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A popular approach for estimating an unknown signal from noisy, linear measurements is via solving a so called \emph{regularized M-estimator}, which minimizes a weighted combination of a convex loss function and of a convex (typically,…

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In this paper, we study the problem of sampling from a given probability density function that is known to be smooth and strongly log-concave. We analyze several methods of approximate sampling based on discretizations of the (highly…

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We study the approximability of general convex sets in $\mathbb{R}^n$ by intersections of halfspaces, where the approximation quality is measured with respect to the standard Gaussian distribution $N(0,I_n)$ and the complexity of an…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Anindya De , Shivam Nadimpalli , Rocco A. Servedio

We discuss situations where perturbing a probability measure on $\mathbb{R}^n$ does not deteriorate its Poincar\'e constant by much. A particular example is the symmetric exponential measure in $\mathbb{R}^n$, even log-concave perturbations…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-11 Franck Barthe , Bo'az Klartag

The Sobolev regularity of invariant measures for diffusion processes is proved on non-smooth metric measure spaces with synthetic lower Ricci curvature bounds. As an application, the symmetrizability of semigroups is characterized, and the…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-05-24 Kohei Suzuki

Gaussian process regression is a popular method for non-parametric probabilistic modeling of functions. The Gaussian process prior is characterized by so-called hyperparameters, which often have a large influence on the posterior model and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-11-18 Andreas Svensson , Johan Dahlin , Thomas B. Schön

In this work, we study non-asymptotic bounds on correlation between two time realizations of stable linear systems with isotropic Gaussian noise. Consequently, via sampling from a sub-trajectory and using \emph{Talagrands'} inequality, we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-04-05 Muhammad Abdullah Naeem

This paper establishes sharp dimension-free concentration and expectation bounds for the deviation of a sample cross-covariance matrix from its mean. For sub-Gaussian random vectors, we prove a high-probability operator-norm bound governed…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Jiaheng Chen , Daniel Sanz-Alonso

We show that the natural scaling of measurement for a particular problem defines the most likely probability distribution of observations taken from that measurement scale. Our approach extends the method of maximum entropy to use…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2010-03-02 Steven A. Frank , D. Eric Smith

We study the complexity of sampling, rounding, and integrating arbitrary logconcave functions. Our new approach provides the first complexity improvements in nearly two decades for general logconcave functions for all three problems, and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Yunbum Kook , Santosh S. Vempala

We study the Riemannian Langevin Algorithm for the problem of sampling from a distribution with density $\nu$ with respect to the natural measure on a manifold with metric $g$. We assume that the target density satisfies a log-Sobolev…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Khashayar Gatmiry , Santosh S. Vempala

We study the problem of sampling from a distribution $\target$ using the Langevin Monte Carlo algorithm and provide rate of convergences for this algorithm in terms of Wasserstein distance of order $2$. Our result holds as long as the…

Computation · Statistics 2016-07-04 Thomas Bonis

In calculating expected information gain in optimal Bayesian experimental design, the computation of the inner loop in the classical double-loop Monte Carlo requires a large number of samples and suffers from underflow if the number of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-04 Joakim Beck , Ben Mansour Dia , Luis FR Espath , Quan Long , Raul Tempone

The random convex hull of a Poisson point process in $\mathbb{R}^d$ whose intensity measure is a multiple of the standard Gaussian measure on $\mathbb{R}^d$ is investigated. The purpose of this paper is to invent a new viewpoint on these…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-04-10 Julian Grote , Christoph Thaele

Mixtures are convex combinations of laws. Despite this simple definition, a mixture can be far more subtle than its mixed components. For instance, mixing Gaussian laws may produce a potential with multiple deep wells. We study in the…

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Many processes can correspond to reactive impregnation in porous solids. These processes are usually numerically computed by classical methods like finite element method, finite volume method, etc. The disadvantage of these methods remains…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-08-22 Anh Khoa Nguyen , Eric Blond , Thomas Sayet , E. De Bilbao , Athanasios Batakis , Minh Duc Duong

A sharp phase transition emerges in convex programs when solving the linear inverse problem, which aims to recover a structured signal from its linear measurements. This paper studies this phenomenon in theory under Gaussian random…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-04 Huan Zhang , Yulong Liu , Hong Lei

We study some geometric properties of the $L_q$-centroid bodies $Z_q(\mu)$ of an isotropic log-concave measure $\mu $ on ${\mathbb R}^n$. For any $2\ls q\ls\sqrt{n}$ and for $\varepsilon \in (\varepsilon_0(q,n),1)$ we determine the inradius…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2013-06-04 Apostolos Giannopoulos , Pantelis Stavrakakis , Antonis Tsolomitis , Beatrice-Helen Vritsiou

The purpose of this short note is to demonstrate uniform logarithmic Sobolev inequalities for the mean field gradient particle systems associated to an energy functional that is convex in the flat sense. A defective log-Sobolev inequality…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-08-13 Songbo Wang

Variable selection is a fundamental task in statistical data analysis. Sparsity-inducing regularization methods are a popular class of methods that simultaneously perform variable selection and model estimation. The central problem is a…

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