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New algorithm learns halfspaces without synthetic data

Researchers have developed a new algorithm for learning halfspaces without relying on synthetic data, addressing a long-standing challenge in computational geometry. The algorithm achieves tight bounds of $\Theta(D + \log n)$ for learning halfspaces with normal vectors from a set of size $D$. This approach also yields nearly optimal algorithms for PAC-learning, requiring $O(\min(D + \log(1/\varepsilon), 1/\varepsilon) \cdot \log D)$ queries to learn a function within error $\varepsilon$, even with adversarial corruption. AI

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New algorithm learns halfspaces without synthetic data

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  1. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Hadley Black, Kasper Green Larsen, Arya Mazumdar, Barna Saha, Geelon So ·

    Actively Learning Halfspaces without Synthetic Data

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