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Every known communication problem whose randomized communication cost is constant (independent of the input size) can be reduced to $k$-Hamming Distance, that is, solved with a constant number of deterministic queries to some $k$-Hamming…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Yuting Fang , Mika Göös , Nathaniel Harms , Pooya Hatami

The Hamming distance is ubiquitous in computing. Its computation gets expensive when one needs to compare a string against many strings. Quantum computers (QCs) may speed up the comparison. In this paper, we extend an existing algorithm for…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Mushahid Khan , Andriy Miranskyy

We propose a protocol for Alice to implement a multiqubit quantum operation from the restricted sets on distant qubits possessed by Bob, and then we investigate the communication complexity of the task in different communication scenarios.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-10-11 Haozhen Situ , Daowen Qiu

We study the NP-hard problem of approximating a Minimum Routing Cost Spanning Tree in the message passing model with limited bandwidth (CONGEST model). In this problem one tries to find a spanning tree of a graph $G$ over $n$ nodes that…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-06-06 Alexandra Hochuli , Stephan Holzer , Roger Wattenhofer

We exhibit an $n$-bit communication problem with a constant-cost randomized protocol but which requires $n^{\Omega(1)}$ deterministic (or even non-deterministic) queries to an Equality oracle. Therefore, even constant-cost randomized…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Mika Göös , Nathaniel Harms , Artur Riazanov

We study the maximum $k$-set coverage problem in the following distributed setting. A collection of sets $S_1,\ldots,S_m$ over a universe $[n]$ is partitioned across $p$ machines and the goal is to find $k$ sets whose union covers the most…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-08-24 Sepehr Assadi , Sanjeev Khanna

We give the first exponential separation between quantum and classical multi-party communication complexity in the (non-interactive) one-way and simultaneous message passing settings. For every k, we demonstrate a relational communication…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-29 Dmytro Gavinsky , Pavel Pudlák

A key goal of quantum communication is to determine the maximum number of bits shared between two quantum systems. An important example of this is in entanglement based quantum key distribution (QKD) schemes. A realistic treatment of this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Thomas Brougham , Stephen M. Barnett

We give cell-probe bounds for the computation of edit distance, Hamming distance, convolution and longest common subsequence in a stream. In this model, a fixed string of $n$ symbols is given and one $\delta$-bit symbol arrives at a time in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-07-25 Raphael Clifford , Markus Jalsenius , Benjamin Sach

Quantum communication leads to strong correlations, that can outperform classical ones. Complementary to previous works in this area, we investigate correlations in prepare-and-measure scenarios assuming a bound on the information content…

For two non-communicating parties, quantum theory can give rise to probability distributions of outcomes that no local classical model can reproduce without communication. However, in the case of two-dimensional systems ($d=2$), it is known…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-29 Mani Zartab , Giulio Gasbarri , Gael Sentís , Ramon Muñoz-Tapia

We explore multi-round quantum memoryless communication protocols. These are restricted version of multi-round quantum communication protocols. The "memoryless" term means that players forget history from previous rounds, and their behavior…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-10-05 Farid Ablayev , Andris Ambainis , Kamil Khadiev , AliyaKhadieva

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

Consensus is one of the most thoroughly studied problems in distributed computing, yet there are still complexity gaps that have not been bridged for decades. In particular, in the classical message-passing setting with processes' crashes,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-25 MohammadTaghi HajiAghayi , Dariusz R. Kowalski , Jan Olkowski

We study the simultaneous message passing (SMP) model of communication complexity, for the case where one party is quantum and the other is classical. We show that in an SMP protocol that computes some function with the first party sending…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-12-28 Dmitry Gavinsky , Oded Regev , Ronald de Wolf

In this paper we explore fundamental problems in randomized communication complexity such as computing Set Intersection on sets of size $k$ and Equality Testing between vectors of length $k$. Sa\u{g}lam and Tardos and Brody et al. showed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Dawei Huang , Seth Pettie , Yixiang Zhang , Zhijun Zhang

We study the worst-case communication complexity of distributed algorithms computing a path problem based on stationary distributions of random walks in a network $G$ with the caveat that $G$ is also the communication network. The problem…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-10-30 Rahul Sami , Andy Twigg

A two-party quantum communication process with classical inputs and outcomes can be simulated by replacing the quantum channel with a classical one. The minimal amount of classical communication required to reproduce the statistics of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-20 A. Hansen , A. Montina , S. Wolf

We study the message complexity of leader election in synchronous networks of diameter two. Our main contribution is a refined analysis of the randomized algorithm proposed by Chatterjee et al. [DC, 2020]. In their work, the authors…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Abhijit Sadhukhan , Adri Bhattacharya , Anisur Rahaman Molla

The computation of the diameter is one of the most central problems in distributed computation. In the standard CONGEST model, in which two adjacent nodes can exchange $O(\log n)$ bits per round (here $n$ denotes the number of nodes of the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-12 François Le Gall , Frédéric Magniez