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POPL 2021
Sun 17 - Fri 22 January 2021 Online
Tue 19 Jan 2021 18:00 - 18:15 at CPP - AI and Machine Learning Chair(s): Ekaterina Komendantskaya

We present a machine-checked, formal proof of PAC learnability of the concept class of decision stumps. This classic result in machine learning theory derives a bound on error probabilities for a simple type of classifier. We construct and check our proof using the Lean theorem prover. Though such a proof appears simple on paper, analytic and measure-theoretic subtleties arise when carrying it out fully formally. We explain how we can cleanly separate out parts that deal with these subtleties.

Tue 19 Jan

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18:00 - 18:30
AI and Machine LearningCPP at CPP
Chair(s): Ekaterina Komendantskaya Heriot-Watt University, UK

Streamed session: https://youtu.be/6NJdWdiZEiA

18:00
15m
Talk
A Formal Proof of PAC Learnability for Decision Stumps
CPP
Joseph Tassarotti Boston College, Koundinya Vajjha University of Pittsburgh, Anindya Banerjee IMDEA Software Institute, Jean-Baptiste Tristan Boston College
Pre-print Media Attached
18:15
15m
Talk
CertRL: Formalizing Convergence Proofs for Value and Policy Iteration in Coq
CPP
Koundinya Vajjha University of Pittsburgh, Avraham Shinnar IBM Research, Barry Trager IBM Research, Vasily Pestun IBM Research; IHES, Nathan Fulton IBM Research
Pre-print Media Attached