We study how to extract randomness from a C-interleaved source, that is, a source comprised of C independent sources whose bits or symbols are interleaved. We describe a simple approach for constructing such extractors that yields: (1) For some delta>0, c>0, explicit extractors for 2-interleaved sources on {0,1}^{2n} when one source has min-entropy at least (1-delta)*n and the other has min-entropy at least c*log(n). The best previous construction, by Raz and Yehudayoff, worked only when both sources had entropy rate 1-delta. (2) For some c>0 and any large enough prime p, explicit extractors for 2-interleaved sources on [p]^{2n} when one source has min-entropy rate at least .51 and the other source has min-entropy rate at least (c*log(n))/n. We use these to obtain the following applications: (a) We introduce the class of any-order-small-space sources, generalizing the class of small-space sources studied by Kamp et al.. We construct extractors for such sources with min-entropy rate close to 1/2. Using the Raz-Yehudayoff construction would require entropy rate close to 1. (b) For any large enough prime p, we exhibit an explicit function f:[p]^{2n} -> {0,1} such that the randomized best-partition communication complexity of f with error 1/2-2^{-Omega(n)} is at least .24*n*log(p). Previously this was known only for a tiny constant instead of .24, for p=2 by by Raz and Yehudayoff. We introduce non-malleable extractors in the interleaved model. For any large enough prime p, we give an explicit construction of a weak-seeded non-malleable extractor for sources over [p]^n with min-entropy rate .51. Nothing was known previously, even for almost full min-entropy.
@InProceedings{chattopadhyay_et_al:LIPIcs.CCC.2016.7, author = {Chattopadhyay, Eshan and Zuckerman, David}, title = {{New Extractors for Interleaved Sources}}, booktitle = {31st Conference on Computational Complexity (CCC 2016)}, pages = {7:1--7:28}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-008-8}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2016}, volume = {50}, editor = {Raz, Ran}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CCC.2016.7}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-58513}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.CCC.2016.7}, annote = {Keywords: extractor, derandomization, explicit construction} }
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