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Non interactive simulation of correlated distributions is decidable
January 05, 2017 ยท The Ethereal ยท ๐ 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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