no code implementations • 17 Feb 2025 • Ilias Diakonikolas, Mingchen Ma, Lisheng Ren, Christos Tzamos
In more detail, even for three labels and constant separation, we give a super-polynomial lower bound on the complexity of any SQ algorithm achieving optimal error.
no code implementations • 16 Jan 2025 • Ancheng Xu, Di Yang, Renhao Li, Jingwei Zhu, Minghuan Tan, Min Yang, Wanxin Qiu, Mingchen Ma, Haihong Wu, Bingyu Li, Feng Sha, Chengming Li, Xiping Hu, Qiang Qu, Derek F. Wong, Ruifeng Xu
Traditional in-person psychological counseling remains primarily niche, often chosen by individuals with psychological issues, while online automated counseling offers a potential solution for those hesitant to seek help due to feelings of shame.
no code implementations • 31 Dec 2024 • Ilias Diakonikolas, Daniel M. Kane, Mingchen Ma
Specifically, to beat the passive label complexity of $\tilde{O} (d/\epsilon)$, an active learner requires a pool of $2^{poly(d)}$ unlabeled samples.
no code implementations • 13 May 2024 • Vasilis Kontonis, Mingchen Ma, Christos Tzamos
We measure the complexity of the region queries via the VC dimension of the family of regions.
no code implementations • 6 Jun 2023 • Mingchen Ma, Christos Tzamos
In this paper, we study how to buy information for stochastic optimization and formulate this question as an online learning problem.
no code implementations • 9 Jun 2022 • Alberto Del Pia, Mingchen Ma, Christos Tzamos
Our main result is a computationally efficient algorithm that can identify large clusters with $O\left(\frac{nk \log n} {(1-2p)^2}\right) + \text{poly}\left(\log n, k, \frac{1}{1-2p} \right)$ queries, matching the guarantees of the best known algorithms in the fully-random model.