Bounded independence fools degree-2 threshold functions

I Diakonikolas, DM Kane, J Nelson - arXiv preprint arXiv:0911.3389, 2009 - arxiv.org
Let x be a random vector coming from any k-wise independent distribution over {-1, 1}^ n.
For an n-variate degree-2 polynomial p, we prove that E [sgn (p (x))] is determined up to an …

Bounded independence fools degree-2 threshold functions

I Diakonikolas, DM Kane… - 2010 IEEE 51st Annual …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
For an n-variate degree-2 real polynomial p, we prove that E x~ D [sig (p (x))] Is determined
up to an additive ε as long as D is a k-wise Independent distribution over {-1, 1} n for k= poly …

A small PRG for polynomial threshold functions of Gaussians

DM Kane - arXiv preprint arXiv:1104.1209, 2011 - arxiv.org
We develop a pseudo-random generator to fool degree-$ d $ polynomial threshold functions
with respect to the Gaussian distribution. For $ c> 0$ any constant, we construct a pseudo …

A Polylogarithmic PRG for Degree Threshold Functions in the Gaussian Setting

DM Kane - arXiv preprint arXiv:1404.1103, 2014 - arxiv.org
We devise a new pseudorandom generator against degree 2 polynomial threshold functions
in the Gaussian setting. We manage to achieve $\epsilon $ error with seed length …

Bounded independence fools halfspaces

I Diakonikolas, P Gopalan, R Jaiswal… - SIAM Journal on …, 2010 - SIAM
We show that any distribution on {-1,+1\}^n that is k-wise independent fools any halfspace
(or linear threshold function) h:{-1,+1\}^n→{-1,+1\}, ie, any function of the form …

[PDF][PDF] -Independent Gaussians Fool Polynomial Threshold Functions

DM Kane - arXiv preprint arXiv:1012.1614, 2010 - arxiv.org
arXiv:1012.1614v3 [cs.CC] 11 Nov 2011 Page 1 arXiv:1012.1614v3 [cs.CC] 11 Nov 2011 k-Independent
Gaussians Fool Polynomial Threshold Functions Daniel M. Kane November 9, 2018 1 …

Log-seed pseudorandom generators via iterated restrictions

D Doron, P Hatami, WM Hoza - 35th Computational Complexity …, 2020 - drops.dagstuhl.de
There are only a few known general approaches for constructing explicit pseudorandom
generators (PRGs). The" iterated restrictions" approach, pioneered by Ajtai and Wigderson …

Optimal Pseudorandom Generators for Low-Degree Polynomials Over Moderately Large Fields

A Dwivedi, Z Guo, BL Volk - arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.11915, 2024 - arxiv.org
We construct explicit pseudorandom generators that fool $ n $-variate polynomials of degree
at most $ d $ over a finite field $\mathbb {F} _q $. The seed length of our generators is $ O …

Simple and efficient pseudorandom genera-tors from Gaussian processes.

E Chattopadhyay, A De, R Servedio - Leibniz international proceedings …, 2019 - par.nsf.gov
We show that a very simple pseudorandom generator fools intersections of k linear
threshold functions (LTFs) and arbitrary functions of k LTFs over n-dimensional Gaussian …

[PDF][PDF] Explicit lower bound for fooling polynomials by the sum of small-bias generators

S Lovett, Y Tzur - Electronic Colloquium on Computational …, 2009 - researchgate.net
Abstract Recentry, Viola (CCC'08) showed that the sum of d small-biased distributions fools
degree-d polynomial tests; that is, every polynomial expression of degree at most d in the …