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We develop a finite-sample optimal estimator for regression discontinuity design when the outcomes are bounded, including binary outcomes as the leading case. Our estimator achieves minimax mean squared error among linear shrinkage…

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We present a distribution optimization framework that significantly improves confidence bounds for various risk measures compared to previous methods. Our framework encompasses popular risk measures such as the entropic risk measure,…

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This paper studies sampling error bounds for denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPMs) in the 2-Wasserstein distance. Our contributions are threefold. (i) Under general Lipschitz-type conditions on the score function and for a broad…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-19 Yuta Koike

This paper shows that error bounds can be used as effective tools for deriving complexity results for first-order descent methods in convex minimization. In a first stage, this objective led us to revisit the interplay between error bounds…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-07-21 Jérôme Bolte , Trong Phong Nguyen , Juan Peypouquet , Bruce Suter

In this paper we analyze the approximation of multivariate integrals over the Euclidean plane for functions which are analytic. We show explicit upper bounds which attain the exponential rate of convergence. We use an infinite grid with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-19 Dong T. P. Nguyen , Dirk Nuyens

In this paper we revisit the exsistence theorem for $L^r$-optimal quantization, $r\ge 2$, with respect to a Bregman divergence: we establish the existence of optimal quantizaers under lighter assumptions onthe strictly convex function which…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-06-03 Guillaume Boutoille , Gilles Pagès

This paper is devoted to the multivariate estimation of a vector of Poisson means. A novel loss function that penalises bad estimates of each of the parameters and the sum (or equivalently the mean) of the parameters is introduced. Under…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-04-25 Emil Aas Stoltenberg , Nils Lid Hjort

The well-known von Bahr--Esseen bound on the absolute $p$th moments of martingales with $p\in(1,2]$ is extended to a large class of moment functions, and now with a best possible constant factor (which depends on the moment function). This…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-01-17 Iosif Pinelis

Variational representations of $f$-divergences are central to many machine learning algorithms, with Lipschitz constrained variants recently gaining attention. Inspired by this, we define the Moreau-Yosida approximation of $f$-divergences…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Dávid Terjék

Motivated by problems in contact mechanics, we propose a duality approach for computing approximations and associated a posteriori error bounds to solutions of variational inequalities of the first kind. The proposed approach improves upon…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-10-09 Zhenying Zhang , Eduard Bader , Karen Veroy

In this paper we give explicit constructions of point sets in the $s$ dimensional unit cube yielding quasi-Monte Carlo algorithms which achieve the optimal rate of convergence of the worst-case error for numerically integrating high…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-04-02 Josef Dick

When the objective function is not locally Lipschitz, constraint qualifications are no longer sufficient for Karush-Kuhn-Tucker (KKT) conditions to hold at a local minimizer, let alone ensuring an exact penalization. In this paper, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-01-17 Lei Guo , Jane J. Ye

To address the issue of inaccurate distributions in practical stochastic systems, a minimax linear-quadratic control method is proposed using the Wasserstein metric. Our method aims to construct a control policy that is robust against…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-26 Kihyun Kim , Insoon Yang

We consider the problem of modulation and estimation of a random parameter $U$ to be conveyed across a discrete memoryless channel. Upper and lower bounds are derived for the best achievable exponential decay rate of a general moment of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Neri Merhav

A Lagrange-dual (Gallager-style) lower bound is derived for the error exponent function of the typical random code (TRC) pertaining to the i.i.d. random coding ensemble and mismatched stochastic likelihood decoding. While the original…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Neri Merhav

We investigate a class of composite nonconvex functions, where the outer function is the sum of univariate extended-real-valued convex functions and the inner function is the limit of difference-of-convex functions. A notable feature of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-21 Hanyang Li , Ying Cui

The problem of optimally measuring an analytic function of unknown local parameters each linearly coupled to a qubit sensor is well understood, with applications ranging from field interpolation to noise characterization. Here, we resolve a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-21 Jacob Bringewatt , Adam Ehrenberg , Tarushii Goel , Alexey V. Gorshkov

This paper deals with a general form of variational problems in Banach spaces which encompasses variational inequalities as well as minimization problems. We prove a characterization of local error bounds for the distance to the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-07-12 Christian Kanzow , Daniel Steck

Fixed-point equations with Lipschitz operators have been studied for more than a century, and are central to problems in mathematical optimization, game theory, economics, and dynamical systems, among others. When the Lipschitz constant of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-12 Jelena Diakonikolas

We consider the problem of approximating a function in general nonlinear subsets of $L^2$ when only a weighted Monte Carlo estimate of the $L^2$-norm can be computed. Of particular interest in this setting is the concept of sample…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-12 Philipp Trunschke