Interactive compression to external information

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Abstract

We describe a new way of compressing two-party communication protocols to get protocols with potentially smaller communication. We show that every communication protocol that communicates C bits and reveals I bits of information about the participants’ private inputs to an observer that watches the communication, can be simulated by a new protocol that communicates at most pol (I) · log log(C) bits. Our result is tight up to polynomial factors, as it matches the recent work separating communication complexity from external information cost.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationSTOC 2018 - Proceedings of the 50th Annual ACM SIGACT Symposium on Theory of Computing
EditorsMonika Henzinger, David Kempe, Ilias Diakonikolas
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages760-772
Number of pages13
ISBN (Electronic)9781450355599
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 20 2018
Event50th Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing, STOC 2018 - Los Angeles, United States
Duration: Jun 25 2018Jun 29 2018

Publication series

NameProceedings of the Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing
ISSN (Print)0737-8017

Other

Other50th Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing, STOC 2018
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityLos Angeles
Period6/25/186/29/18

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Software

Keywords

  • Communication complexity
  • Correlated sampling
  • External information cost
  • Information theory
  • Interactive compression

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