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We study the most-informative Boolean function conjecture using a differential equation approach. This leads to a formulation of a functional inequality on finite-dimensional random variables. We also develop a similar inequality in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Zijie Chen , Amin Gohari , Chandra Nair

The Courtade-Kumar conjecture posits that dictatorship functions maximize the mutual information between the function's output and a noisy version of its input over the Boolean hypercube. We present two significant advancements related to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Adel Javanmard , David P. Woodruff

This paper considers the problem of approximating a Boolean function $f$ using another Boolean function from a specified class. Two classes of approximating functions are considered: $k$-juntas, and linear Boolean functions. The $n$ input…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Mohsen Heidari , S. Sandeep Pradhan , Ramji Venkataramanan

Consider a point-to-point communication system in which the transmitter holds a binary message of length $m$ and transmits a corresponding codeword of length $n$. The receiver's goal is to recover a Boolean function of that message, where…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Jingge Zhu , Matthias Frey

We consider the Courtade-Kumar most informative Boolean function conjecture for balanced functions, as well as a conjecture by Li and M\'edard that dictatorship functions also maximize the $L^\alpha$ norm of $T_pf$ for $1\leq\alpha\leq2$…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-06 Leighton Pate Barnes , Ayfer Özgür

In this paper, we investigate the quantization of the output of a binary input discrete memoryless channel that maximizing the mutual information between the input and the quantized output under an entropy-constrained of the quantized…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Thuan Nguyen , Thinh Nguyen

Classification of Non-linear Boolean functions is a long-standing problem in the area of theoretical computer science. In this paper, effort has been made to achieve a systematic classification of all n-variable Boolean functions, where…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-03-15 Ranjeet Kumar Rout , Pabitra Pal Choudhury , Sudhakar Sahoo

In this paper, we establish a new bound tying together the effective length and the maximum correlation between the outputs of an arbitrary pair of Boolean functions which operate on two sequences of correlated random variables. We derive a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-02 Farhad Shirani , S. Sandeep Pradhan

The quantization of the output of a binary-input discrete memoryless channel to a smaller number of levels is considered. An algorithm which finds an optimal quantizer, in the sense of maximizing mutual information between the channel input…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-16 Brian M. Kurkoski , Hideki Yagi

For information transmission a binary symmetric channel is used. There is also another noisy binary symmetric channel (feedback channel), and the transmitter observes without delay all the outputs of the forward channel via that feedback…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-11-10 M. V. Burnashev , H. Yamamoto

We characterize the power of constant-depth Boolean circuits in generating uniform symmetric distributions. Let $f\colon\{0,1\}^m\to\{0,1\}^n$ be a Boolean function where each output bit of $f$ depends only on $O(1)$ input bits. Assume the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Daniel M. Kane , Anthony Ostuni , Kewen Wu

What is the value of a single bit to a guesser? We study this problem in a setup where Alice wishes to guess an i.i.d. random vector, and can procure one bit of information from Bob, who observes this vector through a memoryless channel. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Nir Weinberger , Ofer Shayevitz

A major open problem in communication complexity is whether or not quantum protocols can be exponentially more efficient than classical protocols on _total_ Boolean functions in the two-party interactive model. The answer appears to be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-04-14 Yaoyun Shi , Yufan Zhu

We consider the transmission of nonexponentially many messages through a binary symmetric channel with noiseless feedback. We obtain an upper bound for the best decoding error exponent. Combined with the corresponding known lower bound,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Marat V. Burnashev

We investigate the influences of variables on a Boolean function $f$ based on the quantum Bernstein-Vazirani algorithm. A previous paper (Floess et al. in Math. Struct. in Comp. Science 23: 386, 2013) has proved that if a $n$-variable…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-01-21 Hong-Wei Li , Li Yang

This paper presents a method to detect and recognize symmetries in Boolean functions. The idea is to use information theoretic measures of Boolean functions to detect sub-space of possible symmetric variables. Coupled with the new…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-10-15 Denis V. Popel

The largest Hamming distance between a Boolean function in $n$ variables and the set of all affine Boolean functions in $n$ variables is known as the covering radius $\rho_n$ of the $[2^n,n+1]$ Reed-Muller code. This number determines how…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-11-23 Kai-Uwe Schmidt

We study functions on the infinite-dimensional Hamming cube $\{-1,1\}^\infty$, in particular Boolean functions into $\{-1,1\}$, generalising results on analysis of Boolean functions on $\{-1,1\}^n$ for $n\in\mathbb{N}$. The notion of noise…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-06-11 Vilhelm Agdur

Polynomial threshold gates are basic processing units of an artificial neural network. When the input vectors are binary vectors, these gates correspond to Boolean functions and can be analyzed via their polynomial representations. In…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-07-05 Yi Ming Zou

A model of quantum noisy channel with input encoding by a classical random vector is described. An equation of optimality is derived to determine a complete set of wave functions describing quantum decodings based on quasi-measurements…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. P. Belavkin , R. L. Stratonovich