Slightly improved lower bounds for homogeneous formulas of bounded depth and bounded individual degree
•A finer product decomposition for Homogeneous Formulas of small depth.•A finer product decomposition for small-depth homogeneous multi-r-ic formulas.•We give superpolynomial lower bounds for homogeneous multi-r-ic formulas of small-depth.•For all Δ∈[ω(1),o(lognlogr)] our lower bound is asymptotic...
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| Vydáno v: | Information processing letters Ročník 156; s. 105900 |
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| Médium: | Journal Article |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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Elsevier B.V
01.04.2020
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| ISSN: | 0020-0190, 1872-6119 |
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| Shrnutí: | •A finer product decomposition for Homogeneous Formulas of small depth.•A finer product decomposition for small-depth homogeneous multi-r-ic formulas.•We give superpolynomial lower bounds for homogeneous multi-r-ic formulas of small-depth.•For all Δ∈[ω(1),o(lognlogr)] our lower bound is asymptotically better than Kayal et al. [STOC 2014].
Kayal, Saha and Tavenas (Theory of Computing, 2018), showed that any bounded-depth homogeneous formula of bounded individual degree (bounded by r) that computes an explicit polynomial over n variables must have size exp(Ω(1r(n4)1/Δ)) for all depths Δ≤O(lognlogr+loglogn). In this article we show an improved size lower bound of exp(Ω(Δr(nr2)1/Δ)) for all depths Δ≤O(lognlogr), and for the same explicit polynomial. In comparison to Kayal, Saha and Tavenas (Theory of Computing, 2018) (1) our results give superpolynomial lower bounds in a wider regime of depth Δ, and (2) for all Δ∈[ω(1),o(lognlogr)] our lower bound is asymptotically better.
This improvement is due to a finer product decomposition of general homogeneous formulas of bounded-depth. This follows from an adaptation of a new product decomposition for bounded-depth multilinear formulas shown by Chillara, Limaye and Srinivasan (SIAM Journal of Computing, 2019). |
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| ISSN: | 0020-0190 1872-6119 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.ipl.2019.105900 |