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Uniformity Testing over Hypergrids with Subcube Conditioning

Data Structures and Algorithms 2023-07-27 v2 Information Theory Machine Learning math.IT Probability Statistics Theory Statistics Theory

Abstract

We give an algorithm for testing uniformity of distributions supported on hypergrids [m1]××[mn][m_1] \times \cdots \times [m_n], which makes O~(poly(m)n/ϵ2)\smash{\widetilde{O}(\text{poly}(m)\sqrt{n}/\epsilon^2)} many queries to a subcube conditional sampling oracle with m=maximim=\max_i m_i. When mm is a constant, our algorithm is nearly optimal and strengthens the algorithm of [CCK+21] which has the same query complexity but works for hypercubes {±1}n\{\pm 1\}^n only. A key technical contribution behind the analysis of our algorithm is a proof of a robust version of Pisier's inequality for functions over hypergrids using Fourier analysis.

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@article{arxiv.2302.09013,
  title  = {Uniformity Testing over Hypergrids with Subcube Conditioning},
  author = {Xi Chen and Cassandra Marcussen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.09013},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

Extended results to the domain [m_1] x ... x [m_n] (previously was [m]^n); substantial revisions to the introduction and conclusion of the paper

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