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We study the task of testable learning of general -- not necessarily homogeneous -- halfspaces with adversarial label noise with respect to the Gaussian distribution. In the testable learning framework, the goal is to develop a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Ilias Diakonikolas , Daniel M. Kane , Sihan Liu , Nikos Zarifis

We give the first efficient algorithm for learning halfspaces in the testable learning model recently defined by Rubinfeld and Vasilyan (2023). In this model, a learner certifies that the accuracy of its output hypothesis is near optimal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Aravind Gollakota , Adam R. Klivans , Konstantinos Stavropoulos , Arsen Vasilyan

We study the algorithmic task of testably learning general Massart halfspaces under the Gaussian distribution. In the testable learning setting, the aim is the design of a tester-learner pair satisfying the following properties: (1) if the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Ilias Diakonikolas , Giannis Iakovidis , Daniel M. Kane , Sihan Liu

We study the problem of learning adversarially robust halfspaces in the distribution-independent setting. In the realizable setting, we provide necessary and sufficient conditions on the adversarial perturbation sets under which halfspaces…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-18 Omar Montasser , Surbhi Goel , Ilias Diakonikolas , Nathan Srebro

We pose a fundamental question in computational learning theory: can we efficiently test whether a training set satisfies the assumptions of a given noise model? This question has remained unaddressed despite decades of research on learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Surbhi Goel , Adam R. Klivans , Konstantinos Stavropoulos , Arsen Vasilyan

This paper is concerned with computationally efficient learning of homogeneous sparse halfspaces in $\mathbb{R}^d$ under noise. Though recent works have established attribute-efficient learning algorithms under various types of label noise…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-03-03 Jie Shen , Chicheng Zhang

We introduce a new approach for designing computationally efficient learning algorithms that are tolerant to noise, and demonstrate its effectiveness by designing algorithms with improved noise tolerance guarantees for learning linear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Pranjal Awasthi , Maria Florina Balcan , Philip M. Long

We give the first fully polynomial-time algorithm for learning halfspaces with respect to the uniform distribution on the hypercube in the presence of contamination, where an adversary may corrupt some fraction of examples and labels…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Gautam Chandrasekaran , Adam R. Klivans , Konstantinos Stavropoulos , Arsen Vasilyan

We study {\em online} active learning of homogeneous halfspaces in $\mathbb{R}^d$ with adversarial noise where the overall probability of a noisy label is constrained to be at most $\nu$. Our main contribution is a Perceptron-like online…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Jie Shen

We study active learning of homogeneous $s$-sparse halfspaces in $\mathbb{R}^d$ under the setting where the unlabeled data distribution is isotropic log-concave and each label is flipped with probability at most $\eta$ for a parameter $\eta…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-16 Chicheng Zhang , Jie Shen , Pranjal Awasthi

We give the first tester-learner for halfspaces that succeeds universally over a wide class of structured distributions. Our universal tester-learner runs in fully polynomial time and has the following guarantee: the learner achieves error…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Aravind Gollakota , Adam R. Klivans , Konstantinos Stavropoulos , Arsen Vasilyan

We study the problem of PAC learning halfspaces on $\mathbb{R}^d$ with Massart noise under the Gaussian distribution. In the Massart model, an adversary is allowed to flip the label of each point $\mathbf{x}$ with unknown probability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Ilias Diakonikolas , Daniel M. Kane , Vasilis Kontonis , Christos Tzamos , Nikos Zarifis

We study the efficient learnability of geometric concept classes - specifically, low-degree polynomial threshold functions (PTFs) and intersections of halfspaces - when a fraction of the data is adversarially corrupted. We give the first…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-07-06 Ilias Diakonikolas , Daniel M. Kane , Alistair Stewart

There are many high dimensional function classes that have fast agnostic learning algorithms when assumptions on the distribution of examples can be made, such as Gaussianity or uniformity over the domain. But how can one be confident that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Ronitt Rubinfeld , Arsen Vasilyan

We analyze the properties of adversarial training for learning adversarially robust halfspaces in the presence of agnostic label noise. Denoting $\mathsf{OPT}_{p,r}$ as the best robust classification error achieved by a halfspace that is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Difan Zou , Spencer Frei , Quanquan Gu

It has been a long-standing problem to efficiently learn a halfspace using as few labels as possible in the presence of noise. In this work, we propose an efficient Perceptron-based algorithm for actively learning homogeneous halfspaces…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Songbai Yan , Chicheng Zhang

We study the problem of PAC learning homogeneous halfspaces in the presence of Tsybakov noise. In the Tsybakov noise model, the label of every sample is independently flipped with an adversarially controlled probability that can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Ilias Diakonikolas , Daniel M. Kane , Vasilis Kontonis , Christos Tzamos , Nikos Zarifis

We study the problem of {\em distribution-independent} PAC learning of halfspaces in the presence of Massart noise. Specifically, we are given a set of labeled examples $(\mathbf{x}, y)$ drawn from a distribution $\mathcal{D}$ on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-11 Ilias Diakonikolas , Themis Gouleakis , Christos Tzamos

We study the problem of learning general (i.e., not necessarily homogeneous) halfspaces with Random Classification Noise under the Gaussian distribution. We establish nearly-matching algorithmic and Statistical Query (SQ) lower bound…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Ilias Diakonikolas , Jelena Diakonikolas , Daniel M. Kane , Puqian Wang , Nikos Zarifis

We revisit the fundamental problem of learning with distribution shift, in which a learner is given labeled samples from training distribution $D$, unlabeled samples from test distribution $D'$ and is asked to output a classifier with low…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Adam R. Klivans , Konstantinos Stavropoulos , Arsen Vasilyan
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