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The Fundamental Theorem of PAC Learning asserts that learnability of a concept class $H$ is equivalent to the $\textit{uniform convergence}$ of empirical error in $H$ to its mean, or equivalently, to the problem of $\textit{density…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Max Hopkins , Daniel M. Kane , Shachar Lovett , Gaurav Mahajan

This paper focuses on the relation between computational learning theory and resource-bounded dimension. We intend to establish close connections between the learnability/nonlearnability of a concept class and its corresponding size in…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Ricard Gavalda , Maria Lopez-Valdes , Elvira Mayordomo , N. V. Vinodchandran

We study uniform computability properties of PAC learning using Weihrauch complexity. We focus on closed concept classes, which are either represented by positive, by negative or by full information. Among other results, we prove that…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Vasco Brattka , Guillaume Chirache

We introduce definitions of computable PAC learning for binary classification over computable metric spaces. We provide sufficient conditions for learners that are empirical risk minimizers (ERM) to be computable, and bound the strong…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Nathanael Ackerman , Julian Asilis , Jieqi Di , Cameron Freer , Jean-Baptiste Tristan

We consider the arithmetic complexity of index sets of uniformly computably enumerable families learnable under different learning criteria. We determine the exact complexity of these sets for the standard notions of finite learning,…

Logic · Mathematics 2013-03-01 Achilles Beros

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

This paper surveys various results in the field of Quantum Learning theory, specifically focusing on learning quantum-encoded classical concepts in the Probably Approximately Correct (PAC) framework. The cornerstone of this work is the…

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This work continues to investigate the link between differentially private (DP) and online learning. Alon, Livni, Malliaris, and Moran (2019) showed that for binary concept classes, DP learnability of a given class implies that it has a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Simone Fioravanti , Steve Hanneke , Shay Moran , Hilla Schefler , Iska Tsubari

We study the question of learning an adversarially robust predictor. We show that any hypothesis class $\mathcal{H}$ with finite VC dimension is robustly PAC learnable with an improper learning rule. The requirement of being improper is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-04 Omar Montasser , Steve Hanneke , Nathan Srebro

We demonstrate a compactness result holding broadly across supervised learning with a general class of loss functions: Any hypothesis class $H$ is learnable with transductive sample complexity $m$ precisely when all of its finite…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Julian Asilis , Siddartha Devic , Shaddin Dughmi , Vatsal Sharan , Shang-Hua Teng

Alon et al. [2019] and Bun et al. [2020] recently showed that online learnability and private PAC learnability are equivalent in binary classification. We investigate whether this equivalence extends to multi-class classification and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-10-12 Young Hun Jung , Baekjin Kim , Ambuj Tewari

Adversarially robust PAC learning has proved to be challenging, with the currently best known learners [Montasser et al., 2021a] relying on improper methods based on intricate compression schemes, resulting in sample complexity exponential…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Hassan Ashtiani , Vinayak Pathak , Ruth Urner

We apply the PAC-Bayes theory to the setting of learning-to-optimize. To the best of our knowledge, we present the first framework to learn optimization algorithms with provable generalization guarantees (PAC-bounds) and explicit trade-off…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Michael Sucker , Peter Ochs

The discovery of causal relationships is a foundational problem in artificial intelligence, statistics, epidemiology, economics, and beyond. While elegant theories exist for accurate causal discovery given infinite data, real-world…

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The problem of attempting to learn the mapping between data and labels is the crux of any machine learning task. It is, therefore, of interest to the machine learning community on practical as well as theoretical counts to consider the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Sairaam Venkatraman , S Balasubramanian , R Raghunatha Sarma

The main goal of this article is to convince you, the reader, that supervised learning in the Probably Approximately Correct (PAC) model is closely related to -- of all things -- bipartite matching! En-route from PAC learning to bipartite…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Shaddin Dughmi

Exchangeable random variables form an important and well-studied generalization of i.i.d. variables, however simple examples show that no nontrivial concept or function classes are PAC learnable under general exchangeable data inputs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Vladimir Pestov

Learning-to-communicate (LTC) in partially observable environments has received increasing attention in deep multi-agent reinforcement learning, where the control and communication strategies are jointly learned. Meanwhile, the impact of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-30 Xiangyu Liu , Haoyi You , Kaiqing Zhang

We study the problem of PAC learning halfspaces in the reliable agnostic model of Kalai et al. (2012). The reliable PAC model captures learning scenarios where one type of error is costlier than the others. Our main positive result is a new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Ilias Diakonikolas , Lisheng Ren , Nikos Zarifis