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A Note on Amortized Branching Program Complexity

Author Aaron Potechin

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  • branching programs
  • space complexity
  • amortization

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Abstract

In this paper, we show that while almost all functions require exponential size branching programs to compute, for all functions f there is a branching program computing a doubly exponential number of copies of f which has linear size per copy of f. This result disproves a conjecture about non-uniform catalytic computation, rules out a certain type of bottleneck argument for proving non-monotone space lower bounds, and can be thought of as a constructive analogue of Razborov's result that submodular complexity measures have maximum value O(n).

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Aaron Potechin. A Note on Amortized Branching Program Complexity. In 32nd Computational Complexity Conference (CCC 2017). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 79, pp. 4:1-4:12, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2017) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.CCC.2017.4

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