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Poster

Linear Label Ranking with Bounded Noise

Dimitris Fotakis · Alkis Kalavasis · Vasilis Kontonis · Christos Tzamos

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Keywords: [ Label Ranking ] [ Gaussian ] [ Linear Sorting Function ] [ Noise ]


Abstract: Label Ranking (LR) is the supervised task of learning a sorting function that maps feature vectors xRd to rankings σ(x)Sk over a finite set of k labels. We focus on the fundamental case of learning linear sorting functions (LSFs) under Gaussian marginals: x is sampled from the d-dimensional standard normal and the ground truth ranking σ(x) is the ordering induced by sorting the coordinates of the vector Wx, where WRk×d is unknown. We consider learning LSFs in the presence of bounded noise: assuming that a noiseless example is of the form (x,σ(x)), we observe (x,π), where for any pair of elements ij, the probability that the order of i,j is different in π than in σ(x) is at most η<1/2. We design efficient non-proper and proper learning algorithms that learn hypotheses within normalized Kendall's Tau distance ϵ from the ground truth with N=˜O(dlog(k)/ϵ) labeled examples and runtime poly(N,k). For the more challenging top-r disagreement loss, we give an efficient proper learning algorithm that achieves ϵ top-r disagreement with the ground truth with N=˜O(dkr/ϵ) samples and poly(N) runtime.

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