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Consensus maximization is one of the most widely used robust fitting paradigms in computer vision, and the development of algorithms for consensus maximization is an active research topic. In this paper, we propose an efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Zhipeng Cai , Tat-Jun Chin , Huu Le , David Suter

We consider stochastic settings for clustering, and develop provably-good approximation algorithms for a number of these notions. These algorithms yield better approximation ratios compared to the usual deterministic clustering setting.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-13 David G. Harris , Shi Li , Thomas Pensyl , Aravind Srinivasan , Khoa Trinh

We discuss conditions ensuring the (strict) convergence of stochastic gradient algorithms.

Probability · Mathematics 2016-10-12 Michel Benaim

Motivated by the recent advances in the field of quantum computing, quantum systems are modelled and analyzed as networks of decentralized quantum nodes which employ distributed quantum consensus algorithms for coordination. In the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-11-27 Saber Jafarizadeh

This paper considers the computational hardness of computing expected outcomes and deciding (universal) (positive) almost-sure termination of probabilistic programs. It is shown that computing lower and upper bounds of expected outcomes is…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-06-08 Benjamin Lucien Kaminski , Joost-Pieter Katoen

We revisit the classical problem of universal prediction of stochastic sequences with a finite time horizon $T$ known to the learner. The question we investigate is whether it is possible to derive vanishing regret bounds that hold with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Matthias Frey , Jonathan H. Manton , Jingge Zhu

An active topic in the study of random constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs) is the geometry of the space of satisfying or almost satisfying assignments as the function of the density, for which a precise landscape of predictions has been…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Jun-Ting Hsieh , Sidhanth Mohanty , Jeff Xu

The Koml\'os$\unicode{x2013}$Major$\unicode{x2013}$Tusn\'ady (KMT) inequality for partial sums is one of the most celebrated results in probability theory. Yet its practical application has been hindered by a lack of practical constants.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Haoyu Ye , Morgane Austern

We consider the high order moments estimator of the frontier of a random pair introduced by Girard, S., Guillou, A., Stupfler, G. (2012). {\it Frontier estimation with kernel regression on high order moments}. In the present paper, we show…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-07-17 Stephane Girard , Armelle Guillou , Gilles Stupfler

We consider the maximum coding rate achievable by uniformly-random codes for the deletion channel. We prove an upper bound that's within 0.1 of the best known lower bounds for all values of the deletion probability $d,$ and much closer for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Berivan Isik , Francisco Pernice , Tsachy Weissman

Reaching distributed average consensus quickly and accurately over a network through iterative dynamics represents an important task in numerous distributed applications. Suitably designed filters applied to the state values can…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-11-28 Stephen Kruzick , José M. F. Moura

Quantifying uncertainty in automatically generated text is important for letting humans check potential hallucinations and making systems more reliable. Conformal prediction is an attractive framework to provide predictions imbued with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Dennis Ulmer , Chrysoula Zerva , André F. T. Martins

The goal of this work is to prove a new sure upper bound in a setting that can be thought of as a simplified function field analogue. This result is comparable to a recent result of the author concerning almost sure upper bound of random…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-18 Rachid Caich

We consider a consensus algorithm in which every node in a sequence of undirected, B-connected graphs assigns equal weight to each of its neighbors. Under the assumption that the degree of each node is fixed (except for times when the node…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-11-09 Alex Olshevsky , John Tsitsiklis

The reconstruction of an unknown quantity from noisy measurements is a mathematical problem relevant in most applied sciences, for example, in medical imaging, radar inverse scattering, or astronomy. This underlying mathematical problem is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Nina M. Gottschling , David Iagaru , Jakob Gawlikowski , Ioannis Sgouralis

Optimal design of consensus acceleration graph filters relates closely to the eigenvalues of the consensus iteration matrix. This task is complicated by random networks with uncertain iteration matrix eigenvalues. Filter design methods…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-03-01 Stephen Kruzick , José M. F. Moura

We adapt the quasi-monotone method from [2] for composite convex minimization in the stochastic setting. For the proposed numerical scheme we derive the optimal convergence rate in terms of the last iterate, rather than on average as it is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-09 Vyacheslav Kungurtsev , Vladimir Shikhman

We develop a new method for generating prediction sets that combines the flexibility of conformal methods with an estimate of the conditional distribution $P_{Y \mid X}$. Existing methods, such as conformalized quantile regression and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-10-10 Vincent Plassier , Alexander Fishkov , Mohsen Guizani , Maxim Panov , Eric Moulines

We analyse the maximum achievable rate of sustained computation for a given convex region of three dimensional space subject to geometric constraints on power delivery and heat dissipation. We find a universal upper bound across both…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-12-02 Hannah Earley

Random Fourier features is one of the most popular techniques for scaling up kernel methods, such as kernel ridge regression. However, despite impressive empirical results, the statistical properties of random Fourier features are still not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Haim Avron , Michael Kapralov , Cameron Musco , Christopher Musco , Ameya Velingker , Amir Zandieh