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A distinguishing characteristic of federated learning is that the (local) client data could have statistical heterogeneity. This heterogeneity has motivated the design of personalized learning, where individual (personalized) models are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Kaan Ozkara , Antonious M. Girgis , Deepesh Data , Suhas Diggavi

Quantum federated learning has brought about the improvement of privacy image classification, while the lack of personality of the client model may contribute to the suboptimal of quantum federated learning. A personalized quantum federated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-04 Jinjing Shi , Tian Chen , Shichao Zhang , Xuelong Li

Laws of large numbers guarantee that given a large enough sample from some population, the measure of any fixed sub-population is well-estimated by its frequency in the sample. We study laws of large numbers in sampling processes that can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Noga Alon , Omri Ben-Eliezer , Yuval Dagan , Shay Moran , Moni Naor , Eylon Yogev

Machine learning models with inputs in a Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^d$, when implemented on digital computers, generalize, and their generalization gap converges to $0$ at a rate of $c/N^{1/2}$ concerning the sample size $N$. However, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Anastasis Kratsios , A. Martina Neuman , Gudmund Pammer

We study the problem of PAC learning $\gamma$-margin halfspaces with Random Classification Noise. We establish an information-computation tradeoff suggesting an inherent gap between the sample complexity of the problem and the sample…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Ilias Diakonikolas , Jelena Diakonikolas , Daniel M. Kane , Puqian Wang , Nikos Zarifis

The fundamental theorem of statistical learning states that for binary classification problems, any Empirical Risk Minimization (ERM) learning rule has close to optimal sample complexity. In this paper we seek for a generic optimal learner…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-05-13 Amit Daniely , Shai Shalev-Shwartz

We study the problem of in-context learning (ICL) with large language models (LLMs) on private datasets. This scenario poses privacy risks, as LLMs may leak or regurgitate the private examples demonstrated in the prompt. We propose a novel…

Traditional collaborative learning approaches are based on sharing of model weights between clients and a server. However, there are advantages to resource efficiency through schemes based on sharing of embeddings (activations) created from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Praneeth Vepakomma , Kaustubh Ponkshe

When individuals in a population can be classified in classes or categories, the coverage of a sample, $C$, is defined as the probability that a randomly selected individual from the population belongs to a class represented in the sample.…

Computation · Statistics 2025-04-08 Carlos Hernandez-Suarez

We consider a refinement of differential privacy --- per instance differential privacy (pDP), which captures the privacy of a specific individual with respect to a fixed data set. We show that this is a strict generalization of the standard…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-11-15 Yu-Xiang Wang

We introduce a new sample complexity measure, which we refer to as split-sample growth rate. For any hypothesis $H$ and for any sample $S$ of size $m$, the split-sample growth rate $\hat{\tau}_H(m)$ counts how many different hypotheses can…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-18 Vasilis Syrgkanis

We generalize the PAC (probably approximately correct) learning model to the quantum world by generalizing the concepts from classical functions to quantum processes, defining the problem of \emph{PAC learning quantum process}, and study…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-20 Kai-Min Chung , Han-Hsuan Lin

We study the optimal sample complexity in large-scale Reinforcement Learning (RL) problems with policy space generalization, i.e. the agent has a prior knowledge that the optimal policy lies in a known policy space. Existing results show…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Wenlong Mou , Zheng Wen , Xi Chen

We study the problem of privately estimating the parameters of $d$-dimensional Gaussian Mixture Models (GMMs) with $k$ components. For this, we develop a technique to reduce the problem to its non-private counterpart. This allows us to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-06-09 Jamil Arbas , Hassan Ashtiani , Christopher Liaw

The learner's ability to generate a hypothesis that closely approximates the target function is crucial in machine learning. Achieving this requires sufficient data; however, unauthorized access by an eavesdropping learner can lead to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-08-05 Jeongho Bang , Wooyeong Song , Kyujin Shin , Yong-Su Kim

Differential privacy (DP) allows the quantification of privacy loss when the data of individuals is subjected to algorithmic processing such as machine learning, as well as the provision of objective privacy guarantees. However, while…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Tamara T. Mueller , Alexander Ziller , Dmitrii Usynin , Moritz Knolle , Friederike Jungmann , Daniel Rueckert , Georgios Kaissis

This paper formalizes a latent variable inference problem we call {\em supervised pattern discovery}, the goal of which is to find sets of observations that belong to a single ``pattern.'' We discuss two versions of the problem and prove…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-02-10 Jonathan H. Huggins , Cynthia Rudin

In this work, we study high-dimensional mean estimation under user-level differential privacy, and design an $(\varepsilon,\delta)$-differentially private mechanism using as few users as possible. In particular, we provide a nearly optimal…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Hossein Esfandiari , Vahab Mirrokni , Shyam Narayanan

This paper takes a computational learning theory approach to a problem of linear systems identification. It is assumed that input signals have only a finite number k of frequency components, and systems to be identified have dimension no…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Pirkko Kuusela , Daniel Ocone , Eduardo D. Sontag

Differentially private (DP) contrastive learning aims to learn general-purpose representations from sensitive data, alleviating the privacy leakage concerns of organizations deploying or sharing embedding models trained on private user…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Kecen Li , Chen Gong , Zinan Lin , Tianhao Wang , Xiaokui Xiao