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In this work, we study non-parametric hypothesis testing problem with distribution function constraints. The empirical likelihood ratio test has been widely used in testing problems with moment (in)equality constraints. However, some…

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We study the minimax settings of binary classification with F-score under the $\beta$-smoothness assumptions on the regression function $\eta(x) = \mathbb{P}(Y = 1|X = x)$ for $x \in \mathbb{R}^d$. We propose a classification procedure…

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This paper studies smoothing properties of the local fractional maximal operator, which is defined in a proper subdomain of the Euclidean space. We prove new pointwise estimates for the weak gradient of the maximal function, which imply…

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This paper investigates some aspects of the variational behaviour of nonsmooth functions, with special emphasis on certain stability phenomena. Relationships linking such properties as sharp minimality, superstability, error bound and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-10-10 Amos Uderzo

Nowadays, l1 penalized likelihood has absorbed a high amount of consideration due to its simplicity and well developed theoretical properties. This method is known as a reliable method in order to apply in a broad range of applications…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-06-12 Hamed Haselimashhadi

We study nonasymptotic minimax estimation of the linear functional $L(\theta)=\eta^\top \theta$ for a high-dimensional $s$-sparse mean vector with an arbitrary loading vector $\eta$. For symmetric noise with exponentially decaying tails, we…

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The paper contains sufficient conditions on the function $f$ and the stochastic process $X$ that supply the rate of divergence of the integral functional $\int_0^Tf(X_t)^2dt$ at the rate $T^{1-\epsilon}$ as $T\to\infty$ for every…

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Several recent works [DHLNSY25, CPPS25a, CPPS25b] have studied a model of property testing of Boolean functions under a \emph{relative-error} criterion. In this model, the distance from a target function $f: \{0,1\}^n \to \{0,1\}$ that is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Xi Chen , Anindya De , Yizhi Huang , Shivam Nadimpalli , Rocco A. Servedio , Tianqi Yang

Common techniques in Gravitational Wave data analysis assume, to some extent, the stationarity and Gaussianity of the detector noise. These assumptions are not always satisfied because of the presence of short-duration transients, namely…

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We derive a detector function for quantum two-mode squeezing (QTMS) radars and noise radars that is based on the use of a likelihood ratio (LR) test for distinguishing between the presence and absence of a target. In addition to an explicit…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-10 David Luong , Bhashyam Balaji , Sreeraman Rajan

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…

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To estimate the growth rate of matrix products $A_{n}\cdots A_{1}$ with factors from some set of matrices $\mathcal{A}$, such numeric quantities as the joint spectral radius $\rho(\mathcal{A})$ and the lower spectral radius…

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We study the fundamental problem of learning an unknown, smooth probability function via pointwise Bernoulli tests. We provide a scalable algorithm for efficiently solving this problem with rigorous guarantees. In particular, we prove the…

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Invariance-based randomization tests -- such as permutation tests, rotation tests, or sign changes -- are an important and widely used class of statistical methods. They allow drawing inferences under weak assumptions on the data…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-05-31 Edgar Dobriban

Let $\mathcal{F}$ denote the set of functions $f \colon [-1/2,1/2] \to \mathbb{R}$ such that $\int f = 1$. We determine the value of $\inf_{f \in \mathcal{F}} \| f \ast f \|_2$ up to a 0.0014\% error, thereby making progress on a problem…

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This paper studies the problem of robust signal detection in Gaussian noise under quadratically convex orthosymmetric (QCO) constraints. We consider a minimax testing framework where the signal belongs to a QCO set and is separated from…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Yikun Li , Matey Neykov

The sparse linear reconstruction problem is a core problem in signal processing which aims to recover sparse solutions to linear systems. The original problem regularized by the total number of nonzero components (also known as $L_0$…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-19 Yuyuan Ouyang , Kyle Yates

In this paper, we study optimal quadrature errors, approximation numbers, and sampling numbers in $L_2(\Bbb S^d)$ for Sobolev spaces ${\rm H}^{\alpha,\beta}(\Bbb S^d)$ with logarithmic perturbation on the unit sphere $\Bbb S^d$ in $\Bbb…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-30 Jiaxin Geng , Yun Ling , Jiansong Li , Heping Wang

Consider approximating a "black box" function $f$ by an emulator $\hat{f}$ based on $n$ noiseless observations of $f$. Let $w$ be a point in the domain of $f$. How big might the error $|\hat{f}(w) - f(w)|$ be? If $f$ could be arbitrarily…

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