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A Noisy-Influence Regularity Lemma for Boolean Functions

Computational Complexity 2016-10-25 v1 Combinatorics

Abstract

We present a regularity lemma for Boolean functions f:{1,1}n{1,1}f:\{-1,1\}^n \to \{-1,1\} based on noisy influence, a measure of how locally correlated ff is with each input bit. We provide an application of the regularity lemma to weaken the conditions on the Majority is Stablest Theorem. We also prove a "homogenized" version stating that there is a set of input bits so that most restrictions of ff on those bits have small noisy influences. These results were sketched out by [OSTW10], but never published. With their permission, we present the full details here.

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@article{arxiv.1610.06950,
  title  = {A Noisy-Influence Regularity Lemma for Boolean Functions},
  author = {Chris Jones},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.06950},
  year   = {2016}
}

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8 pages

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