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Large language models adapt to new tasks through in-context learning (ICL) without parameter updates. Current theoretical explanations for this capability assume test tasks are drawn from a distribution similar to that seen during…

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A classical result in learning theory shows the equivalence of PAC learnability of binary hypothesis classes and the finiteness of VC dimension. Extending this to the multiclass setting was an open problem, which was settled in a recent…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-03-28 Moses Charikar , Chirag Pabbaraju

In recent years, researchers have made significant progress in devising reinforcement-learning algorithms for optimizing linear temporal logic (LTL) objectives and LTL-like objectives. Despite these advancements, there are fundamental…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Cambridge Yang , Michael Littman , Michael Carbin

Security in machine learning is fragile when data are exfiltrated or perturbed, yet existing frameworks rarely connect the definition and analysis of the security to learnability. In this work, we develop a theory of secure learning…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-05 Jeongho Bang

We present an oracle-efficient algorithm for boosting the adversarial robustness of barely robust learners. Barely robust learning algorithms learn predictors that are adversarially robust only on a small fraction $\beta \ll 1$ of the data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Avrim Blum , Omar Montasser , Greg Shakhnarovich , Hongyang Zhang

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

In this research, we introduce the concept of "computational entanglement," a phenomenon observed in overparameterized feedforward linear networks that enables the network to achieve zero loss by fitting random noise, even on previously…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-01 YenLung Lai , Xingbo Dong , Zhe Jin

Predictive coding has emerged as an influential normative model of neural computation, with numerous extensions and applications. As such, much effort has been put into mapping PC faithfully onto the cortex, but there are issues that remain…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2023-03-07 Siavash Golkar , Tiberiu Tesileanu , Yanis Bahroun , Anirvan M. Sengupta , Dmitri B. Chklovskii

We use the PAC-Bayesian theory for 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-Bayesian bounds) and explicit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Michael Sucker , Jalal Fadili , Peter Ochs

Interpretability is an emerging area of research in trustworthy machine learning. Safe deployment of machine learning system mandates that the prediction and its explanation be reliable and robust. Recently, it has been shown that the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Mayank Singh , Nupur Kumari , Puneet Mangla , Abhishek Sinha , Vineeth N Balasubramanian , Balaji Krishnamurthy

Machine unlearning poses the challenge of ``how to eliminate the influence of specific data from a pretrained model'' in regard to privacy concerns. While prior research on approximated unlearning has demonstrated accuracy and efficiency in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Khoa Tran , Simon S. Woo

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial attacks. It is found empirically that adversarially robust generalization is crucial in establishing defense algorithms against adversarial attacks. Therefore, it is interesting to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Jiancong Xiao , Ruoyu Sun , Zhi- Quan Luo

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

We investigate the problem of learning Bayesian networks in a robust model where an $\epsilon$-fraction of the samples are adversarially corrupted. In this work, we study the fully observable discrete case where the structure of the network…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Yu Cheng , Ilias Diakonikolas , Daniel Kane , Alistair Stewart

The escalating threat of adversarial attacks on deep learning models, particularly in security-critical fields, has underscored the need for robust deep learning systems. Conventional robustness evaluations have relied on adversarial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Ping Guo , Cheng Gong , Xi Lin , Zhiyuan Yang , Qingfu Zhang

Decision making and learning in the presence of uncertainty has attracted significant attention in view of the increasing need to achieve robust and reliable operations. In the case where uncertainty stems from the presence of adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-25 André Bertolace , Konstatinos Gatsis , Kostas Margellos

Continual learning (CL) is an approach to address catastrophic forgetting, which refers to forgetting previously learned knowledge by neural networks when trained on new tasks or data distributions. The adversarial robustness has decomposed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Hikmat Khan , Nidhal C. Bouaynaya , Ghulam Rasool

To advance the understanding of robust deep learning, we delve into the effects of adversarial training on self-supervised and supervised contrastive learning alongside supervised learning. Our analysis uncovers significant disparities…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Fatemeh Ghofrani , Mehdi Yaghouti , Pooyan Jamshidi

It has been quite a long time since AI researchers in the field of computer science stop talking about simulating human intelligence or trying to explain how brain works. Recently, represented by deep learning techniques, the field of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-09-30 Hao Wu

In our recent work (Bubeck, Price, Razenshteyn, arXiv:1805.10204) we argued that adversarial examples in machine learning might be due to an inherent computational hardness of the problem. More precisely, we constructed a binary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-16 Sébastien Bubeck , Yin Tat Lee , Eric Price , Ilya Razenshteyn