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Inspired by distributed resource allocation problems in dynamic topology networks, we initiate the study of distributed consensus with finite messaging passing. We first find a sufficient condition on the network graph for which no…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-07-01 Debashis Dash , Ashutosh Sabharwal

Although a quantum state requires exponentially many classical bits to describe, the laws of quantum mechanics impose severe restrictions on how that state can be accessed. This paper shows in three settings that quantum messages have only…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-25 Scott Aaronson

Given an undirected graph with edge weights and a subset $R$ of its edges, the Rural Postman Problem (RPP) is to find a closed walk of minimum total weight containing all edges of $R$. We prove that RPP is WK[1]-complete parameterized by…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-14 René van Bevern , Till Fluschnik , Oxana Yu. Tsidulko

The distributed setting for Saddle Problems (SPs) has recently emerged as a framework for various modern applications in machine learning and multiagent systems. Despite its relevance, the theoretical foundations of this setting have not…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Ruichen Luo , Anton Rodomanov , Sebastian U. Stich

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

In this paper we introduce a general framework for proving lower bounds for various Ramsey type problems within random settings. The main idea is to view the problem from an algorithmic perspective: we aim at providing an algorithm that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-08-25 Rajko Nenadov , Yury Person , Nemanja Škorić , Angelika Steger

State space subspace algorithms for input-output systems have been widely applied but also have a reasonably well-developedasymptotic theory dealing with consistency. However, guaranteeing the stability of the estimated system matrix is a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-19 Xinhui Rong , Victor Solo

We study the problem of exact sampling under an exponential communication cost, specifically Campbell's average codeword length $L(t)$ of order $t$, and R\'enyi's entropy. We provide a lower bound on the Campbell cost of exact sampling that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Spencer Hill , Fady Alajaji , Tamás Linder

Covert quantum communication is usually analyzed under idealized assumptions that channel parameters, such as transmissivity and background noise, are perfectly known and constant. In realistic optical links, including satellite, fiber, and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Abbas Arghavani , Alessandro V. Papadopoulos , Vahid Azimi Mousolou , Giuseppe Nebbione , Shahid Raza

Following [21, 23], the present work investigates a new relative entropy-regularized algorithm for solving the optimal transport on a graph problem within the randomized shortest paths formalism. More precisely, a unit flow is injected into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Sylvain Courtain , Guillaume Guex , Ilkka Kivimaki , Marco Saerens

We study the communication complexity of symmetric XOR functions, namely functions $f: \{0,1\}^n \times \{0,1\}^n \rightarrow \{0,1\}$ that can be formulated as $f(x,y)=D(|x\oplus y|)$ for some predicate $D: \{0,1,...,n\} \rightarrow…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-11-01 Ming Lam Leung , Yang Li , Shengyu Zhang

We connect the study of pseudodeterministic algorithms to two major open problems about the structural complexity of $\mathsf{BPTIME}$: proving hierarchy theorems and showing the existence of complete problems. Our main contributions can be…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Zhenjian Lu , Igor C. Oliveira , Rahul Santhanam

The goal of demonstrating a quantum advantage with currently available experimental systems is of utmost importance in quantum information science. While this remains elusive for quantum computation, the field of communication complexity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-16 Niraj Kumar , Iordanis Kerenidis , Eleni Diamanti

We examine fundamental tradeoffs in iterative distributed zeroth and first order stochastic optimization in multi-agent networks in terms of \emph{communication cost} (number of per-node transmissions) and \emph{computational cost},…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-11 Anit Kumar Sahu , Dusan Jakovetic , Dragana Bajovic , Soummya Kar

Clique problem has a wide range of applications due to its pattern matching ability. There are various formulation of clique problem like $k$-clique problem, maximum clique problem, etc. The $k$-Clique problem, determines whether an…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Arpita Sanyal , Amit Saha , Banani Saha , Amlan Chakrabarti

Extending well-structured transition systems to incorporate a probabilistic scheduling rule, we define a new class of stochastic well-structured transition systems that includes population protocols, chemical reaction networks, and many…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-25 James Aspnes

Despite strong performance on a variety of tasks, neural sequence models trained with maximum likelihood have been shown to exhibit issues such as length bias and degenerate repetition. We study the related issue of receiving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Sean Welleck , Ilia Kulikov , Jaedeok Kim , Richard Yuanzhe Pang , Kyunghyun Cho

We consider the problem of designing network cost-sharing protocols with good equilibria under uncertainty. The underlying game is a multicast game in a rooted undirected graph with nonnegative edge costs. A set of k terminal vertices or…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-27 George Christodoulou , Alkmini Sgouritsa

The efficient communication of noisy data has applications in several areas of machine learning, such as neural compression or differential privacy, and is also known as reverse channel coding or the channel simulation problem. Here we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Lucas Theis , Noureldin Yosri