Abstract
The discriminator lemma is normally used to prove lower bounds for circuits with small-weight threshold gates. In this note we adapt the lemma to circuits with a general (large-weight) threshold gate at the top. The new lemma is used to give a new proof of a previously known lower bound for the size of a threshold of parity gates that computes inner product mod 2, and to prove that a small-depth AND-OR circuit for parity must have exponential size even if we allow a threshold gate at the top. The latter result is a generalization to large weights of a result by Green, and depends heavily on Håstad's switching-lemma.
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