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In this paper we consider the uniformity testing problem for high-dimensional discrete distributions (multinomials) under sparse alternatives. More precisely, we derive sharp detection thresholds for testing, based on $n$ samples, whether a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-02-17 Bhaswar B. Bhattacharya , Rajarshi Mukherjee

Consider the Gaussian vector model with mean value {\theta}. We study the twin problems of estimating the number |{\theta}|_0 of non-zero components of {\theta} and testing whether |{\theta}|_0 is smaller than some value. For testing, we…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-03-02 Alexandra Carpentier , Nicolas Verzelen

We study the problem of robust estimation under heterogeneous corruption rates, where each sample may be independently corrupted with a known but non-identical probability. This setting arises naturally in distributed and federated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Syomantak Chaudhuri , Jerry Li , Thomas A. Courtade

Sparse linear regression is one of the most basic questions in machine learning and statistics. Here, we are given as input a design matrix $X \in \mathbb{R}^{N \times d}$ and measurements or labels ${y} \in \mathbb{R}^N$ where ${y} = {X}…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Gautam Chandrasekaran , Raghu Meka , Konstantinos Stavropoulos

We consider the following basic inference problem: there is an unknown high-dimensional vector $w \in \mathbb{R}^n$, and an algorithm is given access to labeled pairs $(x,y)$ where $x \in \mathbb{R}^n$ is a measurement and $y = w \cdot x +…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Xue Chen , Anindya De , Rocco A. Servedio

In the first part of the series papers, we set out to answer the following question: given specific restrictions on a set of samplers, what kind of signal can be uniquely represented by the corresponding samples attained, as the foundation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Hanshen Xiao , Yaowen Zhang , Guoqiang Xiao

In the problem of high-dimensional convexity testing, there is an unknown set $S \subseteq \mathbb{R}^n$ which is promised to be either convex or $\varepsilon$-far from every convex body with respect to the standard multivariate normal…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-06-29 Xi Chen , Adam Freilich , Rocco A. Servedio , Timothy Sun

We present a simple and effective algorithm for the problem of \emph{sparse robust linear regression}. In this problem, one would like to estimate a sparse vector $w^* \in \mathbb{R}^n$ from linear measurements corrupted by sparse noise…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-01-08 Sushrut Karmalkar , Eric Price

In high-dimensional linear models, the sparsity assumption is typically made, stating that most of the parameters are equal to zero. Under the sparsity assumption, estimation and, recently, inference have been well studied. However, in…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-07-09 Yinchu Zhu , Jelena Bradic

In analyzing high-dimensional models, sparsity of the model parameter is a common but often undesirable assumption. In this paper, we study the following two-sample testing problem: given two samples generated by two high-dimensional linear…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-08-16 Yinchu Zhu , Jelena Bradic

In this paper, we study the detection boundary for minimax hypothesis testing in the context of high-dimensional, sparse binary regression models. Motivated by genetic sequencing association studies for rare variant effects, we investigate…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-03-06 Rajarshi Mukherjee , Natesh S. Pillai , Xihong Lin

Testing the homogeneity between two samples of functional data is an important task. While this is feasible for intensely measured functional data, we explain why it is challenging for sparsely measured functional data and show what can be…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-07-05 Changbo Zhu , Jane-Ling Wang

We study the fundamental problem of learning the parameters of a high-dimensional Gaussian in the presence of noise -- where an $\varepsilon$-fraction of our samples were chosen by an adversary. We give robust estimators that achieve…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Ilias Diakonikolas , Gautam Kamath , Daniel M. Kane , Jerry Li , Ankur Moitra , Alistair Stewart

Robust covariance estimation is the following, well-studied problem in high dimensional statistics: given $N$ samples from a $d$-dimensional Gaussian $\mathcal{N}(\boldsymbol{0}, \Sigma)$, but where an $\varepsilon$-fraction of the samples…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Jerry Li , Guanghao Ye

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…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Deeksha Adil , Jarosław Błasiok , Hongjie Chen , Deepak Narayanan Sridharan

We examine the linear regression problem in a challenging high-dimensional setting with correlated predictors where the vector of coefficients can vary from sparse to dense. In this setting, we propose a combination of probabilistic…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-05-13 Roman Parzer , Peter Filzmoser , Laura Vana-Gür

For data segmentation in high-dimensional linear regression settings, the regression parameters are often assumed to be sparse segment-wise, which enables many existing methods to estimate the parameters locally via $\ell_1$-regularised…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-08 Haeran Cho , Tobias Kley , Housen Li

In this paper we study sharp thresholds for detecting sparse signals in $\beta$-models for potentially sparse random graphs. The results demonstrate interesting interplay between graph sparsity, signal sparsity, and signal strength. In…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-05-30 Rajarshi Mukherjee , Sumit Mukherjee , Subhabrata Sen

Although a majority of the theoretical literature in high-dimensional statistics has focused on settings which involve fully-observed data, settings with missing values and corruptions are common in practice. We consider the problems of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-06 Yining Wang , Jialei Wang , Sivaraman Balakrishnan , Aarti Singh

The generalized linear model (GLM) plays a key role in regression analyses. In high-dimensional data, the sparse GLM has been used but it is not robust against outliers. Recently, the robust methods have been proposed for the specific…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-15 Takayuki Kawashima , Hironori Fujisawa