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With the rapid advancement of quantum information technology, designing efficient distributed quantum algorithms to perform various information processing tasks remains challenging. In this paper, we consider a distributed scenario where…

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We fully determine the communication complexity of approximating matrix rank, over any finite field $\mathbb{F}$. We study the most general version of this problem, where $0\leq r<R\leq n$ are given integers, Alice and Bob's inputs are…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Alexander A. Sherstov , Andrey A. Storozhenko

This work studies distributed learning in the spirit of Yao's model of communication complexity: consider a two-party setting, where each of the players gets a list of labelled examples and they communicate in order to jointly perform some…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Daniel M. Kane , Roi Livni , Shay Moran , Amir Yehudayoff

We study the problem of estimating an unknown parameter in a distributed and online manner. Existing work on distributed online learning typically either focuses on asymptotic analysis, or provides bounds on regret. However, these results…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-15 Lei Xin , George Chiu , Shreyas Sundaram

Communication complexity is the amount of communication needed to compute a function when the function inputs are distributed over multiple parties. In its simplest form, one-way communication complexity, Alice and Bob compute a function…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Naresh Goud Boddu , Rahul Jain , Han-Hsuan Lin

We consider the randomized communication complexity of the distributed $\ell_p$-regression problem in the coordinator model, for $p\in (0,2]$. In this problem, there is a coordinator and $s$ servers. The $i$-th server receives $A^i\in\{-M,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Yi Li , Honghao Lin , David P. Woodruff

We study the effect that the amount of correlation in a bipartite distribution has on the communication complexity of a problem under that distribution. We introduce a new family of complexity measures that interpolates between the two…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-08-25 Ralph C. Bottesch , Dmitry Gavinsky , Hartmut Klauck

Two major challenges in distributed learning and estimation are 1) preserving the privacy of the local samples; and 2) communicating them efficiently to a central server, while achieving high accuracy for the end-to-end task. While there…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Wei-Ning Chen , Peter Kairouz , Ayfer Özgür

We prove new lower bounds for bounded error quantum communication complexity. Our methods are based on the Fourier transform of the considered functions. First we generalize a method for proving classical communication complexity lower…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hartmut Klauck

We introduce a communication model called universal SMP, in which Alice and Bob receive a function $f$ belonging to a family $\mathcal{F}$, and inputs $x$ and $y$. Alice and Bob use shared randomness to send a message to a third party who…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Nathaniel Harms

The growing demands of remote detection and increasing amount of training data make distributed machine learning under communication constraints a critical issue. This work provides a communication-efficient quantum algorithm that tackles…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-26 Hao Tang , Boning Li , Guoqing Wang , Haowei Xu , Changhao Li , Ariel Barr , Paola Cappellaro , Ju Li

We consider the problem of distributedly estimating Gaussian processes in multi-agent frameworks. Each agent collects few measurements and aims to collaboratively reconstruct a common estimate based on all data. Agents are assumed with…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2018-05-11 Gianluigi Pillonetto , Luca Schenato , Damiano Varagnolo

In this paper we provide new bounds on classical and quantum distributional communication complexity in the two-party, one-way model of communication. In the classical model, our bound extends the well known upper bound of Kremer, Nisan and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-02-29 Rahul Jain , Shengyu Zhang

We study the one-way two-party communication complexity of Maximum Matching in the semi-robust setting where the edges of a maximum matching are randomly partitioned between Alice and Bob, but all remaining edges of the input graph are…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Gabriel Cipriani Huete , Adithya Diddapur , Pavel Dvořák , Christian Konrad

State redistribution is the protocol in which, given an arbitrary tripartite quantum state, with two of the subsystems initially being with Alice and one being with Bob, the goal is for Alice to send one of her subsystems to Bob, possibly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-12 Nilanjana Datta , Min-Hsiu Hsieh , Jonathan Oppenheim

We consider the task of faithfully simulating a distributed quantum measurement, wherein we provide a protocol for the three parties, Alice, Bob and Eve, to simulate a repeated action of a distributed quantum measurement using a pair of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-17 Touheed Anwar Atif , Mohsen Heidari , S. Sandeep Pradhan

In this work we focus our attention on distributed optimization problems in the context where the communication time between the server and the workers is non-negligible. We obtain novel methods supporting bidirectional compression (both…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-23 Kaja Gruntkowska , Alexander Tyurin , Peter Richtárik

The rapidly increasing complexity of (mainly wireless) ad-hoc networks stresses the need of reliable distributed estimation of several variables of interest. The widely used centralized approach, in which the network nodes communicate their…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-20 K. Dedecius , V. Sečkárová

We resolve several fundamental questions in the area of distributed functional monitoring, initiated by Cormode, Muthukrishnan, and Yi (SODA, 2008). In this model there are $k$ sites each tracking their input and communicating with a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-06-13 David P. Woodruff , Qin Zhang

A distributed inference scheme which uses bounded transmission functions over a Gaussian multiple access channel is considered. When the sensor measurements are decreasingly reliable as a function of the sensor index, the conditions on the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-06-16 Sivaraman Dasarathan , Cihan Tepedelenlioglu