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Flexible Bayesian models are typically constructed using limits of large parametric models with a multitude of parameters that are often uninterpretable. In this article, we offer a novel alternative by constructing an exponentially tilted…

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This paper fortifies the recently introduced hierarchical-optimization recursive least squares (HO-RLS) against outliers which contaminate infrequently linear-regression models. Outliers are modeled as nuisance variables and are estimated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Konstantinos Slavakis , Sinjini Banerjee

The accuracy of machine learning interatomic potentials suffers from reference data that contains numerical noise. Often originating from unconverged or inconsistent electronic-structure calculations, this noise is challenging to identify.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-10 Terry C. W. Lam , Niamh O'Neill , Christoph Schran , Lars L. Schaaf

Moving horizon estimation (MHE) is a widely studied state estimation approach in several practical applications. In the MHE problem, the state estimates are obtained via the solution of an approximated nonlinear optimization problem.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-26 Tianchen Liu , Kushal Chakrabarti , Nikhil Chopra

Simulator-based models are models for which the likelihood is intractable but simulation of synthetic data is possible. They are often used to describe complex real-world phenomena, and as such can often be misspecified in practice.…

Estimating and reacting to external disturbances is of fundamental importance for robust control of quadrotors. Existing estimators typically require significant tuning or training with a large amount of data, including the ground truth, to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Bingheng Wang , Zhengtian Ma , Shupeng Lai , Lin Zhao , Tong Heng Lee

Time series data occurs widely, and outlier detection is a fundamental problem in data mining, which has numerous applications. Existing autoencoder-based approaches deliver state-of-the-art performance on challenging real-world data but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Tung Kieu , Bin Yang , Chenjuan Guo , Christian S. Jensen , Yan Zhao , Feiteng Huang , Kai Zheng

Multivariate linear regression is a fundamental statistical task, but classical estimators such as ordinary least squares are highly sensitive to outliers. These may occur as casewise outliers that affect entire observations, or as outlying…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-11 Fabio Centofanti , Mia Hubert , Peter J. Rousseeuw

Learning-based outlier (mismatched correspondence) rejection for robust 3D registration generally formulates the outlier removal as an inlier/outlier classification problem. The core for this to be successful is to learn the discriminative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Haobo Jiang , Zheng Dang , Zhen Wei , Jin Xie , Jian Yang , Mathieu Salzmann

This paper investigates the state estimation problem for linear systems subject to Gaussian noise, where the model parameters are unknown. By formulating and solving an optimization problem that incorporates both offline and online system…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-10 Peihu Duan , Jiabao He , Yuezu Lv , Guanghui Wen

State estimation of dynamical systems from noisy observations is a fundamental task in many applications. It is commonly addressed using the linear Kalman filter (KF), whose performance can significantly degrade in the presence of outliers…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-27 Shunit Truzman , Guy Revach , Nir Shlezinger , Itzik Klein

State estimation or filtering serves as a fundamental task to enable intelligent decision-making in applications such as autonomous vehicles, robotics, healthcare monitoring, smart grids, intelligent transportation, and predictive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Aamir Hussain Chughtai

Functional logistic regression is a popular model to capture a linear relationship between binary response and functional predictor variables. However, many methods used for parameter estimation in functional logistic regression are…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-10-15 Berkay Akturk , Ufuk Beyaztas , Han Lin Shang

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data contain high levels of noise and artifacts. To avoid contamination of downstream analyses, fMRI-based studies must identify and remove these noise sources prior to statistical analysis. One…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-05-03 Fatma Parlak , Damon D. Pham , Amanda F. Mejia

Outliers can contaminate the measurement process of many nonlinear systems, which can be caused by sensor errors, model uncertainties, change in ambient environment, data loss or malicious cyber attacks. When the extended Kalman filter…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Huazhen Fang , Mulugeta A. Haile , Yebin Wang

Moving horizon estimation (MHE) offers benefits relative to other estimation approaches by its ability to explicitly handle constraints, but suffers increased computation cost. To help enable MHE on platforms with limited computation power,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-14 Yujia Yang , Chris Manzie , Ye Pu

We benchmark the robustness of maximum likelihood based uncertainty estimation methods to outliers in training data for regression tasks. Outliers or noisy labels in training data results in degraded performances as well as incorrect…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Deebul S. Nair , Nico Hochgeschwender , Miguel A. Olivares-Mendez

In recent years, Bayesian inference in large-scale inverse problems found in science, engineering and machine learning has gained significant attention. This paper examines the robustness of the Bayesian approach by analyzing the stability…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-03-06 Alfredo Garbuno-Inigo , Tapio Helin , Franca Hoffmann , Bamdad Hosseini

We study two problems in high-dimensional robust statistics: \emph{robust mean estimation} and \emph{outlier detection}. In robust mean estimation the goal is to estimate the mean $\mu$ of a distribution on $\mathbb{R}^d$ given $n$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-06-28 Yihe Dong , Samuel B. Hopkins , Jerry Li

Optimal transport (OT) is known to be sensitive against outliers because of its marginal constraints. Outlier robust OT variants have been proposed based on the definition that outliers are samples which are expensive to move. In this…

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