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We establish new exponential in dimension lower bounds for the Maximum Halfspace Discrepancy problem, which models linear classification. Both are fundamental problems in computational geometry and machine learning in their exact and…

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Two models were recently proposed to explore the robust hardness of Gr\"obner basis computation. Given a polynomial system, both models allow an algorithm to selectively ignore some of the polynomials: the algorithm is only responsible for…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2018-07-18 Gwen Spencer

We study the task of agnostically learning halfspaces under the Gaussian distribution. Specifically, given labeled examples $(\mathbf{x},y)$ from an unknown distribution on $\mathbb{R}^n \times \{ \pm 1\}$, whose marginal distribution on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Ilias Diakonikolas , Daniel M. Kane , Lisheng Ren

Sparse Identification of Nonlinear Dynamics (SINDy) is a method of system discovery that has been shown to successfully recover governing dynamical systems from data (Brunton et al., PNAS, '16; Rudy et al., Sci. Adv. '17). Recently, several…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-28 Daniel A. Messenger , David M. Bortz

Over the past decade, the low-degree heuristic has been used to estimate the algorithmic thresholds for a wide range of average-case planted vs null distinguishing problems. Such results rely on the hypothesis that if the low-degree moments…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Jun-Ting Hsieh , Daniel M. Kane , Pravesh K. Kothari , Jerry Li , Sidhanth Mohanty , Stefan Tiegel

In this work, we study the trade-off between differential privacy and adversarial robustness under L2-perturbations in the context of learning halfspaces. We prove nearly tight bounds on the sample complexity of robust private learning of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Badih Ghazi , Ravi Kumar , Pasin Manurangsi , Thao Nguyen

The goal of subspace learning is to find a $k$-dimensional subspace of $\mathbb{R}^d$, such that the expected squared distance between instance vectors and the subspace is as small as possible. In this paper we study subspace learning in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-05-27 Alon Gonen , Dan Rosenbaum , Yonina Eldar , Shai Shalev-Shwartz

We develop a framework for estimating unknown partial differential equations from noisy data, using a deep learning approach. Given noisy samples of a solution to an unknown PDE, our method interpolates the samples using a neural network,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-24 Ali Hasan , João M. Pereira , Robert Ravier , Sina Farsiu , Vahid Tarokh

Learning from examples with noisy labels has attracted increasing attention recently. But, this paper will show that the commonly used CIFAR-based datasets and the accuracy evaluation metric used in the literature are both inappropriate in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Yifan Zhou , Yifan Ge , Jianxin Wu

Making classifiers robust to adversarial examples is hard. Thus, many defenses tackle the seemingly easier task of detecting perturbed inputs. We show a barrier towards this goal. We prove a general hardness reduction between detection and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Florian Tramèr

The hindering problem in facial expression recognition (FER) is the presence of inaccurate annotations referred to as noisy annotations in the datasets. These noisy annotations are present in the datasets inherently because the labeling is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Darshan Gera , Badveeti Naveen Siva Kumar , Bobbili Veerendra Raj Kumar , S Balasubramanian

Deep learning with noisy labels is an interesting challenge in weakly supervised learning. Despite their significant learning capacity, CNNs have a tendency to overfit in the presence of samples with noisy labels. Alleviating this issue,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Yan Han , Soumava Kumar Roy , Mehrtash Harandi , Lars Petersson

We study the problem of testing whether a function $f: \mathbb{R}^n \to \mathbb{R}$ is a polynomial of degree at most $d$ in the \emph{distribution-free} testing model. Here, the distance between functions is measured with respect to an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Vipul Arora , Arnab Bhattacharyya , Noah Fleming , Esty Kelman , Yuichi Yoshida

We present an optimization framework for learning a fair classifier in the presence of noisy perturbations in the protected attributes. Compared to prior work, our framework can be employed with a very general class of linear and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-17 L. Elisa Celis , Lingxiao Huang , Vijay Keswani , Nisheeth K. Vishnoi

We consider the basic problem of learning Single-Index Models with respect to the square loss under the Gaussian distribution in the presence of adversarial label noise. Our main contribution is the first computationally efficient algorithm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Puqian Wang , Nikos Zarifis , Ilias Diakonikolas , Jelena Diakonikolas

Machine learning of partial differential equations from data is a potential breakthrough to solve the lack of physical equations in complex dynamic systems, but because numerical differentiation is ill-posed to noise data, noise has become…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-19 Wenbo Cao , Weiwei Zhang

We establish new hardness results for decision tree optimization problems, adding to a line of work that dates back to Hyafil and Rivest in 1976. We prove, under randomized ETH, superpolynomial lower bounds for two basic problems: given an…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Caleb Koch , Carmen Strassle , Li-Yang Tan

Numerous researches have proved that deep neural networks (DNNs) can fit everything in the end even given data with noisy labels, and result in poor generalization performance. However, recent studies suggest that DNNs tend to gradually…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Hao Yang , Youzhi Jin , Ziyin Li , Deng-Bao Wang , Lei Miao , Xin Geng , Min-Ling Zhang

We derive sharp, explicit constants in inverse trace inequalities for polynomial functions belonging to $\mathbb{P}_p(T)$ (polynomial space with total degree $p$) that are orthogonal to the lower-order subspace $\mathbb{P}_n(T)$, $n\leq p$,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-17 Zhaonan Dong , Tanvi Wadhawan

In this paper, we study polynomial norms, i.e. norms that are the $d^{\text{th}}$ root of a degree-$d$ homogeneous polynomial $f$. We first show that a necessary and sufficient condition for $f^{1/d}$ to be a norm is for $f$ to be strictly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-07-18 Amir Ali Ahmadi , Etienne de Klerk , Georgina Hall