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On Biased Random Walks, Corrupted Intervals, and Learning Under Adversarial Design

Machine Learning 2020-03-31 v1 Probability Machine Learning

Abstract

We tackle some fundamental problems in probability theory on corrupted random processes on the integer line. We analyze when a biased random walk is expected to reach its bottommost point and when intervals of integer points can be detected under a natural model of noise. We apply these results to problems in learning thresholds and intervals under a new model for learning under adversarial design.

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@article{arxiv.2003.13561,
  title  = {On Biased Random Walks, Corrupted Intervals, and Learning Under Adversarial Design},
  author = {Daniel Berend and Aryeh Kontorovich and Lev Reyzin and Thomas Robinson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.13561},
  year   = {2020}
}

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18 pages

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