INTERPOLATING ARITHMETIC READ-ONCE FORMULAS IN PARALLEL
dc.contributor.author | Bshouty, Nader H. | eng |
dc.contributor.author | Cleve, Richard | eng |
dc.date.accessioned | 2008-02-27T16:49:46Z | |
dc.date.available | 2008-02-27T16:49:46Z | |
dc.date.computerscience | 1999-05-27 | eng |
dc.date.issued | 1995-05-01 | eng |
dc.description.abstract | A formula is read-once if each variable appears at most once in it. An artithmetic read-once formula is one in which the operations are addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division (and constants are allowed). We present a randomized (Las Vegas) parallel algorithm for the exact interpolation of arithmetic read-once formulas over sufficiently large fields. More specifically, for n-variable read-once formulas, and fields of size at least $3(n sup 2 + 3n - 2)$, our algorithm runs in $O(log sup 2 n)$ parallel steps using $O(n sup 4)$ processors (where the field operations are charged unit cost). This complements other results which imply that other classes of read-once formulas cannot be interpolated-or even learned with membership and equivalence queries-in poly-logarithmic-time with polynomially many processors (even though they can be learned sequentially in polynomial-time). These classes include boolean read-once formulas and arithmetic read-once formulas over fields of size o(n/log n) (for n variable read-once formulas). | eng |
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dc.identifier.department | 1995-569-21 | eng |
dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/30478 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1880/45752 | |
dc.language.iso | Eng | eng |
dc.publisher.corporate | University of Calgary | eng |
dc.publisher.faculty | Science | eng |
dc.subject | Computer Science | eng |
dc.title | INTERPOLATING ARITHMETIC READ-ONCE FORMULAS IN PARALLEL | eng |
dc.type | unknown | |
thesis.degree.discipline | Computer Science | eng |
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