arXiv cs.LGOctober 1, 2026
Hypothesis Testing with Conditional Queries: Learnability and the Value of Interaction
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arXiv:2608.06262v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Model evaluations may fix all tests before observing any responses or select later tests using earlier responses. We study this choice in a conditional-query model on a finite outcome space $\mathcal{X}$ with $|\mathcal{X}|=N$. We first ask which pairs of distribution classes can be reliably distinguished. We then ask how many additional queries are required to match an adaptive tester when all queried events must be fixed in advance. We show t