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This paper is devoted to the estimators of the mean that provide strong non-asymptotic guarantees under minimal assumptions on the underlying distribution. The main ideas behind proposed techniques are based on bridging the notions of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-05-07 Stanislav Minsker

In classification, the de facto method for aggregating individual losses is the average loss. When the actual metric of interest is 0-1 loss, it is common to minimize the average surrogate loss for some well-behaved (e.g. convex) surrogate.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Bryan He , James Zou

The paper is concerned with guaranteed a posteriori error estimates for a class of evolutionary problems related to poroelastic media governed by the quasi-static linear Biot equations. The system is decoupled employing the fixed-stress…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-22 Kundan Kumar , Svetlana Kyas , Jan Nordbotten , Sergey Repin

This article studies the achievable guarantees on the error rates of certain learning algorithms, with particular focus on refining logarithmic factors. Many of the results are based on a general technique for obtaining bounds on the error…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-09-13 Steve Hanneke

The aim of this paper is to provide several novel upper bounds on the excess risk with a primal focus on classification problems. We suggest two approaches and the obtained bounds are represented via the distribution dependent local…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-03-13 Nikita Zhivotovskiy

Analysis of non-asymptotic estimation error and structured statistical recovery based on norm regularized regression, such as Lasso, needs to consider four aspects: the norm, the loss function, the design matrix, and the noise model. This…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-12-01 Arindam Banerjee , Sheng Chen , Farideh Fazayeli , Vidyashankar Sivakumar

For optimization on large-scale data, exactly calculating its solution may be computationally difficulty because of the large size of the data. In this paper we consider subsampled optimization for fast approximating the exact solution. In…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-04-11 Rong Zhu , Jiming Jiang

The generalization error of a learning algorithm refers to the discrepancy between the loss of a learning algorithm on training data and that on unseen testing data. Various information-theoretic bounds on the generalization error have been…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Xuetong Wu , Jonathan H. Manton , Uwe Aickelin , Jingge Zhu

In this paper, we study the problem of consistency in the context of adversarial examples. Specifically, we tackle the following question: can surrogate losses still be used as a proxy for minimizing the $0/1$ loss in the presence of an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Laurent Meunier , Raphaël Ettedgui , Rafael Pinot , Yann Chevaleyre , Jamal Atif

Deep neural networks often fail when deployed in real-world contexts due to distribution shift, a critical barrier to building safe and reliable systems. An emerging approach to address this problem relies on \emph{disagreement discrepancy}…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Neil G. Marchant , Andrew C. Cullen , Feng Liu , Sarah M. Erfani

This paper develops a new framework for indirect statistical inference with guaranteed necessity and sufficiency, applicable to continuous random variables. We prove that when comparing exponentially transformed order statistics from an…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-25 Z Zhang , X Hu , C Lu , T Liu

The paper is concerned with space-time IgA approximations of parabolic initial-boundary value problems. We deduce guaranteed and fully computable error bounds adapted to special features of IgA approximations and investigate their…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-20 Ulrich Langer , Svetlana Matculevich , Sergey Repin

Measurement-constrained datasets, often encountered in semi-supervised learning, arise when data labeling is costly, time-intensive, or hindered by confidentiality or ethical concerns, resulting in a scarcity of labeled data. In certain…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-01-15 Yixin Shen , Yang Ning

We prove bounds for the number of solutions to $$a_1 + \dots + a_k = a_1' + \dots + a_k'$$ over $N$-element sets of reals, which are sufficiently convex or near-convex. A near-convex set will be the image of a set with small additive…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2021-04-26 Peter J. Bradshaw , Brandon Hanson , Misha Rudnev

Adversarially robust classification seeks a classifier that is insensitive to adversarial perturbations of test patterns. This problem is often formulated via a minimax objective, where the target loss is the worst-case value of the 0-1…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-05-14 Han Bao , Clayton Scott , Masashi Sugiyama

In many practical and numerical inverse problems, the exact data log-likelihood is not fully accessible, motivating the use of surrogate models. We study heteroscedastic nonparametric nonlinear regression problems with Gaussian errors and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Fanny Seizilles , Maximilian Siebel

We study semi Lagrangian approximation schemes for Hamilton Jacobi Bellman equations arising from finite horizon optimal control problems. Classical error estimates for these schemes include the term $\frac{1}{\Delta t}$ which leads to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-18 Alessandro Alla , Filippo Mayer

We study the problem of estimating the diagonal of an implicitly given matrix $A$. For such a matrix we have access to an oracle that allows us to evaluate the matrix vector product $Av$. For random variable $v$ drawn from an appropriate…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-01-27 Robert A. Baston , Yuji Nakatsukasa

Consensus is a well-studied problem in distributed sensing, computation and control, yet deriving useful and easily computable bounds on the rate of convergence to consensus remains a challenge. This paper discusses the use of seminorms for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-29 Ron Ofir , Ji Liu , A. Stephen Morse , Brian D. O. Anderson

The $\ell_0$-constrained empirical risk minimization ($\ell_0$-ERM) is a promising tool for high-dimensional statistical estimation. The existing analysis of $\ell_0$-ERM estimator is mostly on parameter estimation and support recovery…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-01-22 Xiao-Tong Yuan , Ping Li
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