A Regularity Lemma and Low-Weight Approximators for Low-Degree Polynomial Threshold Functions

by Ilias Diakonikolas, Rocco A. Servedio, Li-Yang Tan, and Andrew Wan

Theory of Computing, Volume 10(2), pp. 27-53, 2014

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