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New paper details SoS degree barriers in robust halfspace learning

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A new research paper introduces a characterization of Sum-of-Squares (SoS) degree barriers within the Reweighted-Hinge method for robust halfspace learning. The study, which focuses on learning under malicious noise, establishes a principle where the maximal corruption mass that can hide from a certificate is directly related to the Christoffel function of the clean marginal. This leads to a margin-degree tradeoff, a specific degree-2 outlier barrier, and a degree-2t algorithm that traces a performance frontier. AI

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  1. arXiv stat.ML TIER_1 English(EN) · Xiaoyu Li ·

    Sum-of-Squares Degree Barriers for the Reweighted-Hinge Method in Robust Halfspace Learning: A Christoffel-Function Characterization

    arXiv:2606.17215v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A certificate that removes outliers sees the data only through its low-degree moments, and an adversary exploits exactly this, hiding corruption where the clean data already looks typical, in the blind spot no bounded-degree test …

  2. arXiv stat.ML TIER_1 English(EN) · Xiaoyu Li ·

    Sum-of-Squares Degree Barriers for the Reweighted-Hinge Method in Robust Halfspace Learning: A Christoffel-Function Characterization

    A certificate that removes outliers sees the data only through its low-degree moments, and an adversary exploits exactly this, hiding corruption where the clean data already looks typical, in the blind spot no bounded-degree test resolves. That blind spot turns out to have an exa…

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