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Frequency of Correctness versus Average-Case Polynomial Time and Generalized Juntas

@article{Erdlyi2008FrequencyOC,
  title={Frequency of Correctness versus Average-Case Polynomial Time and Generalized Juntas},
  author={G. Erd{\'e}lyi and Lane A. Hemaspaandra and J{\"o}rg Rothe and Holger Spakowski},
  journal={ArXiv},
  year={2008},
  volume={abs/0806.2555}
}
We prove that every distributional problem solvable in polynomial time on the average with respect to the uniform distribution has a frequently self-knowingly correct polynomial-time algorithm. We also study some features of probability weight of correctness with respect to generalizations of Procaccia and Rosenschein's junta distributions [PR07b]. 
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