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Revision #2 to TR12-006 | 5th February 2012 01:04

Finding Correlations in Subquadratic Time, with Applications to Learning Parities and Juntas with Noise

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Revision #2
Authors: Gregory Valiant
Accepted on: 5th February 2012 01:04
Downloads: 3786
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Abstract:

Given a set of $n$ random $d$-dimensional boolean vectors with the promise that two of them are $\rho$-correlated with each other, how quickly can one find the two correlated vectors? We present a surprising and simple algorithm which, for any constant $\epsilon>0$ runs in (expected) time $d n^{\frac{3 \omega}{4}+\epsilon} poly(\frac{1}{\rho})< d n^{1.8} \cdot poly(\frac{1}{\rho}),$ where $\omega<2.4$ is the exponent of matrix multiplication. This is the first subquadratic-time algorithm for this problem with polynomial dependence on $\frac{1}{\rho},$ and improves upon $O(d n^{2-O(\rho)}),$ given by Paturi et al., the `Locality Sensitive Hashing' approach of Gionis et al., and the `Bucketing Codes' approach of Dubiner.

This basic algorithm also applies to the adversarial setting, and extensions of this algorithm yield improved algorithms for several other problems, including learning sparse parities with noise, and learning juntas both with, and without noise.



Changes to previous version:

Added Corollary 5, giving an improved exponent for the problem of learning k-juntas without noise. Fixed several minor typos.


Revision #1 to TR12-006 | 5th February 2012 01:03

Finding Correlations in Subquadratic Time, with Applications to Learning Parities and Juntas with Noise





Revision #1
Authors: Gregory Valiant
Accepted on: 5th February 2012 01:03
Downloads: 3648
Keywords: 


Abstract:

Given a set of $n$ random $d$-dimensional boolean vectors with the promise that two of them are $\rho$-correlated with each other, how quickly can one find the two correlated vectors? We present a surprising and simple algorithm which, for any constant $\epsilon>0$ runs in (expected) time $d n^{\frac{3 \omega}{4}+\epsilon} poly(\frac{1}{\rho})< d n^{1.8} \cdot poly(\frac{1}{\rho}),$ where $\omega<2.4$ is the exponent of matrix multiplication. This is the first subquadratic-time algorithm for this problem with polynomial dependence on $\frac{1}{\rho},$ and improves upon $O(d n^{2-O(\rho)}),$ given by Paturi et al., the `Locality Sensitive Hashing' approach of Gionis et al., and the `Bucketing Codes' approach of Dubiner.

This basic algorithm also applies to the adversarial setting, and extensions of this algorithm yield improved algorithms for several other problems, including learning sparse parities with noise, and learning juntas both with, and without noise.



Changes to previous version:

Added Corollary 3, giving an improved exponent for the problem of learning k-juntas without noise. Fixed several minor typos.


Paper:

TR12-006 | 21st January 2012 20:40

Finding Correlations in Subquadratic Time, with Applications to Learning Parities and Juntas with Noise





TR12-006
Authors: Gregory Valiant
Publication: 24th January 2012 05:37
Downloads: 4108
Keywords: 


Abstract:

Given a set of $n$ random $d$-dimensional boolean vectors with the promise that two of them are $\rho$-correlated with each other, how quickly can one find the two correlated vectors? We present a surprising and simple algorithm which, for any constant $\epsilon>0$ runs in (expected) time $d n^{\frac{3 \omega}{4}+\epsilon} poly(\frac{1}{\rho})< d n^{1.8} \cdot poly(\frac{1}{\rho}),$ where $\omega<2.4$ is the exponent of matrix multiplication. This is the first subquadratic-time algorithm for this problem with polynomial dependence on $\frac{1}{\rho},$ and improves upon $O(d n^{2-O(\rho)}),$ given by Paturi et al., the `Locality Sensitive Hashing' approach of Gionis et al., and the `Bucketing Codes' approach of Dubiner.

This basic algorithm also applies to the adversarial setting, and extensions of this algorithm yield improved algorithms for several other problems, including learning sparse parities with noise, and learning juntas with noise.



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