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The entropy/influence conjecture, raised by Friedgut and Kalai in 1996, seeks to relate two different measures of concentration of the Fourier coefficients of a Boolean function. Roughly saying, it claims that if the Fourier spectrum is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-05-16 Nathan Keller , Elchanan Mossel , Tomer Schlank

The Fourier Entropy-Influence (FEI) conjecture of Friedgut and Kalai [FK96] seeks to relate two fundamental measures of Boolean function complexity: it states that $H[f] \leq C Inf[f]$ holds for every Boolean function $f$, where $H[f]$…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-04-05 Ryan O'Donnell , Li-Yang Tan

The total influence of a function is a central notion in analysis of Boolean functions, and characterizing functions that have small total influence is one of the most fundamental questions associated with it. The KKL theorem and the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-05-08 Esty Kelman , Guy Kindler , Noam Lifshitz , Dor Minzer , Muli Safra

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 describe a new construction of Boolean functions. A specific instance of our construction provides a 30-variable Boolean function having min-entropy/influence ratio to be $128/45 \approx 2.8444$ which is presently the highest known value…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Aniruddha Biswas , Palash Sarkar

In this paper, we prove that the Fourier entropy of an $n$-dimensional boolean function $f$ can be upper-bounded by $O(I(f)+ \sum\limits_{k\in[n]}I_k(f)\log \frac{1}{I_k(f)})$, where $I(f)$ is its total influence and $I_k(f)$ is the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-11 Xiao Han

This manuscript includes some classical results we select apart from the new results we've found on the Analysis of Boolean Functions and Fourier-Entropy-Influence conjecture. We try to ensure the self-completeness of this work so that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-11-21 Xiao Han

In this paper, we prove that most of the boolean functions, $f : \{-1,1\}^n \rightarrow \{-1,1\}$ satisfy the Fourier Entropy Influence (FEI) Conjecture due to Friedgut and Kalai (Proc. AMS'96). The conjecture says that the Entropy of a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-10-21 Bireswar Das , Manjish Pal , Vijay Visavaliya

The Fourier-Entropy Influence (FEI) Conjecture states that for any Boolean function $f:\{+1,-1\}^n \to \{+1,-1\}$, the Fourier entropy of $f$ is at most its influence up to a universal constant factor. While the FEI conjecture has been…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-03-29 Sourav Chakraborty , Sushrut Karmalkar , Srijita Kundu , Satyanarayana V. Lokam , Nitin Saurabh

Given a Boolean function $f:\{-1,1\}^n\to \{-1,1\}$, the Fourier distribution assigns probability $\widehat{f}(S)^2$ to $S\subseteq [n]$. The Fourier Entropy-Influence (FEI) conjecture of Friedgut and Kalai asks if there exist a universal…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Srinivasan Arunachalam , Sourav Chakraborty , Michal Koucký , Nitin Saurabh , Ronald de Wolf

We study Boolean functions on the $p$-biased hypercube $(\{0,1\}^n,\mu_p^n)$ through the lens of Fourier (spectral) entropy, i.e. the Shannon entropy of the squared $p$-biased Fourier coefficients. Motivated by recent restriction-based…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-13 Fan Chang

We strengthen Han's Fourier entropy-influence inequality $$ H[\widehat{f}] \leq C_{1}I(f) + C_{2}\sum_{i\in [n]}I_{i}(f)\ln\frac{1}{I_{i}(f)} $$ originally proved for $\{-1,1\}$-valued Boolean functions with $C_{1}=3+2\ln 2$ and $C_{2}=1$.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Peijie Li , Guangyue Han

Given $f:\{-1, 1\}^n \rightarrow \{-1, 1\}$, define the \emph{spectral distribution} of $f$ to be the distribution on subsets of $[n]$ in which the set $S$ is sampled with probability $\widehat{f}(S)^2$. Then the Fourier Entropy-Influence…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-12-12 Andrew Wan , John Wright , Chenggang Wu

We revisit entropic formulations of the uncertainty principle for an arbitrary pair of positive operator-valued measures (POVM) $A$ and $B$, acting on finite dimensional Hilbert space. Salicr\'u generalized $(h,\phi)$-entropies, including…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 S. Zozor , G. M. Bosyk , M. Portesi

We study the problem of estimating a monotone function $f:\{0,1\}^d\to[0,1]$ from noisy observations at uniformly random vertices of the Boolean hypercube. As a measure of complexity for the target~$f$, we use the total $L^1$-influence…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Gérard Biau

In this paper we study functions with low influences on product probability spaces. The analysis of boolean functions with low influences has become a central problem in discrete Fourier analysis. It is motivated by fundamental questions…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Elchanan Mossel , Ryan O'Donnell , Krzysztof Oleszkiewicz

A Boolean function $f:\{0,1\}^n \to \{0,1\}$ is said to be noise sensitive if inserting a small random error in its argument makes the value of the function almost unpredictable. Benjamini, Kalai and Schramm showed that if the sum of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-03-10 Nathan Keller , Guy Kindler

The {\em Total Influence} ({\em Average Sensitivity) of a discrete function is one of its fundamental measures. We study the problem of approximating the total influence of a monotone Boolean function \ifnum\plusminus=1 $f: \{\pm1\}^n…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-01-28 Dana Ron , Ronitt Rubinfeld , Muli Safra , Omri Weinstein

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

Tight lower and upper bounds on the ratio of relative entropies of two probability distributions with respect to a common third one are established, where the three distributions are collinear in the standard $(n-1)$-simplex. These bounds…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Shengtian Yang , Jun Chen
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