The depth-$3$ model has recently gained much importance, as it has become a stepping-stone to understanding general arithmetic circuits. Its restriction to multilinearity has known exponential lower bounds but no nontrivial blackbox identity tests. In this paper we take a step towards designing such hitting-sets. We define a notion of ... more >>>

We give a deterministic algorithm for
approximately counting satisfying assignments of a degree-$d$ polynomial threshold function
(PTF).
Given a degree-$d$ input polynomial $p(x_1,\dots,x_n)$ over $\mathbb{R}^n$
and a parameter $\epsilon > 0$, our algorithm approximates
$
\mathbf{P}_{x \sim \{-1,1\}^n}[p(x) \geq 0]
$
to within an additive $\pm \epsilon$ in time $O_{d,\epsilon}(1)\cdot ... more >>>

We give a {\em deterministic} algorithm for approximately computing the fraction of Boolean assignments that satisfy a degree-$2$ polynomial threshold function. Given a degree-2 input polynomial $p(x_1,\dots,x_n)$ and a parameter $\eps > 0$, the algorithm approximates
\[
\Pr_{x \sim \{-1,1\}^n}[p(x) \geq 0]
\]
to within an additive $\pm \eps$ in ... more >>>