{arbitrary} orthonormal system, as a single, basis-invariant measure of \emph{effective dimension} that governs fundamental limits across…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2026-01-26 Will Burstein , Alex Iosevich , Hari Sarang Nathan

Let R_eps denote randomized query complexity for error probability eps, and R:=R_{1/3}. In this work we investigate whether a perfect composition theorem R(f o g^n)=Omega(R(f).R(g)) holds for a relation f in {0,1}^n * S and a total inner…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Swagato Sanyal

We give new quantum algorithms for evaluating composed functions whose inputs may be shared between bottom-level gates. Let $f$ be an $m$-bit Boolean function and consider an $n$-bit function $F$ obtained by applying $f$ to conjunctions of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-22 Mark Bun , Robin Kothari , Justin Thaler

Based on the recent breakthrough of Huang (2019), we show that for any total Boolean function $f$, the deterministic query complexity, $D(f)$, is at most quartic in the quantum query complexity, $Q(f)$: $D(f) = O(Q(f)^4)$. This matches the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-29 Scott Aaronson , Shalev Ben-David , Robin Kothari , Avishay Tal

A classical result of Steinitz from 1913 \cite{Ste13}, answering an earlier question of Riemann and L\'evy (e.g., \cite{Lev05}), states that for any norm $\|\cdot\|$ in $\mathbb{R}^d$ and any set of vectors $v_1, \cdots, v_n \in \R^d$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Kunal Dutta , Agastya Vibhuti Jha , Haotian Jiang

We define a new query measure we call quantum distinguishing complexity, denoted QD(f) for a Boolean function f. Unlike a quantum query algorithm, which must output a state close to |0> on a 0-input and a state close to |1> on a 1-input, a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-12 Shalev Ben-David , Robin Kothari

We consider the quantum complexities of the following three problems: searching an ordered list, sorting an un-ordered list, and deciding whether the numbers in a list are all distinct. Letting N be the number of elements in the input list,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-30 Peter Hoyer , Jan Neerbek , Yaoyun Shi

Buhrman, Cleve and Wigderson (STOC'98) observed that for every Boolean function $f : \{-1, 1\}^n \to \{-1, 1\}$ and $\bullet : \{-1, 1\}^2 \to \{-1, 1\}$ the two-party bounded-error quantum communication complexity of $(f \circ \bullet)$ is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-24 Sourav Chakraborty , Arkadev Chattopadhyay , Nikhil S. Mande , Manaswi Paraashar

While exponential separations are known between quantum and randomized communication complexity for partial functions (Raz, STOC 1999), the best known separation between these measures for a total function is quadratic, witnessed by the…

It is well known that quantum, randomized and deterministic (sequential) query complexities are polynomially related for total boolean functions. We find that significantly larger separations between the parallel generalizations of these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-13 Joseph Carolan , Amin Shiraz Gilani , Mahathi Vempati

This work studies the quantum query complexity of Boolean functions in a scenario where it is only required that the query algorithm succeeds with a probability strictly greater than 1/2. We show that, just as in the communication…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-25 Ashley Montanaro , Harumichi Nishimura , Rudy Raymond

We consider the problem of bounded-error quantum state identification: given either state \alpha_0 or state \alpha_1, we are required to output `0', `1' or `?' ("don't know"), such that conditioned on outputting `0' or `1', our guess is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-29 Dmytro Gavinsky , Julia Kempe , Oded Regev , Ronald de Wolf