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Weighted empirical risk minimization is a common approach to prediction under distribution drift. This article studies its out-of-sample prediction error under nonstationarity. We provide a general decomposition of the excess risk into a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-19 Tobias Brock , Thomas Nagler

In scientific machine learning, regression networks have been recently applied to approximate solution maps (e.g., potential-ground state map of Schr\"odinger equation). In this paper, we aim to reduce the generalization error without…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-16 Zhihan Li , Yuwei Fan , Lexing Ying

Transfer learning is a machine learning paradigm where knowledge from one problem is utilized to solve a new but related problem. While conceivable that knowledge from one task could be useful for solving a related task, if not executed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Xuetong Wu , Jonathan H. Manton , Uwe Aickelin , Jingge Zhu

In this work, we develop a simple algorithm for semi-supervised regression. The key idea is to use the top eigenfunctions of integral operator derived from both labeled and unlabeled examples as the basis functions and learn the prediction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-07-03 Ming Ji , Tianbao Yang , Binbin Lin , Rong Jin , Jiawei Han

Transfer learning has been proven effective when within-target labeled data is scarce. A lot of works have developed successful algorithms and empirically observed positive transfer effect that improves target generalization error using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Zirui Wang

There have been extensive studies on solving differential equations using physics-informed neural networks. While this method has proven advantageous in many cases, a major criticism lies in its lack of analytical error bounds. Therefore,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Shuheng Liu , Xiyue Huang , Pavlos Protopapas

Adaptivity is an important feature of data analysis---typically the choice of questions asked about a dataset depends on previous interactions with the same dataset. However, generalization error is typically bounded in a non-adaptive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-11-11 Raef Bassily , Adam Smith , Thomas Steinke , Jonathan Ullman

In this paper, we study transfer learning for high-dimensional factor-augmented sparse linear models, motivated by applications in economics and finance where strongly correlated predictors and latent factor structures pose major challenges…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-23 Bo Fu , Dandan Jiang

This work provides a theoretical framework for assessing the generalization error of graph neural networks in the over-parameterized regime, where the number of parameters surpasses the quantity of data points. We explore two widely…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-07-02 Gholamali Aminian , Yixuan He , Gesine Reinert , Łukasz Szpruch , Samuel N. Cohen

In Programming by Demonstration, the robot learns novel skills from human demonstrations. After learning, the robot should be able not only to reproduce the skill, but also to generalize it to shifted domains without collecting new training…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Hector Perez-Villeda , Justus Piater , Matteo Saveriano

Posterior drift refers to changes in the relationship between responses and covariates while the distributions of the covariates remain unchanged. In this work, we explore functional linear regression under posterior drift with transfer…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-12-20 Xiaoyu Hu , Zhenhua Lin

The generalization error curve of certain kernel regression method aims at determining the exact order of generalization error with various source condition, noise level and choice of the regularization parameter rather than the minimax…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Yicheng Li , Weiye Gan , Zuoqiang Shi , Qian Lin

Understanding the theoretical capabilities and limitations of quantum machine learning (QML) models to solve machine learning tasks is crucial to advancing both quantum software and hardware developments. Similarly to the classical setting,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Qiuhao Chen , Yuling Jiao , Yinan Li , Xiliang Lu , Jerry Zhijian Yang

Operator learning has emerged as a new paradigm for the data-driven approximation of nonlinear operators. Despite its empirical success, the theoretical underpinnings governing the conditions for efficient operator learning remain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Nikola B. Kovachki , Samuel Lanthaler , Hrushikesh Mhaskar

Transfer learning (TL) has emerged as a powerful tool to supplement data collected for a target task with data collected for a related source task. The Bayesian framework is natural for TL because information from the source data can be…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-06-06 Mohamed A. Abba , Jonathan P. Williams , Brian J. Reich

We analyze new generalization bounds for deep learning models trained by transfer learning from a source to a target task. Our bounds utilize a quantity called the majority predictor accuracy, which can be computed efficiently from data. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Cuong N. Nguyen , Lam Si Tung Ho , Vu Dinh , Tal Hassner , Cuong V. Nguyen

Predicting student performance under varying data distributions is a challenging task. This study proposes a method to improve prediction accuracy by employing transfer learning techniques on the dataset with varying distributions. Using…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Yan Zhao

We establish empirical risk minimization principles for active learning by deriving a family of upper bounds on the generalization error. Aligning with empirical observations, the bounds suggest that superior query algorithms can be…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-09-17 Vincent Menden , Yahya Saleh , Armin Iske

Neural networks offer good approximation to many tasks but consistently fail to reach perfect generalization, even when theoretical work shows that such perfect solutions can be expressed by certain architectures. Using the task of formal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Nur Lan , Emmanuel Chemla , Roni Katzir

A major goal of unsupervised learning is to discover data representations that are useful for subsequent tasks, without access to supervised labels during training. Typically, this involves minimizing a surrogate objective, such as the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-27 Luke Metz , Niru Maheswaranathan , Brian Cheung , Jascha Sohl-Dickstein
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