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Recent work on supervised learning [GKR+22] defined the notion of omnipredictors, i.e., predictor functions $p$ over features that are simultaneously competitive for minimizing a family of loss functions $\mathcal{L}$ against a comparator…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Lunjia Hu , Kevin Tian , Chutong Yang

We study the problem of learning Single-Index Models under the $L_2^2$ loss in the agnostic model. We give an efficient learning algorithm, achieving a constant factor approximation to the optimal loss, that succeeds under a range of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Nikos Zarifis , Puqian Wang , Ilias Diakonikolas , Jelena Diakonikolas

A single-index model (SIM) is a function of the form $\sigma(\mathbf{w}^{\ast} \cdot \mathbf{x})$, where $\sigma: \mathbb{R} \to \mathbb{R}$ is a known link function and $\mathbf{w}^{\ast}$ is a hidden unit vector. We study the task of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Puqian Wang , Nikos Zarifis , Ilias Diakonikolas , Jelena Diakonikolas

We study active learning methods for single index models of the form $F({\mathbf x}) = f(\langle {\mathbf w}, {\mathbf x}\rangle)$, where $f:\mathbb{R} \to \mathbb{R}$ and ${\mathbf x,\mathbf w} \in \mathbb{R}^d$. In addition to their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Aarshvi Gajjar , Wai Ming Tai , Xingyu Xu , Chinmay Hegde , Yi Li , Christopher Musco

Network estimation from multi-variate point process or time series data is a problem of fundamental importance. Prior work has focused on parametric approaches that require a known parametric model, which makes estimation procedures less…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-06-30 Yue Gao , Garvesh Raskutti

We study the task of learning Generalized Linear models (GLMs) in the agnostic model under the Gaussian distribution. We give the first polynomial-time algorithm that achieves a constant-factor approximation for \textit{any} monotone…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Nikos Zarifis , Puqian Wang , Ilias Diakonikolas , Jelena Diakonikolas

Generalized Linear Models (GLMs) and Single Index Models (SIMs) provide powerful generalizations of linear regression, where the target variable is assumed to be a (possibly unknown) 1-dimensional function of a linear predictor. In general,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-04-14 Sham Kakade , Adam Tauman Kalai , Varun Kanade , Ohad Shamir

We consider the problem of active learning for single neuron models, also sometimes called ``ridge functions'', in the agnostic setting (under adversarial label noise). Such models have been shown to be broadly effective in modeling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Aarshvi Gajjar , Chinmay Hegde , Christopher Musco

We consider the basic problem of learning Single-Index Models with respect to the square loss under the Gaussian distribution in the presence of adversarial label noise. Our main contribution is the first computationally efficient algorithm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Puqian Wang , Nikos Zarifis , Ilias Diakonikolas , Jelena Diakonikolas

We study the power of query access for the task of agnostic learning under the Gaussian distribution. In the agnostic model, no assumptions are made on the labels and the goal is to compute a hypothesis that is competitive with the {\em…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Ilias Diakonikolas , Daniel M. Kane , Vasilis Kontonis , Christos Tzamos , Nikos Zarifis

Single Index Models (SIMs) are simple yet flexible semi-parametric models for classification and regression. Response variables are modeled as a nonlinear, monotonic function of a linear combination of features. Estimation in this context…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-07-01 Ravi Ganti , Nikhil Rao , Rebecca M. Willett , Robert Nowak

We study the complexity of smoothed agnostic learning of halfspaces on $\{\pm 1\}^n$ under uniform marginals in the model of~\cite{KM25}, where each input coordinate is independently flipped with probability $\sigma \in (0, {1}/{2})$. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Tim Sinen

We study agnostic active learning, where the goal is to learn a classifier in a pre-specified hypothesis class interactively with as few label queries as possible, while making no assumptions on the true function generating the labels. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-07-15 Chicheng Zhang , Kamalika Chaudhuri

Single Index Models (SIMs) are simple yet flexible semi-parametric models for machine learning, where the response variable is modeled as a monotonic function of a linear combination of features. Estimation in this context requires learning…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-12-01 Nikhil Rao , Ravi Ganti , Laura Balzano , Rebecca Willett , Robert Nowak

We give the first agnostic, efficient, proper learning algorithm for monotone Boolean functions. Given $2^{\tilde{O}(\sqrt{n}/\varepsilon)}$ uniformly random examples of an unknown function $f:\{\pm 1\}^n \rightarrow \{\pm 1\}$, our…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Jane Lange , Arsen Vasilyan

Mixed linear regression is a well-studied problem in parametric statistics and machine learning. Given a set of samples, tuples of covariates and labels, the task of mixed linear regression is to find a small list of linear relationships…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-06-04 Avishek Ghosh , Arya Mazumdar

We introduce and study Swap Agnostic Learning. The problem can be phrased as a game between a predictor and an adversary: first, the predictor selects a hypothesis $h$; then, the adversary plays in response, and for each level set of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Parikshit Gopalan , Michael P. Kim , Omer Reingold

Order-Agnostic autoregressive models have demonstrated strong performance in deep generative modeling, yet their use in settings with incomplete data remains largely unexplored. In this work, we reinterpret them through the lens of missing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Ignacio Peis , Pablo M. Olmos , Jes Frellsen

We study the problem of learning a single neuron $\mathbf{x}\mapsto \sigma(\mathbf{w}^T\mathbf{x})$ with gradient descent (GD). All the existing positive results are limited to the case where $\sigma$ is monotonic. However, it is recently…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-02-17 Lei Wu

Omnipredictors are simple prediction functions that encode loss-minimizing predictions with respect to a hypothesis class $H$, simultaneously for every loss function within a class of losses $L$. In this work, we give near-optimal learning…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-17 Princewill Okoroafor , Robert Kleinberg , Michael P. Kim
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