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TR18-207 | 5th December 2018
Siddharth Bhandari, Prahladh Harsha, Tulasimohan Molli, Srikanth Srinivasan

On the Probabilistic Degree of OR over the Reals

We study the probabilistic degree over reals of the OR function on $n$ variables. For an error parameter $\epsilon$ in (0,1/3), the $\epsilon$-error probabilistic degree of any Boolean function $f$ over reals is the smallest non-negative integer $d$ such that the following holds: there exists a distribution $D$ of polynomials ... more >>>


TR18-206 | 3rd December 2018
Arkadev Chattopadhyay, Shachar Lovett, Marc Vinyals

Equality Alone Does Not Simulate Randomness

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The canonical problem that gives an exponential separation between deterministic and randomized communication complexity in the classical two-party communication model is `Equality'. In this work, we show that even allowing access to an `Equality' oracle, deterministic protocols remain exponentially weaker than randomized ones. More precisely, we exhibit a total function ... more >>>


TR18-205 | 3rd December 2018
Siddhesh Chaubal, Anna Gal

New Constructions with Quadratic Separation between Sensitivity and Block Sensitivity

Nisan and Szegedy conjectured that block sensitivity is at most polynomial in sensitivity for any Boolean function. There is a huge gap between the best known upper bound on block sensitivity in terms of sensitivity - which is exponential, and the best known separating examples - which give only a ... more >>>



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