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Block sensitivity ($bs(f)$), certificate complexity ($C(f)$) and fractional certificate complexity ($C^*(f)$) are three fundamental combinatorial measures of complexity of a boolean function $f$. It has long been known that $bs(f) \leq C^{\ast}(f) \leq C(f) =O(bs(f)^2)$. We provide an infinite family of examples for which $C(f)$ grows quadratic ally in $C^{\ast}(f)$ (and also $bs(f)$) giving optimal...
We show how to approximate any function in AC^0 by decision trees of much smaller height than its number of variables. More precisely, we show that any function in n variables computable by an unbounded fan-in circuit of AND, OR, and NOT gates that has size S and depth d can be approximated by a decision tree of height n - \beta n to within error exp(-\beta n), where \beta = \beta (S, d) = 2^{-O(d...
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