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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

We present an adaptive algorithm with one-sided error for the problem of junta testing for Boolean function under the challenging distribution-free setting, the query complexity of which is $\widetilde O(k)/\epsilon$. This improves the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Xiaojin Zhang

We study the problem of testing whether an unknown $n$-variable Boolean function is a $k$-junta in the distribution-free property testing model, where the distance between functions is measured with respect to an arbitrary and unknown…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-02-15 Xi Chen , Zhengyang Liu , Rocco A. Servedio , Ying Sheng , Jinyu Xie

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

Junta testing for Boolean functions has sparked a long line of work over recent decades in theoretical computer science, and recently has also been studied for unitary operators in quantum computing. Tolerant junta testing is more general…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-05 Zhaoyang Chen , Lvzhou Li , Jingquan Luo

We consider the problem of testing whether an unknown $n$-variable Boolean function is a $k$-junta in the distribution-free property testing model, where the distance between function is measured with respect to an arbitrary and unknown…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Nader H. Bshouty

In the $k$-junta testing problem, a tester has to efficiently decide whether a given function $f:\{0,1\}^n\rightarrow \{0,1\}$ is a $k$-junta (i.e., depends on at most $k$ of its input bits) or is $\epsilon$-far from any $k$-junta. Our main…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-07-15 Andris Ambainis , Aleksandrs Belovs , Oded Regev , Ronald de Wolf

The problem of tolerant junta testing is a natural and challenging problem which asks if the property of a function having some specified correlation with a $k$-Junta is testable. In this paper we give an affirmative answer to this…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Anindya De , Elchanan Mossel , Joe Neeman

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

Given a Boolean function $f$ provided as a black-box with $n$ variables, this paper will propose a quantum algorithm for testing if a certain variable is junta or $\epsilon$-far from being junta. The proposed algorithm constructs another…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-22 Khaled El-Wazan , Ahmed Younes , S. B. Doma

We study the basic statistical problem of testing whether normally distributed $n$-dimensional data has been truncated, i.e. altered by only retaining points that lie in some unknown truncation set $S \subseteq \mathbb{R}^n$. As our main…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Anindya De , Shivam Nadimpalli , Rocco A. Servedio

We prove that any non-adaptive algorithm that tests whether an unknown Boolean function $f: \{0, 1\}^n\to \{0, 1\}$ is a $k$-junta or $\epsilon$-far from every $k$-junta must make $\widetilde{\Omega}(k^{3/2} / \epsilon)$ many queries for a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-04-24 Xi Chen , Rocco A. Servedio , Li-Yang Tan , Erik Waingarten , Jinyu Xie

We improve both upper and lower bounds for the distribution-free testing of monotone conjunctions. Given oracle access to an unknown Boolean function $f:\{0,1\}^n \rightarrow \{0,1\}$ and sampling oracle access to an unknown distribution…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-11-12 Xi Chen , Jinyu Xie

In this article we develop quantum algorithms for learning and testing juntas, i.e. Boolean functions which depend only on an unknown set of k out of n input variables. Our aim is to develop efficient algorithms: - whose sample complexity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-10-16 Alp Atici , Rocco A. Servedio

In this work, we consider the problems of learning junta distributions, their quantum counterparts (quantum junta states) and $\mathsf{QAC}^0$ circuits, which we show to be close to juntas. (1) Junta distributions. A probability…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-21 Jinge Bao , Francisco Escudero-Gutiérrez

We give the first super-polynomial (in fact, mildly exponential) lower bounds for tolerant testing (equivalently, distance estimation) of monotonicity, unateness, and juntas with a constant separation between the "yes" and "no" cases.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Xi Chen , Anindya De , Yuhao Li , Shivam Nadimpalli , Rocco A. Servedio

In this paper, we consider the problem of tolerant junta testing for boolean function. Compared with the prior work by Blais et al., we provide improved results in terms of both the parameter gap and query complexity. Compared with the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Xiaojin Zhang

We consider the following basic, and very broad, statistical problem: Given a known high-dimensional distribution ${\cal D}$ over $\mathbb{R}^n$ and a collection of data points in $\mathbb{R}^n$, distinguish between the two possibilities…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Anindya De , Huan Li , Shivam Nadimpalli , Rocco A. Servedio

We study the problem of testing if a function depends on a small number of linear directions of its input data. We call a function $f$ a linear $k$-junta if it is completely determined by some $k$-dimensional subspace of the input space. In…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-11-05 Anindya De , Elchanan Mossel , Joe Neeman

We characterize the fundamental limits of high-dimensional mean testing under arbitrary truncation, where samples are drawn from the conditional distribution $P(\cdot \mid S)$ for an unknown truncation set $S$ that may hide up to an…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-05 Yuhao Wang , Roberto Imbuzeiro Oliveira , Themis Gouleakis
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