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Noise Stability is computable and low dimensional

Probability 2017-02-17 v2 Computational Complexity

Abstract

Questions of noise stability play an important role in hardness of approximation in computer science as well as in the theory of voting. In many applications, the goal is to find an optimizer of noise stability among all possible partitions of Rn\mathbb{R}^n for n1n \geq 1 to kk parts with given Gaussian measures μ1,,μk\mu_1,\ldots,\mu_k. We call a partition ϵ\epsilon-optimal, if its noise stability is optimal up to an additive ϵ\epsilon. In this paper, we give an explicit, computable function n(ϵ)n(\epsilon) such that an ϵ\epsilon-optimal partition exists in Rn(ϵ)\mathbb{R}^{n(\epsilon)}. This result has implications for the computability of certain problems in non-interactive simulation, which are addressed in a subsequent work.

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@article{arxiv.1701.01483,
  title  = {Noise Stability is computable and low dimensional},
  author = {Anindya De and Elchanan Mossel and Joe Neeman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1701.01483},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

Minor edits made. Also, application to non-interactive simulation is removed from this paper and completely subsumed by arXiv:1701.01485 [cs.CC]

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