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Communication Complexity is NP-hard (2507.10426v1)
Published 14 Jul 2025 in cs.CC
Abstract: In the paper where he first defined Communication Complexity, Yao asks: \emph{Is computing $CC(f)$ (the 2-way communication complexity of a given function $f$) NP-complete?} The problem of deciding whether $CC(f) \le k$, when given the communication matrix for $f$ and a number $k$, is easily seen to be in NP. Kushilevitz and Weinreb have shown that this problem is cryptographically hard. Here we show it is NP-hard.
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