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Information and Computation

Volume 204, Issue 11, November 2006, Pages 1704-1717
Information and Computation

Information theory in property testing and monotonicity testing in higher dimension

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Abstract

In property testing, we are given oracle access to a function f, and we wish to test if the function satisfies a given property P, or it is ϵ-far from having that property. In a more general setting, the domain on which the function is defined is equipped with a probability distribution, which assigns different weight to different elements in the domain. This paper relates the complexity of testing the monotonicity of a function over the d-dimensional cube to the Shannon entropy of the underlying distribution. We provide an improved upper bound on the query complexity of the property tester.

Keywords

Property testing
Information theory

1991 MSC

68Q01

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This work was supported in part by NSF Grant CCR-0306283 and ARO Grant DAAH04-96-1-0181.