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This paper studies robust nonparametric regression, in which an adversarial attacker can modify the values of up to $q$ samples from a training dataset of size $N$. Our initial solution is an M-estimator based on Huber loss minimization.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-12-12 Puning Zhao , Zhiguo Wan

Consider a two-class classification problem where the number of features is much larger than the sample size. The features are masked by Gaussian noise with mean zero and covariance matrix $\Sigma$, where the precision matrix…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-11-21 Yingying Fan , Jiashun Jin , Zhigang Yao

We study a data model in which the data matrix D can be expressed as D = L + S + C, where L is a low rank matrix, S an element-wise sparse matrix and C a matrix whose non-zero columns are outlying data points. To date, robust PCA algorithms…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-01-30 Mostafa Rahmani , George Atia

The task of robust linear estimation in the presence of outliers is of particular importance in signal processing, statistics and machine learning. Although the problem has been stated a few decades ago and solved using classical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-19 George Papageorgiou , Pantelis Bouboulis , Sergios Theodoridis , Kostantinos Themelis

We consider the robust linear regression problem in the online setting where we have access to the data in a streaming manner, one data point after the other. More specifically, for a true parameter $\theta^*$, we consider the corrupted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Scott Pesme , Nicolas Flammarion

In the present paper, we consider the problem of matrix completion with noise. Unlike previous works, we consider quite general sampling distribution and we do not need to know or to estimate the variance of the noise. Two new nuclear-norm…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-02-06 Olga Klopp

We propose a unified framework for estimating low-rank matrices through nonconvex optimization based on gradient descent algorithm. Our framework is quite general and can be applied to both noisy and noiseless observations. In the general…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-10-18 Lingxiao Wang , Xiao Zhang , Quanquan Gu

We propose a general random subspace framework for unconstrained nonconvex optimization problems that requires a weak probabilistic assumption on the subspace gradient, which we show to be satisfied by various random matrix ensembles, such…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-21 Coralia Cartis , Jaroslav Fowkes , Zhen Shao

A cumbersome operation in numerical analysis and linear algebra, optimization, machine learning and engineering algorithms; is inverting large full-rank matrices which appears in various processes and applications. This has both numerical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-24 Neophytos Charalambides , Mert Pilanci , Alfred O. Hero

Estimating linear, mean-square continuous functionals is a pivotal challenge in statistics. In high-dimensional contexts, this estimation is often performed under the assumption of exact model sparsity, meaning that only a small number of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-08-04 Jelena Bradic , Victor Chernozhukov , Whitney K. Newey , Yinchu Zhu

We prove a new and general concentration inequality for the excess risk in least-squares regression with random design and heteroscedastic noise. No specific structure is required on the model, except the existence of a suitable function…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-03-12 Adrien Saumard

In this paper we discuss the variable selection method from \ell0-norm constrained regression, which is equivalent to the problem of finding the best subset of a fixed size. Our study focuses on two aspects, consistency and computation. We…

Methodology · Statistics 2013-03-20 Shifeng Xiong

High-dimensional linear regression is a fundamental tool in modern statistics, particularly when the number of predictors exceeds the sample size. The classical Lasso, which relies on the squared loss, performs well under Gaussian noise…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-06-10 The Tien Mai

We consider the task of privately obtaining prediction error guarantees in ordinary least-squares regression problems with Gaussian covariates (with unknown covariance structure). We provide the first sample-optimal polynomial time…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Prashanti Anderson , Ainesh Bakshi , Mahbod Majid , Stefan Tiegel

We consider the problem of fitting the parameters of a high-dimensional linear regression model. In the regime where the number of parameters $p$ is comparable to or exceeds the sample size $n$, a successful approach uses an…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-11-04 Adel Javanmard , Andrea Montanari

We revisit the problem of robust linear regression under Gaussian covariates with an unknown covariance matrix of condition number $\kappa$. For this fundamental problem, significant gaps remain in our understanding of the trade-offs among…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Deeksha Adil , Jarosław Błasiok , Hongjie Chen , Deepak Narayanan Sridharan

Tensor regression is an important tool for tensor data analysis, but existing works have not considered the impact of outliers, making them potentially sensitive to such data points. This paper proposes a low tubal rank robust regression…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-11 Zihao Song , Jicai Liu , Heng Lian , Weihua Zhao

We investigate a generalized framework to estimate a latent low-rank plus sparse tensor, where the low-rank tensor often captures the multi-way principal components and the sparse tensor accounts for potential model mis-specifications or…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-04-15 Jian-Feng Cai , Jingyang Li , Dong Xia

In this paper, we consider the estimation of a low Tucker rank tensor from a number of noisy linear measurements. The general problem covers many specific examples arising from applications, including tensor regression, tensor completion,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-07-11 Yuetian Luo , Anru R. Zhang

Robust statistical estimators offer resilience against outliers but are often computationally challenging, particularly in high-dimensional sparse settings. Modern optimization techniques are utilized for robust sparse association…

Computation · Statistics 2025-02-03 Pia Pfeiffer , Andreas Alfons , Peter Filzmoser