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In truncated linear regression, samples $(x,y)$ are shown only when the outcome $y$ falls inside a certain survival set $S^\star$ and the goal is to estimate the unknown $d$-dimensional regressor $w^\star$. This problem has a long history…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-25 Alexandros Kouridakis , Anay Mehrotra , Alkis Kalavasis , Constantine Caramanis

We give the first polynomial time algorithm for \emph{list-decodable covariance estimation}. For any $\alpha > 0$, our algorithm takes input a sample $Y \subseteq \mathbb{R}^d$ of size $n\geq d^{\mathsf{poly}(1/\alpha)}$ obtained by…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Misha Ivkov , Pravesh K. Kothari

Consider the setting where a $\rho$-sparse Rademacher vector is planted in a random $d$-dimensional subspace of $R^n$. A classical question is how to recover this planted vector given a random basis in this subspace. A recent result by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Jingqiu Ding , Yiding Hua

Researchers currently use a number of approaches to predict and substantiate information-computation gaps in high-dimensional statistical estimation problems. A prominent approach is to characterize the limits of restricted models of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Matthew Brennan , Guy Bresler , Samuel B. Hopkins , Jerry Li , Tselil Schramm

We study the problem of learning general (i.e., not necessarily homogeneous) halfspaces with Random Classification Noise under the Gaussian distribution. We establish nearly-matching algorithmic and Statistical Query (SQ) lower bound…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Ilias Diakonikolas , Jelena Diakonikolas , Daniel M. Kane , Puqian Wang , Nikos Zarifis

We establish optimal Statistical Query (SQ) lower bounds for robustly learning certain families of discrete high-dimensional distributions. In particular, we show that no efficient SQ algorithm with access to an $\epsilon$-corrupted binary…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Ilias Diakonikolas , Daniel M. Kane , Yuxin Sun

We study a regression problem where for some part of the data we observe both the label variable ($Y$) and the predictors (${\bf X}$), while for other part of the data only the predictors are given. Such a problem arises, for example, when…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-04-14 David Azriel , Lawrence D. Brown , Michael Sklar , Richard Berk , Andreas Buja , Linda Zhao

We consider the problem of robust polynomial regression, where one receives samples $(x_i, y_i)$ that are usually within $\sigma$ of a polynomial $y = p(x)$, but have a $\rho$ chance of being arbitrary adversarial outliers. Previously, it…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-08-11 Daniel Kane , Sushrut Karmalkar , Eric Price

We study the task of noiseless linear regression under Gaussian covariates in the presence of additive oblivious contamination. Specifically, we are given i.i.d.\ samples from a distribution $(x, y)$ on $\mathbb{R}^d \times \mathbb{R}$ with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Ilias Diakonikolas , Chao Gao , Daniel M. Kane , John Lafferty , Ankit Pensia

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…

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Consider the regression problem where the response $Y\in\mathbb{R}$ and the covariate $X\in\mathbb{R}^d$ for $d\geq 1$ are \textit{unmatched}. Under this scenario, we do not have access to pairs of observations from the distribution of $(X,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-09-19 Mona Azadkia , Fadoua Balabdaoui

We introduce an expander-sketching framework for list-decodable linear regression that achieves sample complexity $\tilde{O}((d+\log(1/\delta))/\alpha)$, list size $O(1/\alpha)$, and near input-sparsity running time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Herbod Pourali , Sajjad Hashemian , Ebrahim Ardeshir-Larijani

We study the canonical statistical estimation problem of linear regression from $n$ i.i.d.~examples under $(\varepsilon,\delta)$-differential privacy when some response variables are adversarially corrupted. We propose a variant of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Xiyang Liu , Prateek Jain , Weihao Kong , Sewoong Oh , Arun Sai Suggala

We study the problem of PAC learning halfspaces with Massart noise. Given labeled samples $(x, y)$ from a distribution $D$ on $\mathbb{R}^{d} \times \{ \pm 1\}$ such that the marginal $D_x$ on the examples is arbitrary and the label $y$ of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Ilias Diakonikolas , Daniel M. Kane

The vast majority of theoretical results in machine learning and statistics assume that the available training data is a reasonably reliable reflection of the phenomena to be learned or estimated. Similarly, the majority of machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-13 Moses Charikar , Jacob Steinhardt , Gregory Valiant

Sparse linear regression -- finding an unknown vector from linear measurements -- is now known to be possible with fewer samples than variables, via methods like the LASSO. We consider the multiple sparse linear regression problem, where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-02-28 Ali Jalali , Pradeep Ravikumar , Sujay Sanghavi

We study the problem of list-decodable Gaussian covariance estimation. Given a multiset $T$ of $n$ points in $\mathbb R^d$ such that an unknown $\alpha<1/2$ fraction of points in $T$ are i.i.d. samples from an unknown Gaussian…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Ilias Diakonikolas , Daniel M. Kane , Jasper C. H. Lee , Ankit Pensia , Thanasis Pittas

In this paper, we consider a statistical problem of learning a linear model from noisy samples. Existing work has focused on approximating the least squares solution by using leverage-based scores as an importance sampling distribution.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-02-11 Siheng Chen , Rohan Varma , Aarti Singh , Jelena Kovačević

We consider in this paper the multivariate regression problem, when the target regression matrix $A$ is close to a low rank matrix. Our primary interest in on the practical case where the variance of the noise is unknown. Our main…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2011-06-24 Christophe Giraud

We study the performance of estimators of a sparse nonrandom vector based on an observation which is linearly transformed and corrupted by additive white Gaussian noise. Using the reproducing kernel Hilbert space framework, we derive a new…

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