Paper Info
Title
Complexity of distributions and average-case hardness.
Abstract
We address the following question in the average-case complexity: does there exists a language L such that for all easy distributions D the distributional problem (L, D) is easy on the average while there exists some more hard distribution Du0027 such that (L, Du0027) is hard on the average? We consider two complexity measures of distributions: the complexity of sampling and the complexity of computing the distribution function.For the complexity of sampling of distribution, we establish a connection between the above question and the hierarchy theorem for sampling distribution recently studied by Thomas Watson. Using this connection we prove that for every 0 u003c a u003c b there exist a language L, an ensemble of distributions D samplable in n^{log^b n} steps and a linear-time algorithm A such that for every ensemble of distribution F that samplable in n^{log^a n} steps, A correctly decides L on all inputs from {0, 1}^n except for a set that has infinitely small F-measure, and for every algorithm B there are infinitely many n such that the set of all elements of {0, 1}^n for which B correctly decides L has infinitely small D-measure.In case of complexity of computing the distribution function we prove the following tight result: for every a u003e 0 there exist a language L, an ensemble of polynomial-time computable distributions D, and a linear-time algorithm A such that for every computable in n^a steps ensemble of distributions F , A correctly decides L on all inputs from {0, 1}^n except for a set that has F-measure at most 2^{-n/2} , and for every algorithm B there are infinitely many n such that the set of all elements of {0, 1}^n for which B correctly decides L has D-measure at most 2^{-n+1}.
Year
Venue
DocType
2016
ISAAC
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Dmitry Itsykson13310.09
Alexander Knop235.69
Dmitry Sokolov3124.76