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We study the problem of learning robust classifiers where the classifier will receive a perturbed input. Unlike robust PAC learning studied in prior work, here the clean data and its label are also adversarially chosen. We formulate this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Sajad Ashkezari

Stability is a general notion that quantifies the sensitivity of a learning algorithm's output to small change in the training dataset (e.g. deletion or replacement of a single training sample). Such conditions have recently been shown to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2011-08-18 Stephane Ross , J. Andrew Bagnell

We use and adapt the Borsuk-Ulam Theorem from topology to derive limitations on list-replicable and globally stable learning algorithms. We further demonstrate the applicability of our methods in combinatorics and topology. We show that,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Zachary Chase , Bogdan Chornomaz , Shay Moran , Amir Yehudayoff

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

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

In many learning theory problems, a central role is played by a hypothesis class: we might assume that the data is labeled according to a hypothesis in the class (usually referred to as the realizable setting), or we might evaluate the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Lunjia Hu , Charlotte Peale

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

Replicability, introduced by (Impagliazzo et al. STOC '22), is the notion that algorithms should remain stable under a resampling of their inputs (given access to shared randomness). While a strong and interesting notion of stability, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Max Hopkins , Russell Impagliazzo , Christopher Ye

Stability is a central property in learning and statistics promising the output of an algorithm $A$ does not change substantially when applied to similar datasets $S$ and $S'$. It is an elementary fact that any sufficiently stable algorithm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Max Hopkins , Shay Moran

We study multiclass classification in the agnostic adversarial online learning setting. As our main result, we prove that any multiclass concept class is agnostically learnable if and only if its Littlestone dimension is finite. This solves…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Steve Hanneke , Shay Moran , Vinod Raman , Unique Subedi , 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 revisit the problem of private online learning, in which a learner receives a sequence of $T$ data points and has to respond at each time-step a hypothesis. It is required that the entire stream of output hypotheses should satisfy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Bo Li , Wei Wang , Peng Ye

Recently, Montasser et al. [2019] showed that finite VC dimension is not sufficient for proper adversarially robust PAC learning. In light of this hardness, there is a growing effort to study what type of relaxations to the adversarially…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Vinod Raman , Unique Subedi , Ambuj Tewari

Agnostic online learning is classically solved via a reduction to the realizable setting, utilizing Littlestone's Standard Optimal Algorithm (SOA) as a base learner. However, the SOA is computationally intractable to execute even for a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Idan Attias , Steve Hanneke , Arvind Ramaswami

We consider the problem of private density estimation for mixtures of unrestricted high dimensional Gaussians in the agnostic setting. We prove the first upper bound on the sample complexity of this problem. Previously, private learnability…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-10-08 Mohammad Afzali , Hassan Ashtiani , Christopher Liaw

This paper contributes to the study of CPAC learnability -- a computable version of PAC learning -- by solving three open questions from recent papers. Firstly, we prove that every improperly CPAC learnable class is contained in a class…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Valentino Delle Rose , Alexander Kozachinskiy , Cristobal Rojas , Tomasz Steifer

We study a new learning protocol, termed partial-feedback online learning, where each instance admits a set of acceptable labels, but the learner observes only one acceptable label per round. We highlight that, while classical version space…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Shihao Shao , Cong Fang , Zhouchen Lin , Dacheng Tao

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

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

The Fundamental Theorem of Statistical Learning states that a hypothesis space is PAC learnable if and only if its VC dimension is finite. For the agnostic model of PAC learning, the literature so far presents proofs of this theorem that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Lothar Sebastian Krapp , Laura Wirth
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