Information Theory in Property Testing and Monotonicity Testing in Higher Dimension

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. © 2006 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. 1991 MSC: 68Q01

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: STACS
• Authors: Nir Ailon, Bernard Chazelle
• Keywords: Function F, Property P, Property Testing, STACS 2005, Theoretical Computer Science