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We study the local geometry of testing a mean vector within a high-dimensional ellipse against a compound alternative. Given samples of a Gaussian random vector, the goal is to distinguish whether the mean is equal to a known vector within…
In this paper, we investigate the approximation problem for functions in Gaussian Sobolev spaces $W^s_p(\mathbb{R}^d, \gamma)$ of smoothness $s > 0$, where the approximation error is measured in the Gaussian Lebesgue space…
Robust statistical inference often faces a severe computational-statistical gap when dealing with complex parameter spaces. We investigate minimax signal detection in the Gaussian sequence model under strong $\epsilon$-contamination, where…
In this paper, we study the approximation problem for functions in the Gaussian-weighted Sobolev space $W^\alpha_p(\mathbb{R}^d, \gamma)$ of mixed smoothness $\alpha \in \mathbb{N}$ with error measured in the Gaussian-weighted space…
This paper investigates model reduction methods for efficiently approximating the solution of parameter-dependent PDEs with a multi-parameter vector $\vec{\mu} \in \mathbb{R}^p$. In cases where the Kolmogorov $N$-width decays fast enough,…
Kolmogorov $n$-widths and low-rank approximations are studied for families of elliptic diffusion PDEs parametrized by the diffusion coefficients. The decay of the $n$-widths can be controlled by that of the error achieved by best $n$-term…
In this paper we completely solve the problem of finding the (upper) approximation order with respect to the Kolmogorov, Gel'fand, and linear widths for the embedding of the Sobolev spaces $W^{\alpha,p}$ and $W_{0}^{\alpha,p}$ in the…
In this work we analyze the inverse problem of recovering the space-dependent potential coefficient in an elliptic / parabolic problem from distributed observation. We establish novel (weighted) conditional stability estimates under very…
We study the problem of finding confidence ellipsoids for an arbitrary distribution in high dimensions. Given samples from a distribution $D$ and a confidence parameter $\alpha$, the goal is to find the smallest volume ellipsoid $E$ which…
Reduced basis methods for approximating the solutions of parameter-dependant partial differential equations (PDEs) are based on learning the structure of the set of solutions - seen as a manifold ${\mathcal S}$ in some functional space -…
We consider the problem of robust mean and location estimation w.r.t. any pseudo-norm of the form $x\in\mathbb{R}^d\to ||x||_S = \sup_{v\in S}<v,x>$ where $S$ is any symmetric subset of $\mathbb{R}^d$. We show that the deviation-optimal…
This paper studies the estimation of large precision matrices and Cholesky factors obtained by observing a Gaussian process at many locations. Under general assumptions on the precision and the observations, we show that the sample…
We revisit extending the Kolmogorov-Smirnov distance between probability distributions to the multidimensional setting and make new arguments about the proper way to approach this generalization. Our proposed formulation maximizes the…
Kolmogorov complexity of a finite binary word reflects both algorithmic structure and the empirical distribution of symbols appearing in the word. Words with symbol frequencies far from one half have smaller combinatorial richness and…
We consider testing for presence of a signal in Gaussian white noise with intensity 1/sqrt(n), when the alternatives are given by smoothness ellipsoids with an L2-ball of (squared) radius rho removed. It is known that, for a fixed Sobolev…
We give a convergence proof for the approximation by sparse collocation of Hilbert-space-valued functions depending on countably many Gaussian random variables. Such functions appear as solutions of elliptic PDEs with lognormal diffusion…
We study volumes of sections of convex origin-symmetric bodies in $\mathbb{R}% ^{n}$ induced by orthonormal systems on probability spaces. The approach is based on volume estimates of \ John-L\"{o}wner ellipsoids and expectations of norms…
In this paper we derive an exact full expression for the 2D probability distribution of the ellipticity of an object measured from data, only assuming Gaussian noise in pixel values. This is a generalisation of the probability distribution…
We prove that any unconditional set in $\mathbb{R}^N$ that is invariant under cyclic shifts of coordinates is rigid in $\ell_q^N$, $1\le q\le 2$, i.e. it can not be well approximated by linear spaces of dimension essentially smaller than…
A radial probability measure is a probability measure with a density (with respect to the Lebesgue measure) which depends only on the distances to the origin. Consider the Euclidean space enhanced with a radial probability measure. A…