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Settling the Query Complexity of Non-Adaptive Junta Testing

Authors Xi Chen, Rocco A. Servedio, Li-Yang Tan, Erik Waingarten, Jinyu Xie

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Abstract

We prove that any non-adaptive algorithm that tests whether an unknown Boolean function f is a k-junta or epsilon-far from every k-junta must make ~Omega(k^{3/2}/ epsilon) many queries for a wide range of parameters k and epsilon. Our result dramatically improves previous lower bounds from [BGSMdW13,STW15], and is essentially optimal given Blais's non-adaptive junta tester from [Blais08], which makes ~O(k^{3/2})/epsilon queries. Combined with the adaptive tester of [Blais09] which makes O(k log k + k / epsilon) queries, our result shows that adaptivity enables polynomial savings in query complexity for junta testing.

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Xi Chen, Rocco A. Servedio, Li-Yang Tan, Erik Waingarten, and Jinyu Xie. Settling the Query Complexity of Non-Adaptive Junta Testing. In 32nd Computational Complexity Conference (CCC 2017). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 79, pp. 26:1-26:19, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2017) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.CCC.2017.26

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Xi Chen
Rocco A. Servedio
Li-Yang Tan
Erik Waingarten
Jinyu Xie

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