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The "Most informative boolean function" conjecture holds for high noise

Information Theory 2015-11-29 v1 Combinatorics math.IT Probability

Abstract

We prove the "Most informative boolean function" conjecture of Courtade and Kumar for high noise ϵ1/2δ\epsilon \ge 1/2 - \delta, for some absolute constant δ>0\delta > 0. Namely, if XX is uniformly distributed in {0,1}n\{0,1\}^n and YY is obtained by flipping each coordinate of XX independently with probability ϵ\epsilon, then, provided ϵ1/2δ\epsilon \ge 1/2 - \delta, for any boolean function ff holds I(f(X);Y)1H(ϵ)I(f(X);Y) \le 1 - H(\epsilon). This conjecture was previously known to hold only for balanced functions.

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@article{arxiv.1510.08656,
  title  = {The "Most informative boolean function" conjecture holds for high noise},
  author = {Alex Samorodnitsky},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1510.08656},
  year   = {2015}
}
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