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TR25-094 | 14th July 2025 18:44

Communication Complexity is NP-hard

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TR25-094
Authors: Shuichi Hirahara, Rahul Ilango, Bruno Loff
Publication: 14th July 2025 21:55
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Abstract:

In the paper where he first defined Communication Complexity, Yao asks: \emph{Is computing $CC(f)$ (the 2-way communication complexity of a given function $f$) NP-complete?} The problem of deciding whether $CC(f) \le k$, when given the communication matrix for $f$ and a number $k$, is easily seen to be in NP. Kushilevitz and Weinreb have shown that this problem is cryptographically hard. Here we show it is NP-hard.



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