Non interactive simulation of correlated distributions is decidable

January 05, 2017 ยท The Ethereal ยท ๐Ÿ› ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms

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Authors Anindya De, Elchanan Mossel, Joe Neeman arXiv ID 1701.01485 Category cs.CC: Computational Complexity Cross-listed cs.IT, math.PR Citations 28 Venue ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms Last Checked 1 month ago
Abstract
A basic problem in information theory is the following: Let $\mathbf{P} = (\mathbf{X}, \mathbf{Y})$ be an arbitrary distribution where the marginals $\mathbf{X}$ and $\mathbf{Y}$ are (potentially) correlated. Let Alice and Bob be two players where Alice gets samples $\{x_i\}_{i \ge 1}$ and Bob gets samples $\{y_i\}_{i \ge 1}$ and for all $i$, $(x_i, y_i) \sim \mathbf{P}$. What joint distributions $\mathbf{Q}$ can be simulated by Alice and Bob without any interaction? Classical works in information theory by G{รก}cs-K{รถ}rner and Wyner answer this question when at least one of $\mathbf{P}$ or $\mathbf{Q}$ is the distribution on $\{0,1\} \times \{0,1\}$ where each marginal is unbiased and identical. However, other than this special case, the answer to this question is understood in very few cases. Recently, Ghazi, Kamath and Sudan showed that this problem is decidable for $\mathbf{Q}$ supported on $\{0,1\} \times \{0,1\}$. We extend their result to $\mathbf{Q}$ supported on any finite alphabet. We rely on recent results in Gaussian geometry (by the authors) as well as a new \emph{smoothing argument} inspired by the method of \emph{boosting} from learning theory and potential function arguments from complexity theory and additive combinatorics.
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