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We consider the problem of learning linear classifiers when both features and labels are binary. In addition, the features are noisy, i.e., they could be flipped with an unknown probability. In Sy-De attribute noise model, where all…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Aditya Petety , Sandhya Tripathi , N Hemachandra

We introduce Harmonic Robustness, a powerful and intuitive method to test the robustness of any machine-learning model either during training or in black-box real-time inference monitoring without ground-truth labels. It is based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Nicholas S. Kersting , Yi Li , Aman Mohanty , Oyindamola Obisesan , Raphael Okochu

Consider an unknown smooth function $f: [0,1]^d \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$, and say we are given $n$ noisy mod 1 samples of $f$, i.e., $y_i = (f(x_i) + \eta_i)\mod 1$, for $x_i \in [0,1]^d$, where $\eta_i$ denotes the noise. Given the samples…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-10-29 Mihai Cucuringu , Hemant Tyagi

We consider the problem of clustering in the presence of noise. That is, when on top of cluster structure, the data also contains a subset of \emph{unstructured} points. Our goal is to detect the clusters despite the presence of many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Shrinu Kushagra , Yaoliang Yu , Shai Ben-David

Learning a robust classifier from a few samples remains a key challenge in machine learning. A major thrust of research has been focused on developing $k$-nearest neighbor ($k$-NN) based algorithms combined with metric learning that…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-02-17 Shixiang Zhu , Liyan Xie , Minghe Zhang , Rui Gao , Yao Xie

In most practical problems of classifier learning, the training data suffers from the label noise. Hence, it is important to understand how robust is a learning algorithm to such label noise. This paper presents some theoretical analysis to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-08-29 Aritra Ghosh , Naresh Manwani , P. S. Sastry

We propose a robust inferential procedure for assessing uncertainties of parameter estimation in high-dimensional linear models, where the dimension $p$ can grow exponentially fast with the sample size $n$. Our method combines the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-03-19 Tianqi Zhao , Mladen Kolar , Han Liu

Fourier embedding has shown great promise in removing spectral bias during neural network training. However, it can still suffer from high generalization errors, especially when the labels or measurements are noisy. We demonstrate that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Halyun Jeong , Jihun Han

We study the relative-error property testing model for Boolean functions that was recently introduced in the work of Chen et al. (SODA 2025). In relative-error testing, the testing algorithm gets uniform random satisfying assignments as…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Xi Chen , William Pires , Toniann Pitassi , Rocco A. Servedio

Noise is ubiquitous in data used to train large language models, but it is not well understood whether these models are able to correctly generalize to inputs generated without noise. Here, we study noise-robust learning: are transformers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Evan Peters , Ando Deng , Matheus H. Zambianco , Devin Blankespoor , Achim Kempf

Recent works explore deep learning's success by examining functions or data with hierarchical structure. To study the learning complexity of functions with hierarchical structure, we study the noise stability of functions with tree…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Rupert Li , Elchanan Mossel

Robustness and adaptivity are two competing objectives in Kalman filters (KF). Robustness involves temporarily inflating prior estimates of noise covariances, while adaptivity updates prior beliefs by exploiting measurements. In practical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Shilei Li , Dawei Shi , Hao Yu , Ling Shi

We explore contemporary robust classification algorithms for overcoming class-dependant labelling noise: Forward, Importance Re-weighting and T-revision. The classifiers are trained and evaluated on class-conditional random label noise data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Alex Díaz , Damian Steele

We improve both upper and lower bounds for the distribution-free testing of monotone conjunctions. Given oracle access to an unknown Boolean function $f:\{0,1\}^n \rightarrow \{0,1\}$ and sampling oracle access to an unknown distribution…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-11-12 Xi Chen , Jinyu Xie

With the explosion of massive, widely available unlabeled data in the past years, finding label and time efficient, robust learning algorithms has become ever more important in theory and in practice. We study the paradigm of active…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-17 Max Hopkins , Daniel Kane , Shachar Lovett , Gaurav Mahajan

Utilizing the hyperspace of noise-based logic, we show two string verification methods with low communication complexity. One of them is based on continuum noise-based logic. The other one utilizes noise-based logic with random telegraph…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-02-10 Laszlo B. Kish , Sunil Khatri , Tamas Horvath

We consider the problem of testing whether an unknown Boolean function $f$ is monotone versus $\epsilon$-far from every monotone function. The two main results of this paper are a new lower bound and a new algorithm for this well-studied…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-12-19 Xi Chen , Rocco A. Servedio , Li-Yang Tan

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have found widespread applications in interpreting remote sensing (RS) imagery. However, it has been demonstrated in previous works that DNNs are vulnerable to different types of noises, particularly adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Shaohui Mei , Jiawei Lian , Xiaofei Wang , Yuru Su , Mingyang Ma , Lap-Pui Chau

Labelling of data for supervised learning can be costly and time-consuming and the risk of incorporating label noise in large data sets is imminent. When training a flexible discriminative model using a strictly proper loss, such noise will…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-05-13 Amanda Olmin , Fredrik Lindsten

In this paper, we consider the problem of tolerant junta testing for boolean function. Compared with the prior work by Blais et al., we provide improved results in terms of both the parameter gap and query complexity. Compared with the…

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