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TR25-060 | 6th May 2025 14:57

Sign-Rank of $k$-Hamming Distance is Constant

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TR25-060
Authors: Mika Göös, Nathaniel Harms, Valentin Imbach, Dmitry Sokolov
Publication: 6th May 2025 18:06
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Abstract:

We prove that the sign-rank of the $k$-Hamming Distance matrix on $n$ bits is $2^{O(k)}$, independent of the number of bits $n$. This strongly refutes the conjecture of Hatami, Hatami, Pires, Tao, and Zhao (RANDOM 2022), and Hatami, Hosseini, and Meng (STOC 2023), repeated in several other papers, that the sign-rank should depend on $n$. This conjecture would have qualitatively separated margin from sign-rank (or, equivalently, bounded-error from unbounded-error randomized communication). In fact, our technique gives constant sign-rank upper bounds for all matrices which reduce to $k$-Hamming Distance, as well as large-margin matrices recently shown to be irreducible to $k$-Hamming Distance.



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