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An Improved Liar Game Strategy From a
Deterministic Random Walk
Robert Ellis
April 9th, 2010
San Diego State University
Joint work with Joshua Cooper,
University of South Carolina
Outline of Talk
 Coding theory overview
– Packing (error-correcting) & covering codes
– Coding as a 2-player game
– Liar game and pathological liar game
 Diffusion processes on Z
– Simple random walk (linear machine)
– Liar machine
– Pathological liar game, alternating question strategy
 Improved pathological liar game bound
– Reduction to liar machine
– Discrepancy analysis of liar machine versus linear machine
 Concluding remarks
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Coding Theory Overview
 Codewords:
fixed-length strings from a finite alphabet
 Primary uses:
Error-correction for transmission in the presence of noise
Compression of data with or without loss
 Viewpoints:
Packings and coverings of Hamming balls in the hypercube
2-player perfect information games
 Applications:
Cell phones, compact disks, deep-space communication
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Coding Theory: (n,e)-Codes
 Transmit blocks of length n
 Noise changes
≤ e bits per block
(||||1 ≤ e)
x1…xn

(x1+1)…(xn+ n)
Richard Hamming
 Repetition code 111, 000
– length: n = 3
– e=1
– information rate: 1/3
Received:
110 010 000 101
blockwise majority vote
Decoded:
111 000 000 111
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Coding Theory – A Hamming (7,1)-Code
Length n=7, corrects e=1 error
received
1 1 0 1 0 0 1
1 0
1 0 1
0 0
1 0 1
0
decoded
3 error:
errors:correct
incorrect
decoding
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decoding
1 0 0 0 1 1 1
0 1 1 0 1 1 0
0 1 0 0 0 1 1
0 1 0 1 1 0 1
0 0 1 0 1 0 1
0 0 1 1 0 1 1
0 0 0 1 1 1 0
1 1 1 0 0 0 1
0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 1 0 1 0 1 0
1 1 0 0 1 0 0
1 0 1 1 1 0 0
1 0 1 0 0 1 0
0 1 1 1 0 0 0
1 0 0 1 0 0 1
1 1 1 1 1 1 1
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A Repetition Code as a Packing
 (3,1)-code:
111, 000
 Pairwise distance = 3 
1 error can be corrected
 The M codewords of an
(n,e)-code correspond to
a packing of Hamming balls
of radius e in the n-cube
111
110
101
011
100
010
001
000
A packing of 2
radius-1 Hamming balls
in the 3-cube
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A (5,1)-Packing Code as a 2-Player Game
 (5,1)-code: 11111, 10100, 01010, 00001
Paul
Carole
11111
What is the 1st bit?
0
10100
What is the 2nd bit?
0
01010
What is the
3rd
bit?
0
What is the 4th bit?
1
What is the 5th bit?
0
00001
0
1
>1
# errors
11111
10100
01010
00001
01111
00100
00010
00011
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Covering Codes
 Covering is the companion problem to packing
111
 Packing: (n,e)-code
packing radius
length
110
101
011
100
010
001
covering radius
000
 Covering: (n,R)-code
11111
11111
00100
10100
01111
00010
01010
10111
00001
00001
11000
(5,1)-packing code
(5,1)-covering code
(3,1)-packing code and
(3,1)-covering code
“perfect code”
Optimal Length 5 Packing & Covering Codes
(5,1)-packing code
11111
11110 11101 11011 10111 01111
11100 11010 11001 10110 10101 10011 01110 01101 01011 00111
11000 10100 10010 10001 01100 01010 01001 00110 00101 00011
10000 01000 00100 00010 00001
11111
(5,1)-covering code
00000
11110 11101 11011 10111 01111
11100 11010 11001 10110 10101 10011 01110 01101 01011 00111
Sphere bound:
11000 10100 10010 10001 01100 01010 01001 00110 00101 00011
10000 01000 00100 00010 00001
00000
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A (5,1)-Covering Code as a Football Pool
Round 1
Round 2
Round 3
Round 4
Round 5
Bet 1
W
W
W
W
W
11111
Bet 2
L
W
W
W
W
01111
Bet 3
W
L
W
W
W
10111
Bet 4
W
W
L
L
L
11000
Bet 5
L
L
W
L
L
00100
Bet 6
L
L
L
W
L
00010
Bet 7
L
L
L
L
W
00001
Payoff:
a bet with ≤ 1 bad prediction
Question. Min # bets to guarantee a payoff?
