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This guide provides a reference for high-probability regret bounds in empirical risk minimization (ERM). The presentation is modular: we begin with intuition and general proof strategies, then state broadly applicable guarantees under…

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This paper proposes Inverse Gram Matrix (IGM) methods to prioritize the Pairwise Reciprocal Matrix (PRM) in the Analytic Hierarchy Process. The IGM methods include Pseudo-IGM, Normalized-IGM, and Lagrange-IGM. Interestingly, the proposed…

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Invariant learning is a promising approach to improve domain generalization compared to Empirical Risk Minimization (ERM). However, most invariant learning methods rely on the assumption that training examples are pre-partitioned into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Phuong Quynh Le , Christin Seifert , Jörg Schlötterer

Domain generalization aims at performing well on unseen test environments with data from a limited number of training environments. Despite a proliferation of proposal algorithms for this task, assessing their performance both theoretically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Yining Chen , Elan Rosenfeld , Mark Sellke , Tengyu Ma , Andrej Risteski

A considerable chasm has been looming for decades between theory and practice in zero-sum game solving through first-order methods. Although a convergence rate of $T^{-1}$ has long been established, the most effective paradigm in practice…

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This paper offers a new perspective to ease the challenge of domain generalization, which involves maintaining robust results even in unseen environments. Our design focuses on the decision-making process in the final classifier layer.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Liang Chen , Yong Zhang , Yibing Song , Anton van den Hengel , Lingqiao Liu

Performativity, the phenomenon where outcomes are influenced by predictions, is particularly prevalent in social contexts where individuals strategically respond to a deployed model. In order to preserve the high accuracy of machine…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-31 Nikita Tsoy , Ivan Kirev , Negin Rahimiyazdi , Nikola Konstantinov

The field of Machine Learning has changed significantly since the 1970s. However, its most basic principle, Empirical Risk Minimization (ERM), remains unchanged. We propose Functional Risk Minimization~(FRM), a general framework where…

The solution to empirical risk minimization with $f$-divergence regularization (ERM-$f$DR) is presented under mild conditions on $f$. Under such conditions, the optimal measure is shown to be unique. Examples of the solution for particular…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-10-25 Francisco Daunas , Iñaki Esnaola , Samir M. Perlaza , H. Vincent Poor

In this paper, the solution to the empirical risk minimization problem with $f$-divergence regularization (ERM-$f$DR) is presented and conditions under which the solution also serves as the solution to the minimization of the expected…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-01-21 Francisco Daunas , Iñaki Esnaola , Samir M. Perlaza , H. Vincent Poor

Multi-criteria decision-making often requires finding a small representative set from the database. A recently proposed method is the regret minimization set (RMS) query. RMS returns a size $r$ subset $S$ of dataset $D$ that minimizes the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Xingxing Xiao , Jianzhong Li

Empirical risk minimization (ERM) is typically designed to perform well on the average loss, which can result in estimators that are sensitive to outliers, generalize poorly, or treat subgroups unfairly. While many methods aim to address…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Tian Li , Ahmad Beirami , Maziar Sanjabi , Virginia Smith

We study settings where gradient penalties are used alongside risk minimization with the goal of obtaining predictors satisfying different notions of monotonicity. Specifically, we present two sets of contributions. In the first part of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Joao Monteiro , Mohamed Osama Ahmed , Hossein Hajimirsadeghi , Greg Mori

In this work we investigate to which extent one can recover class probabilities within the empirical risk minimization (ERM) paradigm. The main aim of our paper is to extend existing results and emphasize the tight relations between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Alexander Mey , Marco Loog

The ability to generalize under distributional shifts is essential to reliable machine learning, while models optimized with empirical risk minimization usually fail on non-$i.i.d$ testing data. Recently, invariant learning methods for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Jiashuo Liu , Zheyuan Hu , Peng Cui , Bo Li , Zheyan Shen

Achieving health equity in Artificial Intelligence (AI) requires diagnostic models that maintain reliability across diverse populations. However, breast cancer screening systems frequently suffer from domain overfitting, degrading…

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Invariant risk minimization is an important general machine learning framework that has recently been interpreted as a total variation model (IRM-TV). However, how to improve out-of-distribution (OOD) generalization in the IRM-TV setting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Yuanchao Wang , Zhao-Rong Lai , Tianqi Zhong

In this paper, we propose a novel domain generalization (DG) framework based on a new upper bound to the risk on the unseen domain. Particularly, our framework proposes to jointly minimize both the covariate-shift as well as the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Thuan Nguyen , Boyang Lyu , Prakash Ishwar , Matthias Scheutz , Shuchin Aeron

Researchers have been facing a difficult problem that data generation mechanisms could be influenced by internal or external factors leading to the training and test data with quite different distributions, consequently traditional…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-10-14 Anqi Wu

The success of supervised learning hinges on the assumption that the training and test data come from the same underlying distribution, which is often not valid in practice due to potential distribution shift. In light of this, most…

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