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We consider so-called univariate unlinked (sometimes ``decoupled,'' or ``shuffled'') regression when the unknown regression curve is monotone. In standard monotone regression, one observes a pair $(X,Y)$ where a response $Y$ is linked to a…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-07-30 Fadoua Balabdaoui , Charles R. Doss , Cécile Durot

Unlinked regression, in which covariates and responses are observed separately without known correspondence, has recently gained increasing attention. Deconvolution, on the other hand, is a fundamental and challenging problem in…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Fadoua Balabdaoui , Antonio Di Noia , Cécile Durot

Consider a sequence of real data points $X_1,\ldots, X_n$ with underlying means $\theta^*_1,\dots,\theta^*_n$. This paper starts from studying the setting that $\theta^*_i$ is both piecewise constant and monotone as a function of the index…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-08-05 Chao Gao , Fang Han , Cun-Hui Zhang

We consider the problem of nonparametric regression under shape constraints. The main examples include isotonic regression (with respect to any partial order), unimodal/convex regression, additive shape-restricted regression, and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-07-03 Adityanand Guntuboyina , Bodhisattva Sen

Isotonic distributional regression (IDR) is a powerful nonparametric technique for the estimation of conditional distributions under order restrictions. In a nutshell, IDR learns conditional distributions that are calibrated, and…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-09-29 Alexander Henzi , Johanna F. Ziegel , Tilmann Gneiting

We propose a unified data-driven framework based on inverse optimal transport that can learn adaptive, nonlinear interaction cost function from noisy and incomplete empirical matching matrix and predict new matching in various matching…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-11-01 Ruilin Li , Xiaojing Ye , Haomin Zhou , Hongyuan Zha

A powerful concept behind much of the recent progress in machine learning is the extraction of common features across data from heterogeneous sources or tasks. Intuitively, using all of one's data to learn a common representation function…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-10-15 Thomas T. C. K. Zhang , Leonardo F. Toso , James Anderson , Nikolai Matni

We consider the problem of isotonic regression, where the underlying signal $x$ is assumed to satisfy a monotonicity constraint, that is, $x$ lies in the cone $\{ x\in\mathbb{R}^n : x_1 \leq \dots \leq x_n\}$. We study the isotonic…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-11-01 Fan Yang , Rina Foygel Barber

We consider the problem of estimating an unknown coordinate-wise monotone function given noisy measurements, known as the isotonic regression problem. Often, only a small subset of the features affects the output. This motivates the sparse…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-07-04 David Gamarnik , Julia Gaudio

We formulate and solve a regression problem with time-stamped distributional data. Distributions are considered as points in the Wasserstein space of probability measures, metrized by the 2-Wasserstein metric, and may represent images,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-30 Amirhossein Karimi , Tryphon T. Georgiou

Many numerical and learning algorithms rely on the solution of the Monge-Kantorovich problem and Wasserstein distances, which provide appropriate distributional metrics. While the natural approach is to treat the problem as an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-11 Mohsen Sadr , Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani , Hossein Gorji

We pose the problem of the optimal approximation of a given nonnegative signal $y_t$ with the scalar autoconvolution $(x*x)_t$ of a nonnegative signal $x_t$, where $x_t$ and $y_t$ are signals of equal length. The $\mathcal{I}$-divergence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-04 Lorenzo Finesso , Peter Spreij

Optimal transport is widely used to learn distributions, enforce distributional constraints, and model uncertainty. In applications, transport losses are often computed from samples through tractable representations, such as one-dimensional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Tam Le

We study the problem of network regression, where one is interested in how the topology of a network changes as a function of Euclidean covariates. We build upon recent developments in generalized regression models on metric spaces based on…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-06-19 Alex G. Zalles , Kai M. Hung , Ann E. Finneran , Lydia Beaudrot , César A. Uribe

Insurance pricing systems should fulfill the auto-calibration property to ensure that there is no systematic cross-financing between different price cohorts. Often, regression models are not auto-calibrated. We propose to apply isotonic…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-01-10 Mario V. Wüthrich , Johanna Ziegel

Optimal transport and Wasserstein distances are flourishing in many scientific fields as a means for comparing and connecting random structures. Here we pioneer the use of an optimal transport distance between L\'{e}vy measures to solve a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-09-18 Marta Catalano , Hugo Lavenant , Antonio Lijoi , Igor Prünster

The inverse Ising problem seeks to reconstruct the parameters of an Ising Hamiltonian on the basis of spin configurations sampled from the Boltzmann measure. Over the last decade, many applications of the inverse Ising problem have arisen,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-09-13 Johannes Berg

A functional for joint variational object segmentation and shape matching is developed. The formulation is based on optimal transport w.r.t. geometric distance and local feature similarity. Geometric invariance and modelling of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-12-30 Bernhard Schmitzer , Christoph Schnörr

We present a computational and statistical approach for fitting isotonic models under convex differentiable loss functions. We offer a recursive partitioning algorithm which provably and efficiently solves isotonic regression under any such…

Methodology · Statistics 2012-10-09 Ronny Luss , Saharon Rosset

Recovering microscopic couplings directly from data provides a route to solving the inverse problem in statistical field theories, one that complements the traditional-often computationally intractable-forward approach of predicting…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-11-24 Shreya Shukla , Abhijith Jayakumar , Andrey Y. Lokhov