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A Note on Amortized Branching Program Complexity

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arxiv 1611.06632 v2 pith:MNDYJKON submitted 2016-11-21 cs.CC

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In this paper, we show that while almost all functions require exponential size branching programs to compute, for all functions $f$ there is a branching program computing a doubly exponential number of copies of $f$ which has linear size per copy of $f$. This result disproves a conjecture about non-uniform catalytic computation, rules out a certain type of bottleneck argument for proving non-monotone space lower bounds, and can be thought of as a constructive analogue of Razborov's result that submodular complexity measures have maximum value $O(n)$.

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