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cs.LG2026

Tight Sample Complexity for Low-Rank Adaptation: Matching Bounds and Rank Selection

Arunan J

The paper derives matching upper and lower bounds on the sample complexity of low‑rank adaptation (LoRA) for fine‑tuning large models and provides a formal analysis of how to selec…

#low-rank adaptation#sample complexity#rank selection#generalization bounds
cs.LG2026

Actions Have Consequences: Detecting Outcome Performativity using Intervention Testing

Brandon Gower-Winter, Georg Krempl

The paper proposes a method called Outcome Performativity A/B Detection (OPAB) to identify when predictions causally affect the outcomes they forecast, by comparing outcome distrib…

#outcome performativity#causal prediction#intervention testing#sample complexity
math.ST2026

Sample Complexity for the 2-Gromov-Wasserstein Distance

Pui Kuen Leung, Riku Okada, Samuel Lok-Hei Wong

The paper studies how many samples are needed for the empirical plug‑in estimator of the 2‑Gromov‑Wasserstein distance between compactly supported probability measures in Euclidean…

#gromov-wasserstein distance#sample complexity#optimal transport#empirical processes
cs.LG2026

CASP: Learning-Augmented Offline Approximation with Verifiable Certificates and Bounded-Loss PAC Guarantees

Haifeng Li, Mo Hai

The paper proposes CASP, a learning-augmented framework that uses machine‑learned predictions to prune the search space of offline NP‑hard optimization problems, while a polynomial…

#learning-augmented algorithms#offline optimization#verifiable certificates#PAC guarantees
quant-ph2026

Quantum tomography for non-iid sources

Leonardo Zambrano

The paper proves that projected least‑squares quantum tomography retains optimal sample complexity even when the prepared states or channels are not independent and identically dis…

#quantum tomography#non-iid sources#sample complexity#projected least-squares
cs.DS2026

Entropy Equivalence Testing

Clément L. Canonne, Yash Pote, Jonathan Scarlett +1

The paper defines entropy equivalence testing, a relaxation of distribution closeness testing that distinguishes identical distributions from those whose Shannon entropies differ b…

#distribution testing#entropy estimation#closeness testing#bayesian networks
quant-ph2026

The log log jam in Gaussian state tomography

Sitan Chen, Weiyuan Gong, Qi Ye +1

The paper proves that any tomography protocol using Gaussian measurements on continuous‑variable systems inevitably incurs a sample complexity that scales as log log E with the sys…

#gaussian state tomography#continuous-variable systems#sample complexity#adaptive measurements
cs.DS2026

Testing the Independent Set Property in Hypergraphs

Elena Grigorescu, Shreya Nasa, Cameron Seth

The paper presents a new upper bound on the sample complexity for testing whether a q‑uniform hypergraph has an independent set of size ρn, improving previous results by reducing t…

#property testing#hypergraphs#independent set#sample complexity
cs.LG2026

Distributionally Robust Reinforcement Learning with Interactive Data Collection: Fundamental Hardness and Near-Optimal Algorithms

Miao Lu, Han Zhong, Tong Zhang +1

The paper studies reinforcement learning where the learner must be robust to differences between training and deployment environments, using interactive data collection and proposi…

#distributionally robust reinforcement learning#interactive data collection#exploration‑exploitation tradeoff#robust markov decision processes
cs.LG2026

Generalizing Preference-based Reinforcement Learning: a Rationality Model for Incomparability

Simone Drago, Marco Mussi, Leonardo Bianconi +1

The paper extends preference‑based reinforcement learning by allowing human experts to label trajectory pairs as incomparable, and introduces a Bradley‑Terry‑inspired rationality m…

#preference learning#incomparability#multi‑objective reward modeling#sample complexity
cs.LG2026

From Expressivity to Sample Complexity: Narrow Teachers for Transformers via C-RASP

Michael Rizvi-Martel, Satwik Bhattamishra, Guillaume Rabusseau +1

The paper derives preliminary sample complexity bounds for learning C‑RASP constructions with Transformer models, linking their expressive power to learnability.

#transformer theory#expressivity#sample complexity#learnability
quant-ph2026

Optimal tomography of bosonic and fermionic Gaussian states

Senrui Chen, Marco Fanizza, Filippo Girardi +4

The paper determines the exact sample complexity for learning bosonic and fermionic Gaussian quantum states, showing that a number of copies scaling quadratically with the number o…

#quantum state tomography#bosonic gaussian states#fermionic gaussian states#sample complexity
cs.DS2026

Learning and Testing Convex Functions

Renato Ferreira Pinto, Cassandra Marcussen, Elchanan Mossel +1

The paper investigates how to learn and test real-valued convex functions under the Gaussian distribution, providing algorithms with explicit sample‑complexity bounds assuming the…

#convex functions#gaussian measure#learning theory#property testing

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