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Towards Optimal Depth-Reductions for Algebraic Formulas

Authors Hervé Fournier , Nutan Limaye , Guillaume Malod , Srikanth Srinivasan , Sébastien Tavenas

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Hervé Fournier
  • Université Paris Cité, IMJ-PRG, France
Nutan Limaye
  • IT University Copenhagen, Denmark
Guillaume Malod
  • Université Paris Cité, IMJ-PRG, France
Srikanth Srinivasan
  • Aarhus University, Denmark
Sébastien Tavenas
  • Université Savoie Mont Blanc, CNRS, France

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  • Limaye, Nutan: A part of this work was conducted during a research visit funded by Université Paris Cité in summer 2022.
  • Srinivasan, Srikanth: Supported by start-up package from Aarhus University, and benefited greatly from a research visit sponsored by the Guest researchers faculty program at Université Paris Cité in summer 2022.
  • Tavenas, Sébastien: This work is supported by ANR-22-CE48-0007.

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Hervé Fournier, Nutan Limaye, Guillaume Malod, Srikanth Srinivasan, and Sébastien Tavenas. Towards Optimal Depth-Reductions for Algebraic Formulas. In 38th Computational Complexity Conference (CCC 2023). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 264, pp. 28:1-28:19, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023)
https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.CCC.2023.28

Abstract

Classical results of Brent, Kuck and Maruyama (IEEE Trans. Computers 1973) and Brent (JACM 1974) show that any algebraic formula of size s can be converted to one of depth O(log s) with only a polynomial blow-up in size. In this paper, we consider a fine-grained version of this result depending on the degree of the polynomial computed by the algebraic formula. Given a homogeneous algebraic formula of size s computing a polynomial P of degree d, we show that P can also be computed by an (unbounded fan-in) algebraic formula of depth O(log d) and size poly(s). Our proof shows that this result also holds in the highly restricted setting of monotone, non-commutative algebraic formulas. This improves on previous results in the regime when d is small (i.e., d = s^o(1)). In particular, for the setting of d = O(log s), along with a result of Raz (STOC 2010, JACM 2013), our result implies the same depth reduction even for inhomogeneous formulas. This is particularly interesting in light of recent algebraic formula lower bounds, which work precisely in this "low-degree" and "low-depth" setting. We also show that these results cannot be improved in the monotone setting, even for commutative formulas.

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  • Theory of computation → Algebraic complexity theory
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  • Algebraic formulas
  • depth-reduction

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