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We investigate the problem of synthesizing T-depth optimal quantum circuits over the Clifford+T gate set. First we construct a special subset of T-depth 1 unitaries, such that it is possible to express the T-depth-optimal decomposition of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-14 Vlad Gheorghiu , Michele Mosca , Priyanka Mukhopadhyay

Satisfiability of Boolean circuits is among the most known and important problems in theoretical computer science. This problem is NP-complete in general but becomes polynomial time when restricted either to monotone gates or linear gates.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-10-24 Paweł M. Idziak , Jacek Krzaczkowski

Streaming algorithms are generally judged by the quality of their solution, memory footprint, and computational complexity. In this paper, we study the problem of maximizing a monotone submodular function in the streaming setting with a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Ehsan Kazemi , Marko Mitrovic , Morteza Zadimoghaddam , Silvio Lattanzi , Amin Karbasi

We investigate the complexity of several fundamental polynomial-time solvable problems on graphs and on matrices, when the given instance has low treewidth; in the case of matrices, we consider the treewidth of the graph formed by non-zero…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-11-05 Fedor V. Fomin , Daniel Lokshtanov , Michał Pilipczuk , Saket Saurabh , Marcin Wrochna

We study the power of negation in the Boolean and algebraic settings and show the following results. * We construct a family of polynomials $P_n$ in $n$ variables, all of whose monomials have positive coefficients, such that $P_n$ can be…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Bruno Cavalar , Théo Borém Fabris , Partha Mukhopadhyay , Srikanth Srinivasan , Amir Yehudayoff

In the present work, we present a new discrete logarithm algorithm, in the same vein as in recent works by Joux, using an asymptotically more efficient descent approach. The main result gives a quasi-polynomial heuristic complexity for the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-11-27 Razvan Barbulescu , Pierrick Gaudry , Antoine Joux , Emmanuel Thomé

In this note we investigate the role of Lloyd's computational bound in holographic complexity. Our goal is to translate the assumptions behind Lloyd's proof into the bulk language. In particular, we discuss the distinction between…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-04-04 William Cottrell , Miguel Montero

We present a novel self-stabilizing algorithm for minimum spanning tree (MST) construction. The space complexity of our solution is $O(\log^2n)$ bits and it converges in $O(n^2)$ rounds. Thus, this algorithm improves the convergence time of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-11-05 Lélia Blin , Shlomi Dolev , Maria Gradinariu Potop-Butucaru , Stephane Rovedakis

We provide two improvements to Regev's recent quantum factoring algorithm (Journal of the ACM 2025), addressing its space efficiency and its noise-tolerance. Our first contribution is to improve the quantum space efficiency of Regev's…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-02 Seyoon Ragavan , Vinod Vaikuntanathan

The rank of a finite algebraic structure with a single binary operation is the minimum number of elements needed to express every other element under the closure of the operation. In the case of groups, the previous best algorithm for…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Jeffrey Finkelstein

Quantum circuits currently constitute a dominant model for quantum computation. Our work addresses the problem of constructing quantum circuits to implement an arbitrary given quantum computation, in the special case of two qubits. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Stephen S. Bullock , Igor L. Markov

Quantum squaring operation is a useful building block in implementing quantum algorithms such as linear regression, regularized least squares algorithm, order-finding algorithm, quantum search algorithm, Newton Raphson division, Euclidean…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-05 Afrin Sultana , Edgard Muñoz-Coreas

We study the task of smoothing a circuit, i.e., ensuring that all children of a plus-gate mention the same variables. Circuits serve as the building blocks of state-of-the-art inference algorithms on discrete probabilistic graphical models…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Andy Shih , Guy Van den Broeck , Paul Beame , Antoine Amarilli

We study a Faulty Congested Clique model, in which an adversary may fail nodes in the network throughout the computation. We show that any task of $O(n\log{n})$-bit input per node can be solved in roughly $n$ rounds, where $n$ is the size…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Keren Censor-Hillel , Pedro Soto

We provide an $\Omega(log(n))$ lower bound for the depth of any quantum circuit generating the unique groundstate of Kitaev's spherical code. No circuit-depth lower bound was known before on this code in the general case where the gates can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-10 Dorit Aharonov , Yonathan Touati

We present a construction for circuits with low gate count and depth, implementing three- and four-body Pauli-Z product operators as they appear in the form of plaquette-shaped constraints in QAOA when using the parity mapping. The circuits…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-16 Josua Unger , Anette Messinger , Benjamin E. Niehoff , Michael Fellner , Wolfgang Lechner

Variational quantum algorithms have been advocated as promising candidates to solve combinatorial optimization problems on near-term quantum computers. Their methodology involves transforming the optimization problem into a quadratic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-01 Zoé Verchère , Sourour Elloumi , Andrea Simonetto

Proving complexity lower bounds remains a challenging task: we only know how to prove conditional uniform lower bounds and nonuniform lower bounds in restricted circuit models. Williams (STOC 2010) showed how to derive nonuniform lower…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Nikolai Chukhin , Alexander S. Kulikov , Ivan Mihajlin , Arina Smirnova

Circuit lower bounds are important since it is believed that a super-polynomial circuit lower bound for a problem in NP implies that P!=NP. Razborov has proved superpolynomial lower bounds for monotone circuits by using method of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-06-29 Boyu Sima

This paper considers the problem of quantum compilation from an optimization perspective by fixing a circuit structure of CNOTs and rotation gates then optimizing over the rotation angles. We solve the optimization problem classically and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-16 Liam Madden , Albert Akhriev , Andrea Simonetto