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Agnostic Learning of Monomials by Halfspaces Is Hard

Agnostic Learning of Monomials by Halfspaces Is Hard

We prove the following strong hardness result for learning: Given a distribution of labeled examples from the hypercube such that there exists a monomial consistent with $(1-\epsilon)$ of the examples it is NP-hard to find a halfspace that is correct on $(1/2+\epsilon)$ of the examples for arbitrary constants $\epsilon>0$. In …