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COLT
2008
Springer
15 years 2 days ago
On the Power of Membership Queries in Agnostic Learning
We study the properties of the agnostic learning framework of Haussler [Hau92] and Kearns, Schapire and Sellie [KSS94]. In particular, we address the question: is there any situat...
Vitaly Feldman
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FOCS
2009
IEEE
15 years 5 months ago
Agnostic Learning of Monomials by Halfspaces Is Hard
— We prove the following strong hardness result for learning: Given a distribution on labeled examples from the hypercube such that there exists a monomial (or conjunction) consi...
Vitaly Feldman, Venkatesan Guruswami, Prasad Ragha...