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Scoring rules are used to evaluate the quality of predictions that take the form of probability distributions. A scoring rule is strictly proper if its expected value is uniquely minimized by the true probability distribution. One of the…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-04-05 Zoe Guan

Modern large-scale kernel-based tests such as maximum mean discrepancy (MMD) and kernelized Stein discrepancy (KSD) optimize kernel hyperparameters on a held-out sample via data splitting to obtain the most powerful test statistics. While…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Jonas M. Kübler , Wittawat Jitkrittum , Bernhard Schölkopf , Krikamol Muandet

Improvements in technology lead to increasing availability of large data sets which makes the need for data reduction and informative subsamples ever more important. In this paper we construct $ D $-optimal subsampling designs for…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-02-28 Torsten Reuter , Rainer Schwabe

This paper focuses on learning rate analysis of distributed kernel ridge regression for strong mixing sequences. Using a recently developed integral operator approach and a classical covariance inequality for Banach-valued strong mixing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Zirui Sun , Shao-Bo Lin

We investigate Learning from Label Proportions (LLP), a partial information setting where examples in a training set are grouped into bags, and only aggregate label values in each bag are available. Despite the partial observability, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Robert Busa-Fekete , Travis Dick , Claudio Gentile , Haim Kaplan , Tomer Koren , Uri Stemmer

Scaling laws predict the loss of a target machine learning model by extrapolating from easier-to-train models with fewer parameters or smaller training sets. This provides an efficient way for practitioners and researchers alike to compare…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Leshem Choshen , Yang Zhang , Jacob Andreas

Splitting of sequential data, such as videos and time series, is an essential step in various data analysis tasks, including object tracking and anomaly detection. However, splitting sequential data presents a variety of challenges that can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Diego Botache , Kristina Dingel , Rico Huhnstock , Arno Ehresmann , Bernhard Sick

Decision tree optimization is fundamental to interpretable machine learning. The most popular approach is to greedily search for the best feature at every decision point, which is fast but provably suboptimal. Recent approaches find the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Varun Babbar , Hayden McTavish , Cynthia Rudin , Margo Seltzer

In this note, we test the performance of six algorithms from the family of graph-based splitting methods [SIAM J. Optim., 34 (2024), pp. 1569-1594] specialized to normal cones of linear subspaces. To do this, we first implement some…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-05 Francisco J. Aragón-Artacho , Rubén Campoy , Irene López-Larios , César López-Pastor

We compare communication efficiencies of two compelling distributed machine learning approaches of split learning and federated learning. We show useful settings under which each method outperforms the other in terms of communication…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-23 Abhishek Singh , Praneeth Vepakomma , Otkrist Gupta , Ramesh Raskar

An important question in constructing Cross Validation (CV) estimators of the generalization error is whether rules can be established that allow "optimal" selection of the size of the training set, for fixed sample size $n$. We define the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-11-11 Georgios Afendras , Marianthi Markatou

The ratio of two probability densities, called a density-ratio, is a vital quantity in machine learning. In particular, a relative density-ratio, which is a bounded extension of the density-ratio, has received much attention due to its…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-07-05 Atsutoshi Kumagai , Tomoharu Iwata , Yasuhiro Fujiwara

Sharpe ratio (sometimes also referred to as information ratio) is widely used in asset management to compare and benchmark funds and asset managers. It computes the ratio of the (excess) net return over the strategy standard deviation.…

Risk Management · Quantitative Finance 2019-05-22 Eric Benhamou , David Saltiel , Beatrice Guez , Nicolas Paris

We analyse the learning performance of Distributed Gradient Descent in the context of multi-agent decentralised non-parametric regression with the square loss function when i.i.d. samples are assigned to agents. We show that if agents hold…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-11-14 Dominic Richards , Patrick Rebeschini

In many social, economical, biological and medical studies, one objective is to classify a subject into one of several classes based on a set of variables observed from the subject. Because the probability distribution of the variables is…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2011-05-19 Jun Shao , Yazhen Wang , Xinwei Deng , Sijian Wang

Distribution shifts are ubiquitous in real-world machine learning applications, posing a challenge to the generalization of models trained on one data distribution to another. We focus on scenarios where data distributions vary across…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-06-05 Steven Wilkins-Reeves , Xu Chen , Qi Ma , Christine Agarwal , Aude Hofleitner

This paper presents a new estimator of the intercept of a linear regression model in cases where the outcome varaible is observed subject to a selection rule. The intercept is often in this context of inherent interest; for example, in a…

Econometrics · Economics 2018-09-26 Chuan Goh

Sparse methods are the standard approach to obtain interpretable models with high prediction accuracy. Alternatively, algorithmic ensemble methods can achieve higher prediction accuracy at the cost of loss of interpretability. However, the…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-01-11 Anthony Christidis , Stefan Van Aelst , Ruben Zamar

Jittered Sampling is a refinement of the classical Monte Carlo sampling method. Instead of picking $n$ points randomly from $[0,1]^2$, one partitions the unit square into $n$ regions of equal measure and then chooses a point randomly from…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-04-20 Florian Pausinger , Manas Rachh , Stefan Steinerberger

In the rapidly evolving research on artificial intelligence (AI) the demand for fast, computationally efficient, and scalable solutions has increased in recent years. The problem of optimizing the computing resources for distributed machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Mohammadreza Doostmohammadian , Zulfiya R. Gabidullina , Hamid R. Rabiee