English
Related papers

Related papers: Detection of cheating by decimation algorithm

200 papers

We consider online learning problems under a partial observability model capturing situations where the information conveyed to the learner is between full information and bandit feedback. In the simplest variant, we assume that in addition…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Tomas Kocak , Gergely Neu , Michal Valko , Remi Munos

Linear probes are a promising approach for monitoring AI systems for deceptive behaviour. Previous work has shown that a linear classifier trained on a contrastive instruction pair and a simple dataset can achieve good performance. However,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Vikram Natarajan , Devina Jain , Shivam Arora , Satvik Golechha , Joseph Bloom

In this paper we propose a unified way of analyzing a certain kind of greedy-type algorithms in Banach spaces. We define a class of the Weak Biorthogonal Greedy Algorithms that contains a wide range of greedy algorithms. In particular, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-07 Anton Dereventsov , Vladimir Temlyakov

Optimal selection of a subset of items from a given set is a hard problem that requires combinatorial optimization. In this paper, we propose a subset selection algorithm that is trainable with gradient-based methods yet achieves…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-31 Thomas Powers , Rasool Fakoor , Siamak Shakeri , Abhinav Sethy , Amanjit Kainth , Abdel-rahman Mohamed , Ruhi Sarikaya

Distributed learning has gained significant attention due to its advantages in scalability, privacy, and fault tolerance.In this paradigm, multiple agents collaboratively train a global model by exchanging parameters only with their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Ziqin Chen , Yongqiang Wang

Non-negative signals form an important class of sparse signals. Many algorithms have already beenproposed to recover such non-negative representations, where greedy and convex relaxed algorithms are among the most popular methods. The…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-29 Konstantinos A. Voulgaris , Mike E. Davies , Mehrdad Yaghoobi

In this paper, we address the problem of learning the structure of a pairwise graphical model from samples in a high-dimensional setting. Our first main result studies the sparsistency, or consistency in sparsity pattern recovery,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-02-28 Ali Jalali , Chris Johnson , Pradeep Ravikumar

We study the online clustering problem where data items arrive in an online fashion. The algorithm maintains a clustering of data items into similarity classes. Upon arrival of v, the relation between v and previously arrived items is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-02-03 Claire Mathieu , Ocan Sankur , Warren Schudy

Results on two different settings of asymptotic behavior of approximation characteristics of individual functions are presented. First, we discuss the following classical question for sparse approximation. Is it true that for any individual…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-11-11 L. Burusheva , V. Temlyakov

We consider the problem of distributed inference where agents in a network observe a stream of private signals generated by an unknown state, and aim to uniquely identify this state from a finite set of hypotheses. We focus on scenarios…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-01 Aritra Mitra , John A. Richards , Saurabh Bagchi , Shreyas Sundaram

We study adaptive greedy algorithms for the problems of stochastic set cover with perfect and imperfect coverages. In stochastic set cover with perfect coverage, we are given a set of items and a ground set B. Evaluating an item reveals its…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Srinivasan Parthasarathy

Imitation learning is an effective alternative approach to learn a policy when the reward function is sparse. In this paper, we consider a challenging setting where an agent and an expert use different actions from each other. We assume…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Konrad Zolna , Negar Rostamzadeh , Yoshua Bengio , Sungjin Ahn , Pedro O. Pinheiro

In many machine learning applications, there are multiple decision-makers involved, both automated and human. The interaction between these agents often goes unaddressed in algorithmic development. In this work, we explore a simple version…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-09-10 David Madras , Toniann Pitassi , Richard Zemel

We introduce a dynamic sparse training algorithm based on linearized Bregman iterations / mirror descent that exploits the naturally incurred sparsity by alternating between periods of static and dynamic sparsity pattern updates. The key…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Yannick Lunk , Sebastian J. Scott , Leon Bungert

Sparsity-constrained optimization has wide applicability in machine learning, statistics, and signal processing problems such as feature selection and compressive Sensing. A vast body of work has studied the sparsity-constrained…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-07-17 Sohail Bahmani , Bhiksha Raj , Petros Boufounos

We present a novel stagewise strategy for improving greedy algorithms for sparse recovery. We demonstrate its efficiency both for synthesis and analysis sparse priors, where in both cases we demonstrate its computational efficiency and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-02 Guy Leibovitz , Raja Giryes

We empirically analyze a simple heuristic for large sparse set cover problems. It uses the weighted greedy algorithm as a basic building block. By multiplicative updates of the weights attached to the elements, the greedy solution is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-10-30 Marc Alexa

We study an online allocation problem with sequentially arriving items and adversarially chosen agent values, with the goal of balancing fairness and efficiency. Our goal is to study the performance of algorithms that achieve strong…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Zongjun Yang , Luofeng Liao , Christian Kroer

Delusional bias is a fundamental source of error in approximate Q-learning. To date, the only techniques that explicitly address delusion require comprehensive search using tabular value estimates. In this paper, we develop efficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-02 Andy Su , Jayden Ooi , Tyler Lu , Dale Schuurmans , Craig Boutilier

Generative adversarial network (GAN) has gotten wide re-search interest in the field of deep learning. Variations of GAN have achieved competitive results on specific tasks. However, the stability of training and diversity of generated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-07 Haoxuan You , Zhicheng Jiao , Haojun Xu , Jie Li , Ying Wang , Xinbo Gao