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We study the problem of agnostically learning homogeneous halfspaces in the distribution-specific PAC model. For a broad family of structured distributions, including log-concave distributions, we show that non-convex SGD efficiently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-15 Ilias Diakonikolas , Vasilis Kontonis , Christos Tzamos , Nikos Zarifis

We study the problem of {\em distribution-independent} PAC learning of halfspaces in the presence of Massart noise. Specifically, we are given a set of labeled examples $(\mathbf{x}, y)$ drawn from a distribution $\mathcal{D}$ on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-11 Ilias Diakonikolas , Themis Gouleakis , Christos Tzamos

We study the problem of PAC learning halfspaces on $\mathbb{R}^d$ with Massart noise under the Gaussian distribution. In the Massart model, an adversary is allowed to flip the label of each point $\mathbf{x}$ with unknown probability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Ilias Diakonikolas , Daniel M. Kane , Vasilis Kontonis , Christos Tzamos , Nikos Zarifis

We study the problem of PAC learning $\gamma$-margin halfspaces in the presence of Massart noise. Without computational considerations, the sample complexity of this learning problem is known to be $\widetilde{\Theta}(1/(\gamma^2…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Ilias Diakonikolas , Nikos Zarifis

We study the efficient PAC learnability of halfspaces in the presence of Tsybakov noise. In the Tsybakov noise model, each label is independently flipped with some probability which is controlled by an adversary. This noise model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-12 Ilias Diakonikolas , Vasilis Kontonis , Christos Tzamos , Nikos Zarifis

We study the problem of PAC learning $\gamma$-margin halfspaces with Massart noise. We propose a simple proper learning algorithm, the Perspectron, that has sample complexity $\widetilde{O}((\epsilon\gamma)^{-2})$ and achieves…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Gautam Chandrasekaran , Vasilis Kontonis , Konstantinos Stavropoulos , Kevin Tian

We study the problem of PAC learning halfspaces with Massart noise. Given labeled samples $(x, y)$ from a distribution $D$ on $\mathbb{R}^{d} \times \{ \pm 1\}$ such that the marginal $D_x$ on the examples is arbitrary and the label $y$ of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Ilias Diakonikolas , Daniel M. Kane

We study the complexity of PAC learning halfspaces in the presence of Massart noise. In this problem, we are given i.i.d. labeled examples $(\mathbf{x}, y) \in \mathbb{R}^N \times \{ \pm 1\}$, where the distribution of $\mathbf{x}$ is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Ilias Diakonikolas , Daniel M. Kane , Pasin Manurangsi , Lisheng Ren

We study the algorithmic task of testably learning general Massart halfspaces under the Gaussian distribution. In the testable learning setting, the aim is the design of a tester-learner pair satisfying the following properties: (1) if the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Ilias Diakonikolas , Giannis Iakovidis , Daniel M. Kane , Sihan Liu

We give a computationally-efficient PAC active learning algorithm for $d$-dimensional homogeneous halfspaces that can tolerate Massart noise (Massart and N\'ed\'elec, 2006) and Tsybakov noise (Tsybakov, 2004). Specialized to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-12 Chicheng Zhang , Yinan Li

Understanding noise tolerance of machine learning algorithms is a central quest in learning theory. In this work, we study the problem of computationally efficient PAC learning of halfspaces in the presence of malicious noise, where an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Jie Shen

We give the first efficient algorithm for learning halfspaces in the testable learning model recently defined by Rubinfeld and Vasilyan (2023). In this model, a learner certifies that the accuracy of its output hypothesis is near optimal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Aravind Gollakota , Adam R. Klivans , Konstantinos Stavropoulos , Arsen Vasilyan

A Forster transform is an operation that turns a distribution into one with good anti-concentration properties. While a Forster transform does not always exist, we show that any distribution can be efficiently decomposed as a disjoint…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Ilias Diakonikolas , Daniel M. Kane , Christos Tzamos

Attribute-efficient PAC learning of sparse halfspaces has been a fundamental problem in machine learning theory. In recent years, machine learning algorithms are faced with prevalent data corruptions or even malicious attacks. It is of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Shiwei Zeng , Jie Shen

In this paper we revisit some classic problems on classification under misspecification. In particular, we study the problem of learning halfspaces under Massart noise with rate $\eta$. In a recent work, Diakonikolas, Goulekakis, and Tzamos…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Sitan Chen , Frederic Koehler , Ankur Moitra , Morris Yau

This paper explores the challenges of PAC learning in semi-enclosed environments that face persistent disruptive noise and demonstrates the weaknesses of traditional learning models based on noise-free data. We present a novel algorithm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Shirmohammad Tavangari , Zahra Shakarami , Aref Yelghi , Asef Yelghi

We study efficient PAC learning of homogeneous halfspaces in $\mathbb{R}^d$ in the presence of malicious noise of Valiant (1985). This is a challenging noise model and only until recently has near-optimal noise tolerance bound been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Jie Shen

Noise-tolerant PAC learning of linear models has been of central interests in machine learning community since the last century. In recent years, many computationally-efficient algorithms have been proposed for the problem of learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Rita Adhikari , Shiwei Zeng

We study the problem of learning general (i.e., not necessarily homogeneous) halfspaces with Random Classification Noise under the Gaussian distribution. We establish nearly-matching algorithmic and Statistical Query (SQ) lower bound…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Ilias Diakonikolas , Jelena Diakonikolas , Daniel M. Kane , Puqian Wang , Nikos Zarifis

We study the problem of PAC learning halfspaces in the reliable agnostic model of Kalai et al. (2012). The reliable PAC model captures learning scenarios where one type of error is costlier than the others. Our main positive result is a new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Ilias Diakonikolas , Lisheng Ren , Nikos Zarifis
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