3 papers
cs.LG2026
Learning Half-Spaces from Perturbed Contrastive Examples
Aryan Alavi Razavi Ravari, Farnam Mansouri, Yuxin Chen +3
We study learning under a two-step contrastive example oracle, as introduced by Mansouri et. al. (2025), where each queried (or sampled) labeled example is paired with an additiona…
cs.LG2025
Formal Models of Active Learning from Contrastive Examples
Farnam Mansouri, Hans U. Simon, Adish Singla +2
Machine learning can greatly benefit from providing learning algorithms with pairs of contrastive training examples -- typically pairs of instances that differ only slightly, yet h…
cs.LG2020
Understanding the Power and Limitations of Teaching with Imperfect Knowledge
Rati Devidze, Farnam Mansouri, Luis Haug +2
Machine teaching studies the interaction between a teacher and a student/learner where the teacher selects training examples for the learner to learn a specific task. The typical a…