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This paper aims to propose and theoretically analyze a new distributed scheme for sparse linear regression and feature selection. The primary goal is to learn the few causal features of a high-dimensional dataset based on noisy observations…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-05 Hanie Barghi , Amir Najafi , Seyed Abolfazl Motahari

We study schemes and lower bounds for distributed minimax statistical estimation over a Gaussian multiple-access channel (MAC) under squared error loss, in a framework combining statistical estimation and wireless communication. First, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Chuan-Zheng Lee , Leighton Pate Barnes , Ayfer Ozgur

Motivated by the increasing need to understand the distributed algorithmic foundations of large-scale graph computations, we study some fundamental graph problems in a message-passing model for distributed computing where $k \geq 2$…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Gopal Pandurangan , Peter Robinson , Michele Scquizzato

Estimating high-dimensional covariance matrices is a key task across many fields. This paper explores the theoretical limits of distributed covariance estimation in a feature-split setting, where communication between agents is constrained.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-07-24 Mohammad Reza Rahmani , Mohammad Hossein Yassaee , Mohammad Reza Aref

In this paper, we study the problem of learning multi-dimensional Gaussian Mixture Models (GMMs), with a specific focus on model order selection and efficient mixing distribution estimation. We first establish an information-theoretic lower…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-23 Xinyu Liu , Hai Zhang

This paper proposes a novel distributed reduced--rank scheme and an adaptive algorithm for distributed estimation in wireless sensor networks. The proposed distributed scheme is based on a transformation that performs dimensionality…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-11-06 S. Xu , R. C. de Lamare , H. V. Poor

Distributed minimax estimation and distributed adaptive estimation under communication constraints for Gaussian sequence model and white noise model are studied. The minimax rate of convergence for distributed estimation over a given Besov…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-07-02 T. Tony Cai , Hongji Wei

In multiple domains, statistical tasks are performed in distributed settings, with data split among several end machines that are connected to a fusion center. In various applications, the end machines have limited bandwidth and power, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Rodney Fonseca , Boaz Nadler

Motivated by the increasing need for fast processing of large-scale graphs, we study a number of fundamental graph problems in a message-passing model for distributed computing, called $k$-machine model, where we have $k$ machines that…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Khalid Hourani , Hartmut Klauck , William K. Moses , Danupon Nanongkai , Gopal Pandurangan , Peter Robinson , Michele Scquizzato

In this paper, we study the problem of approximating the minimum cut in a distributed message-passing model, the CONGEST model. The minimum cut problem has been well-studied in the context of centralized algorithms. However, there were no…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-01-22 Hsin-Hao Su

A distributed average consensus algorithm in which every sensor transmits with bounded peak power is proposed. In the presence of communication noise, it is shown that the nodes reach consensus asymptotically to a finite random variable…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-06-15 Sivaraman Dasarathan , Cihan Tepedelenlioglu , Mahesh Banavar , Andreas Spanias

We consider the communication complexity of some fundamental convex optimization problems in the point-to-point (coordinator) and blackboard communication models. We strengthen known bounds for approximately solving linear regression,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Mehrdad Ghadiri , Yin Tat Lee , Swati Padmanabhan , William Swartworth , David Woodruff , Guanghao Ye

We derive information-theoretic converses (i.e., lower bounds) for the minimum time required by any algorithm for distributed function computation over a network of point-to-point channels with finite capacity, where each node of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-04 Aolin Xu , Maxim Raginsky

Statistical inference from high-dimensional data with low-dimensional structures has recently attracted lots of attention. In machine learning, deep generative modeling approaches implicitly estimate distributions of complex objects by…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-02-21 Rong Tang , Yun Yang

Distributed parameter estimation for large-scale systems is an active research problem. The goal is to derive a distributed algorithm in which each agent obtains a local estimate of its own subset of the global parameter vector, based on…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2018-06-26 Tianju Sui , Damián Marelli , Minyue Fu , Renquan Lu

In this work, we study the problem of distributed mean estimation with $1$-bit communication constraints when the variance is unknown. We focus on the specific case where each user has access to one i.i.d. sample drawn from a distribution…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Ritesh Kumar , Shashank Vatedka

Consider the problem of nonparametric estimation of an unknown $\beta$-H\"older smooth density $p_{XY}$ at a given point, where $X$ and $Y$ are both $d$ dimensional. An infinite sequence of i.i.d.\ samples $(X_i,Y_i)$ are generated…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Jingbo Liu

We consider the problem of distributed estimation, where local processors observe independent samples conditioned on a common random parameter of interest, map the observations to a finite number of bits, and send these bits to a remote…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-24 Aolin Xu , Maxim Raginsky

We study the problem of computing approximate minimum edge cuts by distributed algorithms. We use a standard synchronous message passing model where in each round, $O(\log n)$ bits can be transmitted over each edge (a.k.a. the CONGEST…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-11-21 Mohsen Ghaffari , Fabian Kuhn

This paper addresses distributed parameter estimation in randomized one-hidden-layer neural networks. A group of agents sequentially receive measurements of an unknown parameter that is only partially observable to them. In this paper, we…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-23 Yinsong Wang , Shahin Shahrampour