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In this paper we study the statistical properties of Principal Components Regression with Laplacian Eigenmaps (PCR-LE), a method for nonparametric regression based on Laplacian Eigenmaps (LE). PCR-LE works by projecting a vector of observed…

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We consider the nonparametric regression problem when the covariates are located on an unknown smooth compact submanifold of a Euclidean space. Under defining a random geometric graph structure over the covariates we analyze the asymptotic…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-11-05 Paul Rosa , Judith Rousseau

We study minimax lower bounds for function estimation problems on large graph when the target function is smoothly varying over the graph. We derive minimax rates in the context of regression and classification problems on graphs that…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-02-16 Alisa Kirichenko , Harry van Zanten

In the (special) smoothing spline problem one considers a variational problem with a quadratic data fidelity penalty and Laplacian regularisation. Higher order regularity can be obtained via replacing the Laplacian regulariser with a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-09-07 Nicolás García Trillos , Ryan Murray , Matthew Thorpe

We develop nonparametric regression methods for the case when the true regression function is not necessarily smooth. More specifically, our approach is using the fractional Laplacian and is designed to handle the case when the true…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-11 Zhaoyang Shi , Krishnakumar Balasubramanian , Wolfgang Polonik

Random smoothing data augmentation is a unique form of regularization that can prevent overfitting by introducing noise to the input data, encouraging the model to learn more generalized features. Despite its success in various…

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We reveal the phenomenon that ``naive'' multivariate local polynomial regression can adapt to local smooth lower dimensional structure in the sense that it achieves the optimal convergence rate for nonparametric estimation of regression…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2009-09-29 Peter J. Bickel , Bo Li

Given a weighted graph with $N$ vertices, consider a real-valued regression problem in a semi-supervised setting, where one observes $n$ labeled vertices, and the task is to label the remaining ones. We present a theoretical study of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-03 Ahmed El Alaoui , Xiang Cheng , Aaditya Ramdas , Martin J. Wainwright , Michael I. Jordan

We consider the problem of estimating a function defined over $n$ locations on a $d$-dimensional grid (having all side lengths equal to $n^{1/d}$). When the function is constrained to have discrete total variation bounded by $C_n$, we…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-05-27 Veeranjaneyulu Sadhanala , Yu-Xiang Wang , Ryan Tibshirani

We study a class of optimization problems on Riemannian manifolds, where the objective function consists of a smooth term and quasi-norm type penalties with exponent $p \in (0, 1]$. The essential difficulty lies in the fact that the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Lei Wang , Xiaojun Chen

We study a Bayesian approach to estimating a smooth function in the context of regression or classification problems on large graphs. We derive theoretical results that show how asymptotically optimal Bayesian regularization can be achieved…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-03-07 Alisa Kirichenko , Harry van Zanten

Distribution regression seeks to estimate the conditional distribution of a multivariate response given a continuous covariate. This approach offers a more complete characterization of dependence than traditional regression methods.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-10 Rong Tang , Yun Yang

We study the problem of estimating eigenpairs of elliptic differential operators from samples of a distribution $\rho$ supported on a manifold $M$. The operators discussed in the paper are relevant in unsupervised learning and in particular…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-03 Nicolás García Trillos , Chenghui Li , Raghavendra Venkatraman

This paper studies a Bayesian approach to non-asymptotic minimax adaptation in nonparametric estimation. Estimating an input function on the basis of output functions in a Gaussian white-noise model is discussed. The input function is…

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We provide a theoretical analysis of the representation learning problem aimed at learning the latent variables (design matrix) $\Theta$ of observations $Y$ with the knowledge of the coefficient matrix $X$. The design matrix is learned…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Kaige Yang , Xiaowen Dong , Laura Toni

Bi-stochastic normalization provides an alternative normalization of graph Laplacians in graph-based data analysis and can be computed efficiently by Sinkhorn-Knopp (SK) iterations. This paper proves the convergence of bi-stochastically…

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We introduce an $R$-sectoriality perturbation technique for non-commuting operators defined in Bochner spaces. Based on this and on bounded $H^{\infty}$-functional calculus results for the Laplacian on manifolds with conical singularities,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Nikolaos Roidos

The paper deals with the non-parametric estimation in the regression with the multiplicative noise. Using the local polynomial fitting and the bayesian approach, we construct the minimax on isotropic H\"older class estimator. Next applying…

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The manifold hypothesis says that natural high-dimensional data lie on or around a low-dimensional manifold. The recent success of statistical and learning-based methods in very high dimensions empirically supports this hypothesis,…

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