Do k-Hamming Distance oracles capture all of BPP (constant cost)?
Determine whether every communication problem with public-coin constant-cost randomized complexity reduces, via a constant-cost deterministic oracle protocol, to Exact k-Hamming Distance (EHD_k) for some constant k. Equivalently, decide whether for every problem P ∈ BPP there exist constants k and c and a Boolean function f such that for all N there are Q_1,…,Q_c in QS(EHD_k) with P_N(x,y) = f(Q_1(x,y),…,Q_c(x,y)).
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An important question left open by this paper is whether the $k$-Hamming Distance captures the entirety of $BPP$, up to reductions. In other words, for every problem $ \in BPP$, there exists a constant $k$ such that $\mathsf{D}{EHD_k}() = O(1)$.
— No Complete Problem for Constant-Cost Randomized Communication
(2404.00812 - Fang et al., 31 Mar 2024) in Section 6, Discussion and Open Problems