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Communication Complexity of "2-Bit"

[For context, I'm trying to work through the derivation of Lemma 2.1 (2-Bit) here, https://users.cs.utah.edu/~jeffp/papers/multiCC-soda12.pdf. ] The '2-Bit' setup is that Alice draws a bit-string of ...
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Can a static pre-shared database reduce communication size?

Is the problem of communication with a pre-shared database studied? If yes, what field studies it, or which researchers work on it? Let there be two parties that want to share multiple yet-to-be-...
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Deriving a lower bound on the conditional entropy, conditioned on an event

I came across Lemma 19 in Certifying Equality With Limited Interaction, which states the following for jointly distributed random variables $Z$, $W$, where $Z$ takes values in $\{0,1\}^n$, and some ...
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Decomposition of Mutual Information [closed]

I came across a book where the author uses the following property of mutual information: Let $X$,$Y$,$Z$ be arbitrary discrete random variables and let $W$ be an indicator random variable. $$ (1)\ \ ...
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Upper bound for set disjointness under product distributions

For the set disjointness problem in the 2-party model of communication complexity, Alice is given an input $X$ and Bob is given input $Y$, $X$ and $Y$ are $n$-length bitstrings (sampled from some ...
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Understanding the flaw in a proof attempt of the Communication Complexity of Equality

I'm new to communication theory and I've been wondering where the following simple argument fails: Equality Problem We have two players, player 1 Alice who gets an $n$-bit vector $X$ and player 2 Bob ...
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