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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2025.19
Monotone Bounded-Depth Complexity of Homomorphism Polynomials

Authors: C.S. Bhargav, Shiteng Chen, Radu Curticapean, and Prateek Dwivedi

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 345, 50th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2025)

Abstract
For every fixed graph H, it is known that homomorphism counts from H and colorful H-subgraph counts can be determined in O(n^{t+1}) time on n-vertex input graphs G, where t is the treewidth of H. On the other hand, a running time of n^{o(t / log t)} would refute the exponential-time hypothesis. Komarath, Pandey, and Rahul (Algorithmica, 2023) studied algebraic variants of these counting problems, i.e., homomorphism and subgraph polynomials for fixed graphs H. These polynomials are weighted sums over the objects counted above, where each object is weighted by the product of variables corresponding to edges contained in the object. As shown by Komarath et al., the monotone circuit complexity of the homomorphism polynomial for H is Θ(n^{tw(H)+1}). In this paper, we characterize the power of monotone bounded-depth circuits for homomorphism and colorful subgraph polynomials. This leads us to discover a natural hierarchy of graph parameters tw_Δ(H), for fixed Δ ∈ ℕ, which capture the width of tree-decompositions for H when the underlying tree is required to have depth at most Δ. We prove that monotone circuits of product-depth Δ computing the homomorphism polynomial for H require size Θ(n^{tw_Δ(H^{†})+1}), where H^{†} is the graph obtained from H by removing all degree-1 vertices. This allows us to derive an optimal depth hierarchy theorem for monotone bounded-depth circuits through graph-theoretic arguments.
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C.S. Bhargav, Shiteng Chen, Radu Curticapean, and Prateek Dwivedi. Monotone Bounded-Depth Complexity of Homomorphism Polynomials. In 50th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 345, pp. 19:1-19:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)

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@InProceedings{bhargav_et_al:LIPIcs.MFCS.2025.19,
  author =	{Bhargav, C.S. and Chen, Shiteng and Curticapean, Radu and Dwivedi, Prateek},
  title =	{{Monotone Bounded-Depth Complexity of Homomorphism Polynomials}},
  booktitle =	{50th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2025)},
  pages =	{19:1--19:18},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-388-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{345},
  editor =	{Gawrychowski, Pawe{\l} and Mazowiecki, Filip and Skrzypczak, Micha{\l}},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2025.19},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-241269},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2025.19},
  annote =	{Keywords: algebraic complexity, homomorphisms, monotone circuit complexity, bounded-depth circuits, treewidth, pathwidth}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CCC.2025.21
Reconstruction of Depth 3 Arithmetic Circuits with Top Fan-In 3

Authors: Shubhangi Saraf and Devansh Shringi

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 339, 40th Computational Complexity Conference (CCC 2025)

Abstract
In this paper, we give the first subexponential (and in fact quasi-polynomial time) reconstruction algorithm for depth 3 circuits of top fan-in 3 (ΣΠΣ(3) circuits) over the fields ℝ and C. Concretely, we show that given blackbox access to an n-variate polynomial f computed by a ΣΠΣ(3) circuit of size s, there is a randomized algorithm that runs in time quasi-poly(n,s) and outputs a generalized ΣΠΣ(3) circuit computing f. The size s includes the bit complexity of coefficients appearing in the circuit. Depth 3 circuits of constant fan-in (ΣΠΣ(k) circuits) and closely related models have been extensively studied in the context of polynomial identity testing (PIT). The study of PIT for these models led to an understanding of the structure of identically zero ΣΠΣ(3) circuits and ΣΠΣ(k) circuits using some very elegant connections to discrete geometry, specifically the Sylvester-Gallai Theorem, and colorful and high dimensional variants of them. Despite a lot of progress on PIT for ΣΠΣ(k) circuits and more recently on PIT for depth 4 circuits of bounded top and bottom fan-in, reconstruction algorithms for ΣΠΣ(k) circuits has proven to be extremely challenging. In this paper, we build upon the structural results for identically zero ΣΠΣ(3) circuits that bound their rank, and prove stronger structural properties of ΣΠΣ(3) circuits (again using connections to discrete geometry). One such result is a bound on the number of codimension 3 subspaces on which a polynomial computed by an ΣΠΣ(3) circuit can vanish on. Armed with the new structural results, we provide the first reconstruction algorithms for ΣΠΣ(3) circuits over ℝ and C. Our work extends the work of [Sinha, CCC 2016] who provided a reconstruction algorithm for ΣΠΣ(2) circuits over ℝ and C as well as the works of [Shpilka, STOC 2007] who provided a reconstruction algorithms for ΣΠΣ(2) circuits in the setting of small finite fields, and [Karnin-Shpilka, CCC 2009] who provided reconstruction algorithms for ΣΠΣ(k) circuits in the setting of small finite fields.
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Shubhangi Saraf and Devansh Shringi. Reconstruction of Depth 3 Arithmetic Circuits with Top Fan-In 3. In 40th Computational Complexity Conference (CCC 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 339, pp. 21:1-21:22, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)

