arXiv Machine Learning

Exact Risk Ratios for Weighted Data Selection in Linear Regression

arXiv:2608. 28007v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Hanneke, Moran, Shlimovich and Yehudayoff (COLT 2025) posed the following open problem.

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Jul 21

The Price of Hidden Curvature: An $\widetildeΩ (d^{5/4} \sqrt{T})$ Lower Bound for Bandit Convex Optimization

We establish a $\widetildeΩ(d^{5/4}\sqrt T)$ lower bound on the minimax expected regret of stochastic bandit convex optimization of $1$-Lipschitz functions on the Euclidean ball. This presents the first nontrivial regret lower bound that grows faster than $d\sqrt{T}$ for this problem, establishing that stochastic bandit convex optimization is fundamentally harder than linear bandits.

arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 18

The First-Order Oracle Complexity of Lipschitz Convex Optimization in Nondual Settings

arXiv:2609. 20687v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study first-order black-box convex optimization over an $\ell_p$-ball for objectives Lipschitz in the $\ell_q$-norm, solving in the affirmative the nonsmooth version of the COLT open question (Guz15b) on whether the geometry of a smaller feasible set ($p < q$) can improve convergence rates in convex optimization, and matching prior lower bounds up to logarithmic factors.

By David Mart\'inez-Rubio, Brian Bullins, Crist\'obal Guzm\'an, Mathieu Molina
arXiv Statistics ML
Oct 1

Optimal VC Dimension of Contrastive Learning with Margin

arXiv:2609.38834v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Contrastive learning is a successful paradigm for learning $d$-dimensional geometric representations from a collection of ``anchor--positive--negativ...

By Dionysis Arvanitakis, Vaggos Chatziafratis, Yiyuan Luo, Konstantin Makarychev