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Neural networks (NN) have achieved state-of-the-art performance in various applications. Unfortunately in applications where training data is insufficient, they are often prone to overfitting. One effective way to alleviate this problem is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-03 Hao Wang , Xingjian Shi , Dit-Yan Yeung

This paper studies the approximation capacity of ReLU neural networks with norm constraint on the weights. We prove upper and lower bounds on the approximation error of these networks for smooth function classes. The lower bound is derived…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Yuling Jiao , Yang Wang , Yunfei Yang

Computing the optimal transport distance between statistical distributions is a fundamental task in machine learning. One remarkable recent advancement is entropic regularization and the Sinkhorn algorithm, which utilizes only matrix…

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High-dimensional classification is a fundamentally important research problem in high-dimensional data analysis. In this paper, we derive a nonasymptotic rate for the minimax excess misclassification risk when feature dimension…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-03-07 Shuoyang Wang , Zuofeng Shang

We analyze the $\ell_1$ and $\ell_\infty$ convergence rates of k nearest neighbor density estimation method. Our analysis includes two different cases depending on whether the support set is bounded or not. In the first case, the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-10-02 Puning Zhao , Lifeng Lai

Neural Bayes estimators are neural networks that approximate Bayes estimators in a fast and likelihood-free manner. Although they are appealing to use with spatial models, where estimation is often a computational bottleneck, neural Bayes…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-01-14 Matthew Sainsbury-Dale , Andrew Zammit-Mangion , Jordan Richards , Raphaël Huser

We study problem-dependent rates, i.e., generalization errors that scale near-optimally with the variance, the effective loss, or the gradient norms evaluated at the "best hypothesis." We introduce a principled framework dubbed "uniform…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-12-25 Yunbei Xu , Assaf Zeevi

The minimum mean-squared error (MMSE) is one of the most popular criteria for Bayesian estimation. Conversely, the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is a typical performance criterion in communications, radar, and generally detection theory. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-12 Luca Rugini , Paolo Banelli

Baseband processing algorithms often require knowledge of the noise power, signal power, or signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). In practice, these parameters are typically unknown and must be estimated. Furthermore, the mean-square error (MSE) is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-28 Alexandra Gallyas-Sanhueza , Christoph Studer

We consider the classical problem of learning rates for classes with finite VC dimension. It is well known that fast learning rates up to $O\left(\frac{d}{n}\right)$ are achievable by the empirical risk minimization algorithm (ERM) if low…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Olivier Bousquet , Nikita Zhivotovskiy

Under mild assumptions, we show the exact convergence rate in total variation is also exact in weaker Wasserstein distances for the Metropolis-Hastings independence sampler. We develop a new upper and lower bound on the worst-case…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-11-15 Austin Brown , Galin L. Jones

Reverberation can severely degrade the quality of speech signals recorded using microphones in an enclosure. In acoustic sensor networks with spatially distributed microphones, a similar dereverberation performance may be achieved using…

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Wasserstein distributionally robust optimization (WDRO) strengthens statistical learning under model uncertainty by minimizing the local worst-case risk within a prescribed ambiguity set. Although WDRO has been extensively studied in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-12 Changyu Liu , Yuling Jiao , Junhui Wang , Jian Huang

kNN is a very effective Instance based learning method, and it is easy to implement. Due to heterogeneous nature of data, noises from different possible sources are also widespread in nature especially in case of large-scale databases. For…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Joydip Dhar , Ashaya Shukla , Mukul Kumar , Prashant Gupta

This work invokes the notion of $f$-divergence to introduce a novel upper bound on the Bayes error rate of a general classification task. We show that the proposed bound can be computed by sampling from the output of a parameterized model.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Mohammadreza Tavasoli Naeini , Ali Bereyhi , Morteza Noshad , Ben Liang , Alfred O. Hero

(1) The enhanced capability of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) in unsupervised community detection of clustered nodes is attributed to their capacity to encode both the connectivity and feature information spaces of graphs. The identification…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-05 William Leeney , Ryan McConville

We study efficient deep learning training algorithms that process received wireless signals, if a test Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR) estimate is available. We focus on two tasks that facilitate source identification: 1- Identifying the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Xingchen Wang , Shengtai Ju , Xiwen Zhang , Sharan Ramjee , Aly El Gamal

Herding and kernel herding are deterministic methods of choosing samples which summarise a probability distribution. A related task is choosing samples for estimating integrals using Bayesian quadrature. We show that the criterion minimised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-07-15 Ferenc Huszar , David Duvenaud

Herding and kernel herding are deterministic methods of choosing samples which summarise a probability distribution. A related task is choosing samples for estimating integrals using Bayesian quadrature. We show that the criterion minimised…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-07-18 Ferenc Huszár , David Duvenaud

We study nonparametric estimation of the sub-distribution functions for current status data with competing risks. Our main interest is in the nonparametric maximum likelihood estimator (MLE), and for comparison we also consider a simpler…

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