Direct Sum and Partitionability Testing over General Groups

Authors Andrej Bogdanov , Gautam Prakriya



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Andrej Bogdanov
  • Department of Computer Science and Engineering and Institute of Theoretical Computer Science and Communications, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Gautam Prakriya
  • Institute of Theoretical Computer Science and Communications, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China

Acknowledgements

We thank Chandra Nair and Yan Nan Wang for valuable discussions on the hypercontractivity of the binary erasure channel and an anonymous reviewer for bringing to our attention the works [Ben-Sasson et al., 2003] and [Amir Shpilka and Avi Wigderson, 2006].

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Andrej Bogdanov and Gautam Prakriya. Direct Sum and Partitionability Testing over General Groups. In 48th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2021). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 198, pp. 33:1-33:19, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2021)
https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2021.33

Abstract

A function f(x₁, … , x_n) from a product domain 𝒟₁ × ⋯ × 𝒟_n to an abelian group 𝒢 is a direct sum if it is of the form f₁(x₁) + ⋯ + f_n(x_n). We present a new 4-query direct sum test with optimal (up to constant factors) soundness error. This generalizes a result of Dinur and Golubev (RANDOM 2019) which is tailored to the target group 𝒢 = ℤ₂. As a special case, we obtain an optimal affinity test for 𝒢-valued functions on domain {0, 1}ⁿ under product measure. Our analysis relies on the hypercontractivity of the binary erasure channel. We also study the testability of function partitionability over product domains into disjoint components. A 𝒢-valued f(x₁, … , x_n) is k-direct sum partitionable if it can be written as a sum of functions over k nonempty disjoint sets of inputs. A function f(x₁, … , x_n) with unstructured product range ℛ^k is direct product partitionable if its outputs depend on disjoint sets of inputs. We show that direct sum partitionability and direct product partitionability are one-sided error testable with O((n - k)(log n + 1/ε) + 1/ε) adaptive queries and O((n/ε) log²(n/ε)) nonadaptive queries, respectively. Both bounds are tight up to the logarithmic factors for constant ε even with respect to adaptive, two-sided error testers. We also give a non-adaptive one-sided error tester for direct sum partitionability with query complexity O(kn² (log n)² / ε).

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  • Theory of computation → Streaming, sublinear and near linear time algorithms
  • Theory of computation → Randomness, geometry and discrete structures
Keywords
  • Direct Sum Test
  • Function Partitionability
  • Hypercontractive Inequality
  • Property Testing

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