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We discuss the relative merits of optimistic and randomized approaches to exploration in reinforcement learning. Optimistic approaches presented in the literature apply an optimistic boost to the value estimate at each state-action pair and select actions that are greedy with respect to the resulting optimistic value f…
Matrix multiplication is a fundamental building block for large scale computations arising in various applications, including machine learning. There has been significant recent interest in using coding to speed up distributed matrix multiplication, that are robust to stragglers (i.e., machines that may perform slower …
We investigate the computational complexity of several basic linear algebra primitives, including largest eigenvector computation and linear regression, in the computational model that allows access to the data via a matrix-vector product oracle. We show that for polynomial accuracy, Θ(d) calls to the oracle are nece…
We describe a model of random links based on random 4-valent maps, which can be sampled due to the work of Schaeffer. We will look at the relationship between the combinatorial information in the diagram and the hyperbolic volume. Specifically, we show that for random alternating diagrams, the expected hyperbolic volum…
We study the generalization properties of ridge regression with random features in the statistical learning framework. We show for the first time that O(1/n) learning bounds can be achieved with only O(nlogn) random features rather than O(n) as suggested by previous results. Further, we prove fa…
We provide a new extension of Breiman's Theorem on computing tail probabilities of a product of random variables to a multivariate setting. In particular, we give a complete characterization of regular variation on cones in [0,∞)d under random linear transformations. This allows us to compute probabilities of a…
We adapt the idea of random projections applied to the output space, so as to enhance tree-based ensemble methods in the context of multi-label classification. We show how learning time complexity can be reduced without affecting computational complexity and accuracy of predictions. We also show that random output spac…
Independent component analysis (ICA) is a method for recovering statistically independent signals from observations of unknown linear combinations of the sources. Some of the most accurate ICA decomposition methods require searching for the inverse transformation which minimizes different approximations of the Mutual I…
Random feature method approximates operators with theoretical guarantees and reduced computation.
problem Approximating operators between infinite dimensional Banach spaces using machine learning.
method Random feature operator learning method with theoretical guarantees and error bounds.
result The random feature method can achieve similar or better test errors than kernel-based methods and neural networks with significantly reduced training times.
Computes expected number of real intersection points of essential variety with random linear spaces.
problem Computing the expected number of real intersection points of the essential variety with random linear spaces.
method Two probability distributions for linear spaces: invariant under orthogonal group action and one motivated from computer vision. Used Monte Carlo simulation for the latter.
result Expected number of real intersection points lies in the interval (3.95 - 0.05, 3.95 + 0.05) with high probability.
The aim of this short note is to draw attention to a method by which the partition function and marginal probabilities for a certain class of random fields on complete graphs can be computed in polynomial time. This class includes Ising models with homogeneous pairwise potentials but arbitrary (inhomogeneous) unary pot…
Study shows a tradeoff between sample complexity and computational efficiency for learning halfspaces with random noise.
problem PAC learning γ-margin halfspaces with Random Classification Noise.
method Established an information-computation tradeoff and provided a simple efficient algorithm with sample complexity O(1/(γ^2 ε^2)). Also, proved lower bounds for SQ algorithms and low-degree polynomial tests.
result Inherent gap between sample complexity and computational efficiency for learning halfspaces with random noise.
In this paper we study a model of random knots obtained by fixing a space curve in n-dimensional Euclidean space with n>3, and orthogonally projecting the space curve on to random 3 dimensional subspaces. By varying the space curve we obtain different models of random parametrized knots, and we will study how the…
This paper presents a sequential randomized lowrank matrix factorization approach for incrementally predicting values of an unknown function at test points using the Gaussian Processes framework. It is well-known that in the Gaussian processes framework, the computational bottlenecks are the inversion of the (regulariz…