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We prove weighted mixed-norm $L^q_t(W^{2,p}_x)$ and $L^q_t(C^{2,\alpha}_x)$ estimates for $1<p,q<\infty$ and $0<\alpha<1$, weighted mixed weak-type estimates for $q=1$, $L^\infty_{t}(L^p_x)-BMO_t(W^{2,p}_x)$, and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-09-04 P. R. Stinga , J. L. Torrea

We seek to improve estimates of the power spectrum covariance matrix from a limited number of simulations by employing a novel statistical technique known as shrinkage estimation. The shrinkage technique optimally combines an empirical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Adrian C. Pope , István Szapudi

This paper is devoted to the estimators of the mean that provide strong non-asymptotic guarantees under minimal assumptions on the underlying distribution. The main ideas behind proposed techniques are based on bridging the notions of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-05-07 Stanislav Minsker

We study the problem of estimating a multivariate convex function defined on a convex body in a regression setting with random design. We are interested in optimal rates of convergence under a squared global continuous $l_2$ loss in the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-01-27 Qiyang Han , Jon A. Wellner

We study the problem of robust mean estimation with adversarially contaminated data under star-shaped constraints in a heavy-tailed noise setting, where only a finite second moment $ \sigma ^2 $ is assumed. For a contamination level $…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Tuorui Peng , Akshay Prasadan , Matey Neykov

We propose an empirical Bayes framework for aggregating estimators obtained from several identification functionals associated to the same causal parameter. The central object is a posterior mean that pools a collection of asymptotically…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-21 Carlos García Meixide , David Ríos Insua

White balancing is a fundamental step in the image processing pipeline. The process involves estimating the chromaticity of the illuminant or light source and using the estimate to correct the image to remove any color cast. Given the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-17 Peter van Beek , R. Wayne Oldford

We introduce novel variants of momentum by incorporating the variance of the stochastic loss function. The variance characterizes the confidence or uncertainty of the local features of the averaged loss surface across the i.i.d. subsets of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Vineeth S. Bhaskara , Sneha Desai

In this paper, we propose a novel method to select significant variables and estimate the corresponding coefficients in multiple-index models with a group structure. All existing approaches for single-index models cannot be extended…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-04-13 Tao Wang , Peirong Xu , Lixing Zhu

This paper develops and analyzes three families of estimators that continuously interpolate between classical quantiles and the sample mean. The construction begins with a smoothed version of the $L_{1}$ loss, indexed by a location…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-12-23 Saïd Maanan , Azzouz Dermoune , Ahmed El Ghini

The notion of margin loss has been central to the development and analysis of algorithms for binary classification. To date, however, there remains no consensus as to the analogue of the margin loss for multiclass classification. In this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-05-20 Yutong Wang , Clayton Scott

Inspired by the key principle behind the EM algorithm, we propose a general methodology for conducting wavelet estimation with irregularly-spaced data by viewing the data as the observed portion of an augmented regularly-spaced data set. We…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2007-06-13 Thomas C. M. Lee , Xiao-Li Meng

We propose an improved LASSO estimation technique based on Stein-rule. We shrink classical LASSO estimator using preliminary test, shrinkage, and positive-rule shrinkage principle. Simulation results have been carried out for various…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-03-18 A. K. Md. Ehsanes Saleh , Enayetur Raheem

In modern classification tasks, the number of labels is getting larger and larger, as is the size of the datasets encountered in practice. As the number of classes increases, class ambiguity and class imbalance become more and more…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-07-19 Camille Garcin , Maximilien Servajean , Alexis Joly , Joseph Salmon

To recover a low rank structure from a noisy matrix, truncated singular value decomposition has been extensively used and studied. Recent studies suggested that the signal can be better estimated by shrinking the singular values. We pursue…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-11-25 Julie Josse , Sylvain Sardy

We present a detailed study of estimation errors in terms of surrogate loss estimation errors. We refer to such guarantees as $\mathscr{H}$-consistency estimation error bounds, since they account for the hypothesis set $\mathscr{H}$…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Pranjal Awasthi , Anqi Mao , Mehryar Mohri , Yutao Zhong

The new class of Markov processes is proposed to realize the flexible shrinkage effects for the dynamic models. The transition density of the new process consists of two penalty functions, similarly to Bayesian fused LASSO in its functional…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-10-16 Kaoru Irie

In this paper, a new ridge-type shrinkage estimator for the precision matrix has been proposed. The asymptotic optimal shrinkage coefficients and the theoretical loss were derived. Data-driven estimators for the shrinkage coefficients were…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-09-04 Cheng Wang , Guangming Pan , Longbing Cao

We consider the model selection consistency or sparsistency of a broad set of $\ell_1$-regularized $M$-estimators for linear and non-linear statistical models in a unified fashion. For this purpose, we propose the local structured…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-10-29 Yen-Huan Li , Jonathan Scarlett , Pradeep Ravikumar , Volkan Cevher

We present an elementary mathematical method to find the minimax estimator of the Bernoulli proportion $\theta$ under the squared error loss when $\theta$ belongs to the restricted parameter space of the form $\Omega = [0, \eta]$ for some…

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