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One of the distinguishing characteristics of modern deep learning systems is that they typically employ neural network architectures that utilize enormous numbers of parameters, often in the millions and sometimes even in the billions.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-15 Ben Adlam , Jake Levinson , Jeffrey Pennington

Understanding what makes high-dimensional data learnable is a fundamental question in machine learning. On the one hand, it is believed that the success of deep learning lies in its ability to build a hierarchy of representations that…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-05-03 Umberto Tomasini , Matthieu Wyart

An infinite binary sequence has randomness rate at least $\sigma$ if, for almost every $n$, the Kolmogorov complexity of its prefix of length $n$ is at least $\sigma n$. It is known that for every rational $\sigma \in (0,1)$, on one hand,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2009-02-13 Marius Zimand

Quantum machine learning (QML) holds promise for accelerating pattern recognition, optimization, and data analysis, but the conditions under which it can truly outperform classical approaches remain unclear. Existing research often…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-23 Christophe Pere

Algorithmic efficiency is essential to reducing energy and time usage for computational problems. Optimizing efficiency is important for tasks involving multiple resources, for example in stochastic calculations where the size of the random…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-07-09 Run Yan Teh , Manushan Thenabadu , Peter D Drummond

In this paper we consider learning in passive setting but with a slight modification. We assume that the target expected loss, also referred to as target risk, is provided in advance for learner as prior knowledge. Unlike most studies in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-05-21 Mehrdad Mahdavi , Rong Jin

A good process model is expected not only to reflect the behavior of the process, but also to be as easy to read and understand as possible. Because preferences vary across different applications, numerous measures provide ways to reflect…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Patrizia Schalk , Adam Burke , Robert Lorenz

Effective complexity measures the information content of the regularities of an object. It has been introduced by M. Gell-Mann and S. Lloyd to avoid some of the disadvantages of Kolmogorov complexity, also known as algorithmic information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-11-22 Nihat Ay , Markus Mueller , Arleta Szkola

An accurate assessment of a model's complexity is crucial for topics such as interpretation, generalization, and model selection. However, most existing complexity measures either rely on heuristic assumptions or are computationally…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-21 Oskar Allerbo , Thomas B. Schön

We investigate the complexity of logistic regression models which is defined by counting the number of indistinguishable distributions that the model can represent (Balasubramanian, 1997). We find that the complexity of logistic models with…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-03-04 Nicola Bulso , Matteo Marsili , Yasser Roudi

Complex structures are typical in machine learning. Tailoring learning algorithms for every structure requires an effort that may be saved by defining a generic learning procedure adaptive to any complex structure. In this paper, we propose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Pablo Strasser , Stephane Armand , Stephane Marchand-Maillet , Alexandros Kalousis

Current techniques in machine learning are so far are unable to learn classifiers that are robust to adversarial perturbations. However, they are able to learn non-robust classifiers with very high accuracy, even in the presence of random…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-04 Preetum Nakkiran

Existing work on understanding deep learning often employs measures that compress all data-dependent information into a few numbers. In this work, we adopt a perspective based on the role of individual examples. We introduce a measure of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Robert J. N. Baldock , Hartmut Maennel , Behnam Neyshabur

Quantifying behaviors of robots which were generated autonomously from task-independent objective functions is an important prerequisite for objective comparisons of algorithms and movements of animals. The temporal sequence of such a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-16 Georg Martius , Eckehard Olbrich

Randomness is a crucial resource for a broad range of important applications, such as Monte Carlo simulation and computation, generative artificial intelligence and cryptography. But what is randomness? A widely accepted definition has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-01 Mario Stipčević

Ranking samples by fine-grained estimates of spuriosity (the degree to which spurious cues are present) has recently been shown to significantly benefit bias mitigation, over the traditional binary biased-\textit{vs}-unbiased partitioning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Adarsh Kappiyath , Abhra Chaudhuri , Ajay Jaiswal , Ziquan Liu , Yunpeng Li , Xiatian Zhu , Lu Yin

We consider the vulnerability of fairness-constrained learning to small amounts of malicious noise in the training data. Konstantinov and Lampert (2021) initiated the study of this question and presented negative results showing there exist…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Avrim Blum , Princewill Okoroafor , Aadirupa Saha , Kevin Stangl

In this work, we show, for the well-studied problem of learning parity under noise, where a learner tries to learn $x=(x_1,\ldots,x_n) \in \{0,1\}^n$ from a stream of random linear equations over $\mathrm{F}_2$ that are correct with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Sumegha Garg , Pravesh K. Kothari , Pengda Liu , Ran Raz

Learning algorithms need bias to generalize and perform better than random guessing. We examine the flexibility (expressivity) of biased algorithms. An expressive algorithm can adapt to changing training data, altering its outcome based on…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-11-13 Julius Lauw , Dominique Macias , Akshay Trikha , Julia Vendemiatti , George D. Montanez

Since the introduction of the Kolmogorov complexity of binary sequences in the 1960s, there have been significant advancements in the topic of complexity measures for randomness assessment, which are of fundamental importance in theoretical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Chunlei Li