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We study computational aspects of algorithmic replicability, a notion of stability introduced by Impagliazzo, Lei, Pitassi, and Sorrell [2022]. Motivated by a recent line of work that established strong statistical connections between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Alkis Kalavasis , Amin Karbasi , Grigoris Velegkas , Felix Zhou

In most real-world applications of artificial intelligence, the distributions of the data and the goals of the learners tend to change over time. The Probably Approximately Correct (PAC) learning framework, which underpins most machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Yuxin Bai , Cecelia Shuai , Ashwin De Silva , Siyu Yu , Pratik Chaudhari , Joshua T. Vogelstein

We consider principled alternatives to unsupervised learning in data mining by situating the learning task in the context of the subsequent analysis task. Specifically, we consider a query-answering (hypothesis-testing) task: In the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-04-18 Brendan Juba

An agnostic PAC learning algorithm finds a predictor that is competitive with the best predictor in a benchmark hypothesis class, where competitiveness is measured with respect to a given loss function. However, its predictions might be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Guy N Rothblum , Gal Yona

A recent line of work has shown a qualitative equivalence between differentially private PAC learning and online learning: A concept class is privately learnable if and only if it is online learnable with a finite mistake bound. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Mark Bun

This paper proposes a data-driven systematic, consistent and non-exhaustive approach to Model Selection, that is an extension of the classical agnostic PAC learning model. In this approach, learning problems are modeled not only by a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-10-12 Diego Marcondes , Adilson Simonis , Junior Barrera

We consider quantum versions of two well-studied classical learning models: Angluin's model of exact learning from membership queries and Valiant's Probably Approximately Correct (PAC) model of learning from random examples. We give…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Rocco A. Servedio , Steven J. Gortler

Blumer et al. (1987, 1989) showed that any concept class that is learnable by Occam algorithms is PAC learnable. Board and Pitt (1990) showed a partial converse of this theorem: for concept classes that are closed under exception lists, any…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Zaman Keinath-Esmail

Most models of machine teaching and learning assume the learner makes no errors in its internal deductive inference. However, humans and large language models in few-shot learning regimes are two important examples of learners where this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Jan Arne Telle , Brigt Håvardstun , Jose Hernandez-Orallo

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

We study the problem of computable multiclass learnability within the Probably Approximately Correct (PAC) learning framework of Valiant (1984). In the recently introduced computable PAC (CPAC) learning framework of Agarwal et al. (2020),…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Pascale Gourdeau , Tosca Lechner , Ruth Urner

This paper explores a PAC (probably approximately correct) learning model in cooperative games. Specifically, we are given $m$ random samples of coalitions and their values, taken from some unknown cooperative game; can we predict the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-11 Maria-Florina Balcan , Ariel D. Procaccia , Yair Zick

This paper introduces a framework for Planning while Learning where an agent is given a goal to achieve in an environment whose behavior is only partially known to the agent. We discuss the tractability of various plan-design processes. We…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-11-17 S. Safra , M. Tennenholtz

We show that Boolean functions expressible as monotone disjunctive normal forms are PAC-evolvable under a uniform distribution on the Boolean cube if the hypothesis size is allowed to remain fixed. We further show that this result is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2009-04-07 Nisheeth Srivastava

The equivalence of realizable and agnostic learnability is a fundamental phenomenon in learning theory. With variants ranging from classical settings like PAC learning and regression to recent trends such as adversarially robust learning,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Max Hopkins , Daniel M. Kane , Shachar Lovett , Gaurav Mahajan

The unwavering success of deep learning in the past decade led to the increasing prevalence of deep learning methods in various application fields. However, the downsides of deep learning, most prominently its lack of trustworthiness, may…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Holger Boche , Vit Fojtik , Adalbert Fono , Gitta Kutyniok

We continue the study of the computational complexity of differentially private PAC learning and how it is situated within the foundations of machine learning. A recent line of work uncovered a qualitative equivalence between the private…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Mark Bun , Aloni Cohen , Rathin Desai

Much of learning theory is concerned with the design and analysis of probably approximately correct (PAC) learners. The closely related transductive model of learning has recently seen more scrutiny, with its learners often used as…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-10-31 Shaddin Dughmi , Yusuf Kalayci , Grayson York

We consider the problem of PAC-learning decision trees, i.e., learning a decision tree over the n-dimensional hypercube from independent random labeled examples. Despite significant effort, no polynomial-time algorithm is known for learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2008-12-05 Adam Tauman Kalai , Shang-Hua Teng

Algorithmic learning theory traditionally studies the learnability of effective infinite binary sequences (reals), while recent work by [Vitanyi and Chater, 2017] and [Bienvenu et al., 2014] has adapted this framework to the study of…

Logic · Mathematics 2018-07-17 George Barmpalias , Nan Fang , Frank Stephan