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Optimal Deterministic Extractors for Generalized Santha-Vazirani Sources

Authors Salman Beigi, Andrej Bogdanov, Omid Etesami, Siyao Guo

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  • Theory of computation → Expander graphs and randomness extractors
  • Mathematics of computing → Probability and statistics
  • Mathematics of computing → Information theory
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  • feasibility of randomness extraction
  • extractor lower bounds
  • martingales

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Abstract

Let F be a finite alphabet and D be a finite set of distributions over F. A Generalized Santha-Vazirani (GSV) source of type (F, D), introduced by Beigi, Etesami and Gohari (ICALP 2015, SICOMP 2017), is a random sequence (F_1, ..., F_n) in F^n, where F_i is a sample from some distribution d in D whose choice may depend on F_1, ..., F_{i-1}.
We show that all GSV source types (F, D) fall into one of three categories: (1) non-extractable; (2) extractable with error n^{-Theta(1)}; (3) extractable with error 2^{-Omega(n)}. 
We provide essentially randomness-optimal extraction algorithms for extractable sources. Our algorithm for category (2) sources extracts one bit with error epsilon from n = poly(1/epsilon) samples in time linear in n. Our algorithm for category (3) sources extracts m bits with error epsilon from n = O(m + log 1/epsilon) samples in time min{O(m2^m * n),n^{O(|F|)}}.
We also give algorithms for classifying a GSV source type (F, D): Membership in category (1) can be decided in NP, while membership in category (3) is polynomial-time decidable.

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Salman Beigi, Andrej Bogdanov, Omid Etesami, and Siyao Guo. Optimal Deterministic Extractors for Generalized Santha-Vazirani Sources. In Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2018). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 116, pp. 30:1-30:15, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2018) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX-RANDOM.2018.30

Author Details

Salman Beigi
  • Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Andrej Bogdanov
  • Chinese University of Hong Kong
Omid Etesami
  • Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Siyao Guo
  • Northeastern University, Boston, USA

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