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In 2005 Bourgain gave the first explicit construction of a two-source extractor family with min-entropy rate less than $1/2$. His approach combined Fourier analysis with innovative but inefficient tools from arithmetic combinatorics and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-07-31 Mark Lewko

We prove super-polynomial lower bounds for low-depth arithmetic circuits using the shifted partials measure [Gupta-Kamath-Kayal-Saptharishi, CCC 2013], [Kayal, ECCC 2012] and the affine projections of partials measure [Garg-Kayal-Saha, FOCS…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Prashanth Amireddy , Ankit Garg , Neeraj Kayal , Chandan Saha , Bhargav Thankey

Entropy and differential entropy are important quantities in information theory. A tractable extension to singular random variables-which are neither discrete nor continuous-has not been available so far. Here, we present such an extension…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-04 Günther Koliander , Georg Pichler , Erwin Riegler , Franz Hlawatsch

Low-dimensional probability models for local distribution functions in a Bayesian network include decision trees, decision graphs, and causal independence models. We describe a new probability model for discrete Bayesian networks, which we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-10-23 David Heckerman , Chris Meek

Given a linear dynamical system, we consider the problem of constructing an approximate system using only a subset of the sensors out of the total set such that the observability Gramian of the new system is approximately equal to that of…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-11-08 Shaunak D. Bopardikar

We study the probability that a random polynomial with integer coefficients is reducible when factored over the rational numbers. Using computer-generated data, we investigate a number of different models, including both monic and non-monic…

We consider the problem of learning a discrete distribution in the presence of an $\epsilon$ fraction of malicious data sources. Specifically, we consider the setting where there is some underlying distribution, $p$, and each data source…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-23 Mingda Qiao , Gregory Valiant

We design a deterministic subexponential time algorithm that takes as input a multivariate polynomial $f$ computed by a constant-depth circuit over rational numbers, and outputs a list $L$ of circuits (of unbounded depth and possibly with…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Mrinal Kumar , Varun Ramanathan , Ramprasad Saptharishi , Ben Lee Volk

We give a polynomial time algorithm to decode multivariate polynomial codes of degree $d$ up to half their minimum distance, when the evaluation points are an arbitrary product set $S^m$, for every $d < |S|$. Previously known algorithms can…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-11-25 John Kim , Swastik Kopparty

We propose a novel modular debiasing technique applicable to any discrete random source, addressing the fundamental challenge of reliably extracting high-quality randomness from inherently imperfect physical processes. The method involves…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2025-05-12 Eduardo Gueron

We provide a robust and general algorithm for computing distribution functions associated to induced orthogonal polynomial measures. We leverage several tools for orthogonal polynomials to provide a spectrally-accurate method for a broad…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-04-28 Akil Narayan

We construct a strong extractor against quantum storage that works for every min-entropy $k$, has logarithmic seed length, and outputs $\Omega(k)$ bits, provided that the quantum adversary has at most $\beta k$ qubits of memory, for any…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-06-24 Avraham Ben-Aroya , Amnon Ta-Shma

Accounting for the non-normality of asset returns remains challenging in robust portfolio optimization. In this article, we tackle this problem by assessing the risk of the portfolio through the "amount of randomness" conveyed by its…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2018-07-03 Nathan Lassance , Frédéric Vrins

It is well established that the notion of min-entropy fails to satisfy the \emph{chain rule} of the form $H(X,Y) = H(X|Y)+H(Y)$, known for Shannon Entropy. Such a property would help to analyze how min-entropy is split among smaller blocks.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-01 Maciej Skorski

In this paper, we obtain several new factorization results for certain classes of polynomials having integer coefficients. In doing so, we use the information about prime factorization of the value taken up by such polynomials and their…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-24 Rishu Garg , Jitender Singh

The extraction of randomness from weakly random seeds is a problem of central importance with multiple applications. In the device-independent setting, this problem of quantum randomness amplification has been mainly restricted to specific…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-20 Ravishankar Ramanathan

A regularity lemma for polynomials provides a decomposition in terms of a bounded number of approximately independent polynomials. Such regularity lemmas play an important role in numerous results, yet suffer from the familiar shortcoming…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Guy Moshkovitz , Dora Woodruff

In many high-dimensional problems,polynomial-time algorithms fall short of achieving the statistical limits attainable without computational constraints. A powerful approach to probe the limits of polynomial-time algorithms is to study the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-11 Bertrand Even , Christophe Giraud , Nicolas Verzelen

Low-rank approximation of a matrix by means of random sampling has been consistently efficient in its empirical studies by many scientists who applied it with various sparse and structured multipliers, but adequate formal support for this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-07 Victor Y. Pan , Liang Zhao

In this work, lossy distributed compression of pairs of correlated sources is considered. Conventionally, Shannon's random coding arguments -- using randomly generated unstructured codebooks whose blocklength is taken to be asymptotically…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Farhad Shirani , S. Sandeep Pradhan