arXiv Machine Learning

Sharp Low-Degree Thresholds for Planted-vs-Planted Testing

arXiv:2606. 05266v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We establish the first sharp thresholds for low-degree polynomial tests in planted-vs-planted settings, where the goal is to determine with vanishing error which of two structured planted mechanisms generated the observed data.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 18

Robust Detection of Planted Subgraphs in Semi-Random Models

arXiv:2508. 02158v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Detection of planted subgraphs in Erd\"os-R\'enyi random graphs has been extensively studied, leading to a rich body of results characterizing both statistical and computational thresholds.

By Dor Elimelech, Wasim Huleihel
arXiv AI
2d ago

Four Ways to Grow a Classifier and Why One of Them Cannot Learn

The paper investigates four ways to grow a classifier—adding a tree level, a hidden unit, a leaf split, and a statistically significant split—under a fixed protocol for tree‑structured and constructive models. It shows that the most natural method of deepening a soft decision tree by duplicating a leaf’s class distribution leaves the gradient of new gates identically zero, preventing learning, and proposes a small random perturbation as a fix. The other three growth decisions each provide a distinct benefit: fitting a new hidden unit to residual error yields a smaller network, splitting the leaf with the largest expected error adds sparsity, and requiring statistical significance before splitting adds no value and reduces accuracy.

By Cagri Temel
arXiv AI
Sep 4

AutoGraphForge: Towards Automated Graph Theory Discovery

AutoGraphForge is a computational pipeline designed to automate the discovery, refutation, formalization, and proving of graph-theoretic conjectures. It generates conjectures using a Graffiti3 generator, filters out known results with a novelty filter, tests candidates against a large dataset of graphs, and refines surviving conjectures through counterexample search. The pipeline then translates each conjecture into Lean 4, verifies proofs with neural provers, and integrates the results into a formal library.

By J\'an Pastorek