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Let $p$ be a fixed prime. A triangle in $\mathbb{F}_p^n$ is an ordered triple $(x,y,z)$ of points satisfying $x+y+z=0$. Let $N=p^n=|\mathbb{F}_p^n|$. Green proved an arithmetic triangle removal lemma which says that for every $\epsilon>0$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-09-12 Jacob Fox , László Miklós Lovász

Given a small random sample of $n$-bit strings labeled by an unknown Boolean function, which properties of this function can be tested computationally efficiently? We show an equivalence between properties that are efficiently testable from…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Cynthia Dwork , Pranay Tankala

In this article, a novel barrier function is introduced to convert the box-constrained convex optimization problem to an unconstrained problem. For each double-sided bounded variable, a single monomial function is added as a barrier…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-31 Hatem Fayed

For any Boolean function $f:\{0,1\}^n \to \{0,1\}$ with a complexity measure having value $k \ll n$, is it possible to restrict the function $f$ to $\Theta(k)$ variables while keeping the complexity preserved at $\Theta(k)$? This question,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Chandrima Kayal , Rajat Mittal , Sai Soumya Nalli , Manaswi Paraashar , Karthikeya Polisetty , Jayalal Sarma , Nitin Saurabh

The model of relative-error property testing of Boolean functions has been the subject of significant recent research effort [CDH+24][CPPS25a][CPPS25b] In this paper we consider the problem of relative-error testing an unknown and arbitrary…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Xi Chen , Diptaksho Palit , Kabir Peshawaria , William Pires , Rocco A. Servedio , Yiding Zhang

We initiate the study of distribution testing for probability distributions over the edges of a graph, motivated by the closely related question of ``edge-distribution-free'' graph property testing. The main results of this paper are…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Yumou Fei

We prove that the Fourier dimension of any Boolean function with Fourier sparsity $s$ is at most $O\left(s^{2/3}\right)$. Our proof method yields an improved bound of $\widetilde{O}(\sqrt{s})$ assuming a conjecture of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-07-15 Swagato Sanyal

Boolean matrix factorization (BMF) is a popular and powerful technique for inferring knowledge from data. The mining result is the Boolean product of two matrices, approximating the input dataset. The Boolean product is a disjunction of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Sibylle Hess , Nico Piatkowski , Katharina Morik

We prove two main results on how arbitrary linear threshold functions $f(x) = \sign(w\cdot x - \theta)$ over the $n$-dimensional Boolean hypercube can be approximated by simple threshold functions. Our first result shows that every…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2009-10-21 Ilias Diakonikolas , Rocco A. Servedio

Over a finite field $\F_q$ the $(n,d,q)$-Reed-Muller code is the code given by evaluations of $n$-variate polynomials of total degree at most $d$ on all points (of $\F_q^n$). The task of testing if a function $f:\F_q^n \to \F_q$ is close to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Noga Ron-Zewi , Madhu Sudan

We examine the number T of queries that a quantum network requires to compute several Boolean functions on {0,1}^N in the black-box model. We show that, in the black-box model, the exponential quantum speed-up obtained for partial functions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Robert Beals , Harry Buhrman , Richard Cleve , Michele Mosca , Ronald de Wolf

Let $f: T\to \{ 0,1 \}$ be a Boolean function on the Boolean half-slice, $T$, \ie elements of $\{0,1\}^n$ with Hamming weight $n/2$. We show that if $f(x)+f(y)=f(x+y)$ holds with probability $\frac{1+\delta}{2}$ over a uniform pair $(x,y)$…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Haakon Larsen , Tushant Mittal , Silas Richelson , Sourya Roy

A subset $S$ of the Boolean hypercube $\mathbb{F}_2^n$ is a sumset if $S = \{a + b : a, b\in A\}$ for some $A \subseteq \mathbb{F}_2^n$. Sumsets are central objects of study in additive combinatorics, featuring in several influential…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Xi Chen , Shivam Nadimpalli , Tim Randolph , Rocco A. Servedio , Or Zamir

We study the algorithmic problem of multiplying large matrices that are rectangular. We prove that the method that has been used to construct the fastest algorithms for rectangular matrix multiplication cannot give algorithms with…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Matthias Christandl , François Le Gall , Vladimir Lysikov , Jeroen Zuiddam

We study the problem of testing triangle freeness in the general graph model. This problem was first studied in the general graph model by Alon et al. (SIAM J. Discret. Math. 2008) who provided both lower bounds and upper bounds that depend…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Reut Levi

We prove that any non-adaptive algorithm that tests whether an unknown Boolean function $f: \{0, 1\}^n\to \{0, 1\}$ is a $k$-junta or $\epsilon$-far from every $k$-junta must make $\widetilde{\Omega}(k^{3/2} / \epsilon)$ many queries for a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-04-24 Xi Chen , Rocco A. Servedio , Li-Yang Tan , Erik Waingarten , Jinyu Xie

We show improved monotonicity testers for the Boolean hypercube under the $p$-biased measure, as well as over the hypergrid $[m]^n$. Our results are: 1. For any $p\in (0,1)$, for the $p$-biased hypercube we show a non-adaptive tester that…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Mark Braverman , Subhash Khot , Guy Kindler , Dor Minzer

We study monotonicity testing of Boolean functions over the hypergrid $[n]^d$ and design a non-adaptive tester with $1$-sided error whose query complexity is $\tilde{O}(d^{5/6})\cdot \text{poly}(\log n,1/\epsilon)$. Previous to our work,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-10-31 Hadley Black , Deeparnab Chakrabarty , C. Seshadhri

The (low soundness) linearity testing problem for the middle slice of the Boolean cube is as follows. Let $\varepsilon>0$ and $f$ be a function on the middle slice on the Boolean cube, such that when choosing a uniformly random quadruple…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-02 Gil Kalai , Noam Lifshitz , Dor Minzer , Tamar Ziegler

A Boolean function $f:\{0,1\}^n\to \{0,1\}$ is $k$-linear if it returns the sum (over the binary field $F_2$) of $k$ coordinates of the input. In this paper, we study property testing of the classes $k$-Linear, the class of all $k$-linear…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Nader H. Bshouty