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The Lipschitz constant of the map between the input and output space represented by a neural network is a natural metric for assessing the robustness of the model. We present a new method to constrain the Lipschitz constant of dense deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Ouail Kitouni , Niklas Nolte , Mike Williams

This work studies the adversarial robustness of parametric functions composed of a linear predictor and a non-linear representation map. % that satisfies certain stability condition. Our analysis relies on \emph{sparse local Lipschitzness}…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Ramchandran Muthukumar , Jeremias Sulam

The Lov\'{a}sz Local Lemma (LLL) states that the probability that none of a set of "bad" events happens is nonzero if the probability of each event is small compared to the number of bad events it depends on. A series of results have…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-10-04 Bernhard Haeupler , Barna Saha , Aravind Srinivasan

Moser and Tardos (2010) gave an algorithmic proof of the lopsided Lov\'asz local lemma (LLL) in the variable framework, where each of the undesirable events is assumed to depend on a subset of a collection of independent random variables.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-06-16 Lefteris Kirousis , John Livieratos , Kostas I. Psaromiligkos

In this study, we explore the partial identification of nonseparable models with continuous endogenous and binary instrumental variables. We show that the structural function is partially identified when it is monotone or concave in the…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-06-22 Takuya Ishihara

Consider the supervised learning setting where the goal is to learn to predict labels $\mathbf y$ given points $\mathbf x$ from a distribution. An \textit{omnipredictor} for a class $\mathcal L$ of loss functions and a class $\mathcal C$ of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Parikshit Gopalan , Princewill Okoroafor , Prasad Raghavendra , Abhishek Shetty , Mihir Singhal

We study the problem of learning Single-Index Models under the $L_2^2$ loss in the agnostic model. We give an efficient learning algorithm, achieving a constant factor approximation to the optimal loss, that succeeds under a range of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Nikos Zarifis , Puqian Wang , Ilias Diakonikolas , Jelena Diakonikolas

We present a detailed study of top-$k$ classification, the task of predicting the $k$ most probable classes for an input, extending beyond single-class prediction. We demonstrate that several prevalent surrogate loss functions in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Anqi Mao , Mehryar Mohri , Yutao Zhong

We introduce a new Bayesian multi-class support vector machine by formulating a pseudo-likelihood for a multi-class hinge loss in the form of a location-scale mixture of Gaussians. We derive a variational-inference-based training objective…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-08 Martin Wistuba , Ambrish Rawat

The Lov\'{a}sz Local Lemma (LLL) is a powerful tool in probabilistic combinatorics which can be used to establish the existence of objects that satisfy certain properties. The breakthrough paper of Moser and Tardos and follow-up works…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-09 David G. Harris , Fotis Iliopoulos , Vladimir Kolmogorov

This paper is devoted to a new modification of a recently proposed adaptive stochastic mirror descent algorithm for constrained convex optimization problems in the case of several convex functional constraints. Algorithms, standard and its…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-22 Mohammad S. Alkousa

Following the groundbreaking Moser-Tardos algorithm for the Lovasz Local Lemma (LLL), a series of works have exploited a key ingredient of the original analysis, the witness tree lemma, in order to: derive deterministic, parallel and…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Fotis Iliopoulos

When learning interpretable latent structures using model-based approaches, even small deviations from modeling assumptions can lead to inferential results that are not mechanistically meaningful. In this work, we consider latent structures…

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Motivated by multi-task and meta-learning approaches, we consider the problem of learning structure shared by tasks or users, such as shared low-rank representations or clustered structures. While all previous works focus on well-specified…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Mathieu Even , Laurent Massoulié

Attention has been proved to be an efficient mechanism to capture long-range dependencies. However, so far it has not been deployed in invertible networks. This is due to the fact that in order to make a network invertible, every component…

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In the last several years, the intimate connection between convex optimization and learning problems, in both statistical and sequential frameworks, has shifted the focus of algorithmic machine learning to examine this interplay. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-07-23 Mehrdad Mahdavi

We develop efficient algorithms to train $\ell_1$-regularized linear classifiers with large dimensionality $d$ of the feature space, number of classes $k$, and sample size $n$. Our focus is on a special class of losses that includes, in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-02-12 Dmitry Babichev , Dmitrii Ostrovskii , Francis Bach

We propose to solve a label ranking problem as a structured output regression task. We adopt a least square surrogate loss approach that solves a supervised learning problem in two steps: the regression step in a well-chosen feature space…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-07-09 Anna Korba , Alexandre Garcia , Florence d'Alché Buc

Online kernel selection is a fundamental problem of online kernel methods.In this paper,we study online kernel selection with memory constraint in which the memory of kernel selection and online prediction procedures is limited to a fixed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Junfan Li , Shizhong Liao

We consider composite loss functions for multiclass prediction comprising a proper (i.e., Fisher-consistent) loss over probability distributions and an inverse link function. We establish conditions for their (strong) convexity and explore…

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