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In this paper, we study the problem of estimating uniformly well the mean values of several distributions given a finite budget of samples. If the variance of the distributions were known, one could design an optimal sampling strategy by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-07-17 Alexandra Carpentier , Alessandro Lazaric , Mohammad Ghavamzadeh , Rémi Munos , Peter Auer , András Antos

Model-free knockoffs is a recently proposed technique for identifying covariates that is likely to have an effect on a response variable. The method is an efficient method to control the false discovery rate in hypothesis tests for separate…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-03-29 Lars Holden , Kristoffer Hellton

This work presents a fault-tolerant control scheme for sensory faults in robotic manipulators based on active inference. In the majority of existing schemes, a binary decision of whether a sensor is healthy (functional) or faulty is made…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Mohamed Baioumy , Corrado Pezzato , Carlos Hernandez Corbato , Nick Hawes , Riccardo Ferrari

Closed-loop decision-making systems (e.g., lending, screening, or recidivism risk assessment) often operate under fairness and service constraints while inducing feedback effects: decisions change who appears in the future, yielding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Wenzhang Du

Statistical model checking delivers quantitative verification results with statistical guarantees by applying Monte Carlo simulation to formal models. It scales to model sizes and model types that are out of reach for exhaustive, analytical…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Pedro R. D'Argenio , Arnd Hartmanns , Patrick Wienhöft , Mark van Wijk

In large-scale multiple hypothesis testing problems, the false discovery exceedance (FDX) provides a desirable alternative to the widely used false discovery rate (FDR) when the false discovery proportion (FDP) is highly variable. We…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-04-21 Pallavi Basu , Luella Fu , Alessio Saretto , Wenguang Sun

This study uses stacked generalization, which is a two-step process of combining machine learning methods, called meta or super learners, for improving the performance of algorithms in step one (by minimizing the error rate of each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Kathleen Kerwin , Nathaniel D. Bastian

Selective inference aims at providing valid inference after a data-driven selection of models or hypotheses. It is essential to avoid overconfident results and replicability issues. While significant advances have been made in this area for…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-03-14 Matteo D'Alessandro , Magne Thoresen

The problem of testing mutually exclusive hypotheses with dependent test statistics is considered. Bayesian and frequentist approaches to multiplicity control are studied and compared to help gain understanding as to the effect of test…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-11-21 Sean Chang , James O. Berger

Sequential hypothesis tests are widely adopted as a principled way to perform multiple tests on data that arrives over time. In particular, researchers frequently utilize group sequential hypothesis tests (GST) to test the same hypotheses…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-18 Dae Woong Ham , Stefanus Jasin , Xuejun Zhao

Supervised fine-tuning (SFT) is the standard approach for binary classification tasks such as toxicity detection, factuality verification, and causal inference. However, SFT often performs poorly in real-world settings with label noise,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Punya Syon Pandey , Zhijing Jin

Conformalized multiple testing offers a model-free way to control predictive uncertainty in decision-making. Existing methods typically use only part of the available data to build score functions tailored to specific settings. We propose a…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-22 Yuyang Huo , Xiaoyang Wu , Changliang Zou , Haojie Ren

The problem of selecting a handful of truly relevant variables in supervised machine learning algorithms is a challenging problem in terms of untestable assumptions that must hold and unavailability of theoretical assurances that selection…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-11-10 Mehdi Rostami , Olli Saarela

Linear mixed models are widely used to analyze non-independent data, but inference for fixed effects can be unreliable under misspecification of the random-effects distribution, inaccurate Fisher information estimation, or convergence…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-01 Angela Andreella , Livio Finos

Financial fraud increasingly exploits institutional boundaries: laundering networks distribute transactions across multiple banks because no single institution can observe the full pattern. Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Prajwal Panth , Nishant Nigam

In the high dimensional regression analysis when the number of predictors is much larger than the sample size, an important question is to select the important variable which are relevant to the response variable of interest. Variable…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-01-09 Pengsheng Ji , Zhigen Zhao

Consider the online testing of a stream of hypotheses where a real--time decision must be made before the next data point arrives. The error rate is required to be controlled at {all} decision points. Conventional \emph{simultaneous testing…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-03-03 Bowen Gang , Wenguang Sun , Weinan Wang

Multiple hypothesis testing is a fundamental problem in high dimensional inference, with wide applications in many scientific fields. In genome-wide association studies, tens of thousands of tests are performed simultaneously to find if any…

Methodology · Statistics 2010-12-21 Xu Han , Weijie Gu , Jianqing Fan

Machine learning (ML) models show strong promise for new biomedical prediction tasks, but concerns about trustworthiness have hindered their clinical adoption. In particular, it is often unclear whether a model relies on true clinical cues…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Dushan N. Wadduwage , Dineth Jayakody , Leonidas Zimianitis

This paper addresses the challenge of model uncertainty in quantitative finance, where decisions in portfolio allocation, derivative pricing, and risk management rely on estimating stochastic models from limited data. In practice, the…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2025-06-10 Hans Buehler , Blanka Horvath , Yannick Limmer , Thorsten Schmidt