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cs.LG2022

Multitask Learning via Shared Features: Algorithms and Hardness

Konstantina Bairaktari, Guy Blanc, Li-Yang Tan +2

We investigate the computational efficiency of multitask learning of Boolean functions over the -dimensional hypercube, that are related by means of a feature representation of…

cs.LG20218 cited

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Guy Blanc, Jane Lange, Li-Yang Tan

We consider the problem of explaining the predictions of an arbitrary blackbox model : given query access to and an instance , output a small set of 's features that i…

cs.LG2021

Decision tree heuristics can fail, even in the smoothed setting

Guy Blanc, Jane Lange, Mingda Qiao +1

Greedy decision tree learning heuristics are mainstays of machine learning practice, but theoretical justification for their empirical success remains elusive. In fact, it has long…

cs.LG2021

Learning stochastic decision trees

Guy Blanc, Jane Lange, Li-Yang Tan

We give a quasipolynomial-time algorithm for learning stochastic decision trees that is optimally resilient to adversarial noise. Given an -corrupted set of uniform random sampl…

cs.LG2020

Estimating decision tree learnability with polylogarithmic sample complexity

Guy Blanc, Neha Gupta, Jane Lange +1

We show that top-down decision tree learning heuristics are amenable to highly efficient learnability estimation: for monotone target functions, the error of the decision tree hypo…

cs.LG2020

Universal guarantees for decision tree induction via a higher-order splitting criterion

Guy Blanc, Neha Gupta, Jane Lange +1

We propose a simple extension of top-down decision tree learning heuristics such as ID3, C4.5, and CART. Our algorithm achieves provable guarantees for all target functions $f: \{-…