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We present an amelioration of current known algorithms for optimal spectral partitioning problems. The idea is to use the advantage of a representation using density functions while decreasing the computational time. This is done by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-25 Beniamin Bogosel

We develop a new approach for clustering non-spherical (i.e., arbitrary component covariances) Gaussian mixture models via a subroutine, based on the sum-of-squares method, that finds a low-dimensional separation-preserving projection of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Prashanti Anderson , Mitali Bafna , Rares-Darius Buhai , Pravesh K. Kothari , David Steurer

We consider the problem of detecting a small subset of defective items from a large set via non-adaptive "random pooling" group tests. We consider both the case when the measurements are noiseless, and the case when the measurements are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-07-25 Chun Lam Chan , Pak Hou Che , Sidharth Jaggi , Venkatesh Saligrama

We give the first polynomial time and sample $(\epsilon, \delta)$-differentially private (DP) algorithm to estimate the mean, covariance and higher moments in the presence of a constant fraction of adversarial outliers. Our algorithm…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-12-08 Pravesh K. Kothari , Pasin Manurangsi , Ameya Velingker

We study optimal transport between two high-dimensional distributions $\mu,\nu$ in $R^n$ from an algorithmic perspective: given $x \sim \mu$, find a close $y \sim \nu$ in $poly(n)$ time, where $n$ is the dimension of $x,y$. Thus, running…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Salman Beigi , Omid Etesami , Mohammad Mahmoody , Amir Najafi

This paper puts forward a new generalized polynomial dimensional decomposition (PDD), referred to as GPDD, comprising hierarchically ordered measure-consistent multivariate orthogonal polynomials in dependent random variables. Unlike the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-30 Sharif Rahman

Polynomial optimization problems often arise in sequences indexed by dimension, and it is of interest to compute bounds on the optimal values of all problems in the sequence. Examples include certifying inequalities between symmetric…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-03 Eitan Levin , Venkat Chandrasekaran

Score-based generative models achieve state-of-the-art sampling performance by denoising a distribution perturbed by Gaussian noise. In this paper, we focus on a single deterministic denoising step, and compare the optimal denoiser for the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Eliot Beyler , Francis Bach

In this paper we study the robustness properties of dimensionality reduction with Gaussian random matrices having arbitrarily erased rows. We first study the robustness property against erasure for the almost norm preservation property of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-01-09 Bin Han , Zhiqiang Xu

The Johnson-Lindenstrauss (JL) Lemma introduced the concept of dimension reduction via a random linear map, which has become a fundamental technique in many computational settings. For a set of $n$ points in $\mathbb{R}^d$ and any fixed…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Shaofeng H. -C. Jiang , Robert Krauthgamer , Shay Sapir

In this survey we consider polynomial optimization problems, asking to minimize a polynomial function over a compact semialgebraic set, defined by polynomial inequalities. This models a great variety of (in general, nonlinear nonconvex)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-16 Monique Laurent , Lucas Slot

A great variety of fundamental optimization and counting problems arising in computer science, mathematics and physics can be reduced to one of the following computational tasks involving polynomials and set systems: given an $m$-variate…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Damian Straszak , Nisheeth K. Vishnoi

We analyze the accuracy of the discrete least-squares approximation of a function $u$ in multivariate polynomial spaces $\mathbb{P}_\Lambda:={\rm span} \{y\mapsto y^\nu \,: \, \nu\in \Lambda\}$ with $\Lambda\subset \mathbb{N}_0^d$ over the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-10-25 Albert Cohen , Giovanni Migliorati , Fabio Nobile

The Standard Simplex Conjecture and the Plurality is Stablest Conjecture are two conjectures stating that certain partitions are optimal with respect to Gaussian and discrete noise stability respectively. These two conjectures are natural…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-07-10 Steven Heilman , Elchanan Mossel , Joe Neeman

In this work, we revisit the problem of estimating the mean and covariance of an unknown $d$-dimensional Gaussian distribution in the presence of an $\varepsilon$-fraction of adversarial outliers. The pioneering work of [DKK+16] gave a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Pravesh K. Kothari , Peter Manohar , Brian Hu Zhang

We give a polynomial-time algorithm for learning high-dimensional halfspaces with margins in $d$-dimensional space to within desired TV distance when the ambient distribution is an unknown affine transformation of the $d$-fold product of an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Xinyuan Cao , Santosh S. Vempala

In this paper we study algorithms to find a Gaussian approximation to a target measure defined on a Hilbert space of functions; the target measure itself is defined via its density with respect to a reference Gaussian measure. We employ the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-08-11 Frank J. Pinski , Gideon Simpson , Andrew M. Stuart , Hendrik Weber

Optimal design for linear regression is a fundamental task in statistics. For finite design spaces, recent progress has shown that random designs drawn using proportional volume sampling (PVS) lead to approximation guarantees for A-optimal…

Computation · Statistics 2021-02-02 Arnaud Poinas , Rémi Bardenet

We develop a fast and scalable computational framework to solve large-scale and high-dimensional Bayesian optimal experimental design problems. In particular, we consider the problem of optimal observation sensor placement for Bayesian…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-09 Keyi Wu , Peng Chen , Omar Ghattas

We present a polynomial-time reduction from solving noisy linear equations over $\mathbb{Z}/q\mathbb{Z}$ in dimension $\Theta(k\log n/\mathsf{poly}(\log k,\log q,\log\log n))$ with a uniformly random coefficient matrix to noisy linear…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Kiril Bangachev , Guy Bresler , Stefan Tiegel , Vinod Vaikuntanathan