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@InProceedings{saraf_et_al:LIPIcs.CCC.2025.21,
  author =	{Saraf, Shubhangi and Shringi, Devansh},
  title =	{{Reconstruction of Depth 3 Arithmetic Circuits with Top Fan-In 3}},
  booktitle =	{40th Computational Complexity Conference (CCC 2025)},
  pages =	{21:1--21:22},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-379-9},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{339},
  editor =	{Srinivasan, Srikanth},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CCC.2025.21},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-237151},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CCC.2025.21},
  annote =	{Keywords: arithmetic circuits, learning, reconstruction}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CCC.2025.15
Algebraic Pseudorandomness in VNC⁰

Authors: Robert Andrews

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 339, 40th Computational Complexity Conference (CCC 2025)

Abstract
We study the arithmetic complexity of hitting set generators, which are pseudorandom objects used for derandomization of the polynomial identity testing problem. We give new explicit constructions of hitting set generators whose outputs are computable in VNC⁰, i.e., can be computed by arithmetic formulas of constant size. Unconditionally, we construct a VNC⁰-computable generator that hits arithmetic circuits of constant depth and polynomial size. We also give conditional constructions, under strong but plausible hardness assumptions, of VNC⁰-computable generators that hit arithmetic formulas and arithmetic branching programs of polynomial size, respectively. As a corollary of our constructions, we derive lower bounds for subsystems of the Geometric Ideal Proof System of Grochow and Pitassi. Constructions of such generators are implicit in prior work of Kayal on lower bounds for the degree of annihilating polynomials. Our main contribution is a construction whose correctness relies on circuit complexity lower bounds rather than degree lower bounds.
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Robert Andrews. Algebraic Pseudorandomness in VNC⁰. In 40th Computational Complexity Conference (CCC 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 339, pp. 15:1-15:15, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)

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@InProceedings{andrews:LIPIcs.CCC.2025.15,
  author =	{Andrews, Robert},
  title =	{{Algebraic Pseudorandomness in VNC⁰}},
  booktitle =	{40th Computational Complexity Conference (CCC 2025)},
  pages =	{15:1--15:15},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-379-9},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{339},
  editor =	{Srinivasan, Srikanth},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CCC.2025.15},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-237092},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CCC.2025.15},
  annote =	{Keywords: Polynomial identity testing, Algebraic circuits, Ideal Proof System}
}
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Track A: Algorithms, Complexity and Games
DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2025.105
NPA Hierarchy for Quantum Isomorphism and Homomorphism Indistinguishability

Authors: Prem Nigam Kar, David E. Roberson, Tim Seppelt, and Peter Zeman

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 334, 52nd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2025)

Abstract
Mančinska and Roberson [FOCS'20] showed that two graphs are quantum isomorphic if and only if they are homomorphism indistinguishable over the class of planar graphs. Atserias et al. [JCTB'19] proved that quantum isomorphism is undecidable in general. The NPA hierarchy gives a sequence of semidefinite programming relaxations of quantum isomorphism. Recently, Roberson and Seppelt [ICALP'23] obtained a homomorphism indistinguishability characterization of the feasibility of each level of the Lasserre hierarchy of semidefinite programming relaxations of graph isomorphism. We prove a quantum analogue of this result by showing that each level of the NPA hierarchy of SDP relaxations for quantum isomorphism of graphs is equivalent to homomorphism indistinguishability over an appropriate class of planar graphs. By combining the convergence of the NPA hierarchy with the fact that the union of these graph classes is the set of all planar graphs, we are able to give a new proof of the result of Mančinska and Roberson [FOCS'20] that avoids the use of the theory of quantum groups. This homomorphism indistinguishability characterization also allows us to give a randomized polynomial-time algorithm deciding exact feasibility of each fixed level of the NPA hierarchy of SDP relaxations for quantum isomorphism.
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Prem Nigam Kar, David E. Roberson, Tim Seppelt, and Peter Zeman. NPA Hierarchy for Quantum Isomorphism and Homomorphism Indistinguishability. In 52nd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 334, pp. 105:1-105:19, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)

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@InProceedings{kar_et_al:LIPIcs.ICALP.2025.105,
  author =	{Kar, Prem Nigam and Roberson, David E. and Seppelt, Tim and Zeman, Peter},
  title =	{{NPA Hierarchy for Quantum Isomorphism and Homomorphism Indistinguishability}},
  booktitle =	{52nd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2025)},
  pages =	{105:1--105:19},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-372-0},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{334},
  editor =	{Censor-Hillel, Keren and Grandoni, Fabrizio and Ouaknine, Jo\"{e}l and Puppis, Gabriele},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2025.105},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-234828},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2025.105},
  annote =	{Keywords: Quantum isomorphism, NPA hierarchy, homomorphism indistinguishability}
}
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Track A: Algorithms, Complexity and Games
DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2025.28
Faster & Deterministic FPT Algorithm for Worst-Case Tensor Decomposition

Authors: Vishwas Bhargava and Devansh Shringi

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 334, 52nd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2025)

