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There has been a surge of interest in developing robust estimators for models with heavy-tailed and bounded variance data in statistics and machine learning, while few works impose unbounded variance. This paper proposes two type of robust…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-10-12 Lihu Xu , Fang Yao , Qiuran Yao , Huiming Zhang

Nowadays, in many different fields, massive data are available and for several reasons, it might be convenient to analyze just a subset of the data. The application of the D-optimality criterion can be helpful to optimally select a…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-08-15 L. Deldossi , E. Pesce , C. Tommasi

Dimensionality reduction is an effective method for learning high-dimensional data, which can provide better understanding of decision boundaries in human-readable low-dimensional subspace. Linear methods, such as principal component…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Koji Maruhashi , Heewon Park , Rui Yamaguchi , Satoru Miyano

Random projection has been widely used in data classification. It maps high-dimensional data into a low-dimensional subspace in order to reduce the computational cost in solving the related optimization problem. While previous studies are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-02-24 Lijun Zhang , Mehrdad Mahdavi , Rong Jin , Tianbao Yang , Shenghuo Zhu

We consider the problems of classification and intrinsic dimension estimation on image data. A new subspace based classifier is proposed for supervised classification or intrinsic dimension estimation. The distribution of the data in each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Liang Liao , Stephen John Maybank

We propose a minimum distance estimation method for robust regression in sparse high-dimensional settings. The traditional likelihood-based estimators lack resilience against outliers, a critical issue when dealing with high-dimensional…

Methodology · Statistics 2013-07-12 Aurélie C. Lozano , Nicolai Meinshausen

We study the recovery of multivariate functions from reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces in the uniform norm. Our main interest is to obtain preasymptotic estimates for the corresponding sampling numbers. We obtain results in terms of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-29 Kateryna Pozharska , Tino Ullrich

Robust point-set registration in the presence of noise and outliers is challenging because the matched points (inliers) must be identified before reliable alignment can be performed. Existing robust registration methods typically optimize…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-15 Ruizi Wu , Yuehaw Khoo , Wanjie Wang

A large dimensional characterization of robust M-estimators of covariance (or scatter) is provided under the assumption that the dataset comprises independent (essentially Gaussian) legitimate samples as well as arbitrary deterministic…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-10-28 David Morales-Jimenez , Romain Couillet , Matthew R. McKay

The ability to remove a large amount of noise and the ability to preserve most structure are desirable properties of an image smoother. Unfortunately, they usually seem to be at odds with each other; one can only improve one property at the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2009-09-29 Martin Hillebrand , Christine H. Müller

We introduced and analyzed robust recovery-based a posteriori error estimators for various lower order finite element approximations to interface problems in [9, 10], where the recoveries of the flux and/or gradient are implicit (i.e.,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-07-17 Zhiqiang Cai , Shun Zhang

We introduce a convex approach for mixed linear regression over $d$ features. This approach is a second-order cone program, based on L1 minimization, which assigns an estimate regression coefficient in $\mathbb{R}^{d}$ for each data point.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-09 Paul Hand , Babhru Joshi

For a set of $n$ points in $\Re^d$, and parameters $k$ and $\eps$, we present a data structure that answers $(1+\eps,k)$-\ANN queries in logarithmic time. Surprisingly, the space used by the data-structure is $\Otilde (n /k)$; that is, the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2013-04-10 Sariel Har-Peled , Nirman Kumar

Convex and penalized robust regression methods often suffer from a persistent bias induced by large outliers, limiting their effectiveness in adversarial or heavy-tailed settings. In this work, we study a smooth redescending non-convex…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-01 Ilyes Hammouda , Mohamed Ndaoud , Abd-Krim Seghouane

Many statistical $M$-estimators are based on convex optimization problems formed by the combination of a data-dependent loss function with a norm-based regularizer. We analyze the convergence rates of projected gradient and composite…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2012-07-26 Alekh Agarwal , Sahand N. Negahban , Martin J. Wainwright

Large-scale eigenvalue problems arise in various fields of science and engineering and demand computationally efficient solutions. In this study, we investigate the subspace approximation for parametric linear eigenvalue problems, aiming to…

In applications ranging from communications to genetics, signals can be modeled as lying in a union of subspaces. Under this model, signal coefficients that lie in certain subspaces are active or inactive together. The potential subspaces…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2012-09-17 Nikhil Rao , Benjamin Recht , Robert Nowak

Fault tolerant algorithms for the numerical approximation of elliptic partial differential equations on modern supercomputers play a more and more important role in the future design of exa-scale enabled iterative solvers. Here, we combine…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2015-06-23 Markus Huber , Björn Gmeiner , Ulrich Rüde , Barbara Wohlmuth

Multidimensional scaling is an important dimension reduction tool in statistics and machine learning. Yet few theoretical results characterizing its statistical performance exist, not to mention any in high dimensions. By considering a…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-03-30 Xiucai Ding , Qiang Sun

We study theoretical properties of regularized robust M-estimators, applicable when data are drawn from a sparse high-dimensional linear model and contaminated by heavy-tailed distributions and/or outliers in the additive errors and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-01-05 Po-Ling Loh