Learning Theory

Economics and Game Theory.- Towards a Characterization of Polynomial Preference Elicitation with Value Queries in Combinatorial Auctions.- Graphical Economics.- Deterministic Calibration and Nash Equilibrium.- Reinforcement Learning for Average Reward Zero-Sum Games.- OnLine Learning.- Polynomial Time Prediction Strategy with Almost Optimal Mistake Probability.- Minimizing Regret with Label Efficient Prediction.- Regret Bounds for Hierarchical Classification with Linear-Threshold Functions.- Online Geometric Optimization in the Bandit Setting Against an Adaptive Adversary.- Inductive Inference.- Learning Classes of Probabilistic Automata.- On the Learnability of E-pattern Languages over Small Alphabets.- Replacing Limit Learners with Equally Powerful One-Shot Query Learners.- Probabilistic Models.- Concentration Bounds for Unigrams Language Model.- Inferring Mixtures of Markov Chains.- Boolean Function Learning.- PExact = Exact Learning.- Learning a Hidden Graph Using O(log n) Queries Per Edge.- Toward Attribute Efficient Learning of Decision Lists and Parities.- Empirical Processes.- Learning Over Compact Metric Spaces.- A Function Representation for Learning in Banach Spaces.- Local Complexities for Empirical Risk Minimization.- Model Selection by Bootstrap Penalization for Classification.- MDL.- Convergence of Discrete MDL for Sequential Prediction.- On the Convergence of MDL Density Estimation.- Suboptimal Behavior of Bayes and MDL in Classification Under Misspecification.- Generalisation I.- Learning Intersections of Halfspaces with a Margin.- A General Convergence Theorem for the Decomposition Method.- Generalisation II.- Oracle Bounds and Exact Algorithm for Dyadic Classification Trees.- An Improved VC Dimension Bound for Sparse Polynomials.- A New PAC Bound for Intersection-Closed Concept Classes.- Clustering and Distributed Learning.- A Framework for Statistical Clustering with a Constant Time Approximation Algorithms for K-Median Clustering.- Data