Abstract
We present a deterministic 2^{k^{𝒪(1)}} poly(n,d) time algorithm for decomposing d-dimensional, width-n tensors of rank at most k over ℝ and ℂ. This improves upon the previous randomized algorithm of Peleg, Shpilka, and Volk (ITCS '24) that takes 2^{k^{k^{𝒪(k)}}} poly(n,d) time and the deterministic n^k^k time algorithms of Bhargava, Saraf, and Volkovich (STOC '21). Our work resolves an open question asked by Peleg, Shpilka, and Volk (ITCS '24) on whether a deterministic Fixed Parameter Tractable (FPT) algorithm exists for worst-case tensor decomposition. We also make substantial progress on the fundamental problem of how the tractability of tensor decomposition varies as the tensor rank increases. Our result implies that we can achieve deterministic polynomial-time decomposition as long as the rank of the tensor is at most (log n)^{1/C}, where C is some fixed constant independent of n and d. Further, we note that there cannot exist a polynomial-time algorithm for k = ω(log n) unless ETH fails. Our algorithm works for all fields; however, the time complexity worsens to 2^{k^{k^{𝒪(1)}}} and requires randomization for finite fields of large characteristics. Both conditions are provably necessary unless there are improvements in the state of the art for system solving over the corresponding fields. Our approach achieves this by designing a proper learning (reconstruction) algorithm for set-multilinear depth-3 arithmetic circuits. On a technical note, we design a "partial" clustering algorithm for set-multilinear depth-3 arithmetic circuits that lets us isolate a cluster from any set-multilinear depth-3 circuit while preserving the structure of the circuit.
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Vishwas Bhargava and Devansh Shringi. Faster & Deterministic FPT Algorithm for Worst-Case Tensor Decomposition. In 52nd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 334, pp. 28:1-28:20, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)

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@InProceedings{bhargava_et_al:LIPIcs.ICALP.2025.28,
  author =	{Bhargava, Vishwas and Shringi, Devansh},
  title =	{{Faster \& Deterministic FPT Algorithm for Worst-Case Tensor Decomposition}},
  booktitle =	{52nd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2025)},
  pages =	{28:1--28:20},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-372-0},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{334},
  editor =	{Censor-Hillel, Keren and Grandoni, Fabrizio and Ouaknine, Jo\"{e}l and Puppis, Gabriele},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2025.28},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-234052},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2025.28},
  annote =	{Keywords: Algebraic circuits, Deterministic algorithms, FPT algorithm, Learning circuits, Reconstruction, Tensor Decomposition, Tensor Rank}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2025.52
Uniform Bounds on Product Sylvester-Gallai Configurations

Authors: Abhibhav Garg, Rafael Oliveira, and Akash Kumar Sengupta

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 332, 41st International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2025)

Abstract
In this work, we explore a non-linear extension of the classical Sylvester-Gallai configuration. Let 𝕂 be an algebraically closed field of characteristic zero, and let ℱ = {F_1, …, F_m} ⊂ 𝕂[x_1, …, x_N] denote a collection of irreducible homogeneous polynomials of degree at most d, where each F_i is not a scalar multiple of any other F_j for i ≠ j. We define ℱ to be a product Sylvester-Gallai configuration if, for any two distinct polynomials F_i, F_j ∈ ℱ, the following condition is satisfied: ∏_{k≠i, j} F_k ∈ rad (F_i, F_j) . We prove that product Sylvester-Gallai configurations are inherently low dimensional. Specifically, we show that there exists a function λ : ℕ → ℕ, independent of 𝕂, N, and m, such that any product Sylvester-Gallai configuration must satisfy: dim(span_𝕂(ℱ)) ≤ λ(d). This result generalizes the main theorems from (Shpilka 2019, Peleg and Shpilka 2020, Oliveira and Sengupta 2023), and gets us one step closer to a full derandomization of the polynomial identity testing problem for the class of depth 4 circuits with bounded top and bottom fan-in.
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Abhibhav Garg, Rafael Oliveira, and Akash Kumar Sengupta. Uniform Bounds on Product Sylvester-Gallai Configurations. In 41st International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 332, pp. 52:1-52:15, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)

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@InProceedings{garg_et_al:LIPIcs.SoCG.2025.52,
  author =	{Garg, Abhibhav and Oliveira, Rafael and Sengupta, Akash Kumar},
  title =	{{Uniform Bounds on Product Sylvester-Gallai Configurations}},
  booktitle =	{41st International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2025)},
  pages =	{52:1--52:15},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-370-6},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{332},
  editor =	{Aichholzer, Oswin and Wang, Haitao},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2025.52},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-232043},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2025.52},
  annote =	{Keywords: Sylvester-Gallai theorem, arrangements of hypersurfaces, algebraic complexity, polynomial identity testing, algebraic geometry, commutative algebra}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2024.25
Learning Arithmetic Formulas in the Presence of Noise: A General Framework and Applications to Unsupervised Learning

Authors: Pritam Chandra, Ankit Garg, Neeraj Kayal, Kunal Mittal, and Tanmay Sinha

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 287, 15th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2024)

Abstract
We present a general framework for designing efficient algorithms for unsupervised learning problems, such as mixtures of Gaussians and subspace clustering. Our framework is based on a meta algorithm that learns arithmetic formulas in the presence of noise, using lower bounds. This builds upon the recent work of Garg, Kayal and Saha (FOCS '20), who designed such a framework for learning arithmetic formulas without any noise. A key ingredient of our meta algorithm is an efficient algorithm for a novel problem called Robust Vector Space Decomposition. We show that our meta algorithm works well when certain matrices have sufficiently large smallest non-zero singular values. We conjecture that this condition holds for smoothed instances of our problems, and thus our framework would yield efficient algorithms for these problems in the smoothed setting.
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Pritam Chandra, Ankit Garg, Neeraj Kayal, Kunal Mittal, and Tanmay Sinha. Learning Arithmetic Formulas in the Presence of Noise: A General Framework and Applications to Unsupervised Learning. In 15th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 287, pp. 25:1-25:19, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)

