How Limited Interaction Hinders Real Communication (and What It Means for Proof and Circuit Complexity)
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We obtain the first true size-space trade-offs for the cutting planes proof system, where the upper bounds hold for size and total space for derivations with constantsize coefficients, and the lower bounds apply to length and formula space (i.e., number of inequalities in memory) even for derivations with exponentially large coefficients. These are also the first trade-offs to hold uniformly for resolution, polynomial calculus and cutting planes, thus capturing the main methods of reasoning used in current state-of-the-art SAT solvers. We prove our results by a reduction to communication lower bounds in a round-efficient version of the real communication model of [Krajǐcek '98], drawing on and extending techniques in [Raz and McKenzie '99] and [Ġoos et al. '15]. The communication lower bounds are in turn established by a reduction to trade-offs between cost and number of rounds in the game of [Dymond and Tompa '85] played on directed acyclic graphs. As a by-product of the techniques developed to show these proof complexity trade-off results, we also obtain an exponential separation between monotone-ACi1 and monotone-ACi, improving exponentially over the superpolynomial separation in [Raz and McKenzie '99]. That is, we give an explicit Boolean function that can be computed by monotone Boolean circuits of depth logi n and polynomial size, but for which circuits of depth O(logi1 n) require exponential size.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings - 57th Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, FOCS 2016 |
Number of pages | 10 |
Publisher | IEEE Computer Society Press |
Publication date | 14 Dec 2016 |
Pages | 295-304 |
Article number | 7782943 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781509039333 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 14 Dec 2016 |
Externally published | Yes |
Event | 57th Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, FOCS 2016 - New Brunswick, United States Duration: 9 Oct 2016 → 11 Oct 2016 |
Conference
Conference | 57th Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, FOCS 2016 |
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Land | United States |
By | New Brunswick |
Periode | 09/10/2016 → 11/10/2016 |
Sponsor | IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Mathematical Foundations of Computing |
Series | Proceedings - Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, FOCS |
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Volume | 2016-December |
ISSN | 0272-5428 |
- Circuit complexity, Communication complexity, Cutting planes, Pebble games, Proof complexity, Trade-offs
Research areas
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