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We introduce a new and improved characterization of the label complexity of disagreement-based active learning, in which the leading quantity is the version space compression set size. This quantity is defined as the size of the smallest…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-04-08 Yair Wiener , Steve Hanneke , Ran El-Yaniv

In this paper, we consider the problem of noiseless non-adaptive probabilistic group testing, in which the goal is high-probability recovery of the defective set. We show that in the case of $n$ items among which $k$ are defective, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Wei Heng Bay , Eric Price , Jonathan Scarlett

We tackle the problem of high-dimensional nonparametric density estimation by taking the class of log-concave densities on $\mathbb{R}^p$ and incorporating within it symmetry assumptions, which facilitate scalable estimation algorithms and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-03-15 Min Xu , Richard J. Samworth

Statistical learning theory and the Probably Approximately Correct (PAC) criterion are the common approach to mathematical learning theory. PAC is widely used to analyze learning problems and algorithms, and have been studied thoroughly.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Adi Hendel , Meir Feder

Large Deep Learning models are compressed and deployed for specific applications. However, current Deep Learning model compression methods do not utilize the information about the target application. As a result, the compressed models are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Rohit Raj Rai , Angana Borah , Amit Awekar

Maximum correntropy criterion regression (MCCR) models have been well studied within the frame of statistical learning when the scale parameters take fixed values or go to infinity. This paper studies the MCCR models with tending-to-zero…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-10-26 Ying Jing , Lianqiang Yang

In this paper we present an end-to-end meta-learned system for image compression. Traditional machine learning based approaches to image compression train one or more neural network for generalization performance. However, at inference…

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We derive high-probability finite-sample uniform rates of consistency for $k$-NN regression that are optimal up to logarithmic factors under mild assumptions. We moreover show that $k$-NN regression adapts to an unknown lower intrinsic…

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We consider the classical problem of learning rates for classes with finite VC dimension. It is well known that fast learning rates up to $O\left(\frac{d}{n}\right)$ are achievable by the empirical risk minimization algorithm (ERM) if low…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Olivier Bousquet , Nikita Zhivotovskiy

In this paper, we propose an ensemble learning algorithm called \textit{under-bagging $k$-nearest neighbors} (\textit{under-bagging $k$-NN}) for imbalanced classification problems. On the theoretical side, by developing a new learning…

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Machine learning algorithms in high-dimensional settings are highly susceptible to the influence of even a small fraction of structured outliers, making robust optimization techniques essential. In particular, within the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Changyu Gao , Andrew Lowy , Xingyu Zhou , Stephen J. Wright

The sample compressibility of concept classes plays an important role in learning theory, as a sufficient condition for PAC learnability, and more recently as an avenue for robust generalisation in adaptive data analysis. Whether…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-12 J. Hyam Rubinstein , Benjamin I. P. Rubinstein

Binary classification in the classic PAC model exhibits a curious phenomenon: Empirical Risk Minimization (ERM) learners are suboptimal in the realizable case yet optimal in the agnostic case. Roughly speaking, this owes itself to the fact…

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Interpretable Machine Learning faces a recurring challenge of explaining the predictions made by opaque classifiers such as ensemble models, kernel methods, or neural networks in terms that are understandable to humans. When the model is…

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We provide a complete theory of optimal universal rates for binary classification in the agnostic setting. This extends the realizable-case theory of Bousquet, Hanneke, Moran, van Handel, and Yehudayoff (2021) by removing the realizability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Steve Hanneke , Shay Moran

We study the problem of agnostic learning under the Gaussian distribution. We develop a method for finding hard families of examples for a wide class of problems by using LP duality. For Boolean-valued concept classes, we show that the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Ilias Diakonikolas , Daniel M. Kane , Thanasis Pittas , Nikos Zarifis

Compressive learning is an approach to efficient large scale learning based on sketching an entire dataset to a single mean embedding (the sketch), i.e. a vector of generalized moments. The learning task is then approximately solved as an…

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We study the optimal rates of convergence for estimating a prior distribution over a VC class from a sequence of independent data sets respectively labeled by independent target functions sampled from the prior. We specifically derive upper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-05-21 Liu Yang , Steve Hanneke , Jaime Carbonell

Optimal $k$-thresholding algorithms are a class of $k$-sparse signal recovery algorithms that overcome the shortcomings of traditional hard thresholding algorithms caused by the oscillation of the residual function. In this paper, a novel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Jialiang Xu , Xu Zhang