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We present a faster algorithm to generate a warm start for sampling an arbitrary logconcave density specified by an evaluation oracle, leading to the first sub-cubic sampling algorithms for inputs in (near-)isotropic position. A long line…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Yunbum Kook , Santosh S. Vempala

The authors recently gave an $n^{O(\log\log n)}$ time membership query algorithm for properly learning decision trees under the uniform distribution (Blanc et al., 2021). The previous fastest algorithm for this problem ran in $n^{O(\log…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Guy Blanc , Jane Lange , Mingda Qiao , Li-Yang Tan

We study the problem of approximately recovering a probability distribution given noisy measurements of its Chebyshev polynomial moments. This problem arises broadly across algorithms, statistics, and machine learning. By leveraging a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Cameron Musco , Christopher Musco , Lucas Rosenblatt , Apoorv Vikram Singh

We study the task of Multiclass Linear Classification (MLC) in the distribution-free PAC model with Random Classification Noise (RCN). Specifically, the learner is given a set of labeled examples $(x, y)$, where $x$ is drawn from an unknown…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Ilias Diakonikolas , Mingchen Ma , Lisheng Ren , Christos Tzamos

Partial-label learning (PLL) is a typical weakly supervised learning problem, where each training instance is equipped with a set of candidate labels among which only one is the true label. Most existing methods elaborately designed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Jiaqi Lv , Miao Xu , Lei Feng , Gang Niu , Xin Geng , Masashi Sugiyama

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

Existing Camouflaged Object Detection (COD) methods rely heavily on large-scale pixel-annotated training sets, which are both time-consuming and labor-intensive. Although weakly supervised methods offer higher annotation efficiency, their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Jin Zhang , Ruiheng Zhang , Yanjiao Shi , Zhe Cao , Nian Liu , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

We present the first computationally-efficient algorithm for average-case learning of shallow quantum circuits with many-qubit gates. Specifically, we provide a quasi-polynomial time and sample complexity algorithm for learning unknown…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-11 Francisca Vasconcelos , Hsin-Yuan Huang

We give an algorithm for properly learning Poisson binomial distributions. A Poisson binomial distribution (PBD) of order $n$ is the discrete probability distribution of the sum of $n$ mutually independent Bernoulli random variables. Given…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-11-13 Ilias Diakonikolas , Daniel M. Kane , Alistair Stewart

We study the problem of interactively learning a binary classifier using noisy labeling and pairwise comparison oracles, where the comparison oracle answers which one in the given two instances is more likely to be positive. Learning from…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-05-23 Yichong Xu , Hongyang Zhang , Aarti Singh , Kyle Miller , Artur Dubrawski

We prove the following strong hardness result for learning: Given a distribution of labeled examples from the hypercube such that there exists a monomial consistent with $(1-\eps)$ of the examples, it is NP-hard to find a halfspace that is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-12-06 Vitaly Feldman , Venkatesan Guruswami , Prasad Raghavendra , Yi Wu

We extend Babai's quasipolynomial-time graph isomorphism test (STOC 2016) and develop a quasipolynomial-time algorithm for the multiple-coset isomorphism problem. The algorithm for the multiple-coset isomorphism problem allows to exploit…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Daniel Wiebking

We consider mixtures of $k\geq 2$ Gaussian components with unknown means and unknown covariance (identical for all components) that are well-separated, i.e., distinct components have statistical overlap at most $k^{-C}$ for a large enough…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Rares-Darius Buhai , David Steurer

We introduce a new model of membership query (MQ) learning, where the learning algorithm is restricted to query points that are \emph{close} to random examples drawn from the underlying distribution. The learning model is intermediate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-04-19 Pranjal Awasthi , Vitaly Feldman , Varun Kanade

Datasets with noisy labels are a common occurrence in practical applications of classification methods. We propose a simple probabilistic method for training deep classifiers under input-dependent (heteroscedastic) label noise. We assume an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-16 Mark Collier , Basil Mustafa , Efi Kokiopoulou , Rodolphe Jenatton , Jesse Berent

Packing problems are an important class of optimization problems. The probably most well-known problem if this type is knapsack and many generalizations of it have been studied in the literature like Two-dimensional Geometric Knapsack…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Tobias Mömke , Andreas Wiese

Deep clustering, which learns representation and semantic clustering without labels information, poses a great challenge for deep learning-based approaches. Despite significant progress in recent years, most existing methods focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Chuyu Zhang , Hui Ren , Xuming He

Acquiring accurate labels on large-scale datasets is both time consuming and expensive. To reduce the dependency of deep learning models on learning from clean labeled data, several recent research efforts are focused on learning with noisy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-27 Arushi Goel , Yunlong Jiao , Jordan Massiah

In real-world applications, perfect labels are rarely available, making it challenging to develop robust machine learning algorithms that can handle noisy labels. Recent methods have focused on filtering noise based on the discrepancy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Mingcai Chen , Yuntao Du , Wei Tang , Baoming Zhang , Hao Cheng , Shuwei Qian , Chongjun Wang

We consider the semi-random graph model of [Makarychev, Makarychev and Vijayaraghavan, STOC'12], where, given a random bipartite graph with $\alpha$ edges and an unknown bipartition $(A, B)$ of the vertex set, an adversary can add arbitrary…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Vincent Cohen-Addad , Tommaso d'Orsi , Aida Mousavifar