Locally Sampleable Uniform Symmetric Distributions

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Main Authors: Kane, Daniel M., Ostuni, Anthony, Wu, Kewen
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Published: 2024
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author Kane, Daniel M.
Ostuni, Anthony
Wu, Kewen
author_facet Kane, Daniel M.
Ostuni, Anthony
Wu, Kewen
contents We characterize the power of constant-depth Boolean circuits in generating uniform symmetric distributions. Let $f\colon\{0,1\}^m\to\{0,1\}^n$ be a Boolean function where each output bit of $f$ depends only on $O(1)$ input bits. Assume the output distribution of $f$ on uniform input bits is close to a uniform distribution $D$ with a symmetric support. We show that $D$ is essentially one of the following six possibilities: (1) point distribution on $0^n$, (2) point distribution on $1^n$, (3) uniform over $\{0^n,1^n\}$, (4) uniform over strings with even Hamming weights, (5) uniform over strings with odd Hamming weights, and (6) uniform over all strings. This confirms a conjecture of Filmus, Leigh, Riazanov, and Sokolov (RANDOM 2023).
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spellingShingle Locally Sampleable Uniform Symmetric Distributions
Kane, Daniel M.
Ostuni, Anthony
Wu, Kewen
Computational Complexity
We characterize the power of constant-depth Boolean circuits in generating uniform symmetric distributions. Let $f\colon\{0,1\}^m\to\{0,1\}^n$ be a Boolean function where each output bit of $f$ depends only on $O(1)$ input bits. Assume the output distribution of $f$ on uniform input bits is close to a uniform distribution $D$ with a symmetric support. We show that $D$ is essentially one of the following six possibilities: (1) point distribution on $0^n$, (2) point distribution on $1^n$, (3) uniform over $\{0^n,1^n\}$, (4) uniform over strings with even Hamming weights, (5) uniform over strings with odd Hamming weights, and (6) uniform over all strings. This confirms a conjecture of Filmus, Leigh, Riazanov, and Sokolov (RANDOM 2023).
title Locally Sampleable Uniform Symmetric Distributions
topic Computational Complexity
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.08183