Binary Interactive Error Resilience Beyond 1/8 (or why (½)3>1/8)

Klim Efremenko, Gillat Kol, Raghuvansh R. Saxena

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Abstract

Interactive error correcting codesInteractive error correcting codes are codes that encode a two party communication protocol to an error-resilient protocol that succeeds even if a constant fraction of the communicated symbols are adversarially corrupted, at the cost of increasing the communication by a constant factor. What is the largest fraction of corruptions that such codes can protect against? If the error-resilient protocol is allowed to communicate large (constant sized) symbols, Braverman and Rao (STOC, 2011) show that the maximum rate of corruptions that can be tolerated is ¼. They also give a binary interactive error correcting protocol that only communicates bits and is resilient to ½ fraction of errors, but leave the optimality of this scheme as an open problem. We answer this question in the negative, breaking the 1/8 barrier. Specifically, we give a binary interactive error correcting scheme that is resilient to 5/39 > 1/8 fraction of adversarial errors. Our scheme builds upon a novel construction of binary list-decodable interactive codes with small list size.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2020 IEEE 61st Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, FOCS 2020
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Pages470-481
Number of pages12
ISBN (Electronic)9781728196213
ISBN (Print)978-1-7281-9622-0
DOIs
StatePublished - 19 Nov 2020
Event61st IEEE Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, FOCS 2020 - Virtual, Durham, United States
Duration: 16 Nov 202019 Nov 2020

Publication series

NameProceedings - Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, FOCS
Volume2020-November
ISSN (Print)0272-5428

Conference

Conference61st IEEE Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, FOCS 2020
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityVirtual, Durham
Period16/11/2019/11/20

Keywords

  • Communication Complexity
  • Error Resilience
  • Interactive Coding

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Computer Science

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