The paper presents tight bounds for equivalence testing using non‑adaptive conditional samples. It shows that determining whether two unknown distributions are identical or ε‑far in total variation distance requires ∫Θ((log n)/ε²) queries. Consequently, the query complexity for uniformity, identity, and equivalence testing with non‑adaptive conditional samples is ∫Θ(log n).
arXiv:2608. 06262v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Model evaluations may fix all tests before observing any responses or select later tests using earlier responses.
arXiv:2605. 23225v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We introduce the problem of \emph{entropy equivalence testing} for probability distributions, a relaxation of the well-studied closeness testing problem, where the distribution testing algorithm is now only required to distinguish, given samples from two unknown distributions $p,q$ and a parameter $\varepsilon \in(0,1/2]$, between $p=q$ and $|H(p)-H(q)| \geq \varepsilon$ (where $H$ denotes the Shannon entropy).
arXiv:2610. 29798v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In likelihood-free hypothesis testing (LFHT), given samples from two unknown distributions $P,Q$ on $[n]$ with $\mathrm{d_{TV}}(P,Q)\geq\varepsilon$, and from a third distribution $D\in\{P,Q\}$, the goal is to identify whether $D=P$ or $D=Q$.
arXiv:2607. 15645v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Motivated by the challenge of testing distributions over high-dimensional or continuous domains, we study distribution testing with respect to bounded classes of distinguishers.
In likelihood-free hypothesis testing (LFHT), given samples from two unknown distributions $P,Q$ on $[n]$ with $\mathrm{d_{TV}}(P,Q)\geq\varepsilon$, and from a third distribution $D\in\{P,Q\}$, the g...
arXiv:2507. 12843v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Are two distributions close to each other with statistical significance?
arXiv:2610. 26944v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Strict replicability requires two independent training samples, processed with the same random seed, to produce exactly the same hypothesis.
arXiv:2609.15268v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We revisit Valiant's algorithm (Commun. ACM'84) for learning $n$-variable CNF formulas with clause size $k$ and variable degree $d$ from i.i.d. uniform...
arXiv:2504. 19952v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We present two general lower bounds for stopping times of sequential tests between arbitrary composite nulls $\mathcal P$ and alternatives $\mathcal Q$.
arXiv:2606. 11437v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Efficiently sampling from a complex probability distribution is a fundamental problem which has become increasingly pertinent in recent years with the rise of generative AI, as sophisticated sampling procedures from LLMs have been proposed to solve challenging reasoning problems.
arXiv:2607. 19510v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern LLM deployments use a number of implementation choices and inference optimizations (e.
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