Another Motivation for Reducing the Randomness Complexity of Algorithms [chapter]

Oded Goldreich
2011 Lecture Notes in Computer Science  
We observe that the randomness-complexity of an algorithm effects the time-complexity of implementing a version of it that utilizes a weak source of randomness (through a randomness-extractor). This provides an additional motivation for the study of the randomness complexity of randomized algorithms. We note that this motivation applies especially in the case that derandomization is prohibitingly costly.
doi:10.1007/978-3-642-22670-0_36 fatcat:xfjj2chdqfcxlfw2o2u476tmsi