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COLT
2007
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Stability of k -Means Clustering
Shai Ben-David, Dávid Pál, Hans-Ulri...
COLT
2007
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Observational Learning in Random Networks
In the standard model of observational learning, n agents sequentially decide between two alternatives a or b, one of which is objectively superior. Their choice is based on a stoc...
Julian Lorenz, Martin Marciniszyn, Angelika Steger
COLT
2007
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
A Lower Bound for Agnostically Learning Disjunctions
We prove that the concept class of disjunctions cannot be pointwise approximated by linear combinations of any small set of arbitrary real-valued functions. That is, suppose there ...
Adam R. Klivans, Alexander A. Sherstov
COLT
2007
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
How Good Is a Kernel When Used as a Similarity Measure?
Recently, Balcan and Blum [1] suggested a theory of learning based on general similarity functions, instead of positive semi-definite kernels. We study the gap between the learnin...
Nathan Srebro
COLT
2007
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Bounded Parameter Markov Decision Processes with Average Reward Criterion
Bounded parameter Markov Decision Processes (BMDPs) address the issue of dealing with uncertainty in the parameters of a Markov Decision Process (MDP). Unlike the case of an MDP, t...
Ambuj Tewari, Peter L. Bartlett
COLT
2007
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Occam's Hammer
Abstract. We establish a generic theoretical tool to construct probabilistic bounds for algorithms where the output is a subset of objects from an initial pool of candidates (or mo...
Gilles Blanchard, François Fleuret
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COLT
2007
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Sparse Density Estimation with l1 Penalties
Florentina Bunea, Alexandre B. Tsybakov, Marten H....
COLT
2007
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Mitotic Classes
For the natural notion of splitting classes into two disjoint subclasses via a recursive classifier working on texts, the question is addressed how these splittings can look in th...
Sanjay Jain, Frank Stephan
COLT
2007
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Learning Large-Alphabet and Analog Circuits with Value Injection Queries
Abstract. We consider the problem of learning an acyclic discrete circuit with n wires, fan-in bounded by k and alphabet size s using value injection queries. For the class of tran...
Dana Angluin, James Aspnes, Jiang Chen, Lev Reyzin