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@InProceedings{chandra_et_al:LIPIcs.ITCS.2024.25,
  author =	{Chandra, Pritam and Garg, Ankit and Kayal, Neeraj and Mittal, Kunal and Sinha, Tanmay},
  title =	{{Learning Arithmetic Formulas in the Presence of Noise: A General Framework and Applications to Unsupervised Learning}},
  booktitle =	{15th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2024)},
  pages =	{25:1--25:19},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-309-6},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{287},
  editor =	{Guruswami, Venkatesan},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2024.25},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-195537},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2024.25},
  annote =	{Keywords: Arithmetic Circuits, Robust Vector Space Decomposition, Subspace Clustering, Mixtures of Gaussians}
}
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Track A: Algorithms, Complexity and Games
DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2023.12
Low-Depth Arithmetic Circuit Lower Bounds: Bypassing Set-Multilinearization

Authors: Prashanth Amireddy, Ankit Garg, Neeraj Kayal, Chandan Saha, and Bhargav Thankey

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 261, 50th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2023)

Abstract
A recent breakthrough work of Limaye, Srinivasan and Tavenas [Nutan Limaye et al., 2021] proved superpolynomial lower bounds for low-depth arithmetic circuits via a "hardness escalation" approach: they proved lower bounds for low-depth set-multilinear circuits and then lifted the bounds to low-depth general circuits. In this work, we prove superpolynomial lower bounds for low-depth circuits by bypassing the hardness escalation, i.e., the set-multilinearization, step. As set-multilinearization comes with an exponential blow-up in circuit size, our direct proof opens up the possibility of proving an exponential lower bound for low-depth homogeneous circuits by evading a crucial bottleneck. Our bounds hold for the iterated matrix multiplication and the Nisan-Wigderson design polynomials. We also define a subclass of unrestricted depth homogeneous formulas which we call unique parse tree (UPT) formulas, and prove superpolynomial lower bounds for these. This significantly generalizes the superpolynomial lower bounds for regular formulas [Neeraj Kayal et al., 2014; Hervé Fournier et al., 2015].
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Prashanth Amireddy, Ankit Garg, Neeraj Kayal, Chandan Saha, and Bhargav Thankey. Low-Depth Arithmetic Circuit Lower Bounds: Bypassing Set-Multilinearization. In 50th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2023). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 261, pp. 12:1-12:20, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023)

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@InProceedings{amireddy_et_al:LIPIcs.ICALP.2023.12,
  author =	{Amireddy, Prashanth and Garg, Ankit and Kayal, Neeraj and Saha, Chandan and Thankey, Bhargav},
  title =	{{Low-Depth Arithmetic Circuit Lower Bounds: Bypassing Set-Multilinearization}},
  booktitle =	{50th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2023)},
  pages =	{12:1--12:20},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-278-5},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2023},
  volume =	{261},
  editor =	{Etessami, Kousha and Feige, Uriel and Puppis, Gabriele},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2023.12},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-180642},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2023.12},
  annote =	{Keywords: arithmetic circuits, low-depth circuits, lower bounds, shifted partials}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX/RANDOM.2022.21
Learning Generalized Depth Three Arithmetic Circuits in the Non-Degenerate Case

Authors: Vishwas Bhargava, Ankit Garg, Neeraj Kayal, and Chandan Saha

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 245, Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2022)

Abstract
Consider a homogeneous degree d polynomial f = T₁ + ⋯ + T_s, T_i = g_i(𝓁_{i,1}, …, 𝓁_{i, m}) where g_i’s are homogeneous m-variate degree d polynomials and 𝓁_{i,j}’s are linear polynomials in n variables. We design a (randomized) learning algorithm that given black-box access to f, computes black-boxes for the T_i’s. The running time of the algorithm is poly(n, m, d, s) and the algorithm works under some non-degeneracy conditions on the linear forms and the g_i’s, and some additional technical assumptions n ≥ (md)², s ≤ n^{d/4}. The non-degeneracy conditions on 𝓁_{i,j}’s constitute non-membership in a variety, and hence are satisfied when the coefficients of 𝓁_{i,j}’s are chosen uniformly and randomly from a large enough set. The conditions on g_i’s are satisfied for random polynomials and also for natural polynomials common in the study of arithmetic complexity like determinant, permanent, elementary symmetric polynomial, iterated matrix multiplication. A particularly appealing algorithmic corollary is the following: Given black-box access to an f = Det_r(L^(1)) + … + Det_r(L^(s)), where L^(k) = (𝓁_{i,j}^(k))_{i,j} with 𝓁_{i,j}^(k)’s being linear forms in n variables chosen randomly, there is an algorithm which in time poly(n, r) outputs matrices (M^(k))_k of linear forms s.t. there exists a permutation π: [s] → [s] with Det_r(M^(k)) = Det_r(L^(π(k))). Our work follows the works [Neeraj Kayal and Chandan Saha, 2019; Garg et al., 2020] which use lower bound methods in arithmetic complexity to design average case learning algorithms. It also vastly generalizes the result in [Neeraj Kayal and Chandan Saha, 2019] about learning depth three circuits, which is a special case where each g_i is just a monomial. At the core of our algorithm is the partial derivative method which can be used to prove lower bounds for generalized depth three circuits. To apply the general framework in [Neeraj Kayal and Chandan Saha, 2019; Garg et al., 2020], we need to establish that the non-degeneracy conditions arising out of applying the framework with the partial derivative method are satisfied in the random case. We develop simple but general and powerful tools to establish this, which might be useful in designing average case learning algorithms for other arithmetic circuit models.
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Vishwas Bhargava, Ankit Garg, Neeraj Kayal, and Chandan Saha. Learning Generalized Depth Three Arithmetic Circuits in the Non-Degenerate Case. In Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 245, pp. 21:1-21:22, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022)

