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This paper describes a set of comparative experiments for the problem of automatically filtering unwanted electronic mail messages. Several variants of the AdaBoost algorithm with confidence-rated predictions [Schapire & Singer, 99] have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Xavier Carreras , Lluis Marquez

Identifying low-dimensional latent structures within high-dimensional data has long been a central topic in the machine learning community, driven by the need for data compression, storage, transmission, and deeper data understanding.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-28 Ye Tian , Sanyou Wu , Long Feng

We study the problem of agnostically learning halfspaces under the Gaussian distribution. Our main result is the {\em first proper} learning algorithm for this problem whose sample complexity and computational complexity qualitatively match…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Ilias Diakonikolas , Daniel M. Kane , Vasilis Kontonis , Christos Tzamos , Nikos Zarifis

In this paper we study how transforming regular reinforcement learning environments into goal-conditioned environments can let agents learn to solve tasks autonomously and reward-free. We show that an agent can learn to solve tasks by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Hampus Åström , Elin Anna Topp , Jacek Malec

ProBoost, a new boosting algorithm for probabilistic classifiers, is proposed in this work. This algorithm uses the epistemic uncertainty of each training sample to determine the most challenging/uncertain ones; the relevance of these…

Off-policy learning is a framework for optimizing policies without deploying them, using data collected by another policy. In recommender systems, this is especially challenging due to the imbalance in logged data: some items are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Matej Cief , Branislav Kveton , Michal Kompan

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

In this article we give several new results on the complexity of algorithms that learn Boolean functions from quantum queries and quantum examples. Hunziker et al. conjectured that for any class C of Boolean functions, the number of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alp Atici , Rocco A. Servedio

We propose two algorithms for interpretation and boosting of tree-based ensemble methods. Both algorithms make use of mathematical programming models that are constructed with a set of rules extracted from an ensemble of decision trees. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-22 S. Ilker Birbil , Mert Edali , Birol Yuceoglu

The glued-trees problem is the only example known to date for which quantum annealing provides an exponential speedup, albeit by partly using excited state evolution, in an oracular setting. How robust is this speedup to noise on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-19 Siddharth Muthukrishnan , Tameem Albash , Daniel A. Lidar

Gradient boosting algorithms construct a regression predictor using a linear combination of ``base learners''. Boosting also offers an approach to obtaining robust non-parametric regression estimators that are scalable to applications with…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-08-11 Xiaomeng Ju , Matías Salibián-Barrera

Learning-augmented algorithms are a prominent recent development in beyond worst-case analysis. In this framework, a problem instance is provided with a prediction (``advice'') from a machine-learning oracle, which provides partial…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Idan Attias , Xing Gao , Lev Reyzin

Using the framework of boosting, we prove that all impurity-based decision tree learning algorithms, including the classic ID3, C4.5, and CART, are highly noise tolerant. Our guarantees hold under the strongest noise model of nasty noise,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Guy Blanc , Jane Lange , Ali Malik , Li-Yang Tan

Kernel methods are ubiquitous tools in machine learning. However, there is often little reason for the common practice of selecting a kernel a priori. Even if a universal approximating kernel is selected, the quality of the finite sample…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-01-31 Junier Oliva , Avinava Dubey , Andrew G. Wilson , Barnabas Poczos , Jeff Schneider , Eric P. Xing

In this paper machine learning and artificial neural network models are proposed for the classification of external noise sources affecting a given quantum dynamics. For this purpose, we train and then validate support vector machine,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-17 Stefano Martina , Stefano Gherardini , Filippo Caruso

Random forest and deep neural network are two schools of effective classification methods in machine learning. While the random forest is robust irrespective of the data domain, the deep neural network has advantages in handling high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-26 Manqing Dong , Lina Yao , Xianzhi Wang , Boualem Benatallah , Shuai Zhang

Offline reinforcement learning learns policies from fixed datasets without further environment interaction. A key challenge in this setting is epistemic uncertainty, arising from limited or biased data coverage, particularly when the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Abhilash Reddy Chenreddy , Erick Delage

We introduce a boosting algorithm to pre-process data for fairness. Starting from an initial fair but inaccurate distribution, our approach shifts towards better data fitting while still ensuring a minimal fairness guarantee. To do so, it…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-08-16 Alexander Soen , Hisham Husain , Richard Nock

We present APQ for efficient deep learning inference on resource-constrained hardware. Unlike previous methods that separately search the neural architecture, pruning policy, and quantization policy, we optimize them in a joint manner. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Tianzhe Wang , Kuan Wang , Han Cai , Ji Lin , Zhijian Liu , Song Han

We show a simple reduction which demonstrates the cryptographic hardness of learning a single periodic neuron over isotropic Gaussian distributions in the presence of noise. More precisely, our reduction shows that any polynomial-time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Min Jae Song , Ilias Zadik , Joan Bruna