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New combinatorial condition settles proper positive-only learning question

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Researchers have settled a long-standing question in machine learning regarding proper positive-only learning. The study establishes that a concept class is properly learnable from positive-only samples if it possesses finite VC dimension and meets a new condition termed uniform exterior separability. This characterization highlights significant differences from standard PAC learning, including separations between proper and improper learning, and deterministic and randomized proper learning. AI

IMPACT Introduces a new combinatorial condition that may advance theoretical understanding in machine learning.

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New combinatorial condition settles proper positive-only learning question

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  1. arXiv stat.ML TIER_1 English(EN) · Shai Ben-David, Farnam Mansouri, Anay Mehrotra, Manolis Zampetakis ·

    Surprises in Proper Positive-Only Learning

    arXiv:2606.28309v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Binary classification from positive-only samples is a variant of PAC learning in which the learner receives i.i.d. samples from the positive region of an unknown target concept, but is evaluated under the original distribution (whic…

  2. arXiv stat.ML TIER_1 English(EN) · Manolis Zampetakis ·

    Surprises in Proper Positive-Only Learning

    Binary classification from positive-only samples is a variant of PAC learning in which the learner receives i.i.d. samples from the positive region of an unknown target concept, but is evaluated under the original distribution (which places mass on both positive and negative regi…

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