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In this paper, we study the following variant of the junta learning problem. We are given oracle access to a Boolean function $f$ on $n$ variables that only depends on $k$ variables, and, when restricted to them, equals some predefined…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-29 Aleksandrs Belovs

Inspired by a recent classical distribution-free junta tester by Chen, Liu, Serverdio, Sheng, and Xie (STOC'18), we construct a quantum tester for the same problem with complexity $O(k/\varepsilon)$, which constitutes a quadratic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-21 Aleksandrs Belovs

We study the relative-error property testing model for Boolean functions that was recently introduced in the work of Chen et al. (SODA 2025). In relative-error testing, the testing algorithm gets uniform random satisfying assignments as…

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

In this tutorial, we will survey known results on the complexity of conjunctive query evaluation in different settings, ranging from Boolean queries over counting to more complex models like enumeration and direct access. A particular focus…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Stefan Mengel

We consider the problem of enumerating relevant features hidden in other irrelevant information for multi-labeled data, which is formalized as learning juntas. A $k$-junta function is a function which depends on only $k$ coordinates of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-16 Mikito Nanashima

We prove a conjecture of Arunachalam & Dutt ([AD24]) on the existence of a tolerant stabilizer testing algorithm, and achieve an exponential improvement in the parameters of the tester. Key to our argument is a generalized uncertainty…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-14 Zongbo Bao , Philippe van Dordrecht , Jonas Helsen

Recently a new fault tolerant and simple mechanism was designed for solving commit consensus problem. It is based on replicated validation of messages sent between transaction participants and a special dispatcher validator manager node.…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-06-13 Marius Rafailescu

This paper depicts algorithms for solving the decision Boolean Satisfiability Problem. An extreme problem is formulated to analyze the complexity of algorithms and the complexity for solving it. A novel and easy reformulation as a lottery…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-04-15 Carlos Barrón-Romero

We study the problem of learning junta distributions on $\{0, 1\}^n$, where a distribution is a $k$-junta if its probability mass function depends on a subset of at most $k$ variables. We make two main contributions: - We show that learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Lorenzo Beretta

A natural problem in high-dimensional inference is to decide if a classifier $f:\mathbb{R}^n \rightarrow \{-1,1\}$ depends on a small number of linear directions of its input data. Call a function $g: \mathbb{R}^n \rightarrow \{-1,1\}$, a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Anindya De , Elchanan Mossel , Joe Neeman

In this paper, we study adaptive and non-adaptive exact learning of Juntas from membership queries. We use new techniques to find new bounds, narrow some of the gaps between the lower bounds and upper bounds and find new deterministic and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-22 Nader H. Bshouty , Areej Costa

For a function $f \colon \{0,1\}^n \to \{0,1\}$, the junta testing problem asks whether $f$ depends on only $k$ variables. If $f$ depends on only $k$ variables, the feature selection problem asks to find those variables. We prove that these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Lorenzo Beretta , Nathaniel Harms , Caleb Koch

We prove a strong composition theorem for junta complexity and show how such theorems can be used to generically boost the performance of property testers. The $\varepsilon$-approximate junta complexity of a function $f$ is the smallest…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Guy Blanc , Caleb Koch , Carmen Strassle , Li-Yang Tan

We show that a Boolean degree $d$ function on the slice $\binom{[n]}{k}$ is a junta if $k \geq 2d$, and that this bound is sharp. We prove a similar result for $A$-valued degree $d$ functions for arbitrary finite $A$, and for functions on…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-03-15 Yuval Filmus

We study the problems of learning and testing junta distributions on $\{-1,1\}^n$ with respect to the uniform distribution, where a distribution $p$ is a $k$-junta if its probability mass function $p(x)$ depends on a subset of at most $k$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Xi Chen , Rajesh Jayaram , Amit Levi , Erik Waingarten

Let $f$ and $g$ be Boolean functions over a finite Abelian group $\mathcal{G}$, where $g$ is fully known, and we have {\em query access} to $f$, that is, given any $x \in \mathcal{G}$ we can get the value $f(x)$. We study the tolerant…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Swarnalipa Datta , Arijit Ghosh , Chandrima Kayal , Manaswi Paraashar , Manmatha Roy

We study the satisfiability problem of symbolic finite automata and decompose it into the satisfiability problem of the theory of the input characters and the monadic second-order theory of the indices of accepted words. We use our…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Rodrigo Raya

We study the query complexity of testing for properties defined by read once formulas, as instances of {\em massively parametrized properties}, and prove several testability and non-testability results. First we prove the testability of any…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-03-28 Eldar Fischer , Yonatan Goldhirsh , Oded Lachish

Many scientific applications involve testing theories that are only partially specified. This task often amounts to testing the goodness-of-fit of a candidate distribution while allowing for reasonable deviations from it. The tolerant…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-28 Lucas Kania , Tudor Manole , Larry Wasserman , Sivaraman Balakrishnan

Given Boolean functions \( f, g : \mathbb{F}_2^n \to \{-1,+1\} \), we say they are {\em linearly isomorphic} if there exists \( A \in \mathrm{GL}_n(\mathbb{F}_2) \) such that \( f(x)=g(Ax) \) for all \( x \). We study this problem in the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Swarnalipa Datta , Arijit Ghosh , Chandrima Kayal , Manaswi Paraashar , Manmatha Roy