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Summary of Online Learning Of Halfspaces with Massart Noise, by Ilias Diakonikolas et al.


Online Learning of Halfspaces with Massart Noise

by Ilias Diakonikolas, Vasilis Kontonis, Christos Tzamos, Nikos Zarifis

First submitted to arxiv on: 21 May 2024

Categories

  • Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
  • Secondary: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS); Statistics Theory (math.ST); Machine Learning (stat.ML)

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Medium GrooveSquid.com (original content) Medium Difficulty Summary
This paper explores online learning in the presence of Massart noise. The study assumes an adversarial context selection, but with unknown probability, the presented label disagrees with the true label. The researchers focus on γ-margin linear classifiers and propose a computationally efficient algorithm that achieves a mistake bound of ηT + o(T). This bound is qualitatively tight for efficient algorithms, as even in offline settings, achieving error better than η requires super-polynomial time.
Low GrooveSquid.com (original content) Low Difficulty Summary
In this study, scientists are trying to learn new things from the internet while dealing with noisy and unfair information. They assume that the information is selected unfairly, but they don’t know how often it’s wrong. The researchers look at a special type of computer program called linear classifiers and create an efficient way to make predictions. Their results show that even when learning offline, achieving good accuracy requires a lot of time and effort.

Keywords

» Artificial intelligence  » Online learning  » Probability