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In the Number On the Forehead (NOF) multiparty communication model, $k$ players want to evaluate a function $F : X_1 \times\cdots\times X_k\rightarrow Y$ on some input $(x_1,\dots,x_k)$ by broadcasting bits according to a predetermined…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-09-19 Yassine Hamoudi

We introduce a new -as far as we know- problem, according to which we are asked to match sequences of two digits in matrices having entries among those two digits (but others too) and prove that this problem is NP-complete

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-07-05 Nicolaos Matsakis

Let f subset of X x Y x Z be a relation. Let the public coin one-way communication complexity of f, with worst case error 1/3, be denoted R^{1,pub}_{1/3}(f). We show that if for computing f^k (k independent copies of f), o(k…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-10-15 Rahul Jain

An open problem in communication complexity proposed by several authors is to prove that for every Boolean function f, the task of computing f(x AND y) has polynomially related classical and quantum bounded-error complexities. We solve a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-02-03 Alexander A. Sherstov

Myasnikov et al. have introduced the knapsack problem for arbitrary finitely generated groups. In previous work, the authors proved that for each graph group, the knapsack problem can be solved in $\mathsf{NP}$. Here, we determine the exact…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2016-10-14 Markus Lohrey , Georg Zetzsche

We consider a quantum and classical version multi-party function computation problem with $n$ players, where players $2, \dots, n$ need to communicate appropriate information to player 1, so that a "generalized" inner product function with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-06 Ruoyu Meng , Aditya Ramamoorthy

We show that approximating the trace norm contraction coefficient of a quantum channel within a constant factor is NP-hard. Equivalently, this shows that determining the optimal success probability for encoding a bit in a quantum system…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-23 Idris Delsol , Omar Fawzi , Jan Kochanowski , Akshay Ramachandran

The fundamental caching problem in networks asks to find an allocation of contents to a network of caches with the aim of maximizing the cache hit rate. Despite the problem's importance to a variety of research areas -- including not only…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Robert Ganian , Fionn Mc Inerney , Dimitra Tsigkari

The complexity class DP is the class of all languages that are the intersection of a language in NP and a language in coNP. It was conjectured that recognizing a facet for the knapsack polytope is DP-complete. We provide a positive answer…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Rui Chen , Haoran Zhu

Boolean function $F(x,y)$ for $x,y \in \{0,1\}^n$ is an XOR function if $F(x,y)=f(x\oplus y)$ for some function $f$ on $n$ input bits, where $\oplus$ is a bit-wise XOR. XOR functions are relevant in communication complexity, partially for…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Vladimir V. Podolskii , Dmitrii Sluch

We prove that computing the deterministic communication complexity of a Boolean function, given its truth table, is \textsf{NP}-complete in the standard protocol-tree-depth model, addressing a meta-complexity question raised by Yao in 1979.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Serge Gaspers , Tao Zixu He , Simon Mackenzie

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 communication class $\mathbf{UPP}^{\text{cc}}$ is a communication analog of the Turing Machine complexity class $\mathbf{PP}$. It is characterized by a matrix-analytic complexity measure called sign-rank (also called dimension…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Mark Bun , Nikhil S. Mande , Justin Thaler

We classify the time complexities of three important decoding problems for quantum stabilizer codes. First, regardless of the channel model, quantum bounded distance decoding is shown to be NP-hard, like what Berlekamp, McEliece and Tilborg…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-07-12 Kao-Yueh Kuo , Chung-Chin Lu

The problem of team formation in a social network asks for a set of individuals who not only have the required skills to perform a task but who can also communicate effectively with each other. Existing work assumes that all links in a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-10-29 Ioannis Kouvatis , Konstantinos Semertzidis , Maria Zerva , Evaggelia Pitoura , Panayiotis Tsaparas

Similarly to the Chomsky hierarchy, we offer a classification of communication complexity measures such that these measures are organized into equivalence classes. Different from previous attempts of this endeavor, we consider two…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Andris Ambainis , Hartmut Klauck , Debbie Lim

Communication complexity refers to the minimum rate of public communication required for generating a maximal-rate secret key (SK) in the multiterminal source model of Csiszar and Narayan. Tyagi recently characterized this communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-14 Manuj Mukherjee , Navin Kashyap

The classical communication complexity of testing closeness of discrete distributions has recently been studied by Andoni, Malkin and Nosatzki (ICALP'19). In this problem, two players each receive $t$ samples from one distribution over…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Aleksandrs Belovs , Arturo Castellanos , François Le Gall , Guillaume Malod , Alexander A. Sherstov

For any $n$-bit boolean function $f$, we show that the randomized communication complexity of the composed function $f\circ g^n$, where $g$ is an index gadget, is characterized by the randomized decision tree complexity of $f$. In…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-03-23 Mika Göös , Toniann Pitassi , Thomas Watson

The task of the broadcast problem is, given a graph G and a source vertex s, to compute the minimum number of rounds required to disseminate a piece of information from s to all vertices in the graph. It is assumed that, at each round, an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Fedor V. Fomin , Pierre Fraigniaud , Petr A. Golovach