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Reports tagged with quantum query complexity:
TR05-041 | 12th April 2005
Shengyu Zhang

#### (Almost) tight bounds for randomized and quantum Local Search on hypercubes and grids

Revisions: 2

The Local Search problem, which finds a
local minimum of a black-box function on a given graph, is of both
practical and theoretical importance to many areas in computer
science and natural sciences. In this paper, we show that for the
Boolean hypercube $\B^n$, the randomized query complexity of Local
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TR11-040 | 22nd March 2011
Alexander A. Sherstov

#### Strong Direct Product Theorems for Quantum Communication and Query Complexity

A strong direct product theorem (SDPT) states that solving $n$ instances of a problem requires $\Omega(n)$ times the resources for a single instance, even to achieve success probability $2^{-\Omega(n)}.$ We prove that quantum communication complexity obeys an SDPT whenever the communication lower bound for a single instance is proved by ... more >>>

TR17-169 | 24th October 2017
Mark Bun, Robin Kothari, Justin Thaler

#### The Polynomial Method Strikes Back: Tight Quantum Query Bounds via Dual Polynomials

The approximate degree of a Boolean function $f$ is the least degree of a real polynomial that approximates $f$ pointwise to error at most $1/3$. The approximate degree of $f$ is known to be a lower bound on the quantum query complexity of $f$ (Beals et al., FOCS 1998 and ... more >>>

TR18-010 | 14th January 2018
Alexander A. Sherstov

#### Algorithmic polynomials

The approximate degree of a Boolean function $f(x_{1},x_{2},\ldots,x_{n})$ is the minimum degree of a real polynomial that approximates $f$ pointwise within $1/3$. Upper bounds on approximate degree have a variety of applications in learning theory, differential privacy, and algorithm design in general. Nearly all known upper bounds on approximate degree ... more >>>

TR18-156 | 8th September 2018
Mark Bun, Robin Kothari, Justin Thaler

#### Quantum algorithms and approximating polynomials for composed functions with shared inputs

Revisions: 2

We give new quantum algorithms for evaluating composed functions whose inputs may be shared between bottom-level gates. Let $f$ be a Boolean function and consider a function $F$ obtained by applying $f$ to conjunctions of possibly overlapping subsets of $n$ variables. If $f$ has quantum query complexity $Q(f)$, we give ... more >>>

TR19-015 | 7th February 2019
William Kretschmer

#### QMA Lower Bounds for Approximate Counting

We prove a query complexity lower bound for $QMA$ protocols that solve approximate counting: estimating the size of a set given a membership oracle. This gives rise to an oracle $A$ such that $SBP^A \not\subset QMA^A$, resolving an open problem of Aaronson [2]. Our proof uses the polynomial method to ... more >>>

TR19-136 | 23rd September 2019

#### Quantum Query-to-Communication Simulation Needs a Logarithmic Overhead

Buhrman, Cleve and Wigderson (STOC'98) observed that for every Boolean function $f : \{-1, 1\}^n \to \{-1, 1\}$ and $\bullet : \{-1, 1\}^2 \to \{-1, 1\}$ the two-party bounded-error quantum communication complexity of $(f \circ \bullet)$ is $O(Q(f) \log n)$, where $Q(f)$ is the bounded-error quantum query complexity of $f$. ... more >>>

TR19-179 | 7th December 2019
Avishay Tal

#### Towards Optimal Separations between Quantum and Randomized Query Complexities

Revisions: 1

The query model offers a concrete setting where quantum algorithms are provably superior to randomized algorithms. Beautiful results by Bernstein-Vazirani, Simon, Aaronson, and others presented partial Boolean functions that can be computed by quantum algorithms making much fewer queries compared to their randomized analogs. To date, separations of $O(1)$ vs. ... more >>>

TR20-020 | 21st February 2020
Nikhil Mande, Justin Thaler, Shuchen Zhu

#### Improved Approximate Degree Bounds For $k$-distinctness

An open problem that is widely regarded as one of the most important in quantum query complexity is to resolve the quantum query complexity of the $k$-distinctness function on inputs of size $N$. While the case of $k=2$ (also called Element Distinctness) is well-understood, there is a polynomial gap between ... more >>>

TR20-066 | 28th April 2020
Scott Aaronson, Shalev Ben-David, Robin Kothari, Avishay Tal

#### Quantum Implications of Huang's Sensitivity Theorem

Based on the recent breakthrough of Huang (2019), we show that for any total Boolean function $f$, the deterministic query complexity, $D(f)$, is at most quartic in the quantum query complexity, $Q(f)$: $D(f) = O(Q(f)^4)$. This matches the known separation (up to log factors) due to Ambainis, Balodis, Belovs, Lee, ... more >>>

TR20-090 | 10th June 2020
Kai-Min Chung, Siyao Guo, Qipeng Liu, Luowen Qian

#### Tight Quantum Time-Space Tradeoffs for Function Inversion

Revisions: 1

In function inversion, we are given a function $f: [N] \mapsto [N]$, and want to prepare some advice of size $S$, such that we can efficiently invert any image in time $T$. This is a well studied problem with profound connections to cryptography, data structures, communication complexity, and circuit lower ... more >>>

TR20-127 | 21st August 2020
Nikhil Bansal, Makrand Sinha

#### $k$-Forrelation Optimally Separates Quantum and Classical Query Complexity

Revisions: 2

Aaronson and Ambainis (SICOMP '18) showed that any partial function on $N$ bits that can be computed with an advantage $\delta$ over a random guess by making $q$ quantum queries, can also be computed classically with an advantage $\delta/2$ by a randomized decision tree making ${O}_q(N^{1-\frac{1}{2q}}\delta^{-2})$ queries. Moreover, they conjectured ... more >>>

TR20-128 | 3rd September 2020
Alexander A. Sherstov, Andrey Storozhenko, Pei Wu

#### An Optimal Separation of Randomized and Quantum Query Complexity

Revisions: 1

We prove that for every decision tree, the absolute values of the Fourier coefficients of given order $\ell\geq1$ sum to at most $c^{\ell}\sqrt{{d\choose\ell}(1+\log n)^{\ell-1}},$ where $n$ is the number of variables, $d$ is the tree depth, and $c>0$ is an absolute constant. This bound is essentially tight and settles a ... more >>>

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