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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

One of the main theoretical challenges in learning dynamical systems from data is providing upper bounds on the generalization error, that is, the difference between the expected prediction error and the empirical prediction error measured…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Daniel Racz , Martin Gonzalez , Mihaly Petreczky , Andras Benczur , Balint Daroczy

This article studies the achievable guarantees on the error rates of certain learning algorithms, with particular focus on refining logarithmic factors. Many of the results are based on a general technique for obtaining bounds on the error…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-09-13 Steve Hanneke

We study computable probably approximately correct (CPAC) learning, where learners are required to be computable functions. It had been previously observed that the Fundamental Theorem of Statistical Learning, which characterizes PAC…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-05 David Kattermann , Lothar Sebastian Krapp

In this short note we observe that the sample complexity of PAC machine learning of various concepts, including learning the maximum (EMX), can be exactly determined when the support of the probability measures considered as models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Alberto Gandolfi

A fundamental problem in adversarial machine learning is to quantify how much training data is needed in the presence of evasion attacks. In this paper we address this issue within the framework of PAC learning, focusing on the class of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-13 Pascale Gourdeau , Varun Kanade , Marta Kwiatkowska , James Worrell

We characterize learnability for quantum measurement classes by establishing matching necessary and sufficient conditions for their PAC learnability, along with corresponding sample complexity bounds, in the setting where the learner is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-08-25 Abram Magner , Arun Padakandla

This paper studies quantum supervised learning for classical inference from quantum states. In this model, a learner has access to a set of labeled quantum samples as the training set. The objective is to find a quantum measurement that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-26 Mohsen Heidari , Wojciech Szpankowski

We provide an exact non-asymptotic lower bound on the minimax expected excess risk (EER) in the agnostic probably-ap\-proximately-correct (PAC) machine learning classification model and identify minimax learning algorithms as certain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-01-03 Aryeh Kontorovich , Iosif Pinelis

Recently, there has been significant progress in understanding reinforcement learning in discounted infinite-horizon Markov decision processes (MDPs) by deriving tight sample complexity bounds. However, in many real-world applications, an…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-05-12 Christoph Dann , Emma Brunskill

Many popular learning algorithms (E.g. Regression, Fourier-Transform based algorithms, Kernel SVM and Kernel ridge regression) operate by reducing the problem to a convex optimization problem over a vector space of functions. These methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-05-13 Amit Daniely , Nati Linial , Shai Shalev-Shwartz

Precision and Recall are fundamental metrics in machine learning tasks where both accurate predictions and comprehensive coverage are essential, such as in multi-label learning, language generation, medical studies, and recommender systems.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Lee Cohen , Yishay Mansour , Shay Moran , Han Shao

PAC-Bayesian set up involves a stochastic classifier characterized by a posterior distribution on a classifier set, offers a high probability bound on its averaged true risk and is robust to the training sample used. For a given posterior,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Puja Sahu , Nandyala Hemachandra

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 extend the theory of PAC learning in a way which allows to model a rich variety of learning tasks where the data satisfy special properties that ease the learning process. For example, tasks where the distance of the data from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-22 Noga Alon , Steve Hanneke , Ron Holzman , Shay Moran

We investigate the Probably Approximately Correct (PAC) property of scenario decision algorithms, which refers to their ability to produce decisions with an arbitrarily low risk of violating unknown safety constraints, provided a sufficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Guillaume O. Berger , Raphaël M. Jungers

Developing an optimal PAC learning algorithm in the realizable setting, where empirical risk minimization (ERM) is suboptimal, was a major open problem in learning theory for decades. The problem was finally resolved by Hanneke a few years…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-03-15 Ishaq Aden-Ali , Mikael Møller Høgsgaard , Kasper Green Larsen , Nikita Zhivotovskiy

We generalize the PAC (probably approximately correct) learning model to the quantum world by generalizing the concepts from classical functions to quantum processes, defining the problem of \emph{PAC learning quantum process}, and study…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-20 Kai-Min Chung , Han-Hsuan Lin

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

We consider the problem of determining which classes of functions can be tested more efficiently than they can be learned, in the distribution-free sample-based model that corresponds to the standard PAC learning setting. Our main result…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Eric Blais , Renato Ferreira Pinto , Nathaniel Harms