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Distribution-Free Testing of Linear Functions on ℝⁿ

Authors Noah Fleming, Yuichi Yoshida

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  • Theory of computation → Streaming, sublinear and near linear time algorithms
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  • Property Testing
  • Distribution-Free Testing
  • Linearity Testing

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Abstract

We study the problem of testing whether a function f:ℝⁿ → ℝ is linear (i.e., both additive and homogeneous) in the distribution-free property testing model, where the distance between functions is measured with respect to an unknown probability distribution over ℝⁿ. We show that, given query access to f, sampling access to the unknown distribution as well as the standard Gaussian, and ε > 0, we can distinguish additive functions from functions that are ε-far from additive functions with O((1/ε)log(1/ε)) queries, independent of n. Furthermore, under the assumption that f is a continuous function, the additivity tester can be extended to a distribution-free tester for linearity using the same number of queries. On the other hand, we show that if we are only allowed to get values of f on sampled points, then any distribution-free tester requires Ω(n) samples, even if the underlying distribution is the standard Gaussian.

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Noah Fleming and Yuichi Yoshida. Distribution-Free Testing of Linear Functions on ℝⁿ. In 11th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2020). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 151, pp. 22:1-22:19, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2020) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2020.22

Author Details

Noah Fleming
  • University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Yuichi Yoshida
  • National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan

Funding

  • Fleming, Noah: Supported by MITACS JSPS and NSERC.
  • Yoshida, Yuichi: Supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number JP17H04676 and JP18H05291.

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