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This paper introduces a simple principle for robust high-dimensional statistical inference via an appropriate shrinkage on the data. This widens the scope of high-dimensional techniques, reducing the moment conditions from sub-exponential…

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Computing partition functions, the normalizing constants of probability distributions, is often hard. Variants of importance sampling give unbiased estimates of a normalizer Z, however, unbiased estimates of the reciprocal 1/Z are harder to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-03-14 Colin Wei , Iain Murray

Adaptive nuclear-norm penalization is proposed for low-rank matrix approximation, by which we develop a new reduced-rank estimation method for the general high-dimensional multivariate regression problems. The adaptive nuclear norm of a…

Methodology · Statistics 2012-09-25 Kun Chen , Hongbo Dong , Kung-Sik Chan

We study the problem of estimating a large, low-rank matrix corrupted by additive noise of unknown covariance, assuming one has access to additional side information in the form of noise-only measurements. We study the Whiten-Shrink-reColor…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-07-18 Matan Gavish , William Leeb , Elad Romanov

Reduced-rank approach has been used for decades in robust linear estimation of both deterministic and random vector of parameters in linear model y=Hx+\sqrt{epsilon}n. In practical settings, estimation is frequently performed under…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-05 Tomasz Piotrowski , Isao Yamada

We address the problem of estimating a high-dimensional matrix from linear measurements, with a focus on designing optimal rank-adaptive algorithms. These algorithms infer the matrix by estimating its singular values and the corresponding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Frédéric Zheng , Yassir Jedra , Alexandre Proutiere

The problem of structured matrix estimation has been studied mostly under strong noise dependence assumptions. This paper considers a general framework of noisy low-rank-plus-sparse matrix recovery, where the noise matrix may come from any…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-04-07 Jinhang Chai , Jianqing Fan

We propose a method for estimating the entries of a large noisy matrix when the variance of the noise, $\sigma^2$, is unknown without putting any assumption on the rank of the matrix. We consider the estimator for $\sigma$ introduced by…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-10-30 Mona Azadkia

There exist several methods developed for the canonical change point problem of detecting multiple mean shifts, which search for changes over sections of the data at multiple scales. In such methods, estimation of the noise level is often…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-11-07 Euan T. McGonigle , Haeran Cho

Consider the problem of estimating the entries of a large matrix, when the observed entries are noisy versions of a small random fraction of the original entries. This problem has received widespread attention in recent times, especially…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-12-31 Sourav Chatterjee

We propose an approximation method for thresholding of singular values using Chebyshev polynomial approximation (CPA). Many signal processing problems require iterative application of singular value decomposition (SVD) for minimizing the…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2017-11-22 Masaki Onuki , Shunsuke Ono , Keiichiro Shirai , Yuichi Tanaka

We propose a unified framework for estimating low-rank matrices through nonconvex optimization based on gradient descent algorithm. Our framework is quite general and can be applied to both noisy and noiseless observations. In the general…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-10-18 Lingxiao Wang , Xiao Zhang , Quanquan Gu

We study the matrix denoising problem of estimating the singular vectors of a rank-$1$ signal corrupted by noise with both column and row correlations. Existing works are either unable to pinpoint the exact asymptotic estimation error or,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-10-29 Yihan Zhang , Marco Mondelli

The sample selection approach is very popular in learning with noisy labels. As deep networks learn pattern first, prior methods built on sample selection share a similar training procedure: the small-loss examples can be regarded as clean…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Xiaobo Xia , Pengqian Lu , Chen Gong , Bo Han , Jun Yu , Jun Yu , Tongliang Liu

Many statistical applications require an estimate of a covariance matrix and/or its inverse. When the matrix dimension is large compared to the sample size, which happens frequently, the sample covariance matrix is known to perform poorly…

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In this paper, we construct a parameter estimation framework for robust low-rank tensor regression based on a truncation method and Huber loss, specifically focusing on models with random noise having only finite second-order moments.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-05 Kangqiang Li , Bingqi Liu , Yang Yang , Li Wang

Large-scale kernel approximation is an important problem in machine learning research. Approaches using random Fourier features have become increasingly popular [Rahimi and Recht, 2007], where kernel approximation is treated as empirical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-25 Wei-Cheng Chang , Chun-Liang Li , Yiming Yang , Barnabas Poczos

A popular regularized (shrinkage) covariance estimator is the shrinkage sample covariance matrix (SCM) which shares the same set of eigenvectors as the SCM but shrinks its eigenvalues toward its grand mean. In this paper, a more general…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-02-13 Esa Ollila , Daniel P. Palomar , Frederic Pascal

This work concerns noise reduction for one-dimensional spectra in the case that the signal is corrupted by an additive white noise. The proposed method starts with mapping the noisy spectrum to a partial circulant matrix. In virtue of…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2020-10-29 X. C. Chen , Yu. A. Litvinov , M. Wang , Q. Wang , Y. H. Zhang

Finding a sparse representation of a possibly noisy signal can be modeled as a variational minimization with l_q-sparsity constraints for q less than one. Especially for real-time, on-line, or iterative applications, in which problems of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-09-04 Martin Ehler