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Let $\mathcal{Z} = \{Z_1, \dots, Z_n\} \stackrel{\mathrm{i.i.d.}}{\sim} P \subset \mathbb{R}^d$ from a distribution $P$ with mean zero and covariance $\Sigma$. Given a dataset $\mathcal{X}$ such that $d_{\mathrm{ham}}(\mathcal{X},…

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We make progress on two important problems regarding attribute efficient learnability. First, we give an algorithm for learning decision lists of length $k$ over $n$ variables using $2^{\tilde{O}(k^{1/3})} \log n$ examples and time…

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