TY - GEN
T1 - Distributed uniformity testing
AU - Fischer, Orr
AU - Meir, Uri
AU - Oshman, Rotem
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2018 Copyright held by the owner/author(s). Publication rights licensed to the Association for Computing Machinery.
PY - 2018/7/23
Y1 - 2018/7/23
N2 - In the uniformity testing problem, we are given access to samples from some unknown distribution on a fixed domain {1, .., n}, and our goal is to distinguish the case where is the uniform distribution from the case where is -far from uniform in L1 distance. Centralized uniformity testing has been extensively studied, and it is known that Θ(n/2) samples are necessary and sufficient. In this paper we study distributed uniformity testing: in a network of k nodes, each node i has access to si samples from the underlying distribution . Our goal is to test uniformity, while minimizing the number of samples per node, as well as the running time. We consider several distributed models: the LOCAL model, the CONGEST model, and a 0-round model where nodes cannot communicate with each other at all. We give upper bounds for each model, and a lower bound for the 0-round model. The key to our results is analyzing the centralized uniformity-testing problem in an unusual error regime, for which we give new upper and lower bounds.
AB - In the uniformity testing problem, we are given access to samples from some unknown distribution on a fixed domain {1, .., n}, and our goal is to distinguish the case where is the uniform distribution from the case where is -far from uniform in L1 distance. Centralized uniformity testing has been extensively studied, and it is known that Θ(n/2) samples are necessary and sufficient. In this paper we study distributed uniformity testing: in a network of k nodes, each node i has access to si samples from the underlying distribution . Our goal is to test uniformity, while minimizing the number of samples per node, as well as the running time. We consider several distributed models: the LOCAL model, the CONGEST model, and a 0-round model where nodes cannot communicate with each other at all. We give upper bounds for each model, and a lower bound for the 0-round model. The key to our results is analyzing the centralized uniformity-testing problem in an unusual error regime, for which we give new upper and lower bounds.
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U2 - 10.1145/3212734.3212772
DO - 10.1145/3212734.3212772
M3 - منشور من مؤتمر
SN - 9781450357951
T3 - Proceedings of the Annual ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing
SP - 455
EP - 464
BT - PODC 2018 - Proceedings of the 2018 ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 37th ACM SIGACT-SIGOPS Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing, PODC 2018
Y2 - 23 July 2018 through 27 July 2018
ER -