arXiv:2511.03653cs.CCcs.DS2025-11被引 1

提出高效私密的布尔函数属性测试方法,揭示对称性与可测试性的深层联系。

Efficient and Private Property Testing via Indistinguishability

  • 基于可高效计算的域划分,将函数属性测试转化为平均值分析
  • 设计了亚线性时间且差分隐私的图结构摘要算法
  • 发现任意随机布尔函数都有不可区分的轻量级模拟电路,突破理论瓶颈

给定由未知布尔函数标记的少量n比特字符串样本,哪些函数属性可以高效测试?我们证明:可在少样本下高效测试的属性,等价于具有结构化对称性的属性,其仅依赖于函数在可高效计算的域划分上的平均值。无效率约束时,类似刻画曾由Blais和Yoshida(2019)给出。我们还给出图属性测试的经典正则划分特征的函数类比,并提出一种亚线性时间且差分隐私的算法,用于计算此类图划分的紧凑摘要。最后,我们收紧了关于乘积分布计算不可区分性的最新刻画,涵盖从两个候选函数中识别真实标签样本的高效测试任务。证明核心在于一个独立有趣的观察:任意随机布尔函数,无论多复杂,均存在一个多项式大小的随机电路,其在随机输入下的输出无法被任何更大多项式规模的区分器以常数优势分辨。该结论虽隐含于Dwork等人(2021)关于算法公平性的定理中,但其复杂性理论意义此前未被探索。我们使用图正则性文献中的迭代技术给出了新证明,并指出一个微妙的量词交换可有效绕过Trevisan、Tulsiani和Vadhan(2009)里程碑式正则性引理的已知障碍。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Given a small random sample of $n$-bit strings labeled by an unknown Boolean function, which properties of this function can be tested computationally efficiently? We show an equivalence between properties that are efficiently testable from few samples and properties with structured symmetry, which depend only on the function's average values on an efficiently computable partition of the domain. Without the efficiency constraint, a similar characterization in terms of unstructured symmetry was obtained by Blais and Yoshida (2019). We also give a function testing analogue of the classic characterization of testable graph properties in terms of regular partitions, as well as a sublinear time and differentially private algorithm to compute concise summaries of such partitions of graphs. Finally, we tighten a recent characterization of the computational indistinguishability of product distributions, which encompasses the related task of efficiently testing which of two candidate functions labeled the observed samples. Essential to our proofs is the following observation of independent interest: Every randomized Boolean function, no matter how complex, admits a supersimulator: a randomized polynomial-size circuit whose output on random inputs cannot be efficiently distinguished from reality with constant advantage, even by polynomially larger distinguishers. This surprising fact is implicit in a theorem of Dwork et al. (2021) in the context of algorithmic fairness, but its complexity-theoretic implications were not previously explored. We give a new proof of this lemma using an iteration technique from the graph regularity literature, and we observe that a subtle quantifier switch allows it to powerfully circumvent known barriers to improving the landmark complexity-theoretic regularity lemma of Trevisan, Tulsiani, and Vadhan (2009).

属性测试差分隐私复杂性理论随机电路

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