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TR24-196 | 2nd December 2024 06:30

Settling the complexity of testing grainedness of distributions, and application to uniformity testing in the Huge Object model

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TR24-196
Authors: Clement Canonne, Sayantan Sen, Qiping Yang
Publication: 2nd December 2024 12:56
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Abstract:

In this work, we study the problem of testing $m$-\emph{grainedness} of probability distributions over an $n$-element universe $\mathcal{U}$, or, equivalently, of whether a probability distribution is induced by a multiset $S\subseteq \mathcal{U}$ of size $|S|=m$. Recently, Goldreich and Ron (Computational Complexity, 2023) proved that $\Omega(n^c)$ samples are necessary for testing this property, for any $c < 1$ and $m=\Theta(n)$. They also conjectured that $\Omega(\frac{m}{\log m})$ samples are necessary for testing this property when $m=\Theta(n)$. In this work, we positively settle this conjecture.

Using a known connection to the Distribution over Huge objects (DoHo) model introduced by Goldreich and Ron (TheoretiCS, 2023), we leverage our results to provide improved bounds for uniformity testing in the DoHo model.



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