VLDB 2026 Research / reviewers in the wild / expert
MohammadMahdi Jahanara
dblp:274/2249 · also Mohammad Mahdi Jahanara
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2024
—ORCID · unresolved
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Theory of computation · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Learning theory · 100% | |
| Theoretical computer science
1 paper |
Mathematical optimization · 100% |
Topics — the 4 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Machine learning › Learning theory › PAC learning
agnostic learning |
0.8 | 1 | 2024 | On the Power of Interactive Proofs for Learning · STOC 2024 |
Machine learning › Learning theory
PAC learning |
0.8 | 1 | 2024 | On the Power of Interactive Proofs for Learning · STOC 2024 |
Mathematical optimization › integer programming
doubly efficient proof system |
0.8 | 1 | 2024 | On the Power of Interactive Proofs for Learning · STOC 2024 |
Mathematical optimization
integer programming |
0.8 | 1 | 2024 | On the Power of Interactive Proofs for Learning · STOC 2024 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
k-juntas · 1.5fourier characters · 1.5AC0[2] · 1.5
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | On the Power of Interactive Proofs for LearningabstractWe continue the study of doubly-efficient proof systems for verifying agnostic PAC learning, for which we obtain the following results. We construct an interactive protocol for learning the t largest Fourier characters of a given function f ∶ {0,1}n → {0,1} up to an arbitrarily small error, wherein the verifier uses poly(t) random examples. This improves upon the Interactive Goldreich-Levin protocol of Goldwasser, Rothblum, Shafer, and Yehudayoff (ITCS 2021) whose sample complexity is poly(t,n). For agnostically learning the class AC0[2] under the uniform distribution, we build on the work of Carmosino, Impagliazzo, Kabanets, and Kolokolova (APPROX/RANDOM 2017) and design an interactive protocol, where given a function f ∶ {0,1}n → {0,1}, the verifier learns the closest hypothesis up to polylog(n) multiplicative factor, using quasi-polynomially many random examples. In contrast, this class has been notoriously resistant even for constructing realisable learners (without a prover) using random examples. For agnostically learning k-juntas under the uniform distribution, we obtain an interactive protocol, where the verifier uses O(2k) random examples to a given function f ∶ {0,1}n → {0,1}. Crucially, the sample complexity of the verifier is independent of n. We also show that if we do not insist on doubly-efficient proof systems, then the model becomes trivial. Specifically, we show a protocol for an arbitrary class C of Boolean functions in the distribution-free setting, where the verifier uses O(1) labeled examples to learn f. Tom Gur, MohammadMahdi Jahanara, Mohammad Mahdi Khodabandeh, Ninad Rajgopal, Bahar Salamatian, Igor Shinkar |
STOC | 2 |