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We initiate a systematic study of the computational complexity of property testing, focusing on the relationship between query and time complexity. While traditional work in property testing has emphasized query complexity, relatively…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Renato Ferreira Pinto , Diptaksho Palit , Sofya Raskhodnikova

A Boolean function $f:\{0,1\}^n \mapsto \{0,1\}$ is said to be $\eps$-far from monotone if $f$ needs to be modified in at least $\eps$-fraction of the points to make it monotone. We design a randomized tester that is given oracle access to…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-01-14 Deeparnab Chakrabarty , C. Seshadhri

Understanding the query complexity for testing linear-invariant properties has been a central open problem in the study of algebraic property testing. Triangle-freeness in Boolean functions is a simple property whose testing complexity is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-08-08 Hu Fu , Robert Kleinberg

This paper depicts an algorithm for solving the Decision Boolean Satisfiability Problem using the binary numerical properties of a Special Decision Satisfiability Problem, parallel execution, object oriented, and short termination. The two…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-04-17 Carlos Barrón-Romero

The standard model of Boolean function property testing is not well suited for testing $\textit{sparse}$ functions which have few satisfying assignments, since every such function is close (in the usual Hamming distance metric) to the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Xi Chen , Anindya De , Yizhi Huang , Yuhao Li , Shivam Nadimpalli , Rocco A. Servedio , Tianqi Yang

In this paper, we consider several property testing problems and ask how the query complexity depends on the distance parameter $\eps$. We achieve new lower bounds in this setting for the problems of testing whether a function is monotone…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-08-28 Joshua Brody , Pooya Hatami

We prove several decidability and undecidability results for the satisfiability and validity problems for languages that can express solutions to word equations with length constraints. The atomic formulas over this language are equality…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-06-26 Vijay Ganesh , Mia Minnes , Armando Solar-Lezama , Martin Rinard

This paper addresses the problem of quantifying diversity for a set of objects. First, we conduct a systematic review of existing diversity measures and explore their undesirable behavior in certain cases. Based on this review, we formulate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Mikhail Mironov , Liudmila Prokhorenkova

Motivated by certain applications from physics, biochemistry, economics, and computer science, in which the objects under investigation are not accessible because of various limitations, we propose a trial-and-error model to examine…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-04-19 Xiaohui Bei , Ning Chen , Shengyu Zhang

We present several new examples of speed-ups obtainable by quantum algorithms in the context of property testing. First, motivated by sampling algorithms, we consider probability distributions given in the form of an oracle $f:[n]\to[m]$.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-05-13 Sourav Chakraborty , Eldar Fischer , Arie Matsliah , Ronald de Wolf

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

We study the question of testing structured properties (classes) of discrete distributions. Specifically, given sample access to an arbitrary distribution $D$ over $[n]$ and a property $\mathcal{P}$, the goal is to distinguish between…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-01-22 Clément L. Canonne , Ilias Diakonikolas , Themis Gouleakis , Ronitt Rubinfeld

We describe two procedures which, given access to one copy of a quantum state and a sequence of two-outcome measurements, can distinguish between the case that at least one of the measurements accepts the state with high probability, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-18 Aram W. Harrow , Cedric Yen-Yu Lin , Ashley Montanaro

Typestate systems ensure many desirable properties of imperative programs, including initialization of object fields and correct use of stateful library interfaces. Abstract sets with cardinality constraints naturally generalize typestate…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2013-02-14 Bruno Marnette , Viktor Kuncak , Martin Rinard

In this work, we consider the sample complexity required for testing the monotonicity of distributions over partial orders. A distribution $p$ over a poset is monotone if, for any pair of domain elements $x$ and $y$ such that $x \preceq y$,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Maryam Aliakbarpour , Themis Gouleakis , John Peebles , Ronitt Rubinfeld , Anak Yodpinyanee

We investigate geometrical properties of the random K-satisfiability problem using the notion of x-satisfiability: a formula is x-satisfiable if there exist two SAT assignments differing in Nx variables. We show the existence of a sharp…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2008-03-20 Hervé Daudé , Marc Mezard , Thierry Mora , Riccardo Zecchina

In this paper, we study the query complexity of Boolean functions in the presence of uncertainty, motivated by parallel computation with an unlimited number of processors where inputs are allowed to be unknown. We allow each query to…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Deepu Benson , Balagopal Komarath , Nikhil Mande , Sai Soumya Nalli , Jayalal Sarma , Karteek Sreenivasaiah

We refine the formulation of the Boolean satisfiability problem with $n$ Boolean variables in Clifford algebra ${\cal C}\ell(\mathbb{R}^{n,n})$ [3] and exploit this continuous setting to outline a new unsatisfiability test. This algorithm…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Marco Budinich

We study the detection problem of finding planted solutions in random instances of flat satisfiability problems, a generalization of boolean satisfiability formulas. We describe the properties of random instances of flat satisfiability, as…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-03-07 Quentin Berthet , Jordan S. Ellenberg

We establish a lower bound of $\Omega{(\sqrt{n})}$ on the bounded-error quantum query complexity of read-once Boolean functions, providing evidence for the conjecture that $\Omega(\sqrt{D(f)})$ is a lower bound for all Boolean functions.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Howard Barnum , Michael Saks