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How to Obtain A Fully Adaptive Algorithm With Sample Complexity O˜(log log n)

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The paper considered the problem of equivalence testing of two distributions (over [n]) in the conditional sampling model. Presented by a simple algorithm with sample complexity O˜(log n).
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Authors:

(1) Diptarka Chakraborty, National University of Singapore, Singapore

(2) Sourav Chakraborty, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata;

(3) Gunjan Kumar, National University of Singapore, Singapore;

(4) Kuldeep S. Meel, University of Toronto, Toronto.

Abstract and 1 Introduction

2 Notations and Preliminaries

3 Related Work

4 An Efficient One-Round Adaptive Algorithm and 4.1 High-Level Overview

4.2 Algorithm Description

4.3 Technical Analysis

5 Conclusion

6 Acknowledgements and References

A Missing Proofs

B An O(log log n)-query fully adaptive algorithm

5 Conclusion

We considered the problem of equivalence testing of two distributions (over [n]) in the conditional sampling model. We presented a simple algorithm with sample complexity O˜(log n). While our algorithm is not fully non-adaptive, it is only one-round adaptive. This shows that even a limited amount of adaptiveness can help to significantly reduce the sample/query complexity. Our algorithm can also be modified slightly to obtain a fully adaptive algorithm with sample complexity O˜(log log n), matching the best bound in this setting.


One limitation of our algorithm is the presence of large constants and a worsened dependency on the parameter ε compared to the previous algorithm by [KT19]. Investigating methods to reduce this dependency on ε while maintaining the O˜(log n) dependency with respect to the parameter n poses an intriguing open direction of research.


This paper is available on arxiv under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 DEED license.