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TR24-140 | 11th September 2024
Sagar Bisoyi, Krishnamoorthy Dinesh, Bhabya Rai, Jayalal Sarma

Almost-catalytic Computation

Designing algorithms for space bounded models with restoration requirements on (most of) the space used by the algorithm is an important challenge posed about the catalytic computation model introduced by Buhrman et al (2014). Motivated by the scenarios where we do not need to restore unless $w$ is "useful", we ... more >>>


TR22-186 | 31st December 2022
Prashanth Amireddy, Sai Jayasurya, Jayalal Sarma

Power of Decision Trees with Monotone Queries

In this paper, we initiate study of the computational power of adaptive and non-adaptive monotone decision trees – decision trees where each query is a monotone function on the input bits. In the most general setting, the monotone decision tree height (or size) can be viewed as a measure of ... more >>>


TR18-153 | 22nd August 2018
Krishnamoorthy Dinesh, Samir Otiv, Jayalal Sarma

New Bounds for Energy Complexity of Boolean Functions

Revisions: 1

For a Boolean function $f:\{0,1\}^n \to \{0,1\}$ computed by a circuit $C$ over a finite basis $\cal{B}$, the energy complexity of $C$ (denoted by $\mathbf{EC}_{{\cal B}}(C)$) is the maximum over all inputs $\{0,1\}^n$ the numbers of gates of the circuit $C$ (excluding the inputs) that output a one. Energy Complexity ... more >>>


TR18-152 | 30th August 2018
Krishnamoorthy Dinesh, Jayalal Sarma

Sensitivity, Affine Transforms and Quantum Communication Complexity

Revisions: 1

In this paper, we study the Boolean function parameters sensitivity ($\mathbf{s}$), block sensitivity ($\mathbf{bs}$), and alternation ($\mathbf{alt}$) under specially designed affine transforms and show several applications. For a function $f:\mathbb{F}_2^n \to \{0,1\}$, and $A = Mx+b$ for $M \in \mathbb{F}_2^{n \times n}$ and $b \in \mathbb{F}_2^n$, the result of the ... more >>>


TR17-192 | 15th December 2017
Krishnamoorthy Dinesh, Jayalal Sarma

Alternation, Sparsity and Sensitivity : Bounds and Exponential Gaps

Revisions: 1

The well-known Sensitivity Conjecture regarding combinatorial complexity measures on Boolean functions states that for any Boolean function $f:\{0,1\}^n \to \{0,1\}$, block sensitivity of $f$ is polynomially related to sensitivity of $f$ (denoted by $\mathbf{sens}(f)$). From the complexity theory side, the XOR Log-Rank Conjecture states that for any Boolean function, $f:\{0,1\}^n ... more >>>


TR16-076 | 27th April 2016
Krishnamoorthy Dinesh, Sajin Koroth, Jayalal Sarma

Characterization and Lower Bounds for Branching Program Size using Projective Dimension

Revisions: 2

We study projective dimension, a graph parameter (denoted by $pd(G)$ for a graph $G$), introduced by (Pudlak, Rodl 1992), who showed that proving lower bounds for $pd(G_f)$ for bipartite graphs $G_f$ associated with a Boolean function $f$ imply size lower bounds for branching programs computing $f$. Despite several attempts (Pudlak, ... more >>>


TR16-067 | 20th April 2016
Balagopal Komarath, Jayalal Sarma, Saurabh Sawlani

Pebbling Meets Coloring : Reversible Pebble Game On Trees

The reversible pebble game is a combinatorial game played on rooted DAGs. This game was introduced by Bennett (1989) motivated by applications in designing space efficient reversible algorithms. Recently, Chan (2013) showed that the reversible pebble game number of any DAG is the same as its Dymond-Tompa pebble number and ... more >>>


