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Estimating properties of unknown unitary operations is a fundamental task in quantum information science. While full unitary tomography requires a number of samples to the unknown unitary scaling linearly with the dimension (implying…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-10 Daiki Suruga

This paper studies the problem of testing whether a function is monotone from a nonparametric Bayesian perspective. Two new families of tests are constructed. The first uses constrained smoothing splines, together with a hierarchical…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-06-03 James G. Scott , Thomas S. Shively , Stephen G. Walker

Several recent works [DHLNSY25, CPPS25a, CPPS25b] have studied a model of property testing of Boolean functions under a \emph{relative-error} criterion. In this model, the distance from a target function $f: \{0,1\}^n \to \{0,1\}$ that is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Xi Chen , Anindya De , Yizhi Huang , Shivam Nadimpalli , Rocco A. Servedio , Tianqi Yang

The goal in the area of functions property testing is to determine whether a given black-box Boolean function has a particular given property or is $\varepsilon$-far from having that property. We investigate here several types of properties…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-22 Zhengwei Xie , Daowen Qiu , Guangya Cai , Jozef Gruska , Paulo Mateus

Several performance measures can be used for evaluating classification results: accuracy, F-measure, and many others. Can we say that some of them are better than others, or, ideally, choose one measure that is best in all situations? To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Martijn Gösgens , Anton Zhiyanov , Alexey Tikhonov , Liudmila Prokhorenkova

We present simple, self-contained proofs of correctness for algorithms for linearity testing and program checking of linear functions on finite subsets of integers represented as n-bit numbers. In addition we explore a generalization of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-06-24 Sheela Devadas , Ronitt Rubinfeld

Within the study of uncertain dynamical systems, iterated random functions are a key tool. There, one samples a family of functions according to a stationary distribution. Here, we introduce an extension, where one sample functions…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-09-24 Ramen Ghosh , Jakub Marecek , Robert Shorten

A graph property P is strongly testable if for every fixed \epsilon>0 there is a one-sided \epsilon-tester for P whose query complexity is bounded by a function of \epsilon. In classifying the strongly testable graph properties, the first…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-10-14 Noga Alon , Jacob Fox

For a function $g\colon\{0,1\}^m\to\{0,1\}$, a function $f\colon \{0,1\}^n\to\{0,1\}$ is called a $g$-polymorphism if their actions commute: $f(g(\mathsf{row}_1(Z)),\ldots,g(\mathsf{row}_n(Z))) =…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Gilad Chase , Yuval Filmus , Dor Minzer , Elchanan Mossel , Nitin Saurabh

Functional linear models are one of the most fundamental tools to assess the relation between two random variables of a functional or scalar nature. This contribution proposes a goodness-of-fit test for the functional linear model with…

We initiate the study of property testing of submodularity on the boolean hypercube. Submodular functions come up in a variety of applications in combinatorial optimization. For a vast range of algorithms, the existence of an oracle to a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-08-05 C. Seshadhri , Jan Vondrak

Motivated by the quest for a broader understanding of communication complexity of simple functions, we introduce the class of "permutation-invariant" functions. A partial function $f:\{0,1\}^n \times \{0,1\}^n\to \{0,1,?\}$ is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-06-02 Badih Ghazi , Pritish Kamath , Madhu Sudan

We call an objective function or algorithm symmetric with respect to an input if after swapping two parts of the input in any algorithm, the solution of the algorithm and the output remain the same. More formally, for a permutation $\pi$ of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Sepideh Aghamolaei

An explicit algorithm is presented for testing whether two non-directed graphs are isomorphic or not. It is shown that for a graph of n vertices, the number of n independent operations needed for the test is polynomial in n. A proof that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Moshe Schwartz

The relative performance of competing point forecasts is usually measured in terms of loss or scoring functions. It is widely accepted that these scoring function should be strictly consistent in the sense that the expected score is…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-04-08 Tobias Fissler , Johanna F. Ziegel

In this paper, in the first step, we show that the fractional Dickey-Fuller test proposed by Dolado et al [10] is useless in practice. In the second step, we propose a new testing procedure for the degree of fractional integration of a time…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-04-03 Ahmed Bensalma , Mohamed Bentarzi

In this paper, we study the following variant of the junta learning problem. We are given oracle access to a Boolean function $f$ on $n$ variables that only depends on $k$ variables, and, when restricted to them, equals some predefined…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-29 Aleksandrs Belovs

This paper focuses on the problem of testing the null hypothesis that the regression functions of several populations are equal under a general nonparametric homoscedastic regression model. It is well known that linear kernel regression…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-09-01 Graciela Boente , Juan Carlos Pardo-Fernández

We study the problem of testing the equivalence of functional parameters (such as the mean or variance function) in the two sample functional data problem. In contrast to previous work, which reduces the functional problem to a multiple…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-04-28 Holger Dette , Kevin Kokot

Testing for normality is a widely used procedure in statistics and data analysis, often applied prior to employing methods that rely on the assumption of normally distributed data. While several existing tests target distributional…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-07 Akin Anarat , Holger Schwender