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Testing Monotinicity

This work presents a (randomized) test for monotonicity of Boolean functions (i.e., mapping n-bit strings to a single bit). By querying the function at arguments of its choice, the test always accepts a monotone function, and rejects with high probability any function that is far from being monotone. The query complexity of the test is linear in n and in the inverse of the distance parameter.


Comments: Authored by O. Goldreich, S. Goldwasser, E. Lehman and D. Ron. Appeared in



Oded Goldreich
2003-07-30