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TR95-054 | 24th November 1995 00:00

On the Power of Randomized Branching Programs

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Abstract:

We define the notion of a randomized branching program in
the natural way similar to the definition of a randomized
circuit. We exhibit an explicit function $f_{n}$ for which
we prove that:
1) $f_{n}$ can be computed by polynomial size randomized
read-once ordered branching program with a small
one-sided error;
2) $f_{n}$ cannot be computed in polynomial size by
deterministic read-once branching programs;
3) $f_{n}$ cannot be computed in polynomial size by
deterministic read-$k$-times ordered branching program
for $k=o(n/\log n)$ (the required deterministic size is
$\exp\left(\Omega\left(\frac{n}{k}\right)\right)$).



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