TR15-035 | 22nd February 2015
Sunil K S, Balagopal Komarath, Jayalal Sarma

Comparator Circuits over Finite Bounded Posets

Revisions: 1

Comparator circuit model was originally introduced by Mayr and Subramanian (1992) to capture problems which are not known to be P-complete but still not known to admit efficient parallel algorithms. The class CC is the complexity class of problems many-one logspace reducible to the Comparator Circuit Value Problem We know ... more >>>


TR14-072 | 29th April 2014
Sajin Koroth, Jayalal Sarma

Depth Lower Bounds against Circuits with Sparse Orientation

Revisions: 1

We study depth lower bounds against non-monotone circuits, parametrized by a new measure of non-monotonicity: the orientation of a function $f$ is the characteristic vector of the minimum sized set of negated variables needed in any DeMorgan circuit computing $f$. We prove trade-off results between the depth and the weight/structure ... more >>>


TR13-028 | 14th February 2013
Mrinal Kumar, Gaurav Maheshwari, Jayalal Sarma

Arithmetic Circuit Lower Bounds via MaxRank

We introduce the polynomial coefficient matrix and identify maximum rank of this matrix under variable substitution as a complexity measure for multivariate polynomials. We use our techniques to prove
super-polynomial lower bounds against several classes of non-multilinear arithmetic circuits. In particular, we obtain the following results :

$\bullet$ As ... more >>>


TR13-006 | 8th January 2013
Balagopal Komarath, Jayalal Sarma

Pebbling, Entropy and Branching Program Size Lower Bounds

We contribute to the program of proving lower bounds on the size of branching programs solving the Tree Evaluation Problem introduced by Cook et al.(2011). Proving an exponential lower bound for the size of the non-deterministic thrifty branching programs would separate NL from P under the thrifty hypothesis. In this ... more >>>


TR10-084 | 14th May 2010
Maurice Jansen, Youming Qiao, Jayalal Sarma

Deterministic Identity Testing of Read-Once Algebraic Branching Programs

An algebraic branching program (ABP) is given by a directed acyclic graph with source and sink vertices $s$ and $t$, respectively, and where edges are labeled by variables or field constants. An ABP computes the sum of weights of all directed paths from $s$ to $t$, where the weight of ... more >>>


TR10-015 | 8th February 2010
Maurice Jansen, Youming Qiao, Jayalal Sarma

Deterministic Black-Box Identity Testing $\pi$-Ordered Algebraic Branching Programs

In this paper we study algebraic branching programs (ABPs) with restrictions on the order and the number of reads of variables in the program. Given a permutation $\pi$ of $n$ variables, for a $\pi$-ordered ABP ($\pi$-OABP), for any directed path $p$ from source to sink, a variable can appear at ... more >>>


TR09-106 | 28th October 2009
Abhinav Kumar, Satyanarayana V. Lokam, Vijay M. Patankar, Jayalal Sarma

Using Elimination Theory to construct Rigid Matrices

The rigidity of a matrix A for target rank r is the minimum number of entries
of A that must be changed to ensure that the rank of the altered matrix is at
most r. Since its introduction by Valiant (1977), rigidity and similar
rank-robustness functions of matrices have found ... more >>>


TR06-100 | 17th July 2006
Meena Mahajan, Jayalal Sarma

On the Complexity of Rank and Rigidity

Given a matrix $M$ over a ring \Ringk, a target rank $r$ and a bound
$k$, we want to decide whether the rank of $M$ can be brought down to
below $r$ by changing at most $k$ entries of $M$. This is a decision
version of the well-studied notion of ... more >>>


TR06-009 | 10th January 2006
Nutan Limaye, Meena Mahajan, Jayalal Sarma

Evaluating Monotone Circuits on Cylinders, Planes and Tori

We re-examine the complexity of evaluating monotone planar circuits
MPCVP, with special attention to circuits with cylindrical
embeddings. MPCVP is known to be in NC^3, and for the special
case of upward stratified circuits, it is known to be in
LogDCFL. We characterize cylindricality, which ... more >>>




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