Ans.=7
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Codes with Feedback (Adaptive Codes)
 Feedback
Noiseless, delay-less report of actual received bits
 Improves the number of decodable messages
E.g., from 20 to 28 messages for an (8,1)-code
1, 0, 1, 1, 0
1, 1, 1, 1, 0
receiver
sender
Noise
1, 1, 1, 1, 0
Noiseless Feedback
Elwyn Berlekamp
A (5,1)-Adaptive Packing Code as a 2-Player Liar Game
Paul
Carole
A
Is the message C or D?
Y
Is the message A or C?
N
C
Is the message B?
N
D
Is the message D?
N
0
Is the message C?
Y
B
1
# lies
>1
Message
A
B
C
D
Original
encoding
00101
01110
01010
11000
10011
Adapted
encoding
1****
11***
101**
1****
10***
100**
10***
10001
1000*
1000*
10000
Y $ 1, N $ 0
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A (5,1)-Adaptive Covering Code as a Football Pool
Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Round 4 Round 5
Bet 1
W
W
Bet 1
W
Bet 2
Bet 2
W
L
W
W
L
Bet 3
Bet 3
W
L
L
L
W
Bet 4
Bet 4
L
W
Bet 6
Bet 5
L
W
0
Bet 6
L
W
Carole
W
L
L
W
Bet 5
L
Payoff:
a bet with ≤ 1 bad prediction
Question. Min # bets to guarantee a payoff?
1
>1
# bad
predictions
(# lies)
Ans.=6
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Optimal (5,1)-Codes
Code type
Optimal size
(5,1)-code
4
(5,1)-adaptive code
4
Sphere bound
5 1/3 (= 25/(5+1) )
(5,1)-adaptive covering code
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(5,1)-covering code
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Adaptive Codes: Results and Questions
Sizes of optimal adaptive packing codes
•Binary, fixed e
≥ sphere bound - ce (Spencer `92)
•Binary, e=1,2,3 =sphere bound - O(1), exact solutions (Pelc; Guzicki; Deppe)
•Q-ary, e=1 =sphere bound - c(q,e), exact solution (Aigner `96)
•Q-ary, e linear unknown if rate meets Hamming bound for all e. (Ahlswede,
C. Deppe, and V. Lebedev)
Sizes of optimal adaptive covering codes
•Binary, fixed e · sphere bound + Ce
Binary, e=1,2 =sphere bound + O(1), exact solution (Ellis, Ponomarenko, Yan `05)
Near-perfect adaptive codes
•Q-ary, symmetric or “balanced”, e=1 exact solution (Ellis `04+)
•General channel, fixed e asymptotic first term (Ellis, Nyman `09)
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Outline of Talk
 Coding theory overview
– Packing (error-correcting) & covering codes
– Coding as a 2-player game
– Liar game and pathological liar game
 Diffusion processes on Z
– Simple random walk (linear machine)
– Liar machine
– Pathological liar game, alternating question strategy
 Improved pathological liar game bound
– Reduction to liar machine
– Discrepancy analysis of liar machine versus linear machine
 Concluding remarks
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Linear Machine on Z
11
-9
-8
-7
-6
-5
-4
-3
-2
-1
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
Linear Machine on Z
5.5
-9
-8
-7
-6
-5
-4
-3
-2
-1
5.5
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
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Linear Machine on Z
2.75
-9
-8
-7
-6
-5
-4
-3
-2
5.5
-1
0
2.75
1
2
3
4
5
6
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Time-evolution: 11 £ binomial distribution of {-1,+1} coin flips
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Liar Machine on Z
Liar machine time-step
Number chips left-to-right 1,2,3,…
Move odd chips right, even chips left
