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\author{Thibaut Horel}
\title{CS 225 Problem Set 3 -- Solutions}

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\maketitle

\section*{Problem 4.2}

\paragraph{1.} Let $S$ be an independent set of $G$. I apply the first
inequality of Lemma 4.15 to the sets $S$ and $S$ and obtain:
\begin{displaymath}
    \left(\frac{|S|}{N}\right)^2
    \leq \lambda \frac{|S|}{N}\left(1-\frac{|S|}{N}\right)
\end{displaymath}
since $e(S, S) = 0$ by definition of an independent set. Reordering the terms:
\begin{displaymath}
    |S|\leq \lambda (N-|S|)
\end{displaymath}
or equivalently $|S| \leq \lambda N/(1+\lambda)$. Taking the maximum over all
independent sets yields the required bound on $\alpha(G)$.

\paragraph{2.}Let us consider a coloring of $G$ with $\chi(G)$ colors. One
color must contain at least $N/\chi(G)$ vertices. This set of $N/\chi(G)$
vertices form an independent set of $G$ by definition of a coloring. Applying
the result from \textbf{1.}:
\begin{displaymath}
    \frac{N}{\chi(G)}\leq \frac{\lambda N}{1+\lambda}
\end{displaymath}
which immediately yields $\chi(G)\geq (1+\lambda)/\lambda$ as required.

\paragraph{3.} Let $D$ be the diameter of $G$ and let us consider two vertices
$i$ and $j$ distant from $D$ in $G$. Let us now consider a random walk on $G$
starting from $i$ and denote by $p_j^t$ the probability of being at vertex
$j$ after $t$ steps. Denoting by $M$ the random walk matrix of $G$ and by
$\pi_i$ the indicator vector of $\{i\}$, we have:
\begin{displaymath}
    p_j^t = (\pi_i M^t)_j
\end{displaymath}
by Lemma 2.51:
\begin{displaymath}
    \left|p_j^t-\frac{1}{n}\right| = \left|(\pi_i M^t)_j-\frac{1}{n}\right|
    \leq \|\pi_iM^t - u\|\leq \lambda^t
\end{displaymath}
For $t= \lceil D/2\rceil$, we have $p_j^t = 0$ (we cannot reach $j$ in less
than $D$ steps). This implies:
\begin{displaymath}
    \lambda^{\lceil D/2\rceil}\geq \frac{1}{n}
\end{displaymath}
solving for $D$:
\begin{displaymath}
    D\leq 2\log_{1/\lambda} N = O(\log_{1/\lambda}N)
\end{displaymath}

\section*{Problem 4.5}

For a given $\eps$ and $\delta$, we construct the following items:
\begin{enumerate}
    \item an expander $G$ of constant expansion $1-\lambda$ on $N$ vertices,
        with $\lambda = \frac{1}{8}$. By Theorem 4.22, we have the guarantee
        that for any function $g:[N]\to[0,1]$, for a random walk
        $x_1,\dots,x_t$ in $G$ starting from a uniformly random $x_1\in [N]$:
        \begin{displaymath}
            \P\left[\frac{1}{t}\sum_t g(x_t) \geq \mu(g) + \lambda
            + \frac{1}{4}\right]\leq e^{-\Omega(t)}
        \end{displaymath}
    \item a pairwise independent sampler $\text{Samp}$ which given $x\in[N]$
        outputs $\ell$ samples in $\{0,1\}^m$. The guarantee we have by
        Proposition 3.28 is that:
        \begin{displaymath}
            \P_{x\gets U_{[N]}}\left[\left|\frac{1}{\ell}\sum_{j=1}^{\ell}
            f\big(\text{Samp}(x)_j\big)- \mu(f)\right|\geq \eps\right]\leq
            \frac{1}{\ell\eps^2}
        \end{displaymath}
        Such a sampler can be obtained by having $\text{Samp}(x)$ be a function
        drawn from a pairwise independent family using the coin tosses in $x$.
        We will have the above guarantee as long as $x$ provides enough random
        bits.  This will be the case with, for example $\log N = 2(\log \ell
        + m)$.
\end{enumerate}

For a vertex $x\in G$, we denote by $\mu_x(f)$ the quantity
$\frac{1}{\ell}\sum_{j=1}^{\ell} f\big(\text{Samp}(x)_j\big)$. That is, the
estimate of $\mu(f)$ computed using the samples provided by $\text{Samp}(x)$.
We denote by $g(x)$ the indicator function of the event
$\left\{|\mu_x(f)-\mu(f)|\geq\eps\right\}$. Another way of reformulating the
guarantee on $\text{Samp}$ is to say that the average of $g$
satisfies $\mu(g)\leq \frac{1}{\ell\eps^2}$.