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@InProceedings{bhargava_et_al:LIPIcs.APPROX/RANDOM.2022.21,
  author =	{Bhargava, Vishwas and Garg, Ankit and Kayal, Neeraj and Saha, Chandan},
  title =	{{Learning Generalized Depth Three Arithmetic Circuits in the Non-Degenerate Case}},
  booktitle =	{Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2022)},
  pages =	{21:1--21:22},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-249-5},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{245},
  editor =	{Chakrabarti, Amit and Swamy, Chaitanya},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX/RANDOM.2022.21},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-171430},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX/RANDOM.2022.21},
  annote =	{Keywords: Arithemtic Circuits, Average-case Learning, Depth 3 Arithmetic Circuits, Learning Algorithms, Learning Circuits, Circuit Reconstruction}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2022.118
Efficient Reconstruction of Depth Three Arithmetic Circuits with Top Fan-In Two

Authors: Gaurav Sinha

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 215, 13th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2022)

Abstract
In this paper we develop efficient randomized algorithms to solve the black-box reconstruction problem for polynomials over finite fields, computable by depth three arithmetic circuits with alternating addition/multiplication gates, such that output gate is an addition gate with in-degree two. Such circuits naturally compute polynomials of the form G×(T₁ + T₂), where G,T₁,T₂ are product of affine forms computed at the first layer in the circuit, and polynomials T₁,T₂ have no common factors. Rank of such a circuit is defined to be the dimension of vector space spanned by all affine factors of T₁ and T₂. For any polynomial f computable by such a circuit, rank(f) is defined to be the minimum rank of any such circuit computing it. Our work develops randomized reconstruction algorithms which take as input black-box access to a polynomial f (over finite field 𝔽), computable by such a circuit. Here are the results. - [Low rank]: When 5 ≤ rank(f) = O(log³ d), it runs in time (nd^{log³d}log |𝔽|)^{O(1)}, and, with high probability, outputs a depth three circuit computing f, with top addition gate having in-degree ≤ d^{rank(f)}. - [High rank]: When rank(f) = Ω(log³ d), it runs in time (ndlog |𝔽|)^{O(1)}, and, with high probability, outputs a depth three circuit computing f, with top addition gate having in-degree two. Prior to our work, black-box reconstruction for this circuit class was addressed in [Amir Shpilka, 2007; Karnin and Shpilka, 2009; Sinha, 2016]. Reconstruction algorithm in [Amir Shpilka, 2007] runs in time quasi-polynomial in n,d,|𝔽| and that in [Karnin and Shpilka, 2009] is quasi-polynomial in d,|𝔽|. Algorithm in [Sinha, 2016] works only for polynomials over characteristic zero fields. Thus, ours is the first blackbox reconstruction algorithm for this class of circuits that runs in time polynomial in log |𝔽|. This problem has been mentioned as an open problem in [Ankit Gupta et al., 2012] (STOC 2012). In the high rank case, our algorithm runs in (ndlog|𝔽|)^{O(1)} time, thereby significantly improving the existing algorithms in [Amir Shpilka, 2007; Karnin and Shpilka, 2009].
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Gaurav Sinha. Efficient Reconstruction of Depth Three Arithmetic Circuits with Top Fan-In Two. In 13th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 215, pp. 118:1-118:33, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022)

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@InProceedings{sinha:LIPIcs.ITCS.2022.118,
  author =	{Sinha, Gaurav},
  title =	{{Efficient Reconstruction of Depth Three Arithmetic Circuits with Top Fan-In Two}},
  booktitle =	{13th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2022)},
  pages =	{118:1--118:33},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-217-4},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{215},
  editor =	{Braverman, Mark},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2022.118},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-157143},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2022.118},
  annote =	{Keywords: Arithmetic Circuits, Circuit Reconstruction}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX/RANDOM.2021.50
Hitting Sets for Orbits of Circuit Classes and Polynomial Families

Authors: Chandan Saha and Bhargav Thankey

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 207, Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2021)

