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We propose a novel sampling-based federated learning framework for statistical inference on M-estimators with non-smooth objective functions, which frequently arise in modern statistical applications such as quantile regression and AUC…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-05-06 Xiudi Li , Lu Tian , Tianxi Cai

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) can produce high-quality samples, but do not provide an estimate of the probability density around the samples. However, it has been noted that maximizing the log-likelihood within an energy-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Omri Ben-Dov , Pravir Singh Gupta , Victoria Abrevaya , Michael J. Black , Partha Ghosh

The aim of this paper is to introduce an adaptive penalized estimator for identifying the true reduced parametric model under the sparsity assumption. In particular, we deal with the framework where the unpenalized estimator of the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-11-02 Alessandro De Gregorio , Francesco Iafrate

This study introduces a simplified model for bridge-vehicle interaction for medium- to long-span bridges subject to random traffic loads. Previous studies have focused on calculating the exact response of the vehicle or the bridge based on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-03 Soheil Sadeghi Eshkevari , Thomas J. Matarazzo , Shamim N. Pakzad

This study delves into the application of graph neural networks in the realm of traffic forecasting, a crucial facet of intelligent transportation systems. Accurate traffic predictions are vital for functions like trip planning, traffic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Razib Hayat Khan , Jonayet Miah , S M Yasir Arafat , M M Mahbubul Syeed , Duc M Ca

Bagging can significantly improve the generalization performance of unstable machine learning algorithms such as trees or neural networks. Though bagging is now widely used in practice and many empirical studies have explored its behavior,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-08 Martin Mihelich , Charles Dognin , Yan Shu , Michael Blot

We study the problem of variable selection for linear models under the high-dimensional asymptotic setting, where the number of observations $n$ grows at the same rate as the number of predictors $p$. We consider two-stage variable…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-03-27 Shuaiwen Wang , Haolei Weng , Arian Maleki

Through examples of coordinate and probability transformation between different distributions, the basic principle of normalizing flow is introduced in a simple and concise manner. From the perspective of the distribution of random variable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Hongjun Zhang

We propose a unified framework for adaptive connection sampling in graph neural networks (GNNs) that generalizes existing stochastic regularization methods for training GNNs. The proposed framework not only alleviates over-smoothing and…

We propose a novel sparse spectrum approximation of Gaussian process (GP) tailored for Bayesian optimization. Whilst the current sparse spectrum methods provide desired approximations for regression problems, it is observed that this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Ang Yang , Cheng Li , Santu Rana , Sunil Gupta , Svetha Venkatesh

Recent work shows that path gradient estimators for normalizing flows have lower variance compared to standard estimators for variational inference, resulting in improved training. However, they are often prohibitively more expensive from a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Lorenz Vaitl , Ludwig Winkler , Lorenz Richter , Pan Kessel

Estimation of a vector from quantized linear measurements is a common problem for which simple linear techniques are suboptimal -- sometimes greatly so. This paper develops generalized approximate message passing (GAMP) algorithms for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-24 Ulugbek Kamilov , Vivek K. Goyal , Sundeep Rangan

Normalizing flows model a complex target distribution in terms of a bijective transform operating on a simple base distribution. As such, they enable tractable computation of a number of important statistical quantities, particularly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-01 Chandramouli Shama Sastry , Andreas Lehrmann , Marcus Brubaker , Alexander Radovic

Recent research has developed several Monte Carlo methods for estimating the normalization constant (partition function) based on the idea of annealing. This means sampling successively from a path of distributions that interpolate between…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-10-10 Omar Chehab , Aapo Hyvarinen , Andrej Risteski

Robust estimation under Huber's $\epsilon$-contamination model has become an important topic in statistics and theoretical computer science. Statistically optimal procedures such as Tukey's median and other estimators based on depth…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-02-27 Chao Gao , Jiyi Liu , Yuan Yao , Weizhi Zhu

Recently, social infrastructure is aging, and its predictive maintenance has become important issue. To monitor the state of infrastructures, bridge inspection is performed by human eye or bay drone. For diagnosis, primary damage region are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Takato Yasuno , Michihiro Nakajima , Tomoharu Sekiguchi , Kazuhiro Noda , Kiyoshi Aoyanagi , Sakura Kato

Gaussian Boson Sampling (GBS) is a promising candidate for demonstrating quantum computational advantage and can be applied to solving graph-related problems. In this work, we propose Markov chain Monte Carlo-based algorithms to sample from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-31 Yexin Zhang , Shuo Zhou , Xinzhao Wang , Ziruo Wang , Ziyi Yang , Rui Yang , Yecheng Xue , Tongyang Li

Computing the partition function $Z$ of a discrete graphical model is a fundamental inference challenge. Since this is computationally intractable, variational approximations are often used in practice. Recently, so-called gauge…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-03-06 Sungsoo Ahn , Michael Chertkov , Jinwoo Shin , Adrian Weller

The marginal likelihood plays an important role in many areas of Bayesian statistics such as parameter estimation, model comparison, and model averaging. In most applications, however, the marginal likelihood is not analytically tractable…

We present a novel machine learning approach for data assimilation applied in fluid mechanics, based on adjoint-optimization augmented by Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) models. We consider as baseline the Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes…