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Interactive-proof games model the scenario where an honest party interacts with powerful but strategic provers, to elicit from them the correct answer to a computational question. Interactive proofs are increasingly used as a framework to…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-12 Jing Chen , Samuel McCauley , Shikha Singh

We find separation rates for testing multinomial or more general discrete distributions under the constraint of local differential privacy. We construct efficient randomized algorithms and test procedures, in both the case where only…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-05-27 Thomas B. Berrett , Cristina Butucea

We consider the problem of hypothesis testing for discrete distributions. In the standard model, where we have sample access to an underlying distribution $p$, extensive research has established optimal bounds for uniformity testing,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Maryam Aliakbarpour , Piotr Indyk , Ronitt Rubinfeld , Sandeep Silwal

We describe a general method for verifying inequalities between real-valued expressions, especially the kinds of straightforward inferences that arise in interactive theorem proving. In contrast to approaches that aim to be complete with…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2016-01-05 Jeremy Avigad , Robert Y. Lewis , Cody Roux

Distributed in-network programs are increasingly deployed in data centers for their performance benefits, but shifting application logic to switches also enlarges the failure domain. Ensuring their correctness before deployment is thus…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Mingyuan Song , Huan Shen , Jinghui Jiang , Qiang Su , Qingyu Song , Lu Tang , Wanjian Feng , Fei Yuan , Qiao Xiang , Jiwu Shu

We propose a logic of interactive proofs as a framework for an intuitionistic foundation for interactive computation, which we construct via an interactive analog of the Goedel-McKinsey-Tarski-Artemov definition of Intuitionistic Logic as…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-08-09 Simon Kramer

The central question in quantum multi-prover interactive proof systems is whether or not entanglement shared between provers affects the verification power of the proof system. We study for the first time positive aspects of prior…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-11-26 Julia Kempe , Hirotada Kobayashi , Keiji Matsumoto , Thomas Vidick

We study a proof methodology for verifying the safety of data invariants of highly-available distributed applications that replicate state. The proof is (1) modular: one can reason about each individual operation separately, and (2)…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-03-08 Sreeja Nair , Gustavo Petri , Marc Shapiro

Distributed proofs are mechanisms enabling the nodes of a network to collectivity and efficiently check the correctness of Boolean predicates on the structure of the network, or on data-structures distributed over the nodes (e.g., spanning…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Laurent Feuilloley , Pierre Fraigniaud , Juho Hirvonen , Ami Paz , Mor Perry

ProofPeer strives to be a system for cloud-based interactive theorem proving. After illustrating why such a system is needed, the paper presents some of the design challenges that ProofPeer needs to meet to succeed. Contexts are presented…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2012-01-04 Steven Obua

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 study the problem of distribution testing when the samples can only be accessed using a locally differentially private mechanism and focus on two representative testing questions of identity (goodness-of-fit) and independence testing for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-08-08 Jayadev Acharya , Clément L. Canonne , Cody Freitag , Himanshu Tyagi

We consider the question of distribution testing (specifically, uniformity and closeness testing) in the streaming setting, \ie under stringent memory constraints. We improve on the results of Diakonikolas, Gouleakis, Kane, and Rao (2019)…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Clément L. Canonne , Joy Qiping Yang

Independence testing is a fundamental problem in statistical inference: given samples from a joint distribution $p$ over multiple random variables, the goal is to determine whether $p$ is a product distribution or is $\epsilon$-far from all…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-06 Maryam Aliakbarpour , Alireza Azizi , Ria Stevens

We study distributed goodness-of-fit testing for discrete distribution under bandwidth and differential privacy constraints. Information constraint distributed goodness-of-fit testing is a problem that has received considerable attention…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-11-05 Lasse Vuursteen

In this work, we revisit the problem of uniformity testing of discrete probability distributions. A fundamental problem in distribution testing, testing uniformity over a known domain has been addressed over a significant line of works, and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-08-17 Tuğkan Batu , Clément L. Canonne

Theorem provers are important tools for people working in formal verification. There are a myriad of interactive systems available today, with varying features and approaches motivating their development. These design choices impact their…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Harrison Oates , Hyeonggeun Yun , Nikhila Gurusinghe

Interactive theorem provers have been used extensively to reason about various software/hardware systems and mathematical theorems. The key challenge when using an interactive prover is finding a suitable sequence of proof steps that will…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-05-15 Thomas Gransden , Neil Walkinshaw , Rajeev Raman

Recent progress towards theoretical interpretability guarantees for AI has been made with classifiers that are based on interactive proof systems. A prover selects a certificate from the datapoint and sends it to a verifier who decides the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Stephan Wäldchen

In unitary property testing a quantum algorithm, also known as a tester, is given query access to a black-box unitary and has to decide whether it satisfies some property. We propose a new technique for proving lower bounds on the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-23 Jordi Weggemans