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Every Boolean function can be uniquely represented as a multilinear polynomial. The entropy and the total influence are two ways to measure the concentration of its Fourier coefficients, namely the monomial coefficients in this…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-11-03 Rani Hod

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

The sensitivity of a Boolean function f is the maximum over all inputs x, of the number of sensitive coordinates of x. The well-known sensitivity conjecture of Nisan (see also Nisan and Szegedy) states that every sensitivity-s Boolean…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-04-27 Parikshit Gopalan , Rocco Servedio , Avishay Tal , Avi Wigderson

Suppose that f is a boolean function from F_2^n to {0,1} with spectral norm (that is the sum of the absolute values of its Fourier coefficients) at most M. We show that f may be expressed as +/- 1 combination of at most 2^(2^(O(M^4)))…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2010-04-02 Ben Green , Tom Sanders

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

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

Suppose $X$ is a uniformly distributed $n$-dimensional binary vector and $Y$ is obtained by passing $X$ through a binary symmetric channel with crossover probability $\alpha$. A recent conjecture by Courtade and Kumar postulates that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-02 Or Ordentlich , Ofer Shayevitz , Omri Weinstein

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

In this note we compare two measures of the complexity of a class $\mathcal F$ of Boolean functions studied in (unconditional) pseudorandomness: $\mathcal F$'s ability to distinguish between biased and uniform coins (the coin problem), and…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Rohit Agrawal

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 derive tight bounds on the expected value of products of {\em low influence} functions defined on correlated probability spaces. The proofs are based on extending Fourier theory to an arbitrary number of correlated…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-06-01 Elchanan Mossel
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