We construct our $(\delta,\eps)$ sampler as follows:
\begin{enumerate}
    \item we pick $\ell = \frac{8}{\eps^2}$ and $\log N = 2(\log\ell + m)$.
    \item we construct a random walk $x_1,\dots,x_t$ on $G$ starting from
        a uniformly random $x_1\in [N]$
    \item we output the median $M$ of $\big\{\mu_{x_1}(f),\dots,\mu_{x_t}(f)\big\}$.
\end{enumerate}

Let us now consider the quantity $\P[|M-\mu(f)|\geq \eps]$. If the median is
more than $\eps$ away from $\mu(f)$, this implies that more than half of the
numbers $\mu_{x_1}(f),\dots,\mu_{x_t}(f)$ are $\eps$ away from $\mu(f)$. That
is, more than half of the variables $g(x_1),\dots,g(x_t)$ are equal to $1$:
\begin{displaymath}
    \frac{1}{t}\sum_t g(x_t) \geq \frac{1}{2}
\end{displaymath}
But because of our choice of $\ell$, we have $\mu(g)\leq \frac{1}{8}$. Since
$\lambda = \frac{1}{8}$, we have $\mu(g)+\lambda + \frac{1}{4} \leq
\frac{1}{2}$. The Chernoff bound for our expander then implies that this event
(the mean of the $g(x_i)$ being larger than $1/2$) is less than
$e^{-\Omega(t)}$. To summarize:
\begin{displaymath}
\P[|M-\mu(f)|\geq \eps]
\leq 
\P\left[\frac{1}{t}\sum_t g(x_t) \geq \frac{1}{2}\left]\leq
\P\left[\frac{1}{t}\sum_t g(x_t) \geq \mu(g)+\lambda+\frac{1}{4}\left]\leq e^{-\Omega(t)}
\end{displaymath}
Hence, choosing $t = O(\log\frac{1}{\delta})$ gives the correct success
probability for our estimator $M$. Furthermore:
\begin{itemize}
    \item the number of random bits needed is $\log N = 2(\log\ell + m)
        = O(\log\frac{1}{\eps} + m)$ for the initial vertex $x_1$ and
        $O(\log\frac{1}{\delta})$ for the $t-1$ remaining steps. This is
        $O(\log\frac{1}{\eps} + m +\log\frac{1}{\delta})$ overall.
    \item the number of queries to $f$ is $t\cdot
        l = O(\frac{1}{\eps^2}\log\frac{1}{\delta})$.
\end{itemize}
which satisfies all the requirements.

\section*{Problem 4.10}

\paragraph{1.} We use a simple counting argument. A set $S$ of at most $K$
vertices is incident to exactly $D|S|$ edges. We can count these edges by
summing over all vertices in $N(S)$, the number of parents they have in $S$. If
$U$ is the set of unique neighbors (they have a single parent) and if we
denote by $p_S(u)$ the number of parents of $u$ in $S$, we have:
\begin{displaymath}
    D|S| = \sum_{u\in N(S)} p_S(u) = |U| + \sum_{u\in N(S)\setminus U} p_S(u) 
\end{displaymath}
using that $p_S(u)\geq 2$ for $u\in N(S)\setminus U$ and $|N(S)|\geq
(1-\eps)D|S|$ by expansion:
\begin{displaymath}
    D|S| \geq |U| + 2\big((1-\eps)D|S|-|U|\big)
\end{displaymath}
solving for $|U|$ gives $|U|\geq (1-2\eps)D|S|$ as required.

\paragraph{2.} We prove this by contradiction. Assume the result is false, then
there is a set $S$ of size $\leq K/2$ and $T$ disjoint from $S$ of size
$|S|/2$ such that the vertices in $T$ have $\delta D$ neighbors in $N(S)$. Then
the set $S\cup T$ has size $3|S|/2\leq 3/4K$ and thus has expansion
$(1-\eps)D$:
\begin{displaymath}
    |N(S\cup T)| \geq (1-\eps)\frac{3}{2}D|S|
\end{displaymath}
on the other hand, we can upper bound $|N(S\cup T)|$:
\begin{displaymath}
    |N(S\cup T)|\leq |N(S)| + |N(T)|\leq D|S| + (1-\delta)D|T|
    = D\frac{3}{2}|S|-\frac{\delta}{2} D |S|
\end{displaymath}
combining the above two inequalities, we obtain:
\begin{displaymath}
    \delta D|S|\leq  3\eps D|S|
\end{displaymath}
which is a contradiction, for example when $\delta = 4\eps$.

\paragraph{3.} The algorithm to test membership is very simple: for query $x\in
N$, pick a random neighbor of $x$ in $G$ and output the bit assigned to this
neighbor (“1” means $x\in S$, “0” means $x\notin S$). The property $\Pi$ immediately
implies that the error probability is at most $\delta$.

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