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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2022.66
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-173510
URL: https://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2022/17351/
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Ignatiev, Artur ; Mihajlin, Ivan ; Smal, Alexander

Super-Cubic Lower Bound for Generalized Karchmer-Wigderson Games

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Abstract

In this paper, we prove a super-cubic lower bound on the size of a communication protocol for generalized Karchmer-Wigderson game for an explicit function f: {0,1}ⁿ → {0,1}^{log n}. Lower bounds for original Karchmer-Wigderson games correspond to De Morgan formula lower bounds, thus the best known size lower bound is cubic. The generalized Karchmer-Wigderson games are similar to the original ones, so we hope that our approach can provide an insight for proving better lower bounds on the original Karchmer-Wigderson games, and hence for proving new lower bounds on De Morgan formula size.
To achieve super-cubic lower bound we adapt several techniques used in formula complexity to communication protocols, prove communication complexity lower bound for a composition of several functions with a multiplexer relation, and use a technique from [Ivan Mihajlin and Alexander Smal, 2021] to extract the "hardest" function from it. As a result, in this setting we are able to show that there is a relatively small set of functions such that at least one of them does not have a small protocol. The resulting lower bound of Ω̃(n^3.156) is significantly better than the bound obtained from the counting argument.

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@InProceedings{ignatiev_et_al:LIPIcs.ISAAC.2022.66,
  author =	{Ignatiev, Artur and Mihajlin, Ivan and Smal, Alexander},
  title =	{{Super-Cubic Lower Bound for Generalized Karchmer-Wigderson Games}},
  booktitle =	{33rd International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2022)},
  pages =	{66:1--66:18},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-258-7},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{248},
  editor =	{Bae, Sang Won and Park, Heejin},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2022/17351},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-173510},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2022.66},
  annote =	{Keywords: communication complexity, circuit complexity, Karchmer-Wigderson games}
}

Keywords: communication complexity, circuit complexity, Karchmer-Wigderson games
Collection: 33rd International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2022)
Issue Date: 2022
Date of publication: 14.12.2022

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