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Reports tagged with monotone circuit complexity:
TR16-188 | 21st November 2016
Toniann Pitassi, Robert Robere

Strongly Exponential Lower Bounds for Monotone Computation

For a universal constant $\alpha > 0$, we prove size lower bounds of $2^{\alpha N}$ for computing an explicit monotone function in NP in the following models of computation: monotone formulas, monotone switching networks, monotone span programs, and monotone comparator circuits, where $N$ is the number of variables of the ... more >>>


TR16-202 | 19th December 2016
Dmitry Sokolov

Dag-like Communication and Its Applications

Revisions: 1

In 1990 Karchmer and Widgerson considered the following communication problem $Bit$: Alice and Bob know a function $f: \{0, 1\}^n \to \{0, 1\}$, Alice receives a point $x \in f^{-1}(1)$, Bob receives $y \in f^{-1}(0)$, and their goal is to find a position $i$ such that $x_i \neq y_i$. Karchmer ... more >>>


TR17-165 | 3rd November 2017
Toniann Pitassi, Robert Robere

Lifting Nullstellensatz to Monotone Span Programs over Any Field

We characterize the size of monotone span programs computing certain "structured" boolean functions by the Nullstellensatz degree of a related unsatisfiable Boolean formula.

This yields the first exponential lower bounds for monotone span programs over arbitrary fields, the first exponential separations between monotone span programs over fields of different ... more >>>


TR20-099 | 6th July 2020
Susanna de Rezende, Or Meir, Jakob Nordström, Toniann Pitassi, Robert Robere

KRW Composition Theorems via Lifting

Revisions: 1

One of the major open problems in complexity theory is proving super-logarithmic lower bounds on the depth of circuits (i.e., $\mathbf{P}\not\subseteq\mathbf{NC}^1$). Karchmer, Raz, and Wigderson (Computational Complexity 5(3/4), 1995) suggested to approach this problem by proving that depth complexity behaves “as expected” with respect to the composition of functions $f ... more >>>


TR20-181 | 4th December 2020
Bruno Pasqualotto Cavalar, Mrinal Kumar, Benjamin Rossman

Monotone Circuit Lower Bounds from Robust Sunflowers

Revisions: 2

Robust sunflowers are a generalization of combinatorial sunflowers that have applications in monotone circuit complexity, DNF sparsification, randomness extractors, and recent advances on the Erd\H{o}s-Rado sunflower conjecture. The recent breakthrough of Alweiss, Lovett, Wu and Zhang gives an improved bound on the maximum size of a $w$-set system that excludes ... more >>>


TR22-003 | 4th January 2022
Noah Fleming, Stefan Grosser, Mika Göös, Robert Robere

On Semi-Algebraic Proofs and Algorithms

Revisions: 1

We give a new characterization of the Sherali-Adams proof system, showing that there is a degree-$d$ Sherali-Adams refutation of an unsatisfiable CNF formula $C$ if and only if there is an $\varepsilon > 0$ and a degree-$d$ conical junta $J$ such that $viol_C(x) - \varepsilon = J$, where $viol_C(x)$ counts ... more >>>


TR24-185 | 21st November 2024
Susanna F. de Rezende, Noah Fleming, Duri Andrea Janett, Jakob Nordström, Shuo Pang

Truly Supercritical Trade-offs for Resolution, Cutting Planes, Monotone Circuits, and Weisfeiler-Leman

We exhibit supercritical trade-off for monotone circuits, showing that there are functions computable by small circuits for which any circuit must have depth super-linear or even super-polynomial in the number of variables, far exceeding the linear worst-case upper bound. We obtain similar trade-offs in proof complexity, where we establish the ... more >>>


TR24-186 | 21st November 2024
Mika Göös, Gilbert Maystre, Kilian Risse, Dmitry Sokolov

Supercritical Tradeoffs for Monotone Circuits

We exhibit a monotone function computable by a monotone circuit of quasipolynomial size such that any monotone circuit of polynomial depth requires exponential size. This is the first size-depth tradeoff result for monotone circuits in the so-called supercritical regime. Our proof is based on an analogous result in proof complexity: ... more >>>




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