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The population recovery problem is a basic problem in noisy unsupervised learning that has attracted significant research attention in recent years [WY12,DRWY12, MS13, BIMP13, LZ15,DST16]. A number of different variants of this problem have…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-03-07 Anindya De , Ryan O'Donnell , Rocco Servedio

We give a polynomial time algorithm for the lossy population recovery problem. In this problem, the goal is to approximately learn an unknown distribution on binary strings of length $n$ from lossy samples: for some parameter $\mu$ each…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-07-11 Ankur Moitra , Michael Saks

The problem of population recovery refers to estimating a distribution based on incomplete or corrupted samples. Consider a random poll of sample size $n$ conducted on a population of individuals, where each pollee is asked to answer $d$…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-04-30 Yury Polyanskiy , Ananda Theertha Suresh , Yihong Wu

\emph{Population recovery} is the problem of learning an unknown distribution over an unknown set of $n$-bit strings, given access to independent draws from the distribution that have been independently corrupted according to some noise…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Frank Ban , Xi Chen , Adam Freilich , Rocco A. Servedio , Sandip Sinha

In this paper, we find a sample complexity bound for learning a simplex from noisy samples. Assume a dataset of size $n$ is given which includes i.i.d. samples drawn from a uniform distribution over an unknown simplex in $\mathbb{R}^K$,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-05-02 Amir Hossein Saberi , Amir Najafi , Seyed Abolfazl Motahari , Babak H. Khalaj

We study the sample complexity of Bayesian recovery for solving inverse problems with general prior, forward operator and noise distributions. We consider posterior sampling according to an approximate prior $\mathcal{P}$, and establish…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Ben Adcock , Nick Huang

The population recovery problem asks one to recover an unknown distribution over $n$-bit strings given access to independent noisy samples of strings drawn from the distribution. Recently, Ban et al. [BCF+19] studied the problem where the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Shyam Narayanan

In this paper, we establish sample complexity bounds for learning high-dimensional simplices in $\mathbb{R}^K$ from noisy data. Specifically, we consider $n$ i.i.d. samples uniformly drawn from an unknown simplex in $\mathbb{R}^K$, each…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-13 Seyed Amir Hossein Saberi , Amir Najafi , Abolfazl Motahari , Babak H. khalaj

In the context of high-dimensional linear regression models, we propose an algorithm of exact support recovery in the setting of noisy compressed sensing where all entries of the design matrix are independent and identically distributed…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-10-23 Mohamed Ndaoud , Alexandre B. Tsybakov

We consider estimation models of the form $Y=X^*+N$, where $X^*$ is some $m$-dimensional signal we wish to recover, and $N$ is symmetrically distributed noise that may be unbounded in all but a small $\alpha$ fraction of the entries. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Tommaso d'Orsi , Rajai Nasser , Gleb Novikov , David Steurer

We consider the problem of exact recovery of a $k$-sparse binary vector from generalized linear measurements (such as logistic regression). We analyze the linear estimation algorithm (Plan, Vershynin, Yudovina, 2017), and also show…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-02-25 Arya Mazumdar , Neha Sangwan

We study the problem of learning general (i.e., not necessarily homogeneous) halfspaces with Random Classification Noise under the Gaussian distribution. We establish nearly-matching algorithmic and Statistical Query (SQ) lower bound…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Ilias Diakonikolas , Jelena Diakonikolas , Daniel M. Kane , Puqian Wang , Nikos Zarifis

This paper studies problems of inferring order given noisy information. In these problems there is an unknown order (permutation) $\pi$ on $n$ elements denoted by $1,...,n$. We assume that information is generated in a way correlated with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-10-08 Mark Braverman , Elchanan Mossel

The main objective of this paper is to find algorithms accompanied by explicit error bounds for phase retrieval from noisy magnitudes of frame coefficients when the underlying frame has a low redundancy. We achieve these goals with frames…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2014-12-23 Bernhard G. Bodmann , Nathaniel Hammen

This paper considers a noisy data structure recovery problem. The goal is to investigate the following question: Given a noisy observation of a permuted data set, according to which permutation was the original data sorted? The focus is on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Minoh Jeong , Alex Dytso , Martina Cardone , H. Vincent Poor

In this note, we introduce a new algorithm to deal with finite dimensional clustering with errors in variables. The design of this algorithm is based on recent theoretical advances (see Loustau (2013a,b)) in statistical learning with errors…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-08-16 Camille Brunet , Sébastien Loustau

This paper considers the problem of recovering the permutation of an n-dimensional random vector X observed in Gaussian noise. First, a general expression for the probability of error is derived when a linear decoder (i.e., linear estimator…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Minoh Jeong , Alex Dytso , Martina Cardone

In this work, we show, for the well-studied problem of learning parity under noise, where a learner tries to learn $x=(x_1,\ldots,x_n) \in \{0,1\}^n$ from a stream of random linear equations over $\mathrm{F}_2$ that are correct with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Sumegha Garg , Pravesh K. Kothari , Pengda Liu , Ran Raz

We study the problem of robust multivariate polynomial regression: let $p\colon\mathbb{R}^n\to\mathbb{R}$ be an unknown $n$-variate polynomial of degree at most $d$ in each variable. We are given as input a set of random samples…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Vipul Arora , Arnab Bhattacharyya , Mathews Boban , Venkatesan Guruswami , Esty Kelman

In this paper, we propose two algorithms for solving linear inverse problems when the observations are corrupted by Poisson noise. A proper data fidelity term (log-likelihood) is introduced to reflect the Poisson statistics of the noise. On…

Applications · Statistics 2011-03-14 François-Xavier Dupé , Jalal Fadili , Jean-Luc Starck
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