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Training machine learning models on massive datasets incurs substantial computational costs. To alleviate such costs, there has been a sustained effort to develop data-efficient training methods that can carefully select subsets of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Omead Pooladzandi , David Davini , Baharan Mirzasoleiman

Quantum neural networks (QNNs) and quantum kernels stand as prominent figures in the realm of quantum machine learning, poised to leverage the nascent capabilities of near-term quantum computers to surmount classical machine learning…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-14 Yiming Huang , Huiyuan Wang , Yuxuan Du , Xiao Yuan

Gaussian mixtures are widely used for approximating density functions in various applications such as density estimation, belief propagation, and Bayesian filtering. These applications often utilize Gaussian mixtures as initial…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-10-18 Qiong Zhang , Archer Gong Zhang , Jiahua Chen

Data pruning -- the combinatorial task of selecting a small and representative subset from a large dataset, is crucial for mitigating the enormous computational costs associated with training data-hungry modern deep learning models at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Anish Acharya , Sujay Sanghavi , Alexandros G. Dimakis , Inderjit S Dhillon

Recent work by Brock et al. (2018) suggests that Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) benefit disproportionately from large mini-batch sizes. Unfortunately, using large batches is slow and expensive on conventional hardware. Thus, it…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-10-31 Samarth Sinha , Han Zhang , Anirudh Goyal , Yoshua Bengio , Hugo Larochelle , Augustus Odena

Estimating the geometric median of a dataset is a robust counterpart to mean estimation, and is a fundamental problem in computational geometry. Recently, [HSU24] gave an $(\varepsilon, \delta)$-differentially private algorithm obtaining an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Syamantak Kumar , Daogao Liu , Kevin Tian , Chutong Yang

In this paper, we study the problem of learning multi-dimensional Gaussian Mixture Models (GMMs), with a specific focus on model order selection and efficient mixing distribution estimation. We first establish an information-theoretic lower…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-23 Xinyu Liu , Hai Zhang

We propose a hybrid method for accurately estimating the score function, i.e., the gradient of the log steady-state density, using a Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) in conjunction with a bisecting K-means clustering step. Our approach, which…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-31 Ludovico T. Giorgini , Tobias Bischoff , Andre N. Souza

We study the problem of constructing $(1+\varepsilon)$-coresets for Euclidean $(k,z)$-clustering in the distributed setting, where $n$ data points are partitioned across $s$ sites. We focus on two prominent communication models: the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Vincent Cohen-Addad , Liudeng Wang , David P. Woodruff , Samson Zhou

Gaussian processes (GPs) are widely used in nonparametric regression, classification and spatio-temporal modeling, motivated in part by a rich literature on theoretical properties. However, a well known drawback of GPs that limits their use…

Methodology · Statistics 2011-06-29 Anjishnu Banerjee , David Dunson , Surya Tokdar

We consider the problem of estimating the factors of a low-rank $n \times d$ matrix, when this is corrupted by additive Gaussian noise. A special example of our setting corresponds to clustering mixtures of Gaussians with equal (known)…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-11-02 Andrea Montanari , Yuchen Wu

Gaussian mixture models (GMM) are the most widely used statistical model for the $k$-means clustering problem and form a popular framework for clustering in machine learning and data analysis. In this paper, we propose a natural semi-random…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-27 Pranjal Awasthi , Aravindan Vijayaraghavan

We provide a definition and explicit expressions for $n$-body Gaussian Process (GP) kernels which can learn any interatomic interaction occurring in a physical system, up to $n$-body contributions, for any value of $n$. The series is…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-05-30 Aldo Glielmo , Claudio Zeni , Alessandro De Vita

Model compression is crucial for deployment of neural networks on devices with limited computational and memory resources. Many different methods show comparable accuracy of the compressed model and similar compression rates. However, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Ben Mussay , Daniel Feldman , Samson Zhou , Vladimir Braverman , Margarita Osadchy

The present paper constructs coresets for weight-constrained anisotropic assignment and clustering. In contrast to the well-studied unconstrained least-squares clustering problem, approximating the centroids of the clusters no longer…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Maximilian Fiedler , Peter Gritzmann

Measuring similarity between two objects is the core operation in existing clustering algorithms in grouping similar objects into clusters. This paper introduces a new similarity measure called point-set kernel which computes the similarity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-07 Kai Ming Ting , Jonathan R. Wells , Ye Zhu

We study the worst case error of kernel density estimates via subset approximation. A kernel density estimate of a distribution is the convolution of that distribution with a fixed kernel (e.g. Gaussian kernel). Given a subset (i.e. a point…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2012-04-05 Jeff M. Phillips

In learning theory, a standard assumption is that the data is generated from a finite mixture model. But what happens when the number of components is not known in advance? The problem of estimating the number of components, also called…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Jerry Li , Allen Liu , Ankur Moitra

Numerous approximation algorithms for problems on unit disk graphs have been proposed in the literature, exhibiting a sharp trade-off between running times and approximation ratios. We introduce a variation of the known shifting strategy…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-08 Guilherme D. da Fonseca , Vinícius G. Pereira de Sá , Celina M. H. de Figueiredo

We study fast algorithms for computing fundamental properties of a positive semidefinite kernel matrix $K \in \mathbb{R}^{n \times n}$ corresponding to $n$ points $x_1,\ldots,x_n \in \mathbb{R}^d$. In particular, we consider estimating the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Arturs Backurs , Piotr Indyk , Cameron Musco , Tal Wagner