Abstract
The orbit of an n-variate polynomial f(𝐱) over a field 𝔽 is the set {f(A𝐱+𝐛) : A ∈ GL(n,𝔽) and 𝐛 ∈ 𝔽ⁿ}. In this paper, we initiate the study of explicit hitting sets for the orbits of polynomials computable by several natural and well-studied circuit classes and polynomial families. In particular, we give quasi-polynomial time hitting sets for the orbits of: 1) Low-individual-degree polynomials computable by commutative ROABPs. This implies quasi-polynomial time hitting sets for the orbits of the elementary symmetric polynomials. 2) Multilinear polynomials computable by constant-width ROABPs. This implies a quasi-polynomial time hitting set for the orbits of the family {IMM_{3,d}}_{d ∈ ℕ}, which is complete for arithmetic formulas. 3) Polynomials computable by constant-depth, constant-occur formulas. This implies quasi-polynomial time hitting sets for the orbits of multilinear depth-4 circuits with constant top fan-in, and also polynomial-time hitting sets for the orbits of the power symmetric and the sum-product polynomials. 4) Polynomials computable by occur-once formulas.
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Chandan Saha and Bhargav Thankey. Hitting Sets for Orbits of Circuit Classes and Polynomial Families. In Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2021). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 207, pp. 50:1-50:26, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2021)

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@InProceedings{saha_et_al:LIPIcs.APPROX/RANDOM.2021.50,
  author =	{Saha, Chandan and Thankey, Bhargav},
  title =	{{Hitting Sets for Orbits of Circuit Classes and Polynomial Families}},
  booktitle =	{Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2021)},
  pages =	{50:1--50:26},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-207-5},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2021},
  volume =	{207},
  editor =	{Wootters, Mary and Sanit\`{a}, Laura},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX/RANDOM.2021.50},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-147433},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX/RANDOM.2021.50},
  annote =	{Keywords: Hitting Sets, Orbits, ROABPs, Rank Concentration}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CCC.2021.19
Hitting Sets and Reconstruction for Dense Orbits in VP_{e} and ΣΠΣ Circuits

Authors: Dori Medini and Amir Shpilka

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 200, 36th Computational Complexity Conference (CCC 2021)

Abstract
In this paper we study polynomials in VP_{e} (polynomial-sized formulas) and in ΣΠΣ (polynomial-size depth-3 circuits) whose orbits, under the action of the affine group GL^{aff}_n(𝔽) (the action of (A,b) ∈ GL^{aff}_n(𝔽) on a polynomial f ∈ 𝔽[x] is defined as (A,b)∘f = f(A^Tx+b)), are dense in their ambient class. We construct hitting sets and interpolating sets for these orbits as well as give reconstruction algorithms. Specifically, we obtain the following results: 1) For C_n(ℓ_1(x),…,ℓ_n(x)) ≜ Trace(\begin{pmatrix} 𝓁₁(x) & 1 \\ 1 & 0 \end{pmatrix} ⋅ … ⋅ \begin{pmatrix} 𝓁_n(x) & 1 \\ 1 & 0 \end{pmatrix}), where the 𝓁_is are linearly independent linear functions, we construct a polynomial-sized interpolating set, and give a polynomial-time reconstruction algorithm. By a result of Bringmann, Ikenmeyer and Zuiddam, the set of all such polynomials is dense in VP_e [Karl Bringmann et al., 2018], thus our construction gives the first polynomial-size interpolating set for a dense subclass of VP_e. 2) For polynomials of the form ANF_Δ(𝓁₁(x),…,𝓁_{4^Δ}(x)), where ANF_Δ(x) is the canonical read-once formula in alternating normal form, of depth 2Δ, and the 𝓁_is are linearly independent linear functions, we provide a quasipolynomial-size interpolating set. We also observe that the reconstruction algorithm of [Ankit Gupta et al., 2014] works for all polynomials in this class. This class is also dense in VP_e. 3) Similarly, we give a quasipolynomial-sized hitting set for read-once formulas (not necessarily in alternating normal form) composed with a set of linearly independent linear functions. This gives another dense class in VP_e. 4) We give a quasipolynomial-sized hitting set for polynomials of the form f(𝓁₁(x),…,𝓁_{m}(x)), where f is an m-variate s-sparse polynomial. and the 𝓁_is are linearly independent linear functions in n ≥ m variables. This class is dense in ΣΠΣ. 5) For polynomials of the form ∑_{i=1}^{s}∏_{j=1}^{d}𝓁_{i,j}(x), where the 𝓁_{i,j}s are linearly independent linear functions, we construct a polynomial-sized interpolating set. We also observe that the reconstruction algorithm of [Neeraj Kayal and Chandan Saha, 2019] works for every polynomial in the class. This class is dense in ΣΠΣ. As VP = VNC², our results for VP_{e} translate immediately to VP with a quasipolynomial blow up in parameters. If any of our hitting or interpolating sets could be made robust then this would immediately yield a hitting set for the superclass in which the relevant class is dense, and as a consequence also a lower bound for the superclass. Unfortunately, we also prove that the kind of constructions that we have found (which are defined in terms of k-independent polynomial maps) do not necessarily yield robust hitting sets.
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Dori Medini and Amir Shpilka. Hitting Sets and Reconstruction for Dense Orbits in VP_{e} and ΣΠΣ Circuits. In 36th Computational Complexity Conference (CCC 2021). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 200, pp. 19:1-19:27, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2021)

