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This paper is devoted to guaranteed estimation (so-called minimax estimation) of linear functions, defined on the solutions domain of the linear descriptor difference equations (LDDE) system, where right-hand part and initial condition are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Serhiy M. Zhuk

The creation and justification of the methods for minimax estimation of parameters of the external boundary value problems for the Helmholtz equation in unbounded domains are considered. When observations are distributed in subdomains, the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-10-14 Yury Podlipenko , Yury Shestopalov , Vladimir Prishlyak

We consider the problem of testing the hypothesis that the parameter of linear regression model is 0 against an s-sparse alternative separated from 0 in the l2-distance. We show that, in Gaussian linear regression model with p < n, where p…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-10-11 Alexandra Carpentier , Olivier Collier , Laëtitia Comminges , Alexandre B. Tsybakov , Yuhao Wang

We study the problem of estimating an unknown function from noisy data using shallow ReLU neural networks. The estimators we study minimize the sum of squared data-fitting errors plus a regularization term proportional to the squared…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-01-24 Rahul Parhi , Robert D. Nowak

The paper presents analytic expressions of minimax (worst-case) estimates for solutions of linear abstract Neumann problems in Hilbert space with uncertain (not necessarily bounded!) inputs and boundary conditions given incomplete…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-12-27 Alexander Nakonechnyi , Sergiy Zhuk

A sensor network is considered where a sequence of random variables is observed at each sensor. At each time step, a processed version of the observations is transmitted from the sensors to a common node called the fusion center. At some…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-08-21 Taposh Banerjee , Venugopal. V. Veeravalli

Deformable image registration is a standard engineering problem used to determine the distortion experienced by a body by comparing two images of it in different states. This study introduces two new DIR methods designed to capture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Daniel E. Hurtado , Axel Osses , Rodrigo Quezada

For the problem of nonparametric detection of signal in Gaussian white noise we point out strong asymptotically minimax tests. The sets of alternatives are a ball in Besov space $B^r_{2\infty}$ with "small" balls in $L_2$ removed.

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-05-23 Mikhail Ermakov

In this paper, we consider adaptive estimation of an unknown planar compact, convex set from noisy measurements of its support function on a uniform grid. Both the problem of estimating the support function at a point and that of estimating…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-08-18 Tony Cai , Adityanand Guntuboyina , Yuting Wei

We consider the problem of recovering of continuous multi-dimensional functions from the noisy observations over the regular grid. Our focus is at the adaptive estimation in the case when the function can be well recovered using a linear…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2009-03-06 Anatoli Iouditski , Arkadii S. Nemirovski

We revisit the problem of non-parametric closed-loop identification in frequency domain; we give a brief survey of the literature and provide a small noise analysis of the direct, indirect, and joint input-output methods when two…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-13 Mohamed Abdalmoaty , Roy S. Smith

This paper presents a novel approach to solving large-scale minimax problems with nonsmooth regularizers. We propose a stochastic implicit proximal point algorithm with variance reduction techniques where stochastic oracles are selected in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-25 Kehan Zhu , Jiani Wang , Yu-Hong Dai

This paper considers the Linear Minimum Variance recursive state estimation for the linear discrete time dynamic system with random state transition and measurement matrices, i.e., random parameter matrices Kalman filtering. It is shown…

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In this paper we discuss a deterministic form of ensemble Kalman inversion as a regularization method for linear inverse problems. By interpreting ensemble Kalman inversion as a low-rank approximation of Tikhonov regularization, we are able…

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Optimal estimation and inference for both the minimizer and minimum of a convex regression function under the white noise and nonparametric regression models are studied in a nonasymptotic local minimax framework, where the performance of a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-03-12 T. Tony Cai , Ran Chen , Yuancheng Zhu

We observe a $N\times M$ matrix $Y_{ij}=s_{ij}+\xi_{ij}$ with $\xi_{ij}\sim {\mathcal {N}}(0,1)$ i.i.d. in $i,j$, and $s_{ij}\in \mathbb {R}$. We test the null hypothesis $s_{ij}=0$ for all $i,j$ against the alternative that there exists…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-12-20 Cristina Butucea , Yuri I. Ingster

We consider a circular deconvolution problem, in which the density $f$ of a circular random variable $X$ must be estimated nonparametrically based on an i.i.d. sample from a noisy observation $Y$ of $X$. The additive measurement error is…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-12-11 Jan Johannes , Maik Schwarz

The current paper presents a novel machinery for studying non-asymptotic minimax estimation of high-dimensional matrices, which yields tight minimax rates for a large collection of loss functions in a variety of problems. Based on the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-06-18 Zongming Ma , Yihong Wu

Consider a Poisson point process with unknown support boundary curve $g$, which forms a prototype of an irregular statistical model. We address the problem of estimating non-linear functionals of the form $\int \Phi(g(x))\,dx$. Following a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-02-13 Markus Reiß , Martin Wahl