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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

In this short note, we initiate the study of the Linear Isomorphism Testing Problem in the setting of communication complexity, a natural linear algebraic generalization of the classical Equality problem. Given Boolean functions $f, g :…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Swarnalipa Datta , Arijit Ghosh , Chandrima Kayal , Manaswi Paraashar , Manmatha Roy

The standard model of Boolean function property testing is not well suited for testing $\textit{sparse}$ functions which have few satisfying assignments, since every such function is close (in the usual Hamming distance metric) to the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Xi Chen , Anindya De , Yizhi Huang , Yuhao Li , Shivam Nadimpalli , Rocco A. Servedio , Tianqi Yang

The model of relative-error property testing of Boolean functions has been the subject of significant recent research effort [CDH+24][CPPS25a][CPPS25b] In this paper we consider the problem of relative-error testing an unknown and arbitrary…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Xi Chen , Diptaksho Palit , Kabir Peshawaria , William Pires , Rocco A. Servedio , Yiding Zhang

Several recent works [DHLNSY25, CPPS25a, CPPS25b] have studied a model of property testing of Boolean functions under a \emph{relative-error} criterion. In this model, the distance from a target function $f: \{0,1\}^n \to \{0,1\}$ that is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Xi Chen , Anindya De , Yizhi Huang , Shivam Nadimpalli , Rocco A. Servedio , Tianqi 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 generalize the celebrated isoperimetric inequality of Khot, Minzer, and Safra~(SICOMP 2018) for Boolean functions to the case of real-valued functions $f \colon \{0,1\}^d\to\mathbb{R}$. Our main tool in the proof of the generalized…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Hadley Black , Iden Kalemaj , Sofya Raskhodnikova

We present an adaptive tester for the unateness property of Boolean functions. Given a function $f:\{0,1\}^n \to \{0,1\}$ the tester makes $O(n \log(n)/\epsilon)$ adaptive queries to the function. The tester always accepts a unate function,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-08-09 Subhash Khot , Igor Shinkar

We give the first agnostic, efficient, proper learning algorithm for monotone Boolean functions. Given $2^{\tilde{O}(\sqrt{n}/\varepsilon)}$ uniformly random examples of an unknown function $f:\{\pm 1\}^n \rightarrow \{\pm 1\}$, our…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Jane Lange , Arsen Vasilyan

A Boolean function $f:\{0,1\}^n\to \{0,1\}$ is $k$-linear if it returns the sum (over the binary field $F_2$) of $k$ coordinates of the input. In this paper, we study property testing of the classes $k$-Linear, the class of all $k$-linear…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Nader H. Bshouty

Let a Boolean function be available as a black-box (oracle) and one likes to devise an algorithm to test whether it has certain property or it is $\epsilon$-far from having that property. The efficiency of the algorithm is judged by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-06-27 Kaushik Chakraborty , Subhamoy Maitra

The framework of distribution testing is currently ubiquitous in the field of property testing. In this model, the input is a probability distribution accessible via independently drawn samples from an oracle. The testing task is to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Sourav Chakraborty , Eldar Fischer , Arijit Ghosh , Gopinath Mishra , Sayantan Sen

Let $f: T\to \{ 0,1 \}$ be a Boolean function on the Boolean half-slice, $T$, \ie elements of $\{0,1\}^n$ with Hamming weight $n/2$. We show that if $f(x)+f(y)=f(x+y)$ holds with probability $\frac{1+\delta}{2}$ over a uniform pair $(x,y)$…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Haakon Larsen , Tushant Mittal , Silas Richelson , Sourya Roy

A natural measure of smoothness of a Boolean function is its sensitivity (the largest number of Hamming neighbors of a point which differ from it in function value). The structure of smooth or equivalently low-sensitivity functions is still…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-08-12 Parikshit Gopalan , Noam Nisan , Rocco A. Servedio , Kunal Talwar , Avi Wigderson

A Boolean function is symmetric if it is invariant under all permutations of its arguments; it is quasi-symmetric if it is symmetric with respect to the arguments on which it actually depends. We present a test that accepts every…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-08-17 Krzysztof Majewski , Nicholas Pippenger

The relative-error property testing model was introduced in [CDHLNSY24] to facilitate the study of property testing for "sparse" Boolean-valued functions, i.e. ones for which only a small fraction of all input assignments satisfy the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Xi Chen , Anindya De , Yizhi Huang , Shivam Nadimpalli , Rocco A. Servedio , Tianqi Yang

We consider the problem of testing whether an unknown Boolean function $f$ is monotone versus $\epsilon$-far from every monotone function. The two main results of this paper are a new lower bound and a new algorithm for this well-studied…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-12-19 Xi Chen , Rocco A. Servedio , Li-Yang Tan

We prove a $k^{-\Omega(\log(\varepsilon_2 - \varepsilon_1))}$ lower bound for adaptively testing whether a Boolean function is $\varepsilon_1$-close to or $\varepsilon_2$-far from $k$-juntas. Our results provide the first superpolynomial…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Xi Chen , Shyamal Patel

The goal in the area of functions property testing is to determine whether a given black-box Boolean function has a particular given property or is $\varepsilon$-far from having that property. We investigate here several types of properties…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-22 Zhengwei Xie , Daowen Qiu , Guangya Cai , Jozef Gruska , Paulo Mateus

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
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