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Robust Learning of Mixtures of Gaussians

Data Structures and Algorithms 2020-07-14 v1 Machine Learning Statistics Theory Statistics Theory

Abstract

We resolve one of the major outstanding problems in robust statistics. In particular, if XX is an evenly weighted mixture of two arbitrary dd-dimensional Gaussians, we devise a polynomial time algorithm that given access to samples from XX an \eps\eps-fraction of which have been adversarially corrupted, learns XX to error \poly(\eps)\poly(\eps) in total variation distance.

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@article{arxiv.2007.05912,
  title  = {Robust Learning of Mixtures of Gaussians},
  author = {Daniel M. Kane},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.05912},
  year   = {2020}
}