On the Converse of Talagrand's Influence Inequality

In 1994, Talagrand showed a generalization of the celebrated KKL theorem. In this work, we prove that the converse of this generalization also holds. Namely, for any sequence of numbers $0 0$, it is possible to find a roughly balanced Boolean function $f$ such that $\textrm{Inf}_j[f] < a_j$ for every $1 \le j \le n$.

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