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Resilient functions: Optimized, simplified, and generalized

Computational Complexity 2024-07-01 v1 Data Structures and Algorithms

Abstract

An nn-bit boolean function is resilient to coalitions of size qq if any fixed set of qq bits is unlikely to influence the function when the other nqn-q bits are chosen uniformly. We give explicit constructions of depth-33 circuits that are resilient to coalitions of size cn/log2ncn/\log^{2}n with bias ncn^{-c}. Previous explicit constructions with the same resilience had constant bias. Our construction is simpler and we generalize it to biased product distributions. Our proof builds on previous work; the main differences are the use of a tail bound for expander walks in combination with a refined analysis based on Janson's inequality.

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@article{arxiv.2406.19467,
  title  = {Resilient functions: Optimized, simplified, and generalized},
  author = {Peter Ivanov and Emanuele Viola},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.19467},
  year   = {2024}
}
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