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Vector quantization via random projection followed by scalar quantization is a fundamental primitive in machine learning, with applications ranging from similarity search to federated learning and KV cache compression. While dense random…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Ying Feng , Piotr Indyk , Michael Kapralov , Dmitry Krachun , Boris Prokhorov

In this work we construct an optimal linear shrinkage estimator for the covariance matrix in high dimensions. The recent results from the random matrix theory allow us to find the asymptotic deterministic equivalents of the optimal…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-10-28 Taras Bodnar , Arjun K. Gupta , Nestor Parolya

In this paper the author studies the problem of the homogenization of a diffusion perturbed by a periodic reflection invariant vector field. The vector field is assumed to have fixed direction but varying amplitude. The existence of a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Joseph G. Conlon

This paper investigates the problem of variable-length lossy source coding allowing a positive excess distortion probability and an overflow probability of codeword lengths. Novel one-shot achievability and converse bounds of the optimal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-17 Shota Saito , Hideki Yagi , Toshiyasu Matsushima

The rate of convergence of the distribution of the length of the longest increasing subsequence, toward the maximal eigenvalue of certain matrix ensembles, is investigated. For finite-alphabet uniform and nonuniform i.i.d. sources, a rate…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-11-30 Christian Houdré , Zsolt Talata

We construct a classifier which attains the rate of convergence $\log n/n$ under sparsity and margin assumptions. An approach close to the one met in approximation theory for the estimation of function is used to obtain this result. The…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-08-16 Guillaume Lecué

The eigenvector Empirical Spectral Distribution (VESD) is adopted to investigate the limiting behavior of eigenvectors and eigenvalues of covariance matrices. In this paper, we shall show that the Kolmogorov distance between the expected…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-11-25 Ningning Xia , Yingli Qin , Zhidong Bai

As first-order optimization methods become the method of choice for solving large-scale optimization problems, optimization solvers based on first-order algorithms are being built. Such general-purpose solvers must robustly detect…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-29 Jisun Park , Ernest K. Ryu

The behavior of slow-fast diffusions as the separation of scale diverges is a well-studied problem in the literature. In this short paper, we revisit this problem and obtain a new proof of existing strong quantitative convergence estimates…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Sumith Reddy Anugu , Vivek S. Borkar

The leading term in the normal approximation to the distribution of Student's t statistic is derived in a general setting, with the sole assumption being that the sampled distribution is in the domain of attraction of a normal law. The form…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Peter Hall , Qiying Wang

We prove that every $n$-point metric space of negative type (and, in particular, every $n$-point subset of $L_1$) embeds into a Euclidean space with distortion $O(\sqrt{\log n} \cdot\log \log n)$, a result which is tight up to the iterated…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Sanjeev Arora , James R. Lee , Assaf Naor

Some continuous optimization methods can be connected to ordinary differential equations (ODEs) by taking continuous limits, and their convergence rates can be explained by the ODEs. However, since such ODEs can achieve any convergence rate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-15 Kansei Ushiyama , Shun Sato , Takayasu Matsuo

The sharpest known high probability generalization bounds for uniformly stable algorithms (Feldman, Vondr\'{a}k, 2018, 2019), (Bousquet, Klochkov, Zhivotovskiy, 2020) contain a generally inevitable sampling error term of order…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-19 Yegor Klochkov , Nikita Zhivotovskiy

This paper investigates the effect of quantization on the performance of the Neyman-Pearson test. It is assumed that a sensing unit observes samples of a correlated stationary ergodic multivariate process. Each sample is passed through an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-09-05 Joffrey Villard , Pascal Bianchi

We prove an O(log n) bound for the expected value of the logarithm of the componentwise (and, a fortiori, the mixed) condition number of a random sparse n x n matrix. As a consequence, small bounds on the average loss of accuracy for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2008-07-08 Dennis Cheung , Felipe Cucker

Under the assumption that the true density is decreasing, it is well known that the Grenander estimator converges at rate $n^{1/3}$ if the true density is curved [Sankhy\={a} Ser. A 31 (1969) 23-36] and at rate $n^{1/2}$ if the density is…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-05-26 Hanna Jankowski

We study the rate of convergence for the largest eigenvalue distributions in the Gaussian unitary and orthogonal ensembles to their Tracy-Widom limits. We show that one can achieve an $O(N^{-2/3})$ rate with particular choices of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-03-19 Iain M. Johnstone , Zongming Ma

We consider uniform moment convergence of lag-window spectral density estimates for univariate and multivariate stationary processes. Optimal rates of convergence are obtained under mild and easily verifiable conditions. Our theory…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-05-15 Wei Biao Wu , Paolo Zaffaroni

The distributional properties of the translation flow on the unit square have been considered in different fields of mathematics, including algebraic geometry and discrepancy theory. One method to quantify equidistribution is to compare the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-03-01 Max Goering , Christian Weiss

The limiting distribution of the normalized number of comparisons used by Quicksort to sort an array of n numbers is known to be the unique fixed point with zero mean of a certain distributional transformation S. We study the convergence to…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 James Allen Fill , Svante Janson