arXiv Machine Learning

A Closed-Form Formula for Consistent Lipschitz Regression on Metric Spaces with Sparse Neural Network Realizations

arXiv:2609. 03129v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Several classical machine-learning methods, such as KRRs and SVRs, are both computationally and analytically tractable since their estimators either admit closed-form expressions or are obtained by minimizing convex training objectives; neither feature is generally available for deep neural networks.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 30

Universality of empirical risk minimization

arXiv:2202. 08832v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We study a general class of optimization problems with decision variable $\boldsymbol{\Theta} \in \mathbb{R}^{p \times k}$ and cost function which is the sum of $n$ terms, each dependent on $\boldsymbol{\Theta}$ through the $k$-dimensional projection $\boldsymbol{\Theta}^\top \boldsymbol{x}_i$, where $\boldsymbol{x}_i$, $i \leq n$ are i.

By Andrea Montanari, Basil Saeed
arXiv Machine Learning
1d ago

Parameterized Hardness of Zonotope Containment and Neural Network Verification

The paper proves that several decision and approximation problems for ReLU neural networks are computationally hard. For any number of layers λ≥2, deciding whether a network’s output is positive (and thus whether it is surjective) is W[ℓ−1]-hard when parameterized by the input dimension d. In particular, for two-layer networks, the related geometric problem of zonotope non‑containment is W[1]-hard in the ambient dimension, and computing or approximating the Lp‑Lipschitz constant is NP‑hard and W[ℓ−1]-hard with respect to d. The results also show that these problems remain hard when parameterized by the number of layers for constant d, implying that naive enumeration algorithms running in n^{(ℓ−1)d}·poly(N) time are essentially optimal under the Exponential Time Hypothesis.

By Vincent Froese, Moritz Grillo, Christoph Hertrich, Moritz Stargalla
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 26

Parameterized Complexity of $L_p$-Lipschitz Constants for Input Convex Neural Networks and $L_p$-Norm Maximization over Zonotopes

arXiv:2608.24865v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Lipschitz constants are a standard way to quantify the sensitivity of neural networks to small input perturbations, but computing them is difficult e...

By Aritra Das, Vincent Froese, Moritz Grillo, Debayan Gupta, Christoph Hertrich, Tharrshann Jayan Logarajah, Georg Loho, Mihir More, Moritz Stargalla
arXiv Machine Learning
2d ago

Smoothed Analysis for Learning Concepts with Low Intrinsic Dimension

arXiv:2407. 00966v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In traditional models of supervised learning, the goal of a learner-- given examples from an arbitrary joint distribution on $\mathbb{R}^d \times \{\pm 1\}$-- is to output a hypothesis that is competitive (to within $\epsilon$) of the best fitting concept from some class.

By Gautam Chandrasekaran, Adam Klivans, Vasilis Kontonis, Raghu Meka, Konstantinos Stavropoulos
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 2

Robust Learning of a Group DRO Neuron

arXiv:2601. 18115v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We study the problem of learning a single neuron under standard squared loss in the presence of arbitrary label noise and group-level distributional shifts, for a broad family of covariate distributions.

By Guyang Cao, Shuyao Li, Sushrut Karmalkar, Jelena Diakonikolas