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This paper presents a new multitask learning framework that learns a shared representation among the tasks, incorporating both task and feature clusters. The jointly-induced clusters yield a shared latent subspace where task relationships…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-03-06 Keerthiram Murugesan , Jaime Carbonell , Yiming Yang

In collaborative active learning, where multiple agents try to learn labels from a common hypothesis, we introduce an innovative framework for incentivized collaboration. Here, rational agents aim to obtain labels for their data sets while…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Lee Cohen , Han Shao

Learning from many real-world datasets is limited by a problem called the class imbalance problem. A dataset is imbalanced when one class (the majority class) has significantly more samples than the other class (the minority class). Such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-30 Soroush Saryazdi , Bahareh Nikpour , Hossein Nezamabadi-pour

We show how any PAC learning algorithm that works under the uniform distribution can be transformed, in a blackbox fashion, into one that works under an arbitrary and unknown distribution $\mathcal{D}$. The efficiency of our transformation…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-03-31 Guy Blanc , Jane Lange , Ali Malik , Li-Yang Tan

Accuracy is the most important parameter among few others which defines the effectiveness of a machine learning algorithm. Higher accuracy is always desirable. Now, there is a vast number of well established learning algorithms already…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Sayantan Sengupta , Sudip Sanyal

Monotone learning describes learning processes in which expected performance consistently improves as the amount of training data increases. However, recent studies challenge this conventional wisdom, revealing significant gaps in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Ming Li , Chenyi Zhang , Qin Li

When a number of similar tasks have to be learned simultaneously, multi-task learning (MTL) models can attain significantly higher accuracy than single-task learning (STL) models. However, the advantage of MTL depends on various factors,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Afiya Ayman , Ayan Mukhopadhyay , Aron Laszka

We prove the tightest-known upper bounds on the sample complexity of multi-group learning. Our algorithm extends the one-inclusion graph prediction strategy using a generalization of bipartite $b$-matching. In the group-realizable setting,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Noah Bergam , Samuel Deng , Daniel Hsu

Gathering training data is a key step of any supervised learning task, and it is both critical and expensive. Critical, because the quantity and quality of the training data has a high impact on the performance of the learned function.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Quentin Lutz , Élie de Panafieu , Alex Scott , Maya Stein

We investigate a problem in which each member of a group of learners is trained separately to solve the same classification task. Each learner has access to a training dataset (possibly with overlap across learners) but each trained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Mahmoud Albardan , John Klein , Olivier Colot

Metric learning seeks a transformation of the feature space that enhances prediction quality for the given task at hand. In this work we provide PAC-style sample complexity rates for supervised metric learning. We give matching lower- and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-05-12 Nakul Verma , Kristin Branson

The One-versus-One (OvO) strategy is an approach of multi-classification models which focuses on training binary classifiers between each pair of classes. While the OvO strategy takes advantage of balanced training data, the classification…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Anthony Hei-Long Chan , Raymond HonFu Chan , Lingjia Dai

Supervised learning is classically formulated as training a model to minimize a fixed loss function over a fixed distribution, or task. However, an emerging paradigm instead views model training as extracting enough information from data so…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Sivaraman Balakrishnan , Nika Haghtalab , Daniel Hsu , Brian Lee , Eric Zhao

We present a PAC-Bayesian analysis of lifelong learning. In the lifelong learning problem, a sequence of learning tasks is observed one-at-a-time, and the goal is to transfer information acquired from previous tasks to new learning tasks.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Hamish Flynn , David Reeb , Melih Kandemir , Jan Peters

Modern deep learning systems require huge data sets to achieve impressive performance, but there is little guidance on how much or what kind of data to collect. Over-collecting data incurs unnecessary present costs, while under-collecting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Rafid Mahmood , James Lucas , Jose M. Alvarez , Sanja Fidler , Marc T. Law

We develop model free PAC performance guarantees for multiple concurrent MDPs, extending recent works where a single learner interacts with multiple non-interacting agents in a noise free environment. Our framework allows noisy and resource…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-11 Or Raveh , Ron Meir

This paper revisits the well known single machine scheduling problem to minimize total weighted completion times. The twist is that job sizes are stochastic from unknown distributions, and the scheduler has access to only a single sample…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Puck te Rietmole , Marc Uetz

Following the wide-spread adoption of machine learning models in real-world applications, the phenomenon of performativity, i.e. model-dependent shifts in the test distribution, becomes increasingly prevalent. Unfortunately, since models…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-01-21 Ivan Kirev , Lyuben Baltadzhiev , Nikola Konstantinov

Multi-task learning solves multiple correlated tasks. However, conflicts may exist between them. In such circumstances, a single solution can rarely optimize all the tasks, leading to performance trade-offs. To arrive at a set of optimized…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Lu Bai , Abhishek Gupta , Yew-Soon Ong

A standard approach in pattern classification is to estimate the distributions of the label classes, and then to apply the Bayes classifier to the estimates of the distributions in order to classify unlabeled examples. As one might expect,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Nick Palmer , Paul W. Goldberg