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Optimal Testing of Generalized Reed-Muller Codes in Fewer Queries

Dor Minzer·Kai Zheng
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A local tester for an error correcting code $C\subseteq \Sigma^{n}$ is a tester that makes $Q$ oracle queries to a given word $w\in \Sigma^n$ and decides to accept or reject the word $w$. An optimal local tester is a local tester that has the additional properties of completeness and optimal soundness. By completeness, we mean that the tester must accept with probability $1$ if $w\in C$. By optimal soundness, we mean that if the tester accepts with probability at least $1-\epsilon$ (where $\epsilon$ is small), then it must be the case that $w$ is $O(\epsilon/Q)$-close to some codeword $c\in C$ in Hamming distance. We show that Generalized Reed-Muller codes admit optimal testers with $Q = (3q)^{\lceil{ \frac{d+1}{q-1}\rceil}+O(1)}$ queries. Here, for a prime power $q = p^{k}$, the Generalized Reed-Muller code, RM[n,q,d], consists of the evaluations of all $n$-variate degree $d$ polynomials over $\mathbb{F}_q$. Previously, no tester achieving this query complexity was known, and the best known testers due to Haramaty, Shpilka and Sudan(which is optimal) and due to Ron-Zewi and Sudan(which was not known to be optimal) both required $q^{\lceil{\frac{d+1}{q-q/p} \rceil}}$ queries. Our tester achieves query complexity which is polynomially better than by a power of $p/(p-1)$, which is nearly the best query complexity possible for generalized Reed-Muller codes. The tester we analyze is due to Ron-Zewi and Sudan, and we show that their basic tester is in fact optimal. Our methods are more general and also allow us to prove that a wide class of testers, which follow the form of the Ron-Zewi and Sudan tester, are optimal. This result applies to testers for all affine-invariant codes (which are not necessarily generalized Reed-Muller codes).

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Dor Minzer, Kai Zheng. 2023-04-12. Optimal Testing of Generalized Reed-Muller Codes in Fewer Queries. https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.05598

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