Learning Probability Distributions - What Can, What Can't Be Done - Shai Ben-David

Learning Probability Distributions - What Can, What Can't Be Done - Shai Ben-David

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The most ambitious framework

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The most ambitious framework

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Learning Probability Distributions - What Can, What Can't Be Done - Shai Ben-David

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  1. 1 Intro
  2. 2 A fundamental statistical learning problem
  3. 3 The most ambitious framework
  4. 4 Such an ambitious task is provably impossible
  5. 5 Talk outline
  6. 6 Part 1: Density estimation of a restricted family of distributions
  7. 7 Our main technical tool - Sample compression schemes
  8. 8 A General Learning Problem
  9. 9 Examples of EMX problems
  10. 10 Binary classification (-- the "clean" case) The "Fundamental Theorem of Statistical Learning"
  11. 11 The case of Subset Probability Maximization
  12. 12 Non-equivalence for EMX
  13. 13 More Sample Compression
  14. 14 Monotone compression for subset probability maximization
  15. 15 Examples of such compression
  16. 16 A Quantitative version
  17. 17 A model theoretic observation
  18. 18 Discussion
  19. 19 New Challenges

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