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We investigate the learning dynamics of classifiers in scenarios where classes are separable or classifiers are over-parameterized. In both cases, Empirical Risk Minimization (ERM) results in zero training error. However, there are many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Julius Martinetz , Christoph Linse , Thomas Martinetz

Selecting the best regularization parameter in inverse problems is a classical and yet challenging problem. Recently, data-driven approaches have become popular to tackle this challenge. These approaches are appealing since they do require…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-22 Jonathan Chirinos Rodriguez , Ernesto De Vito , Cesare Molinari , Lorenzo Rosasco , Silvia Villa

Currently, machine learning plays an important role in the lives and individual activities of numerous people. Accordingly, it has become necessary to design machine learning algorithms to ensure that discrimination, biased views, or unfair…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-11-09 Kazuto Fukuchi , Jun Sakuma

Modern machine learning relies on a collection of empirically successful but theoretically heterogeneous regularization techniques, such as weight decay, dropout, and exponential moving averages. At the same time, the rapidly increasing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Laurent Caraffa

Developing an optimal PAC learning algorithm in the realizable setting, where empirical risk minimization (ERM) is suboptimal, was a major open problem in learning theory for decades. The problem was finally resolved by Hanneke a few years…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-03-15 Ishaq Aden-Ali , Mikael Møller Høgsgaard , Kasper Green Larsen , Nikita Zhivotovskiy

We study first-order algorithms that are uniformly stable for empirical risk minimization (ERM) problems that are convex and smooth with respect to $p$-norms, $p \geq 1$. We propose a black-box reduction method that, by employing properties…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Simon Vary , David Martínez-Rubio , Patrick Rebeschini

Empirical risk minimization (ERM) is ubiquitous in machine learning and underlies most supervised learning methods. While there has been a large body of work on algorithms for various ERM problems, the exact computational complexity of ERM…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-04-11 Arturs Backurs , Piotr Indyk , Ludwig Schmidt

One of the most classical results in high-dimensional learning theory provides a closed-form expression for the generalisation error of binary classification with the single-layer teacher-student perceptron on i.i.d. Gaussian inputs. Both…

A fundamental problem in robust learning is asymmetry: a learner needs to correctly classify every one of exponentially-many perturbations that an adversary might make to a test-time natural example. In contrast, the attacker only needs to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Saba Ahmadi , Avrim Blum , Omar Montasser , Kevin Stangl

A widely believed explanation for the remarkable generalization capacities of overparameterized neural networks is that the optimization algorithms used for training induce an implicit bias towards benign solutions. To grasp this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Maria Matveev , Vit Fojtik , Hung-Hsu Chou , Gitta Kutyniok , Johannes Maly

Enhancing node-level Out-Of-Distribution (OOD) generalization on graphs remains a crucial area of research. In this paper, we develop a Structural Causal Model (SCM) to theoretically dissect the performance of two prominent invariant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Qixun Wang , Yifei Wang , Yisen Wang , Xianghua Ying

Low rank regularization, in essence, involves introducing a low rank or approximately low rank assumption for matrix we aim to learn, which has achieved great success in many fields including machine learning, data mining and computer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Zhanxuan Hu , Feiping Nie , Rong Wang , Xuelong Li

Due to the inherent imbalance in real-world datasets, na\"ive Empirical Risk Minimization (ERM) tends to bias the learning process towards the majority classes, hindering generalization to minority classes. To rebalance the learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Zitai Wang , Qianqian Xu , Zhiyong Yang , Zhikang Xu , Linchao Zhang , Xiaochun Cao , Qingming Huang

Regularization techniques are widely employed in optimization-based approaches for solving ill-posed inverse problems in data analysis and scientific computing. These methods are based on augmenting the objective with a penalty function,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-08 Yong Sheng Soh , Venkat Chandrasekaran

In recent years, research on learning with noisy labels has focused on devising novel algorithms that can achieve robustness to noisy training labels while generalizing to clean data. These algorithms often incorporate sophisticated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Hui Kang , Sheng Liu , Huaxi Huang , Jun Yu , Bo Han , Dadong Wang , Tongliang Liu

The present paper deals with the data-driven design of regularizers in the form of artificial neural networks, for solving certain inverse problems formulated as optimal control problems. These regularizers aim at improving accuracy,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-06 Sebastien Court

We study Regularized Empirical Risk Minimizers (RERM) and minmax Median-Of-Means (MOM) estimators where the regularization function $\phi(\cdot)$ is an even convex function. We obtain bounds on the $L_2$-estimation error and the excess risk…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-10-16 Geoffrey Chinot

We establish risk bounds for Regularized Empirical Risk Minimizers (RERM) when the loss is Lipschitz and convex and the regularization function is a norm. In a first part, we obtain these results in the i.i.d. setup under subgaussian…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-01-07 Geoffrey Chinot , Guillaume Lecué , Matthieu Lerasle

In this work, we consider learning over multitask graphs, where each agent aims to estimate its own parameter vector. Although agents seek distinct objectives, collaboration among them can be beneficial in scenarios where relationships…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Yara Zgheib , Luca Calatroni , Marc Antonini , Roula Nassif

We study realizable continual linear regression under random task orderings, a common setting for developing continual learning theory. In this setup, the worst-case expected loss after $k$ learning iterations admits a lower bound of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Ran Levinstein , Amit Attia , Matan Schliserman , Uri Sherman , Tomer Koren , Daniel Soudry , Itay Evron