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This paper proposes an estimation framework to assess the performance of sorting over perturbed/noisy data. In particular, the recovering accuracy is measured in terms of Minimum Mean Square Error (MMSE) between the values of the sorting…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Alex Dytso , Martina Cardone , H. Vincent Poor

This paper presents a score-based weighted likelihood estimator (SWLE) for robust estimations of generalized linear model (GLM) for insurance loss data. The SWLE exhibits a limited sensitivity to the outliers, theoretically justifying its…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-04-25 Tsz Chai Fung

Most deep network methods for compressive sensing reconstruction suffer from the black-box characteristic of DNN. In this paper, a deep neural network with interpretable motion estimation named CSMCNet is proposed. The network is able to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-04 Bowen Huang , Xiao Yan , Jinjia Zhou , Yibo Fan

In this paper we derive the optimal linear shrinkage estimator for the high-dimensional mean vector using random matrix theory. The results are obtained under the assumption that both the dimension $p$ and the sample size $n$ tend to…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-07-17 Taras Bodnar , Ostap Okhrin , Nestor Parolya

The minimum mean-squared error (MMSE) is one of the most popular criteria for Bayesian estimation. Conversely, the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is a typical performance criterion in communications, radar, and generally detection theory. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-12 Luca Rugini , Paolo Banelli

Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are often underpowered to detect treatment heterogeneity in subgroups defined by cross-classifications of multiple covariates, due to sparse sample sizes in some strata. External RCT data can help, but…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-23 Youqi Yang , Walter Dempsey , Bhramar Mukherjee

The kernel-based regularization method has two core issues: kernel design and hyperparameter estimation. In this paper, we focus on the second issue and study the properties of several hyperparameter estimators including the empirical Bayes…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-07-04 Biqiang Mu , Tianshi Chen , Lennart Ljung

Deep learning typically requires large data sets and much compute power for each new problem that is learned. Meta-learning can be used to learn a good prior that facilitates quick learning, thereby relaxing these requirements so that new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Mike Huisman , Aske Plaat , Jan N. van Rijn

Risk prediction models are widely used to guide real-world decision-making in areas such as healthcare and economics, and they also play a key role in estimating nuisance parameters in semiparametric inference. The super learner is a…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-09-05 Anders Munch , Thomas A. Gerds

The estimation of signal dimension under heavy-tailed latent factor models is studied. As a primary contribution, robust extensions of an earlier estimator based on Gaussian Stein's unbiased risk estimation are proposed. These novel…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-03-31 Joni Virta , Niko Lietzen , Henri Nyberg

Consider the problem of estimating a multivariate normal mean with a known variance matrix, which is not necessarily proportional to the identity matrix. The coordinates are shrunk directly in proportion to their variances in Efron and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-05-29 Zhiqiang Tan

Complex-valued data is ubiquitous in signal and image processing applications, and complex-valued representations in deep learning have appealing theoretical properties. While these aspects have long been recognized, complex-valued deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Rudrasis Chakraborty , Yifei Xing , Stella Yu

The James-Stein estimator has attracted much interest as a shrinkage estimator that yields better estimates than the maximum likelihood estimator. The James-Stein estimator is also very useful as an argument in favor of empirical Bayesian…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-08-05 Yoshiko Hayashi

Precise confidence estimation in deep learning is vital for high-stakes fields like medical imaging, where overconfident misclassifications can have serious consequences. This work evaluates the effectiveness of Temperature Scaling (TS), a…

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Quantum State Tomography (QST) is essential for characterizing and validating quantum systems, but its practical use is severely limited by the exponential growth of the Hilbert space and the number of measurements required for…

We consider shrinkage estimation of higher order Hilbert space valued Bochner integrals in a non-parametric setting. We propose estimators that shrink the $U$-statistic estimator of the Bochner integral towards a pre-specified target…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-07-22 Saiteja Utpala , Bharath K. Sriperumbudur

This work analyzes the subspace-constrained Tyler's estimator (STE), a method designed to recover a low-dimensional subspace from a dataset that may be heavily corrupted by outliers. The STE has previously been shown to be competitive for…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-09 Gilad Lerman , Teng Zhang

Machine learning methods provide a general framework for automatically finding and representing the essential characteristics of simulation data. This task is particularly crucial in enhanced sampling simulations. There we seek a few…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-07-07 Jakub Rydzewski , Omar Valsson

In this paper, we investigate a Bayesian sparse reconstruction algorithm called compressive sensing via Bayesian support detection (CS-BSD). This algorithm is quite robust against measurement noise and achieves the performance of a minimum…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-05-15 Jaewook Kang , Heung-No Lee , Kiseon Kim