arXiv:2608. 10869v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Worst-case multiclass bounds do not become smaller when the best classifier is already nearly correct: what is missing is an optimistic rate, a guarantee whose fluctuation scales with the oracle risk itself.
By Xiaoyu Li, Andi Han, Jiaojiao Jiang, Junbin Gao
arXiv:2602. 19172v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Realizable online regression can behave very differently from online classification.
By Ilan Doron-Arad, Idan Mehalel, Elchanan Mossel
arXiv:2607.17469v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: How much does an algorithm's running-time distribution under independent randomness reveal about its behavior when independence is no longer...
By Yunbei Xu
arXiv:2610.32853v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We study the list replicability number in the realizable PAC learning framework and prove that every concept class $H$ over a countable domain with Lit...
By Ari Blondal, Pooya Hatami, Chavdar Lalov, Sivan Tretiak
arXiv:2610. 26944v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Strict replicability requires two independent training samples, processed with the same random seed, to produce exactly the same hypothesis.
By Guangjian Zhang
arXiv:2606. 00414v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: When many reinforcement-learning policies achieve near-optimal return, a post-hoc auditor may have to distinguish among many behaviorally distinct but return-equivalent policies.
By Ibne Farabi Shihab, Sanjeda Akter, Anuj Sharma
arXiv:2609.10196v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Attias, Hanneke and Ramaswami (NeurIPS 2025) asked whether randomization provably reduces the oracle calls needed for online learning when the class...
By Xuan Li
The paper revisits realizable multiclass PAC learning with bandit feedback, correcting a previously claimed lower bound on sample complexity. It introduces a new anchored dimension, “aBDS,” and establishes a constant‑free three‑part lower bound, while also providing tighter upper bounds that eliminate dependence on the total label count. The authors demonstrate that the optimal sample complexity can vary dramatically even among classes with identical dimensional profiles, revealing a confidence direct‑sum phenomenon and a rank‑saturation phase transition.
By Guangjian Zhang
We study the problem of \emph{adversarially robust} PAC learning. In this framework, the learner observes independent samples from an unknown distribution over $\mathcal{X} \times \{0,1\}$, as in clas...
arXiv:2608.30254v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We resolve the threshold part of Question 4 of the COLT 2025 open problem "Data Selection for Regression Tasks" of Hanneke, Moran, Shlimovich and Yehud...
By Guangjian Zhang
Let the exact homogeneous hard-margin support vector machine be trained on \(m\) independent observations from a Borel probability law on a real Hilbert space. We prove that, with score zero counted a...
arXiv:2609.24260v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: We study the problem of \emph{adversarially robust} PAC learning. In this framework, the learner observes independent samples from an unknown distrib...
By Steve Hanneke, Amirreza Shaeiri