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We study the learnability of linear separators in $\Re^d$ in the presence of bounded (a.k.a Massart) noise. This is a realistic generalization of the random classification noise model, where the adversary can flip each example $x$ with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-03-13 Pranjal Awasthi , Maria-Florina Balcan , Nika Haghtalab , Ruth Urner

We consider a semi-supervised classification problem with non-stationary label-shift in which we observe a labelled data set followed by a sequence of unlabelled covariate vectors in which the marginal probabilities of the class labels may…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-05-29 Henry W J Reeve

Concept drift refers to the change of data distributions over time. While drift poses a challenge for learning models, requiring their continual adaption, it is also relevant in system monitoring to detect malfunctions, system failures, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Fabian Hinder , Valerie Vaquet , Barbara Hammer

In machine learning, concept drift is an evolution of information that invalidates the current data model. It happens when the statistical properties of the input data change over time in unforeseen ways. Concept drift detection is crucial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Honorius Galmeanu , Razvan Andonie

Most predictive models assume that training and test data are generated from a stationary process. However, this assumption does not hold true in practice. In this paper, we consider the scenario of a gradual concept drift due to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Subhro Das , Prasanth Lade , Soundar Srinivasan

The problem of devising learning strategies for discrete losses (e.g., multilabeling, ranking) is currently addressed with methods and theoretical analyses ad-hoc for each loss. In this paper we study a least-squares framework to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Alex Nowak-Vila , Francis Bach , Alessandro Rudi

Generalization under distribution shift remains a core challenge in modern machine learning, yet existing learning bound theory is limited to narrow, idealized settings and is non-estimable from samples. In this paper, we bridge the gap…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-08-25 Hongbo Chen , Li Charlie Xia

We utilize neural network embeddings to detect data drift by formulating the drift detection within an appropriate sequential decision framework. This enables control of the false alarm rate although the statistical tests are repeatedly…

Applications · Statistics 2020-08-03 Samuel Ackerman , Parijat Dube , Eitan Farchi

Concept drift is a major problem in online learning due to its impact on the predictive performance of data stream mining systems. Recent studies have started exploring data streams from different sources as a strategy to tackle concept…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Honghui Du , Leandro Minku , Huiyu Zhou

In online learning, the data is provided in a sequential order, and the goal of the learner is to make online decisions to minimize overall regrets. This note is concerned with continuous-time models and algorithms for several online…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-05-20 Lexing Ying

Machine unlearning as an emerging research topic for data regulations, aims to adjust a trained model to approximate a retrained one that excludes a portion of training data. Previous studies showed that class-wise unlearning is successful…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Jianing Zhu , Bo Han , Jiangchao Yao , Jianliang Xu , Gang Niu , Masashi Sugiyama

Deep learning algorithms can fare poorly when the training dataset suffers from heavy class-imbalance but the testing criterion requires good generalization on less frequent classes. We design two novel methods to improve performance in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Kaidi Cao , Colin Wei , Adrien Gaidon , Nikos Arechiga , Tengyu Ma

This article studies the achievable guarantees on the error rates of certain learning algorithms, with particular focus on refining logarithmic factors. Many of the results are based on a general technique for obtaining bounds on the error…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-09-13 Steve Hanneke

Data stream processing has become a landmark in modern machine learning applications, with concept drifts and novel class appearances posing the primary challenges faced by sophisticated recognition methods. This work proposes an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Joanna Komorniczak

A fundamental notion of distance between train and test distributions from the field of domain adaptation is discrepancy distance. While in general hard to compute, here we provide the first set of provably efficient algorithms for testing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Gautam Chandrasekaran , Adam R. Klivans , Vasilis Kontonis , Konstantinos Stavropoulos , Arsen Vasilyan

Predictive services nowadays play an important role across all business sectors. However, deployed machine learning models are challenged by changing data streams over time which is described as concept drift. Prediction quality of models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Lucas Baier , Josua Reimold , Niklas Kühl

Practical applications of artificial intelligence increasingly often have to deal with the streaming properties of real data, which, considering the time factor, are subject to phenomena such as periodicity and more or less chaotic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Joanna Komorniczak , Paweł Ksieniewicz

Given data with label noise (i.e., incorrect data), deep neural networks would gradually memorize the label noise and impair model performance. To relieve this issue, curriculum learning is proposed to improve model performance and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Tingting Wu , Xiao Ding , Hao Zhang , Jinglong Gao , Li Du , Bing Qin , Ting Liu

Continuous learning from streaming data is among the most challenging topics in the contemporary machine learning. In this domain, learning algorithms must not only be able to handle massive volumes of rapidly arriving data, but also adapt…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Łukasz Korycki , Bartosz Krawczyk

The dynamicity of real-world systems poses a significant challenge to deployed predictive machine learning (ML) models. Changes in the system on which the ML model has been trained may lead to performance degradation during the system's…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Firas Bayram , Bestoun S. Ahmed , Andreas Kassler