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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

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

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

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

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 give a poly$(s,1/\epsilon)$-query algorithm for testing whether an unknown and arbitrary function $f: \{0,1\}^n \to \{0,1\}$ is an $s$-term DNF, in the challenging relative-error framework for Boolean function property testing that was…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Xi Chen , William Pires , Toniann Pitassi , Rocco A. Servedio

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

Items in a test are often used as a basis for making decisions and such tests are therefore required to have good psychometric properties, like unidimensionality. In many cases the sum score is used in combination with a threshold to decide…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-07-14 Lourens Waldorp , Maarten Marsman , Denny Borsboom

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

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

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

This article investigates the probabilistic relationship between quantum classification of Boolean functions and their Hamming distance. By integrating concepts from quantum computing, information theory, and combinatorics, we explore how…

In a recent result, Knop, Lovett, McGuire and Yuan (STOC 2021) proved the log-rank conjecture for communication complexity, up to log n factor, for any Boolean function composed with AND function as the inner gadget. One of the main tools…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Farzan Byramji , Vatsal Jha , Chandrima Kayal , Rajat Mittal

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

One of the motivations for property testing of boolean functions is the idea that testing can serve as a preprocessing step before learning. However, in most machine learning applications, it is not possible to request for labels of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-04-18 Maria-Florina Balcan , Eric Blais , Avrim Blum , Liu Yang

We introduce a new model for testing graph properties which we call the \emph{rejection sampling model}. We show that testing bipartiteness of $n$-nodes graphs using rejection sampling queries requires complexity $\widetilde{\Omega}(n^2)$.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-05-04 Amit Levi , Erik Waingarten

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

Let $f:\{0,1\}^n \rightarrow \{0,1\}$ be a Boolean function. The certificate complexity $C(f)$ is a complexity measure that is quadratically tight for the zero-error randomized query complexity $R_0(f)$: $C(f) \leq R_0(f) \leq C(f)^2$. In…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-08-03 Dmitry Gavinsky , Rahul Jain , Hartmut Klauck , Srijita Kundu , Troy Lee , Miklos Santha , Swagato Sanyal , Jevgenijs Vihrovs

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

Boolean matching is significant to digital integrated circuits design. An exhaustive method for Boolean matching is computationally expensive even for functions with only a few variables, because the time complexity of such an algorithm for…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-11-12 Jiaxi Zhang , Liwei Ni , Shenggen Zheng , Hao Liu , Xiangfu Zou , Feng Wang , Guojie Luo
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