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Puqian Wang

5 accepted papers

2024

Robustly Learning Single-Index Models via Alignment Sharpness

ICML 2024poster

We study the problem of learning Single-Index Models under the $L_2^2$ loss in the agnostic model. We give an efficient learning algorithm, achieving a constant factor approximation to the optimal loss, that succeeds under a range of distributions (including log-concave distributions) and a broad cl…

Cited by 6SourcePDFScholar
2024

Sample and Computationally Efficient Robust Learning of Gaussian Single-Index Models

NeurIPS 2024poster

A single-index model (SIM) is a function of the form $\sigma(\mathbf{w}^{\ast} \cdot \mathbf{x})$, where $\sigma: \mathbb{R} \to \mathbb{R}$ is a known link function and $\mathbf{w}^{\ast}$ is a hidden unit vector. We study the task of learning SIMs in the agnostic (a.k.a. adversarial label noise)…

Cited by 1SourcePDFScholar
2023

Near-Optimal Bounds for Learning Gaussian Halfspaces with Random Classification Noise

NeurIPS 2023poster

We study the problem of learning general (i.e., not necessarily homogeneous) halfspaces with Random Classification Noise under the Gaussian distribution. We establish nearly-matching algorithmic and Statistical Query (SQ) lower bound results revealing a surprising information-computation gap for…

Cited by 2SourcePDFScholar
2023

Robustly Learning a Single Neuron via Sharpness

ICML 2023oral

We study the problem of learning a single neuron with respect to the $L_2^2$-loss in the presence of adversarial label noise. We give an efficient algorithm that, for a broad family of activations including ReLUs, approximates the optimal $L_2^2$-error within a constant factor. Notably, our algorith…

Cited by 9SourcePDFScholar