(Reassign numbers every time-step)
t=0
11 chips
-9
-8
-7
-6
-5
-4
-3
-2
-1
0
1
2
3
4
•Approximates linear machine
•Preserves indivisibility of chips
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6
7
8
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Liar Machine on Z
Liar machine time-step
Number chips left-to-right 1,2,3,…
Move odd chips right, even chips left
(Reassign numbers every time-step)
t=1
-9
-8
-7
-6
-5
-4
-3
-2
-1
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
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Liar Machine on Z
Liar machine time-step
Number chips left-to-right 1,2,3,…
Move odd chips right, even chips left
(Reassign numbers every time-step)
t=2
-9
-8
-7
-6
-5
-4
-3
-2
-1
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
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Liar Machine on Z
Liar machine time-step
Number chips left-to-right 1,2,3,…
Move odd chips right, even chips left
(Reassign numbers every time-step)
t=3
-9
-8
-7
-6
-5
-4
-3
-2
-1
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
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Liar Machine on Z
Liar machine time-step
Number chips left-to-right 1,2,3,…
Move odd chips right, even chips left
(Reassign numbers every time-step)
t=4
-9
-8
-7
-6
-5
-4
-3
-2
-1
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
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Liar Machine on Z
Liar machine time-step
Number chips left-to-right 1,2,3,…
Move odd chips right, even chips left
(Reassign numbers every time-step)
t=5
-9
-8
-7
-6
-5
-4
-3
-2
-1
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
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Liar Machine on Z
Liar machine time-step
Number chips left-to-right 1,2,3,…
Move odd chips right, even chips left
(Reassign numbers every time-step)
t=6
-9
-8
-7
-6
-5
-4
-3
-2
-1
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
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Liar Machine on Z
Liar machine time-step
Number chips left-to-right 1,2,3,…
Move odd chips right, even chips left
(Reassign numbers every time-step)
t=7
-9
-8
-7
-6
-5
-4
-3
-2
-1
Height of linear machine at t=7
l1-distance: 5.80
l∞-distance: 0.98
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
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Discrepancy for Two Discretizations
Liar machine: round-offs spatially balanced
Rotor-router model/Propp machine:
round-offs temporally balanced
The liar machine has poorer discrepancy… but provides
bounds to the pathological liar game.
Proof of Liar Machine Pointwise Discrepancy
The Liar Game as a Diffusion Process
A priori: M=#chips, n=#rounds, e=max #lies
Initial configuration: f0 = M ¢ 0
Each round, obtain ft+1 from ft by:
(1) Paul 2-colors the chips
(2) Carole moves one color class left, the other right
Final configuration: fn
Winning conditions
Original variant (Berlekamp, Rényi, Ulam)
Pathological variant (Ellis, Yan)
Pathological Liar Game Bounds
Fix n, e. Define M*(n,e) = minimum M such that Paul can win
the pathological liar game with parameters M,n,e.
Sphere Bound
(E,P,Y `05) For fixed e, M*(n,e) · sphere bound + Ce
(Delsarte,Piret `86) For e/n 2 (0,1/2),
M*(n,e) · sphere bound ¢ n ln 2 .
(C,E `09+) For e/n 2 (0,1/2), using the liar machine,
M*(n,e) = sphere bound ¢
.
