arXiv:2608. 04686v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study distributionally robust PAC learning for the $0$--$1$-loss, where adversarial perturbations of the data distribution are constrained by a Cressie--Read divergence of order $k>1$ and radius $\rho\geq 0$.
By Elad Aigner-Horev, Daniel Rosenberg, Roi Weiss
arXiv:2609.13703v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: In the best-arm identification problem, we are given $n$ stochastic arms with unknown means and wish to identify the arm with the largest mean with p...
By Jiarui Yao, Jiaxi Zhao, Xiangxin Zhou
We study distributionally robust PAC learning for the $0$--$1$-loss, where adversarial perturbations of the data distribution are constrained by a Cressie--Read divergence of order $k>1$ and radius $ρ\geq 0$. For hypothesis classes with VC dimension $d$, we establish realizable and agnostic sample-complexity bounds tight up to constant and logarithmic factors, respectively; ordinary empirical risk minimization attains both rates up to logarithmic factors.
arXiv:2608. 02538v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper is concerned with one-bit mean estimation, where each independent sample is represented by a single binary message.
By Jiachen Hu, Han Zhong
arXiv:2609.10529v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: We prove the gap-entropy conjecture for fixed-confidence best-arm identification with independent unit-variance Gaussian arms, means in $[0,1]$, and...
By P. M. Aronow, Nathan Kallus, Patrick Lopatto
arXiv:2609.15268v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We revisit Valiant's algorithm (Commun. ACM'84) for learning $n$-variable CNF formulas with clause size $k$ and variable degree $d$ from i.i.d. uniform...
By Weiming Feng, Yixiao Yu, Yiyao Zhang