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In many learning tasks, structural models usually lead to better interpretability and higher generalization performance. In recent years, however, the simple structural models such as lasso are frequently proved to be insufficient.…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2016-08-22 Shenjian Zhao , Cong Xie , Zhihua Zhang

We give an alternative, simple method to prove isoperimetric inequalities over the hypercube. In particular, we show: 1. An elementary proof of classical isoperimetric inequalities of Talagrand, as well as a stronger isoperimetric result…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Ronen Eldan , Guy Kindler , Noam Lifshitz , Dor Minzer

To understand sparse systems we must account for both strong local atom bonds and weak nonlocal van der Waals forces between atoms separated by empty space. A fully nonlocal functional form [H. Rydberg, B.I. Lundqvist, D.C. Langreth, and M.…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 H. Rydberg , M. Dion , N. Jacobson , E. Schroder , P. Hyldgaard , S. I. Simak , D. C. Langreth , B. I. Lundqvist

A function defined on the Boolean hypercube is $k$-Fourier-sparse if it has at most $k$ nonzero Fourier coefficients. For a function $f: \mathbb{F}_2^n \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ and parameters $k$ and $d$, we prove a strong upper bound on the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-04-08 Ishay Haviv , Oded Regev

This paper studies the problem of how efficiently functions in the Sobolev spaces $\mathcal{W}^{s,q}([0,1]^d)$ and Besov spaces $\mathcal{B}^s_{q,r}([0,1]^d)$ can be approximated by deep ReLU neural networks with width $W$ and depth $L$,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-07-21 Yunfei Yang

We give a non-adaptive algorithm that makes $2^{\tilde{O}(\sqrt{k\log(1/\varepsilon_2 - \varepsilon_1)})}$ queries to a Boolean function $f:\{\pm 1\}^n \rightarrow \{\pm 1\}$ and distinguishes between $f$ being $\varepsilon_1$-close to some…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Shivam Nadimpalli , Shyamal Patel

We study combinatorial group testing schemes for learning $d$-sparse Boolean vectors using highly unreliable disjunctive measurements. We consider an adversarial noise model that only limits the number of false observations, and show that…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-05-13 Mahdi Cheraghchi

We study the computational power of polynomial threshold functions, that is, threshold functions of real polynomials over the boolean cube. We provide two new results bounding the computational power of this model. Our first result shows…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2009-11-29 Ido Ben-Eliezer , Shachar Lovett , Ariel Yadin

We study functions $f : [0, 1]^d \rightarrow [0, 1]^d$ that are both monotone and contracting, and we consider the problem of finding an $\varepsilon$-approximate fixed point of $f$. We show that the problem lies in the complexity class…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Eleni Batziou , John Fearnley , Spencer Gordon , Ruta Mehta , Rahul Savani

Based on the recent breakthrough of Huang (2019), we show that for any total Boolean function $f$, $\bullet \quad \mathrm{deg}(f) = O(\widetilde{\mathrm{deg}}(f)^2)$: The degree of $f$ is at most quadratic in the approximate degree of $f$.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-27 Scott Aaronson , Shalev Ben-David , Robin Kothari , Shravas Rao , Avishay Tal

We study holomorphic functions attaining weighted norms and its connections with the classical theory of norm attaining holomorphic functions. We prove that there are polynomials on $\ell_p$ which attain their weighted but not their…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-23 Sheldon Dantas , Rubén Medina

We derive optimal rates of convergence in the supremum norm for estimating the H\"older-smooth mean function of a stochastic process which is repeatedly and discretely observed with additional errors at fixed, multivariate, synchronous…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-05-09 Max Berger , Philipp Hermann , Hajo Holzmann

Monadic stability generalizes many tameness notions from structural graph theory such as planarity, bounded degree, bounded tree-width, and nowhere density. The sparsification conjecture predicts that the (possibly dense) monadically stable…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Nikolas Mählmann , Sebastian Siebertz

We extend the $L^p$ theory of sparse graph limits, which was introduced in a companion paper, by analyzing different notions of convergence. Under suitable restrictions on node weights, we prove the equivalence of metric convergence,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-02-06 Christian Borgs , Jennifer T. Chayes , Henry Cohn , Yufei Zhao

We present a framework to define a large class of neural networks for which, by construction, training by gradient flow provably reaches arbitrarily low loss when the number of parameters grows. Distinct from the fixed-space global…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-13 David A. R. Robin , Kevin Scaman , Marc Lelarge

Leveraging tools of De, Mossel, and Neeman [FOCS, 2019], we show two different results pertaining to the \emph{tolerant testing} of juntas. Given black-box access to a Boolean function $f:\{\pm1\}^{n} \to \{\pm1\}$, we give a $poly(k,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Vishnu Iyer , Avishay Tal , Michael Whitmeyer

Let $d\in\mathbb N$ and $f$ be a function in the Orlicz class $L(\log^+L)^{d-1}$ defined on the unit cube $[0,1]^d$ in $\mathbb{R}^d$. Given partitions $\Delta_1,\ldots,$ $\Delta_d$ of $[0,1]$, we first prove that the orthogonal projection…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-05 Markus Passenbrunner , Joscha Prochno

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

This papers considers the junta testing problem in a recently introduced ``relative error'' variant of the standard Boolean function property testing model. In relative-error testing we measure the distance from $f$ to $g$, where $f,g:…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Xi Chen , William Pires , Toniann Pitassi , Rocco A. Servedio

The approximate degree of a Boolean function $f \colon \{-1, 1\}^n \rightarrow \{-1, 1\}$ is the least degree of a real polynomial that approximates $f$ pointwise to error at most $1/3$. We introduce a generic method for increasing the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-03-20 Mark Bun , Justin Thaler