Tight Bounds for Learning RUMs from Small Slates

Authors: Flavio Chierichetti, Mirko Giacchini, Ravi Kumar, Alessandro Panconesi, Andrew Tomkins

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Reproducibility Variable Result LLM Response
Research Type Theoretical Our contributions. We present two main results representing paired upper and lower bounds for this question. The upper bound shows that... Our new algorithm learns any RUM to within an ℓ -error (resp., ℓ1-error) of ϵ > 0 in ϵ (resp., n O( ϵ )). Our near-matching lower bound shows that... Based on this lower bound, we also obtain lower bounds to fractional extensions of the well-studied k-deck and trace reconstruction problems. (Introduction) Also, in Neur IPS Paper Checklist, question 4 asks: 'Does the paper fully disclose all the information needed to reproduce the main experimental results of the paper to the extent that it affects the main claims and/or conclusions of the paper (regardless of whether the code and data are provided or not)?' Answer: [NA] Justification: the paper does not include experiments.
Researcher Affiliation Collaboration Flavio Chierichetti Sapienza University of Rome flavio@di.uniroma1.it Mirko Giacchini Sapienza University of Rome giacchini@di.uniroma1.it Ravi Kumar Google, Mountain View ravi.k53@gmail.com Alessandro Panconesi Sapienza University of Rome ale@di.uniroma1.it Andrew Tomkins Google, Mountain View atomkins@gmail.com
Pseudocode No Appendix D provides a description of how coefficients can be computed, noting 'it is easy to devise a dynamic programming algorithm' but it is presented in prose, not as a formally structured pseudocode or algorithm block.
Open Source Code No The Neur IPS Paper Checklist states: 'Question: Does the paper provide open access to the data and code, with sufficient instructions to faithfully reproduce the main experimental results, as described in supplemental material? Answer: [NA] Justification: the paper does not include experiments requiring code.'
Open Datasets No The paper is theoretical and does not use any datasets.
Dataset Splits No The paper is theoretical and does not perform experiments requiring data splits.
Hardware Specification No The paper is theoretical and does not describe any experimental hardware.
Software Dependencies No The paper is theoretical and does not list specific software dependencies with version numbers.
Experiment Setup No The paper is theoretical and does not include an experimental setup or hyperparameters.