arXiv:2410.18915v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Consider two problems about an unknown probability distribution $p$: 1. How many samples from $p$ are required to test if $p$ is supported on $n$ elements or not? Specifically, given samples from $p$, determine whether it is supported on at most $n$ elements, or it is "$\epsilon$-far" (in total variation distance) from being supported on $n$ elements. 2. Given $m$ samples from $p$, what is the largest lower bound on its support size that we can produce? The best known upper bound for problem (1) uses a general algorithm for learning the
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Refines theoretical understanding of data sampling and distribution analysis.
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