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Benign overfitting, the phenomenon where interpolating models generalize well in the presence of noisy data, was first observed in neural network models trained with gradient descent. To better understand this empirical observation, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Spencer Frei , Niladri S. Chatterji , Peter L. Bartlett

In many modern applications of deep learning the neural network has many more parameters than the data points used for its training. Motivated by those practices, a large body of recent theoretical research has been devoted to studying…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-12-07 A. Tsigler , P. L. Bartlett

In this work, we study a new approach to optimizing the margin distribution realized by binary classifiers. The classical approach to this problem is simply maximization of the expected margin, while more recent proposals consider…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-10-12 Matthew J. Holland

We present a formulation of deep learning that aims at producing a large margin classifier. The notion of margin, minimum distance to a decision boundary, has served as the foundation of several theoretically profound and empirically…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-12-05 Gamaleldin F. Elsayed , Dilip Krishnan , Hossein Mobahi , Kevin Regan , Samy Bengio

Recently, over-parameterized deep networks, with increasingly more network parameters than training samples, have dominated the performances of modern machine learning. However, when the training data is corrupted, it has been well-known…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Sheng Liu , Zhihui Zhu , Qing Qu , Chong You

We provide non-asymptotic excess risk guarantees for statistical learning in a setting where the population risk with respect to which we evaluate the target parameter depends on an unknown nuisance parameter that must be estimated from…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-06-07 Dylan J. Foster , Vasilis Syrgkanis

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

This paper studies the classification of high-dimensional Gaussian signals from low-dimensional noisy, linear measurements. In particular, it provides upper bounds (sufficient conditions) on the number of measurements required to drive the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-03 Hugo Reboredo , Francesco Renna , Robert Calderbank , Miguel R. D. Rodrigues

This paper investigates the phenomenon of benign overfitting in binary classification problems with heavy-tailed input distributions, extending the analysis of maximum margin classifiers to $\alpha$ sub-exponential distributions ($\alpha…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Kota Okudo , Kei Kobayashi

This study investigates the misclassification excess risk bound in the context of 1-bit matrix completion, a significant problem in machine learning involving the recovery of an unknown matrix from a limited subset of its entries. Matrix…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-02 The Tien Mai

This paper considers the classification of linear subspaces with mismatched classifiers. In particular, we assume a model where one observes signals in the presence of isotropic Gaussian noise and the distribution of the signals conditioned…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-04 Jure Sokolic , Francesco Renna , Robert Calderbank , Miguel R. D. Rodrigues

Modern neural networks are typically trained in an over-parameterized regime where the parameters of the model far exceed the size of the training data. Such neural networks in principle have the capacity to (over)fit any set of labels…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-05 Mingchen Li , Mahdi Soltanolkotabi , Samet Oymak

Learning with label dependent label noise has been extensively explored in both theory and practice; however, dealing with instance (i.e., feature) and label dependent label noise continues to be a challenging task. The difficulty arises…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-06-07 Hyungki Im , Paul Grigas

In this paper we explore noise tolerant learning of classifiers. We formulate the problem as follows. We assume that there is an ${\bf unobservable}$ training set which is noise-free. The actual training set given to the learning algorithm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-11-27 Naresh Manwani , P. S. Sastry

We study the learnability of linear separators in $\Re^d$ in the presence of bounded (a.k.a Massart) noise. This is a realistic generalization of the random classification noise model, where the adversary can flip each example $x$ with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-03-13 Pranjal Awasthi , Maria-Florina Balcan , Nika Haghtalab , Ruth Urner

Modern machine learning models often employ a huge number of parameters and are typically optimized to have zero training loss; yet surprisingly, they possess near-optimal prediction performance, contradicting classical learning theory. We…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-06-08 Zhu Li , Zhi-Hua Zhou , Arthur Gretton

Assisted by the availability of data and high performance computing, deep learning techniques have achieved breakthroughs and surpassed human performance empirically in difficult tasks, including object recognition, speech recognition, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Shaeke Salman , Xiuwen Liu

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

This paper proposes a novel algorithm for semisupervised learning. This algorithm learns graph cuts that maximize the margin with respect to the labels induced by the harmonic function solution. We motivate the approach, compare it to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Branislav Kveton , Michal Valko , Ali Rahimi , Ling Huang

The literature on "benign overfitting" in overparameterized models has been mostly restricted to regression or binary classification; however, modern machine learning operates in the multiclass setting. Motivated by this discrepancy, we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-07-13 Ke Wang , Vidya Muthukumar , Christos Thrampoulidis