Extractors for Sum of Two Sources

10/25/2021
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by   Eshan Chattopadhyay, et al.
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We consider the problem of extracting randomness from sumset sources, a general class of weak sources introduced by Chattopadhyay and Li (STOC, 2016). An (n,k,C)-sumset source ๐— is a distribution on {0,1}^n of the form ๐—_1 + ๐—_2 + โ€ฆ + ๐—_C, where ๐—_i's are independent sources on n bits with min-entropy at least k. Prior extractors either required the number of sources C to be a large constant or the min-entropy k to be at least 0.51 n. As our main result, we construct an explicit extractor for sumset sources in the setting of C=2 for min-entropy poly(log n) and polynomially small error. We can further improve the min-entropy requirement to (log n) ยท (loglog n)^1 + o(1) at the expense of worse error parameter of our extractor. We find applications of our sumset extractor for extracting randomness from other well-studied models of weak sources such as affine sources, small-space sources, and interleaved sources. Interestingly, it is unknown if a random function is an extractor for sumset sources. We use techniques from additive combinatorics to show that it is a disperser, and further prove that an affine extractor works for an interesting subclass of sumset sources which informally corresponds to the "low doubling" case (i.e., the support of ๐—_1 + ๐—_2 is not much larger than 2^k).

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