2015/05/20 by Steve Hanneke, Hanneke, Steve, Varun Kanade +3 · 2 citations
Computer Science · Decision Sciences · #Advanced Bandit Algorithms Research #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Machine Learning (cs.LG) #Machine Learning and Algorithms #Optimization and Search Problems #cs.LG
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1505.05215
arxiv created 2015/05/20 · openalex publication_date 2015/05/20 · arxiv updated 2015/05/21 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We study the problem of learning in the presence of a drifting target concept. Specifically, we provide bounds on the error rate at a given time, given a learner with access to a history of independent samples labeled according to a target concept that can change on each round. One of our main contributions is a refinement of the best previous results for polynomial-time algorithms for the space of linear separators under a uniform distribution. We also provide general results for an algorithm capable of adapting to a variable rate of drift of the target concept. Some of the results also describe an active learning variant of this setting, and provide bounds on the number of queries for the labels of points in the sequence sufficient to obtain the stated bounds on the error rates.