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We prove that every randomized Boolean function admits a supersimulator: a randomized polynomial-size circuit whose output on random inputs cannot be efficiently distinguished from reality with constant advantage, even by polynomially…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Cynthia Dwork , Pranay Tankala

In this work we investigate into energy complexity, a Boolean function measure related to circuit complexity. Given a circuit $\mathcal{C}$ over the standard basis $\{\vee_2,\wedge_2,\neg\}$, the energy complexity of $\mathcal{C}$, denoted…

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The Sensitivity Conjecture and the Log-rank Conjecture are among the most important and challenging problems in concrete complexity. Incidentally, the Sensitivity Conjecture is known to hold for monotone functions, and so is the Log-rank…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-04-08 Chengyu Lin , Shengyu Zhang

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

Deep neural networks (DNNs) generalize remarkably well without explicit regularization even in the strongly over-parametrized regime where classical learning theory would instead predict that they would severely overfit. While many…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-04-23 Guillermo Valle-Pérez , Chico Q. Camargo , Ard A. Louis

We give a complexity dichotomy for the problem of computing the partition function of a weighted Boolean constraint satisfaction problem. Such a problem is parameterized by a set of rational-valued functions, which generalize constraints.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2009-06-03 Andrei Bulatov , Martin Dyer , Leslie Ann Goldberg , Markus Jalsenius , David Richerby

The Fourier Entropy-Influence (FEI) Conjecture of Friedgut and Kalai states that ${\bf H}[f] \leq C \cdot {\bf I}[f]$ holds for every Boolean function $f$, where ${\bf H}[f]$ denotes the spectral entropy of $f$, ${\bf I}[f]$ is its total…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-01-25 Guy Shalev

We prove a $k^{-\Omega(\log(\varepsilon_2 - \varepsilon_1))}$ lower bound for adaptively testing whether a Boolean function is $\varepsilon_1$-close to or $\varepsilon_2$-far from $k$-juntas. Our results provide the first superpolynomial…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Xi Chen , Shyamal Patel

This article presents a general multivariate $f$-sensitivity index, rooted in the $f$-divergence between the unconditional and conditional probability measures of a stochastic response, for global sensitivity analysis. Unlike the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-12-09 Sharif Rahman

We study sequences of functions of the form F_p^n -> {0,1} for varying n, and define a notion of convergence based on the induced distributions from restricting the functions to a random affine subspace. Using a decomposition theorem and a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-08-20 Hamed Hatami , Pooya Hatami , James Hirst

We present a regularity lemma for Boolean functions $f:\{-1,1\}^n \to \{-1,1\}$ based on noisy influence, a measure of how locally correlated $f$ is with each input bit. We provide an application of the regularity lemma to weaken the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-10-25 Chris Jones

For a Boolean function $\Phi\colon\{0,1\}^d\to\{0,1\}$ and an assignment to its variables $\mathbf{x}=(x_1, x_2, \dots, x_d)$ we consider the problem of finding the subsets of the variables that are sufficient to determine the function…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-06-19 Stephan Wäldchen , Jan Macdonald , Sascha Hauch , Gitta Kutyniok

Understanding the inductive bias of neural networks is critical to explaining their ability to generalise. Here, for one of the simplest neural networks -- a single-layer perceptron with n input neurons, one output neuron, and no threshold…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Chris Mingard , Joar Skalse , Guillermo Valle-Pérez , David Martínez-Rubio , Vladimir Mikulik , Ard A. Louis

Representations of Boolean functions by real polynomials play an important role in complexity theory. Typically, one is interested in the least degree of a polynomial p(x_1,...,x_n) that approximates or sign-represents a given Boolean…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2008-05-15 Alexander A. Sherstov

The influence of the $k$'th coordinate on a Boolean function $f:\{0,1\}^n \rightarrow \{0,1\}$ is the probability that flipping $x_k$ changes the value $f(x)$. The total influence $I(f)$ is the sum of influences of the coordinates. The…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-06-06 Nathan Keller , Noam Lifshitz

Dual feasible functions (DFFs) have been used to provide bounds for standard packing problems and valid inequalities for integer optimization problems. In this paper, the connection between general DFFs and a particular family of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-04 Matthias Köppe , Jiawei Wang

In this paper we establish some bounds on the complexity of disjunctive normal forms of boolean function from narrow subclasses (e.g. functions takes value 0 in a limited number of points). The bounds are obtained by reduction the initial…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-01-15 Sergey Granin , Yura Maximov

Let $n$ be a positive integer and $f$ a differentiable function from a convex subset $C$ of the Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^n$ to a smooth manifold. We define an invariant of $f$ via counting certain threshold functions associated to $f$.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-06-19 Aslı Güçlükan İlhan , Özgün Ünlü

We study a natural measurable selection problem for which the standard uniformisation theorems do not seem to apply directly, yet a Borel selector exists. More precisely, we consider families of finite dimensional functions that admit…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-03-23 Eugenio Clerico

The proliferation of agentic systems has thrust the reasoning capabilities of AI into the forefront of contemporary machine learning. While it is known that there \emph{exist} neural networks which can reason through any Boolean task…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Wenhao Li , Anastasis Kratsios , Hrad Ghoukasian , Dennis Zvigelsky