Reducing Guesswork via an Unreliable Oracle
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Reducing Guesswork via an Unreliable Oracle
Alice holds an r.v. X, and Bob is trying to guess its value by asking questions of the form “is X = x?”. Alice answers truthfully and the game terminates once Bob guesses correctly. Before the game begins, Bob is allowed to reach out to an oracle, Carole, and ask her any yes/no question, i.e., a question of the form “is X ∈ A?”. Carole is known to lie with a given probability 0 ≤ p ≤ 1/2. What ...
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عنوان ژورنال: IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
سال: 2018
ISSN: 0018-9448,1557-9654
DOI: 10.1109/tit.2018.2856190