Monotone circuits for monotone weighted threshold functions
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Monotone circuits for monotone weighted threshold functions
Weighted threshold functions with positive weights are a natural generalization of unweighted threshold functions. These functions are clearly monotone. However, the naive way of computing them is adding the weights of the satisfied variables and checking if the sum is greater than the threshold; this algorithm is inherently non-monotone since addition is a non-monotone function. In this work w...
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عنوان ژورنال: Information Processing Letters
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0020-0190
DOI: 10.1016/j.ipl.2005.09.008