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TR11-033 | 8th March 2011
Rahul Jain, Shengyu Zhang

#### The influence lower bound via query elimination

We give a simpler proof, via query elimination, of a result due to O'Donnell, Saks, Schramm and Servedio, which shows a lower bound on the zero-error randomized query complexity of a function $f$ in terms of the maximum influence of any variable of $f$. Our lower bound also applies to ... more >>>

TR19-166 | 20th November 2019
Guy Blanc, Jane Lange, Li-Yang Tan

#### Top-down induction of decision trees: rigorous guarantees and inherent limitations

Consider the following heuristic for building a decision tree for a function $f : \{0,1\}^n \to \{\pm 1\}$. Place the most influential variable $x_i$ of $f$ at the root, and recurse on the subfunctions $f_{x_i=0}$ and $f_{x_i=1}$ on the left and right subtrees respectively; terminate once the tree is an ... more >>>

TR21-111 | 19th July 2021
Aniruddha Biswas, Palash Sarkar

#### Influence of a Set of Variables on a Boolean Function

The influence of a set of variables on a Boolean function has three separate definitions in the literature, the first due to Ben-Or and Linial (1989), the second due to Fischer et al. (2002) and Blais (2009) and the third due to Tal (2017). The goal of the present work ... more >>>

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