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Liar Machine vs. (6,1)-Pathological Liar Game
9 chips
-9
-8
-7
-6
-5
-4
-3
-2
-1
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
5
6
7
disqualified
8
9
t=0
9 chips
-9
-8
-7
-6
-5
-4
-3
-2
-1
0
1
2
3
4
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Liar Machine vs. (6,1)-Pathological Liar Game
-9
-8
-7
-6
-5
-4
-3
-2
-1
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
7
8
9
t=1
-9
-8
-7
-6
-5
-4
-3
-2
-1
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
disqualified
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Liar Machine vs. (6,1)-Pathological Liar Game
-9
-8
-7
-6
-5
-4
-3
-2
-1
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
7
8
9
t=2
-9
-8
-7
-6
-5
-4
-3
-2
-1
0
1
2
3
4
5
disqualified
6
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Liar Machine vs. (6,1)-Pathological Liar Game
-9
-8
-7
-6
-5
-4
-3
-2
-1
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
7
8
9
t=3
-9
-8
-7
-6
-5
-4
-3
-2
-1
0
1
2
3
4
disqualified
5
6
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Liar Machine vs. (6,1)-Pathological Liar Game
-9
-8
-7
-6
-5
-4
-3
-2
-1
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
7
8
9
t=4
-9
-8
-7
-6
-5
-4
-3
-2
-1
0
1
2
3
disqualified
4
5
6
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Liar Machine vs. (6,1)-Pathological Liar Game
-9
-8
-7
-6
-5
-4
-3
-2
-1
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
7
8
9
t=5
-9
-8
-7
-6
-5
-4
-3
-2
-1
0
1
2
disqualified
3
4
5
6
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Liar Machine vs. (6,1)-Pathological Liar Game
-9
-8
-7
-6
-5
-4
-3
-2
-1
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
7
8
9
t=6
No chips survive: Paul loses
-9
-8
-7
-6
-5
-4
-3
-2
-1 0
1
disqualified
2
3
4
5
6
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Comparison of Processes
Process
Optimal #chips
Linear machine
9 1/7
(6,1)-Pathological liar game
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(6,1)-Liar machine
12
-9 -8 -7 -6 -5 -4 -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
disqualified
(6,1)-Liar machine started with 12 chips after 6 rounds
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Loss from Liar Machine Reduction
-9
-8
-7
-6
-5
-4
-3
-2
-1
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
t=3
-9
-8
-7
-6
-5
-4
-3
-2
-1
0
1
2
3
4
disqualified
5
6
7
8
9
-1
0
1
2
3
4
disqualified
5
6
7
8
9
Paul’s optimal 2-coloring:
-9
-8
-7
-6
-5
-4
-3
-2
Reduction to Liar Machine
Saving One Chip in the Liar Machine
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Summary: Pathological Liar Game Theorem
Further Exploration
 Tighten the discrepancy analysis for the special case of initial
chip configuration f0=M 0.
 Generalize from binary questions to q-ary questions, q ¸ 2.
 Improve analysis of the original liar game from Spencer and
Winkler `92; solve the optimal rate of q-ary adaptive block
codes for all fractional error rates.
 Prove general pointwise and interval discrepancy theorems
for various discretizations of random walks.
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Reading List
 This paper: Linearly bounded liars, adaptive covering codes, and
deterministic random walks, preprint (see homepage).
 The liar machine
– Joel Spencer and Peter Winkler. Three thresholds for a liar.
Combin. Probab. Comput.1(1):81-93, 1992.
 The pathological liar game
– Robert Ellis, Vadim Ponomarenko, and Catherine Yan. The
Renyi-Ulam pathological liar game with a fixed number of lies. J.
Combin. Theory Ser. A 112(2):328-336, 2005.
 Discrepancy of deterministic random walks
– Joshua Cooper and Joel Spencer, Simulating a Random Walk
with Constant Error, Combin. Probab. Comput. 15 (2006), no.
06, 815-822.
– Joshua Cooper, Benjamin Doerr, Joel Spencer, and Gabor
Tardos. Deterministic random walks on the integers. European J.
Combin., 28(8):2072-2090, 2007.
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