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In many cases, neural network classifiers are likely to be exposed to input data that is outside of their training distribution data. Samples from outside the distribution may be classified as an existing class with high probability by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Guy Amit , Ishai Rosenberg , Moshe Levy , Ron Bitton , Asaf Shabtai , Yuval Elovici

Analysis of high-dimensional data has led to increased interest in both single index models (SIMs) and the best-subset selection. SIMs provide an interpretable and flexible modeling framework for high-dimensional data, while the best-subset…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-08-19 Borui Tang , Jin Zhu , Junxian Zhu , Xueqin Wang , Heping Zhang

Semiparametric single-index assumptions are convenient and widely used dimen\-sion reduction approaches that represent a compromise between the parametric and fully nonparametric models for regressions or conditional laws. In a mean…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-10-21 Samuel Maistre , Valentin Patilea

We provide high-probability sample complexity guarantees for exact structure recovery and accurate predictive learning using noise-corrupted samples from an acyclic (tree-shaped) graphical model. The hidden variables follow a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-02-18 Konstantinos E. Nikolakakis , Dionysios S. Kalogerias , Anand D. Sarwate

When performing data classification over a stream of continuously occurring instances, a key challenge is to develop an open-world classifier that anticipates instances from an unknown class. Studies addressing this problem, typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-10 Yang Gao , Swarup Chandra , Zhuoyi Wang , Latifur Khan

Motivated by previous observations that the usually applied $L_p$ norms ($p=1,2,\infty$) do not capture the perceptual quality of adversarial examples in image classification, we propose to replace these norms with the structural similarity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Muhammad Zaid Hameed , Andras Gyorgy

Semi-supervised imitation learning (SSIL) consists in learning a policy from a small dataset of action-labeled trajectories and a much larger dataset of action-free trajectories. Some SSIL methods learn an inverse dynamics model (IDM) to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Sacha Morin , Moonsub Byeon , Alexia Jolicoeur-Martineau , Sébastien Lachapelle

System inference for nonlinear dynamic models, represented by ordinary differential equations (ODEs), remains a significant challenge in many fields, particularly when the data are noisy, sparse, or partially observable. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Hyunwoo Cho , Hyeontae Jo , Hyung Ju Hwang

Learned Indexes (LIs) represent a paradigm shift from traditional index structures by employing machine learning models to approximate the cumulative distribution function (CDF) of sorted data. While LIs achieve remarkable efficiency for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Alireza Heidari , Amirhossein Ahmad , Wei Zhang , Ying Xiong

This work deals with the ill-posed inverse problem of reconstructing a function $f$ given implicitly as the solution of $g = Af$, where $A$ is a compact linear operator with unknown singular values and known eigenfunctions. We observe the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-02-28 Jan Johannes , Maik Schwarz

We give the first efficient algorithm for learning the structure of an Ising model that tolerates independent failures; that is, each entry of the observed sample is missing with some unknown probability p. Our algorithm matches the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-02-14 Surbhi Goel , Daniel M. Kane , Adam R. Klivans

We consider the problem of learning a one-hidden-layer neural network: we assume the input $x\in \mathbb{R}^d$ is from Gaussian distribution and the label $y = a^\top \sigma(Bx) + \xi$, where $a$ is a nonnegative vector in $\mathbb{R}^m$…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-06 Rong Ge , Jason D. Lee , Tengyu Ma

We study the problem of computationally efficient proper agnostic learning of multidimensional concept classes under the Gaussian distribution. In this setting, given i.i.d. labeled samples from an unknown distribution over $\mathbb{R}^d…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Sergei Tikhonov , Arsen Vasilyan

We study three problems that involve identifying homogeneous halfspaces under Gaussian distributions: agnostic learning, one-sided reliable learning, and fairness auditing. In each of these problems, we are given labeled examples…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Jizhou Huang , Brendan Juba

Learning with label dependent label noise has been extensively explored in both theory and practice; however, dealing with instance (i.e., feature) and label dependent label noise continues to be a challenging task. The difficulty arises…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-06-07 Hyungki Im , Paul Grigas

Regression with a spherical response is challenging due to the absence of linear structure, making standard regression models inadequate. Existing methods, mainly parametric, lack the flexibility to capture the complex relationship induced…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-04-01 Houren Hong , Janice L. Scealy , Andrew T. A. Wood , Yanrong Yang

We consider the class of noisy multi-layered sigmoid recurrent neural networks with $w$ (unbounded) weights for classification of sequences of length $T$, where independent noise distributed according to $\mathcal{N}(0,\sigma^2)$ is added…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-05-31 Alireza Fathollah Pour , Hassan Ashtiani

We study the fundamental problem of learning the parameters of a high-dimensional Gaussian in the presence of noise -- where an $\varepsilon$-fraction of our samples were chosen by an adversary. We give robust estimators that achieve…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Ilias Diakonikolas , Gautam Kamath , Daniel M. Kane , Jerry Li , Ankur Moitra , Alistair Stewart

Few neural architectures lend themselves to provable learning with gradient based methods. One popular model is the single-index model, in which labels are produced by composing an unknown linear projection with a possibly unknown scalar…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Aaron Zweig , Joan Bruna

This paper introduces a novel generalized self-imitation learning ($\textbf{GSIL}$) framework, which effectively and efficiently aligns large language models with offline demonstration data. We develop $\textbf{GSIL}$ by deriving a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Teng Xiao , Mingxiao Li , Yige Yuan , Huaisheng Zhu , Chao Cui , Vasant G Honavar