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Gaussian process regression is used throughout statistics and machine learning for prediction and uncertainty quantification. A Gaussian process is specified by its mean and covariance functions. Many covariance functions, including…

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We consider estimation of a sparse parameter vector that determines the covariance matrix of a Gaussian random vector via a sparse expansion into known "basis matrices". Using the theory of reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces, we derive lower…

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We consider the problem of estimating the mean and covariance of a distribution from iid samples in $\mathbb{R}^n$, in the presence of an $\eta$ fraction of malicious noise; this is in contrast to much recent work where the noise itself is…

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We consider the problem of estimating the uncertainty in statistical inverse problems using Bayesian inference. When the probability density of the noise and the prior are Gaussian, the solution of such a statistical inverse problem is also…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-07-20 Peter Benner , Yue Qiu , Martin Stoll

We consider the problem of estimating a rank-one matrix in Gaussian noise under a probabilistic model for the left and right factors of the matrix. The probabilistic model can impose constraints on the factors including sparsity and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-16 Alyson K. Fletcher , Sundeep Rangan

In this paper, we consider the Group Lasso estimator of the covariance matrix of a stochastic process corrupted by an additive noise. We propose to estimate the covariance matrix in a high-dimensional setting under the assumption that the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2011-10-26 Jérémie Bigot , Rolando Biscay , Jean-Michel Loubes , Lilian Muniz Alvarez

Recently, the application of low rank minimization to image denoising has shown remarkable denoising results which are equivalent or better than those of the existing state-of-the-art algorithms. However, due to iterative nature of low rank…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-04-27 Zahid Hussain Shamsi , Hyun Sook Oh , Dai-Gyoung Kim

The method of regularization with the Gaussian reproducing kernel is popular in the machine learning literature and successful in many practical applications. In this paper we consider the periodic version of the Gaussian kernel…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2007-06-13 Yi Lin , Lawrence D. Brown

Non-conservative uncertainty bounds are key for both assessing an estimation algorithm's accuracy and in view of downstream tasks, such as its deployment in safety-critical contexts. In this paper, we derive a tight, non-asymptotic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Amon Lahr , Johannes Köhler , Anna Scampicchio , Melanie N. Zeilinger

The covariance function of a Gauss-Markov process evaluated at points $(s,t)$ admits a representation as a product of a function of $\min(s,t)$ and a function of $\max(s,t)$. We call these functions the covariance factors of a Gauss-Markov…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-08-01 Georges Kassis

Gaussian processes are a natural way of defining prior distributions over functions of one or more input variables. In a simple nonparametric regression problem, where such a function gives the mean of a Gaussian distribution for an…

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In this paper, we consider the problem of sequentially optimizing a black-box function $f$ based on noisy samples and bandit feedback. We assume that $f$ is smooth in the sense of having a bounded norm in some reproducing kernel Hilbert…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-06-01 Jonathan Scarlett , Ilijia Bogunovic , Volkan Cevher

We propose a multivariate functional responses low rank regression model with possible high dimensional functional responses and scalar covariates. By expanding the slope functions on a set of sieve basis, we reconstruct the basis…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-10-09 Xiucai Ding , Dengdeng Yu , Zhengwu Zhang , Dehan Kong

Rank minimization is of interest in machine learning applications such as recommender systems and robust principal component analysis. Minimizing the convex relaxation to the rank minimization problem, the nuclear norm, is an effective…

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In this paper, the problem of estimating the level set of a black-box function from noisy and expensive evaluation queries is considered. A new algorithm for this problem in the Bayesian framework with a Gaussian Process (GP) prior is…

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Sparsity and rank functions are important ways of regularizing under-determined linear systems. Optimization of the resulting formulations is made difficult since both these penalties are non-convex and discontinuous. The most common remedy…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-01 Carl Olsson , Marcus Carlsson , Daniele Gerosa

We consider the multivariate response regression problem with a regression coefficient matrix of low, unknown rank. In this setting, we analyze a new criterion for selecting the optimal reduced rank. This criterion differs notably from the…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-10-30 Xin Bing , Marten Wegkamp

The paper is devoted to the solution of a weighted nonlinear least-squares problem for low-rank signal estimation, which is related to Hankel structured low-rank approximation problems. A modified weighted Gauss-Newton method, which uses…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-01 N. Zvonarev , N. Golyandina

We present and analyze an algorithm designed for addressing vector-valued regression problems involving possibly infinite-dimensional input and output spaces. The algorithm is a randomized adaptation of reduced rank regression, a technique…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Giacomo Turri , Vladimir Kostic , Pietro Novelli , Massimiliano Pontil

We consider the task of estimating a low-rank matrix from non-linear and noisy observations. We prove a strong universality result showing that Bayes-optimal performances are characterized by an equivalent Gaussian model with an effective…

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