This paper initiates the study of $k$-catalytic branching programs, a nonuniform model of computation that is the counterpart to the uniform catalytic space model of Buhrman, Cleve, Koucky, Loff and Speelman (STOC 2014). A $k$-catalytic branching program computes $k$ boolean functions simultaneously on the same $n$-bit input. Each function has ... more >>>

Two parties wish to carry out certain distributed computational tasks, and they are given access to a source of correlated random bits.
It allows the parties to act in a correlated manner, which can be quite useful.
But what happens if the shared randomness is not perfect?

In this work, ... more >>>

In this paper, we present a moderately exponential time algorithm for the circuit satisfiability problem of
depth-2 unbounded-fan-in circuits with an arbitrary symmetric gate at the top and AND gates at the bottom.
As a special case, we obtain an algorithm for the maximum satisfiability problem that runs in ... more >>>