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@InProceedings{medini_et_al:LIPIcs.CCC.2021.19,
  author =	{Medini, Dori and Shpilka, Amir},
  title =	{{Hitting Sets and Reconstruction for Dense Orbits in VP\underline\{e\} and \Sigma\Pi\Sigma Circuits}},
  booktitle =	{36th Computational Complexity Conference (CCC 2021)},
  pages =	{19:1--19:27},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-193-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2021},
  volume =	{200},
  editor =	{Kabanets, Valentine},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CCC.2021.19},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-142930},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CCC.2021.19},
  annote =	{Keywords: Algebraic complexity, VP, VNP, algebraic circuits, algebraic formula}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2020.72
Randomized Polynomial-Time Equivalence Between Determinant and Trace-IMM Equivalence Tests

Authors: Janaky Murthy, Vineet Nair, and Chandan Saha

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 170, 45th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2020)

Abstract
Equivalence testing for a polynomial family {g_m}_{m ∈ ℕ} over a field 𝔽 is the following problem: Given black-box access to an n-variate polynomial f({𝐱}), where n is the number of variables in g_m for some m ∈ ℕ, check if there exists an A ∈ GL(n,𝔽) such that f({𝐱}) = g_m(A{𝐱}). If yes, then output such an A. The complexity of equivalence testing has been studied for a number of important polynomial families, including the determinant (Det) and the family of iterated matrix multiplication polynomials. Two popular variants of the iterated matrix multiplication polynomial are: IMM_{w,d} (the (1,1) entry of the product of d many w× w symbolic matrices) and Tr-IMM_{w,d} (the trace of the product of d many w× w symbolic matrices). The families - Det, IMM and Tr-IMM - are VBP-complete under p-projections, and so, in this sense, they have the same complexity. But, do they have the same equivalence testing complexity? We show that the answer is "yes" for Det and Tr-IMM (modulo the use of randomness). The above result may appear a bit surprising as the complexity of equivalence testing for IMM and that for Det are quite different over ℚ: a randomized poly-time equivalence testing for IMM over ℚ is known [Neeraj Kayal et al., 2019], whereas [Ankit Garg et al., 2019] showed that equivalence testing for Det over ℚ is integer factoring hard (under randomized reductions and assuming GRH). To our knowledge, the complexity of equivalence testing for Tr-IMM was not known before this work. We show that, despite the syntactic similarity between IMM and Tr-IMM, equivalence testing for Tr-IMM and that for Det are randomized poly-time Turing reducible to each other over any field of characteristic zero or sufficiently large. The result is obtained by connecting the two problems via another well-studied problem in computer algebra, namely the full matrix algebra isomorphism problem (FMAI). In particular, we prove the following: 1) Testing equivalence of polynomials to Tr-IMM_{w,d}, for d ≥ 3 and w ≥ 2, is randomized polynomial-time Turing reducible to testing equivalence of polynomials to Det_w, the determinant of the w × w matrix of formal variables. (Here, d need not be a constant.) 2) FMAI is randomized polynomial-time Turing reducible to equivalence testing (in fact, to tensor isomorphism testing) for the family of matrix multiplication tensors {Tr-IMM_{w,3}}_{w ∈ ℕ}. These results, in conjunction with the randomized poly-time reduction (shown in [Ankit Garg et al., 2019]) from determinant equivalence testing to FMAI, imply that the four problems - FMAI, equivalence testing for Tr-IMM and for Det, and the 3-tensor isomorphism problem for the family of matrix multiplication tensors - are randomized poly-time equivalent under Turing reductions.
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Janaky Murthy, Vineet Nair, and Chandan Saha. Randomized Polynomial-Time Equivalence Between Determinant and Trace-IMM Equivalence Tests. In 45th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2020). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 170, pp. 72:1-72:16, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2020)

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@InProceedings{murthy_et_al:LIPIcs.MFCS.2020.72,
  author =	{Murthy, Janaky and Nair, Vineet and Saha, Chandan},
  title =	{{Randomized Polynomial-Time Equivalence Between Determinant and Trace-IMM Equivalence Tests}},
  booktitle =	{45th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2020)},
  pages =	{72:1--72:16},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-159-7},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2020},
  volume =	{170},
  editor =	{Esparza, Javier and Kr\'{a}l', Daniel},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2020.72},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-127419},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2020.72},
  annote =	{Keywords: equivalence testing, determinant, trace of the matrix product, full-matrix algebra isomorphism}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CCC.2020.23
A Super-Quadratic Lower Bound for Depth Four Arithmetic Circuits

Authors: Nikhil Gupta, Chandan Saha, and Bhargav Thankey

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 169, 35th Computational Complexity Conference (CCC 2020)

