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In constrained stochastic optimization, one naturally expects that imposing a stricter feasible set does not increase the statistical risk of an estimator defined by projection onto that set. In this paper, we show that this intuition can…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-23 Omar Al-Ghattas

Given a dataset $\mathcal{D}$, we are interested in computing the mean of a subset of $\mathcal{D}$ which matches a predicate. ABae leverages stratified sampling and proxy models to efficiently compute this statistic given a sampling budget…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-07-30 Daniel Kang , John Guibas , Peter Bailis , Tatsunori Hashimoto , Yi Sun , Matei Zaharia

In parameter estimation, assumptions about the model are typically considered which allow us to build optimal estimation methods under many statistical senses. However, it is usually the case where such models are inaccurately known or not…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-12-14 Adrià Gusi-Amigó , Pau Closas , Luc Vandendorpe

Scaled sparse linear regression jointly estimates the regression coefficients and noise level in a linear model. It chooses an equilibrium with a sparse regression method by iteratively estimating the noise level via the mean residual…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2012-06-22 Tingni Sun , Cun-Hui Zhang

Singh and Kumar (2011) suggested estimators for calculating population variance using auxiliary attributes. This paper proposes a family of estimators based on an adaptation of the estimators presented by Kadilar and Cingi (2004) and Singh…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-03-04 Rajesh Singh , Sachin Malik

Consider a process satisfying a stochastic differential equation with unknown drift parameter, and suppose that discrete observations are given. It is known that a simple least squares estimator (LSE) can be consistent, but numerically…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-03-17 Yasutaka Shimizu

System identification is a fundamental problem in control and learning, particularly in high-stakes applications where data efficiency is critical. Classical approaches, such as the ordinary least squares estimator (OLS), achieve an…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-12 Xiong Zeng , Jing Yu , Necmiye Ozay

We introduce a novel semi-supervised version of the least squares classifier. This implicitly constrained least squares (ICLS) classifier minimizes the squared loss on the labeled data among the set of parameters implied by all possible…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-07-27 Jesse H. Krijthe , Marco Loog

In this paper, we consider the channel estimation problem in sub-6 GHz uplink wideband MIMO-OFDM communication systems, where a user equipment with a fully-digital beamforming structure is communicating with a base station having a hybrid…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-14 Sepideh Gherekhloo , Khaled Ardah , Martin Haardt

We consider the problem of parameter estimation for a system of ordinary differential equations from noisy observations on a solution of the system. In case the system is nonlinear, as it typically is in practical applications, an analytic…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2012-07-27 Shota Gugushvili , Chris A. J. Klaassen

A novel framework of compressed sensing, namely statistical compressed sensing (SCS), that aims at efficiently sampling a collection of signals that follow a statistical distribution, and achieving accurate reconstruction on average, is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-05-27 Guoshen Yu , Guillermo Sapiro

The main result of this paper is a new exact algorithm computing the estimate given by the Least Trimmed Squares (LTS). The algorithm works under very weak assumptions. To prove that, we study the respective objective function using basic…

Computation · Statistics 2017-05-31 Karel Klouda

This paper considers generalized least squares (GLS) estimation for linear panel data models. By estimating the large error covariance matrix consistently, the proposed feasible GLS (FGLS) estimator is more efficient than the ordinary least…

Econometrics · Economics 2020-08-06 Jushan Bai , Sung Hoon Choi , Yuan Liao

We consider the task of estimating a low-rank matrix from non-linear and noisy observations. We prove a strong universality result showing that Bayes-optimal performances are characterized by an equivalent Gaussian model with an effective…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-03-08 Pierre Mergny , Justin Ko , Florent Krzakala , Lenka Zdeborová

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

The multivariate errors-in-variables regression model is applicable when both dependent and independent variables in a multivariate regression are subject to measurement errors. In such a scenario it is long established that the traditional…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-10-14 Johannes Lutzeyer , Edward A. K. Cohen

The two-level normal hierarchical model (NHM) has played a critical role in the theory of small area estimation (SAE), one of the growing areas in statistics with numerous applications in different disciplines. In this paper, we address…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-01-17 Masayo Yoshimori Hirose , Partha Lahiri

We propose a novel randomized framework for the estimation problem of large-scale linear statistical models, namely Sequential Least-Squares Estimators with Fast Randomized Sketching (SLSE-FRS), which integrates Sketch-and-Solve and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-09-09 Guan-Yu Chen , Xi Yang

One of the most popular algorithms for clustering in Euclidean space is the $k$-means algorithm; $k$-means is difficult to analyze mathematically, and few theoretical guarantees are known about it, particularly when the data is {\em…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2009-12-02 Kamalika Chaudhuri , Sanjoy Dasgupta , Andrea Vattani

Subsampling is a popular approach to alleviating the computational burden for analyzing massive datasets. Recent efforts have been devoted to various statistical models without explicit regularization. In this paper, we develop an efficient…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-04-12 Yunlu Chen , Nan Zhang