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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

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

Leveraging tools of De, Mossel, and Neeman [FOCS, 2019], we show two different results pertaining to the \emph{tolerant testing} of juntas. Given black-box access to a Boolean function $f:\{\pm1\}^{n} \to \{\pm1\}$, we give a $poly(k,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Vishnu Iyer , Avishay Tal , Michael Whitmeyer

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

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

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

A function $f\colon \{-1,1\}^n \to \{-1,1\}$ is a $k$-junta if it depends on at most $k$ of its variables. We consider the problem of tolerant testing of $k$-juntas, where the testing algorithm must accept any function that is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-04 Eric Blais , Clément L. Canonne , Talya Eden , Amit Levi , Dana Ron

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

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 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 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

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

A Boolean function f of n variables is said to be q-locally correctable if, given a black-box access to a function g which is "close" to an isomorphism f_sigma(x)=f_sigma(x_1, ..., x_n) = f(x_sigma(1), ..., x_sigma(n)) of f, we can compute…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2012-10-23 Noga Alon , Amit Weinstein

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

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 basic statistical problem of detecting truncation of the uniform distribution on the Boolean hypercube by juntas. More concretely, we give upper and lower bounds on the problem of distinguishing between i.i.d. sample access…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-09-06 William He , Shivam Nadimpalli

We consider the problem of deciding whether an $n$-qubit unitary (or $n$-bit Boolean function) is $\varepsilon_1$-close to some $k$-junta or $\varepsilon_2$-far from every $k$-junta, where $k$-junta unitaries act non-trivially on at most…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-23 Zongbo Bao , Yuxuan Liu , Penghui Yao , Zekun Ye , Jialin Zhang

A natural problem in high-dimensional inference is to decide if a classifier $f:\mathbb{R}^n \rightarrow \{-1,1\}$ depends on a small number of linear directions of its input data. Call a function $g: \mathbb{R}^n \rightarrow \{-1,1\}$, a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-01-14 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
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