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We consider rank-one symmetric tensor estimation when the tensor is corrupted by Gaussian noise and the spike forming the tensor is a structured signal coming from a generalized linear model. The latter is a mathematically tractable model…

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The study of finite approximations of probability measures has a long history. In (Xu and Berger, 2017), the authors focus on constrained finite approximations and, in particular, uniform ones in dimension $d=1$. The present paper gives an…

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We present the first sample compression algorithm for nearest neighbors with non-trivial performance guarantees. We complement these guarantees by demonstrating almost matching hardness lower bounds, which show that our bound is nearly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Lee-Ad Gottlieb , Aryeh Kontorovich , Pinhas Nisnevitch

Provably finding stationary points on bounded-rank tensors turns out to be an open problem [E. Levin, J. Kileel, and N. Boumal, Math. Program., 199 (2023), pp. 831--864] due to the inherent non-smoothness of the set of bounded-rank tensors.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Bin Gao , Renfeng Peng , Ya-xiang Yuan

Let $\mathbf{v}_i$ be vectors in $\mathbb{R}^d$ and $\{\varepsilon_i\}$ be independent Rademacher random variables. Then the Littlewood-Offord problem entails finding the best upper bound for $\sup_{\mathbf{x} \in \mathbb{R}^d}…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-09-03 Kyle Luh , David Xiang

We show how to extend several basic concentration inequalities for simple random tensors $X = x_1 \otimes \cdots \otimes x_d$ where all $x_k$ are independent random vectors in $\mathbb{R}^n$ with independent coefficients. The new results…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Roman Vershynin

Suppose that there is a ground set which consists of a large number of vectors in a Hilbert space. Consider the problem of selecting a subset of the ground set such that the projection of a vector of interest onto the subspace spanned by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-20 Zhenliang Zhang , Yuan Wang , Edwin K. P. Chong , Ali Pezeshki , Louis Scharf

We study occurrences of patterns on clusters of size n in random fields on Z^d. We prove that for a given pattern, there is a constant a>0 such that the probability that this pattern occurs at most an times on a cluster of size n is…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-03-13 Remco van der Hofstad , Wouter Kager

We obtain new lower and upper bounds for probabilities of unions of events.These bounds are sharp. They are stronger than earlier ones. General bounds maybe applied in arbitrary measurable spaces.We have improved the method that has been…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-08-19 Andrei N. Frolov

In various application fields, tensor type data are used recently and then a typical rank is important. Although there may be more than one typical ranks over the real number field, a generic rank over the complex number field is the…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2010-08-09 Toshio Sumi , Toshio Sakata , Mitsuhiro Miyazaki

We study sequential prediction of real-valued, arbitrary and unknown sequences under the squared error loss as well as the best parametric predictor out of a large, continuous class of predictors. Inspired by recent results from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-01-24 N. Denizcan Vanli , Suleyman S. Kozat

In this paper, we study the estimation of a rank-one spiked tensor in the presence of heavy tailed noise. Our results highlight some of the fundamental similarities and differences in the tradeoff between statistical and computational…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-07-21 Arnab Auddy , Ming Yuan

This paper considers a variation of the full-information secretary problem where the random variables to be observed are independent but not necessary identically distributed. The main result is a sharp lower bound for the optimal win…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-12-12 Pieter C. Allaart , Jose A. Islas

If one seeks to estimate the total variation between two product measures $||P^\otimes_{1:n}-Q^\otimes_{1:n}||$ in terms of their marginal TV sequence $\delta=(||P_1-Q_1||,||P_2-Q_2||,\ldots,||P_n-Q_n||)$, then trivial upper and lower…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-10-03 Aryeh Kontorovich

It is shown that at least 50% of the probability mass of a sum of independent Rademacher random variables is within one standard deviation from its mean. This lower bound is sharp, it is much better than for instance the bound that can be…

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We find upper bounds for the probability of underestimation and overestimation errors in penalized likelihood context tree estimation. The bounds are explicit and applies to processes of not necessarily finite memory. We allow for general…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2009-03-11 Florencia Leonardi

Dorais asked for the maximum guaranteed size of a dimension $d$ subposet of an $n$-element poset. A lower bound of order $\sqrt{n}$ was found by Goodwillie. We provide a sublinear upper bound for each $d$. For $d=2$, our bound is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-04-02 Benjamin Reiniger , Elyse Yeager

We study the decision version of tensor spectral norm from the viewpoint of real algebraic complexity. For a rationally specified tensor, the tensor spectral threshold problem asks whether its spectral norm exceeds a prescribed rational…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Angshul Majumdar

The Thompson metric provides key geometric insights in the study or non-linear matrix equations and in many optimization problems. However, knowing that an approximate solution is within d_T units of the actual solution in the Thompson…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-12 David A. Snyder

We study the decomposability and the subdifferential of the tensor nuclear norm. Both concepts are well understood and widely applied in matrices but remain unclear for higher-order tensors. We show that the tensor nuclear norm admits a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Jiewen Guan , Bo Jiang , Zhening Li