Black-Box Methods for Restoring Monotonicity

Authors: Evangelia Gergatsouli, Brendan Lucier, Christos Tzamos

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Research Type Theoretical In this work we develop algorithms that are able to restore monotonicity in the parameters of interest. Specifically, given oracle access to a (possibly non-monotone) multi-dimensional real-valued function f, we provide an algorithm that restores monotonicity while degrading the expected value of the function by at most ε. The number of queries required is at most logarithmic in 1/ε and exponential in the number of parameters. We also give a lower bound showing that this exponential dependence is necessary. Finally, we obtain improved query complexity bounds for restoring the weaker property of k-marginal monotonicity.
Researcher Affiliation Collaboration Evangelia Gergatsouli 1 Brendan Lucier 2 Christos Tzamos 1 1University of Wisconsin Madison, WI, USA 2Microsoft Research, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Pseudocode No The paper describes its algorithms in narrative form with mathematical details but does not include structured pseudocode or algorithm blocks.
Open Source Code No The paper does not provide any information or links regarding the availability of open-source code for the described methodology.
Open Datasets No The paper is theoretical and does not conduct experiments on a specific dataset. It refers to theoretical "product distribution of inputs" but does not mention any publicly available or open dataset with access information.
Dataset Splits No The paper is theoretical and does not conduct empirical experiments, so it does not provide details on training, validation, or test dataset splits.
Hardware Specification No The paper is theoretical and does not conduct empirical experiments, thus no hardware specifications are mentioned.
Software Dependencies No The paper is theoretical and does not report on software implementations or specific software dependencies with version numbers.
Experiment Setup No The paper is theoretical and does not conduct empirical experiments, therefore no experimental setup details like hyperparameters or training settings are provided.