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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 study the task of learning Generalized Linear models (GLMs) in the agnostic model under the Gaussian distribution. We give the first polynomial-time algorithm that achieves a constant-factor approximation for \textit{any} monotone…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Nikos Zarifis , Puqian Wang , Ilias Diakonikolas , Jelena Diakonikolas

We study the fundamental problem of learning a single neuron, i.e., a function of the form $\mathbf{x}\mapsto\sigma(\mathbf{w}\cdot\mathbf{x})$ for monotone activations $\sigma:\mathbb{R}\mapsto\mathbb{R}$, with respect to the $L_2^2$-loss…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Ilias Diakonikolas , Vasilis Kontonis , Christos Tzamos , Nikos Zarifis

We study the problem of learning a single neuron with respect to the $L_2^2$-loss in the presence of adversarial label noise. We give an efficient algorithm that, for a broad family of activations including ReLUs, approximates the optimal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Puqian Wang , Nikos Zarifis , Ilias Diakonikolas , Jelena Diakonikolas

We give a $2^{\tilde{O}(\sqrt{n}/\epsilon)}$-time algorithm for properly learning monotone Boolean functions under the uniform distribution over $\{0,1\}^n$. Our algorithm is robust to adversarial label noise and has a running time nearly…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Jane Lange , Ronitt Rubinfeld , Arsen Vasilyan

A single-index model (SIM) is a function of the form $\sigma(\mathbf{w}^{\ast} \cdot \mathbf{x})$, where $\sigma: \mathbb{R} \to \mathbb{R}$ is a known link function and $\mathbf{w}^{\ast}$ is a hidden unit vector. We study the task of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Puqian Wang , Nikos Zarifis , Ilias Diakonikolas , Jelena Diakonikolas

We study the task of learning Multi-Index Models (MIMs) with label noise under the Gaussian distribution. A $K$-MIM is any function $f$ that only depends on a $K$-dimensional subspace. We focus on well-behaved MIMs with finite ranges that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Ilias Diakonikolas , Giannis Iakovidis , Daniel M. Kane , Nikos Zarifis

We study the complexity of learning real-valued Multi-Index Models (MIMs) under the Gaussian distribution. A $K$-MIM is a function $f:\mathbb{R}^d\to \mathbb{R}$ that depends only on the projection of its input onto a $K$-dimensional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Ilias Diakonikolas , Giannis Iakovidis , Daniel M. Kane , Lisheng Ren

We give the first fully polynomial-time algorithm for learning halfspaces with respect to the uniform distribution on the hypercube in the presence of contamination, where an adversary may corrupt some fraction of examples and labels…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Gautam Chandrasekaran , Adam R. Klivans , Konstantinos Stavropoulos , Arsen Vasilyan

We study the problem of learning general (i.e., not necessarily homogeneous) halfspaces with Random Classification Noise under the Gaussian distribution. We establish nearly-matching algorithmic and Statistical Query (SQ) lower bound…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Ilias Diakonikolas , Jelena Diakonikolas , Daniel M. Kane , Puqian Wang , Nikos Zarifis

We consider the problem of estimating a rank-one matrix in Gaussian noise under a probabilistic model for the left and right factors of the matrix. The probabilistic model can impose constraints on the factors including sparsity and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-16 Alyson K. Fletcher , Sundeep Rangan

We study the problem of PAC learning $\gamma$-margin halfspaces in the presence of Massart noise. Without computational considerations, the sample complexity of this learning problem is known to be $\widetilde{\Theta}(1/(\gamma^2…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Ilias Diakonikolas , Nikos Zarifis

The problem of learning single index and multi index models has gained significant interest as a fundamental task in high-dimensional statistics. Many recent works have analysed gradient-based methods, particularly in the setting of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Elisabetta Cornacchia , Dan Mikulincer , Elchanan Mossel

We give the first efficient algorithm for learning halfspaces in the testable learning model recently defined by Rubinfeld and Vasilyan (2023). In this model, a learner certifies that the accuracy of its output hypothesis is near optimal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Aravind Gollakota , Adam R. Klivans , Konstantinos Stavropoulos , Arsen Vasilyan

It has been a long-standing problem to efficiently learn a halfspace using as few labels as possible in the presence of noise. In this work, we propose an efficient Perceptron-based algorithm for actively learning homogeneous halfspaces…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Songbai Yan , Chicheng Zhang

We give the first polynomial-time algorithm for the testable learning of halfspaces in the presence of adversarial label noise under the Gaussian distribution. In the recently introduced testable learning model, one is required to produce a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Ilias Diakonikolas , Daniel M. Kane , Vasilis Kontonis , Sihan Liu , Nikos Zarifis

We study the algorithmic task of testably learning general Massart halfspaces under the Gaussian distribution. In the testable learning setting, the aim is the design of a tester-learner pair satisfying the following properties: (1) if the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Ilias Diakonikolas , Giannis Iakovidis , Daniel M. Kane , Sihan Liu

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

We study the problem of learning a single neuron with respect to the $L_2^2$-loss in the presence of adversarial distribution shifts, where the labels can be arbitrary, and the goal is to find a ``best-fit'' function. More precisely, given…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Shuyao Li , Sushrut Karmalkar , Ilias Diakonikolas , Jelena Diakonikolas

We study active learning of homogeneous $s$-sparse halfspaces in $\mathbb{R}^d$ under the setting where the unlabeled data distribution is isotropic log-concave and each label is flipped with probability at most $\eta$ for a parameter $\eta…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-16 Chicheng Zhang , Jie Shen , Pranjal Awasthi
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