Completeness and Robustness Properties of Min-Wise Independent Permutations
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چکیده
We provide several new results related to the concept of minwise independence. Our main result is that any randomized sampling scheme for the relative intersection of sets based on testing equality of samples yields an equivalent min-wise independent family. Thus, in a certain sense, min-wise independent families are \complete" for this type of estimation. We also discuss the notion of robustness, a concept extending min-wise independence to allow more e cient use of it in practice. A surprising result arising from our consideration of robustness is that under a random permutation from a min-wise independent family, any element of a xed set has an equal chance to get any rank in the image of the set, not only the minimum as required by de nition.
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