Abstract
We show an Ω̃(n^2.5) lower bound for general depth four arithmetic circuits computing an explicit n-variate degree-Θ(n) multilinear polynomial over any field of characteristic zero. To our knowledge, and as stated in the survey [Amir Shpilka and Amir Yehudayoff, 2010], no super-quadratic lower bound was known for depth four circuits over fields of characteristic ≠ 2 before this work. The previous best lower bound is Ω̃(n^1.5) [Abhijat Sharma, 2017], which is a slight quantitative improvement over the roughly Ω(n^1.33) bound obtained by invoking the super-linear lower bound for constant depth circuits in [Ran Raz, 2010; Victor Shoup and Roman Smolensky, 1997]. Our lower bound proof follows the approach of the almost cubic lower bound for depth three circuits in [Neeraj Kayal et al., 2016] by replacing the shifted partials measure with a suitable variant of the projected shifted partials measure, but it differs from [Neeraj Kayal et al., 2016]’s proof at a crucial step - namely, the way "heavy" product gates are handled. Loosely speaking, a heavy product gate has a relatively high fan-in. Product gates of a depth three circuit compute products of affine forms, and so, it is easy to prune Θ(n) many heavy product gates by projecting the circuit to a low-dimensional affine subspace [Neeraj Kayal et al., 2016; Amir Shpilka and Avi Wigderson, 2001]. However, in a depth four circuit, the second (from the top) layer of product gates compute products of polynomials having arbitrary degree, and hence it was not clear how to prune such heavy product gates from the circuit. We show that heavy product gates can also be eliminated from a depth four circuit by projecting the circuit to a low-dimensional affine subspace, unless the heavy gates together account for Ω̃(n^2.5) size. This part of our argument is inspired by a well-known greedy approximation algorithm for the weighted set-cover problem.
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Nikhil Gupta, Chandan Saha, and Bhargav Thankey. A Super-Quadratic Lower Bound for Depth Four Arithmetic Circuits. In 35th Computational Complexity Conference (CCC 2020). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 169, pp. 23:1-23:31, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2020)

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@InProceedings{gupta_et_al:LIPIcs.CCC.2020.23,
  author =	{Gupta, Nikhil and Saha, Chandan and Thankey, Bhargav},
  title =	{{A Super-Quadratic Lower Bound for Depth Four Arithmetic Circuits}},
  booktitle =	{35th Computational Complexity Conference (CCC 2020)},
  pages =	{23:1--23:31},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-156-6},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2020},
  volume =	{169},
  editor =	{Saraf, Shubhangi},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CCC.2020.23},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-125757},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CCC.2020.23},
  annote =	{Keywords: depth four arithmetic circuits, Projected Shifted Partials, super-quadratic lower bound}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2019.53
On the Symmetries of and Equivalence Test for Design Polynomials

Authors: Nikhil Gupta and Chandan Saha

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 138, 44th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2019)

Abstract
In a Nisan-Wigderson design polynomial (in short, a design polynomial), every pair of monomials share a few common variables. A useful example of such a polynomial, introduced in [Neeraj Kayal et al., 2014], is the following: NW_{d,k}({x}) = sum_{h in F_d[z], deg(h) <= k}{ prod_{i=0}^{d-1}{x_{i, h(i)}}}, where d is a prime, F_d is the finite field with d elements, and k << d. The degree of the gcd of every pair of monomials in NW_{d,k} is at most k. For concreteness, we fix k = ceil[sqrt{d}]. The family of polynomials NW := {NW_{d,k} : d is a prime} and close variants of it have been used as hard explicit polynomial families in several recent arithmetic circuit lower bound proofs. But, unlike the permanent, very little is known about the various structural and algorithmic/complexity aspects of NW beyond the fact that NW in VNP. Is NW_{d,k} characterized by its symmetries? Is it circuit-testable, i.e., given a circuit C can we check efficiently if C computes NW_{d,k}? What is the complexity of equivalence test for NW, i.e., given black-box access to a f in F[{x}], can we check efficiently if there exists an invertible linear transformation A such that f = NW_{d,k}(A * {x})? Characterization of polynomials by their symmetries plays a central role in the geometric complexity theory program. Here, we answer the first two questions and partially answer the third. We show that NW_{d,k} is characterized by its group of symmetries over C, but not over R. We also show that NW_{d,k} is characterized by circuit identities which implies that NW_{d,k} is circuit-testable in randomized polynomial time. As another application of this characterization, we obtain the "flip theorem" for NW. We give an efficient equivalence test for NW in the case where the transformation A is a block-diagonal permutation-scaling matrix. The design of this algorithm is facilitated by an almost complete understanding of the group of symmetries of NW_{d,k}: We show that if A is in the group of symmetries of NW_{d,k} then A = D * P, where D and P are diagonal and permutation matrices respectively. This is proved by completely characterizing the Lie algebra of NW_{d,k}, and using an interplay between the Hessian of NW_{d,k} and the evaluation dimension.
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Nikhil Gupta and Chandan Saha. On the Symmetries of and Equivalence Test for Design Polynomials. In 44th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2019). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 138, pp. 53:1-53:16, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2019)

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@InProceedings{gupta_et_al:LIPIcs.MFCS.2019.53,
  author =	{Gupta, Nikhil and Saha, Chandan},
  title =	{{On the Symmetries of and Equivalence Test for Design Polynomials}},
  booktitle =	{44th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2019)},
  pages =	{53:1--53:16},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-117-7},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2019},
  volume =	{138},
  editor =	{Rossmanith, Peter and Heggernes, Pinar and Katoen, Joost-Pieter},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2019.53},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-109979},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2019.53},
  annote =	{Keywords: Nisan-Wigderson design polynomial, characterization by symmetries, Lie algebra, group of symmetries, circuit testability, flip theorem, equivalence test}
}
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