In this note, we present improved upper bounds on the circuitcomplexity of symmetric boolean functions. In particular, we describe circuits of size 4.5n + o(n) for any symmetric function of n variables, as well as ci...
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In this note, we present improved upper bounds on the circuitcomplexity of symmetric boolean functions. In particular, we describe circuits of size 4.5n + o(n) for any symmetric function of n variables, as well as circuits of size 3n for MOD3n function. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
We study the circuitcomplexity of boolean functions in an infinite basis consisting of all characteristic functions of antichains over the boolean cube. For an arbitrary symmetric function we obtain the exact value o...
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We study the circuitcomplexity of boolean functions in an infinite basis consisting of all characteristic functions of antichains over the boolean cube. For an arbitrary symmetric function we obtain the exact value of its circuitcomplexity in this basis. In particular, we prove that the circuit complexities of the parity function and the majority function of n variables for all integers n 1 in this basis are [n+1/2] and [n/2] + 1 respectively. For the maximum circuitcomplexity of n-variable boolean functions in this basis, we show that its order of growth is equal ton.
We prove a new switching lemma that works for restrictions that set only a small fraction of the variables and is applicable to formulas in disjunctive normal form (DNFs) with small terms. We use this to prove lower b...
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We prove a new switching lemma that works for restrictions that set only a small fraction of the variables and is applicable to formulas in disjunctive normal form (DNFs) with small terms. We use this to prove lower bounds for the Res(k) propositional proof system, an extension of resolution which works with k-DNFs instead of clauses. We also obtain an exponential separation between depth d circuits of bottom fan-in k and depth d circuits of bottom fan-in k+1. Our results for Res(k) are as follows: 1. The 2n to n weak pigeonhole principle requires exponential size to refute in Res(k) for krootlog n/log log n. 2. For each constant k, there exists a constant w>k so that random w-CNFs require exponential size to refute in Res(k). 3. For each constant k, there are sets of clauses which have polynomial size Res(k+1) refutations but which require exponential size Res(k) refutations.
We consider normalized booleancircuits that use binary operations of disjunction and conjunction, and unary negation, with the restriction that negation can be only applied to input variables. We derive a lower bound...
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We consider normalized booleancircuits that use binary operations of disjunction and conjunction, and unary negation, with the restriction that negation can be only applied to input variables. We derive a lower bound trade-off between the size of normalized booleancircuits computing boolean semi-disjoint bilinear forms and their conjunction-depth (i.e., the maximum number of and-gates on a directed path to an output gate). In particular, we show that any normalized booleancircuit of at most epsilon log n conjunction-depth computing the n-dimensional boolean vector convolution has Omega(n(2-4 epsilon)) and-gates. For boolean matrix product, we derive even a stronger lower-bound trade-off. Instead of conjunction-depth we use the negation-dependent conjunction-depth, where one counts only and-gates whose each direct predecessor has a (not necessarily direct) predecessor representing a negated input variable. We show that if a normalized booleancircuit of at most epsilon log n negation-dependent conjunction-depth computes the n x n boolean matrix product then the circuit has Omega(n(3-2 epsilon)) and-gates. We complete our lower-bound trade-offs for the boolean convolution and matrix product with upper-bound trade-offs of similar form yielded by the known fast algebraic algorithms. (C) 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
A new algorithm is presented to improve by a factor of log m the estimates for both parallel and sequential time complexity of division with remainder of two integer polynomials. Under the parallel model, this means B...
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A new algorithm is presented to improve by a factor of log m the estimates for both parallel and sequential time complexity of division with remainder of two integer polynomials. Under the parallel model, this means boolean logarithmic time, which is asymptotically optimum. The algorithm exploits the reduction of the problem to integer division; the polynomial remainder and quotient are recovered from integer remainder and quotient via binary segmentation.
We prove an exponential lower bound on the size of bounded depth circuits with O(log n) threshold gates computing an explicit function (namely, the parity function). Previously exponential lower bounds were known only...
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We prove an exponential lower bound on the size of bounded depth circuits with O(log n) threshold gates computing an explicit function (namely, the parity function). Previously exponential lower bounds were known only for circuits with one threshold gate. Superpolynomial lower bounds are known for circuits with O(log(2) n) threshold gates. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Text. In this paper, we completely characterize the quadratic polynomials modulo 3 with the largest (hence "optimal") correlation with parity. This result is obtained by analysis of the exponential sum S(t, ...
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Text. In this paper, we completely characterize the quadratic polynomials modulo 3 with the largest (hence "optimal") correlation with parity. This result is obtained by analysis of the exponential sum S(t, k, n) = 1/2n Sigma(xi is an element of{1,-1)1 <= i <= n) (Pi(n)(i=1) xi) omega(t(x1,x2,....xn)+k(x1,x2..... xn)) where t(x(1),..., x(n)) and k(x(1), ..., x(n)) are quadratic and linear forms respectively, over Z(3)[x(1), ..., x(n)], and omega = e(2 pi i/3) is the primitive cube root of unity. In Green (2004) [7]. it was shown that |S(t, k, n)] <= (root 3/2)([n/2]) where this upper bound is tight. In this paper, we show that the polynomials achieving this bound are unique up to permutations and constant factors. We also prove that if |S(t, k, n)| <= (root 3/2)([n/2]), then |S(t, k, n)| <= (root 3/2)([n/2]). This verifies two conjectures made in Dueflez et al. (2006) [5] for the special case of quadratic polynomials in Z(3). Video. For a video summary of this paper, please click here or visit http://***/watch?v=mBojrn1DuOM. (C) 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Area and computation time are considered to be important measures with which VLSI circuits are evaluated. In this paper, the area-time complexity for nontrivial n-input m-output boolean functions, such as a decoder an...
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Area and computation time are considered to be important measures with which VLSI circuits are evaluated. In this paper, the area-time complexity for nontrivial n-input m-output boolean functions, such as a decoder and an encoder, is studied with a model similar to Brent-Kung"s model. A lower bound on area-time-product (ATαaα.≥1) for these functions is shown: for example, ATα= ω(2n. nα-l) for an n-input 2V-output decoder, and ATα= ω( n . logα-1n) for an n-input ⌈log n⌉-output encoder. The results shown in this paper are complementary to those by Brent-Kung or Thompson, and are useful for a class of functions of rather simple structures, e.g., a priority encoder, a comparator, and symmetric functions.
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We study the locality of an extension of first-order logic that captures graph queries computable in AC(0), i.e., by families of polynomial-size constant-depth circuits. The extension considers first-order formulas ov...
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We study the locality of an extension of first-order logic that captures graph queries computable in AC(0), i.e., by families of polynomial-size constant-depth circuits. The extension considers first-order formulas over relational structures which may use arbitrary numerical predicates in such a way that their truth value is independent of the particular interpretation of the numerical predicates. We refer to such formulas as Arb-invariant first-order. We consider the two standard notions of locality, Gaifman and Hanf locality. Our main result gives a Gaifman locality theorem: An Arb-invariant first-order formula cannot distinguish between two tuples that have the same neighborhood up to distance (log n)(c), where n represents the number of elements in the structure and c is a constant depending on the formula. When restricting attention to string structures, we achieve the same quantitative strength for Hanf locality. In both cases we show that our bounds are tight. We also present an application of our results to the study of regular languages. Our proof exploits the close connection between first-order formulas and the complexity class AC(0) and hinges on the tight lower bounds for parity on constant-depth circuits.
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