Comments on "Sympathy: fast exact minimization of fixed polarity Reed-Muller expansion for symmetric functions"

The above paper finds an optimal fixed-polarity Reed-Muller expansion of an n-variable totally symmetric function using an OFDD-based algorithm that requires O(n/sup 7/) time and O(n/sup 6/) storage space. However, an algorithm based on Suprun's transient triangles requires only O(n/sup 3/) time and O(n/sup 2/) storage space. An implementation of this algorithm yields computation times lower by several orders of magnitude.