Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 13

Bagging Robustly Learns VC Classes with Linear Sample Complexity

We revisit the problem of learning predictors robust to adversarial examples at test-time. We prove that VC classes are adversarially robustly learnable with sample complexity linear in the VC dimension $d$, providing an exponential improvement over the previous upper bound of Montasser, Hanneke, and Srebro (2019).

arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 17

Efficient Robust Learning at the Information-Theoretic Limit

The paper presents a polynomial‑time algorithm for robustly learning Boolean concept classes with respect to a fixed distribution, achieving the optimal error rate of η + ε where η is the noise rate. It builds on Blanc’s earlier, computationally inefficient algorithm and introduces no‑regret learners to overcome the previous limitations. Additionally, the authors provide an efficient method that does not require an ERM oracle for any function class admitting sandwiching polynomials under hypercontractive distributions, including a first polynomial‑time solution for learning halfspaces with Gaussian marginals at error η + ε.

By Adam R. Klivans, Konstantinos Stavropoulos, Sergei Tikhonov, Arsen Vasilyan
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 17

Reliable learning in challenging environments

The paper addresses the challenge of creating machine learning learners that can guarantee provably correct predictions in difficult test-time scenarios, such as adversarial attacks and natural distribution shifts. It introduces a reliable learner with optimal theoretical guarantees for these settings and discusses practical implementations. The authors demonstrate strong performance on examples like linear separators under log-concave distributions and smooth boundary classifiers under smooth probability distributions.

By Maria-Florina Balcan, Steve Hanneke, Rattana Pukdee, Dravyansh Sharma