Given as input two n-element sets A, B ⊆ {0,1}^d with d = clog n ≤ (log n)²/(log log n)⁴ and a target t ∈ {0,1,…,d}, we show how to count the number of pairs (x,y) ∈ A× B with integer inner product ⟨ x,y ⟩ = t deterministically, in n²/2^{Ω(√{log nlog log n/(clog² c)})} time. This demonstrates that one can solve this problem in deterministic subquadratic time almost up to log² n dimensions, nearly matching the dimension bound of a subquadratic randomized detection algorithm of Alman and Williams [FOCS 2015]. We also show how to modify their randomized algorithm to count the pairs w.h.p., to obtain a fast randomized algorithm. Our deterministic algorithm builds on a novel technique of reconstructing a function from sum-aggregates by prime residues, or modular tomography, which can be seen as an additive analog of the Chinese Remainder Theorem. As our second contribution, we relate the fine-grained complexity of the task of counting of vector pairs by inner product to the task of computing a zero-one matrix permanent over the integers.
@InProceedings{bjorklund_et_al:LIPIcs.ICALP.2021.29, author = {Bj\"{o}rklund, Andreas and Kaski, Petteri}, title = {{Counting Short Vector Pairs by Inner Product and Relations to the Permanent}}, booktitle = {48th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2021)}, pages = {29:1--29:21}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-195-5}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2021}, volume = {198}, editor = {Bansal, Nikhil and Merelli, Emanuela and Worrell, James}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2021.29}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-140988}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2021.29}, annote = {Keywords: additive reconstruction, Chinese Remainder Theorem, counting, inner product, modular tomography, orthogonal vectors, permanent} }
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