TC (complexity)

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In theoretical computer science, and specifically computational complexity theory and circuit complexity, TC (Threshold Circuit) is a complexity class of decision problems that can be recognized by threshold circuits, which are Boolean circuits with AND, OR, and Majority gates, or equivalently, threshold gates. For each fixed i, the complexity class TCi consists of all languages that can be recognized by a family of threshold circuits of depth , polynomial size, and unbounded fan-in. The class TC is defined via

The class was proposed in 1988 to formalize the computational complexity of artificial neural networks.[1]

Relation to NC and AC

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Perspective

The relationship between the TC, NC and the AC hierarchy can be summarized as follows:

In particular, we know that

The first strict containment follows from the fact that NC0 cannot compute any function that depends on all the input bits. Thus choosing a problem that is trivially in AC0 and depends on all bits separates the two classes. (For example, consider the OR function.) The strict containment AC0TC0 follows because parity and majority (which are both in TC0) were shown to be not in AC0.[2][3]

As an immediate consequence of the above containments, we have that NC = AC = TC.

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