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Parallel Sparse Polynomial Interpolation over Finite FieldsMahdi Javadi, School of Computing Science, SFU.Wednesday July 7th, in K9509 at 3:30pm.
Abstract. We present a probabilistic algorithm to interpolate a sparse multivariate polynomial over a finite field, represented with a black box. Our algorithm modifies the algorithm of Ben-Or and Tiwari from 1988 for interpolating polynomials over rings with characteristic zero to characteristic $p$ by doing additional probes. To interpolate a polynomial in n variables with t non-zero terms, Zippel's algorithm interpolates one variable at a time using O(ndt) probes to the black box where d bounds the degree of the polynomial. Our new algorithm does O(nt) probes. It interpolates each variable independently using O(t) probes which allows us to parallelize the main loop giving an advantage over Zippel's algorithm. We have implemented both Zippel's algorithm and the new algorithm in C and we have done a parallel implementation of our algorithm using Cilk. In the talk we provide benchmarks comparing the number of probes our algorithm does with both Zippel's algorithm and Kaltofen and Lee's hybrid of the Zippel and Ben-Or/Tiwari algorithms. The benchmarks also demonstrate how effective our parallel implementation is. |