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We study the problem of high-dimensional linear regression in a robust model where an $\epsilon$-fraction of the samples can be adversarially corrupted. We focus on the fundamental setting where the covariates of the uncorrupted samples are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-04 Ilias Diakonikolas , Weihao Kong , Alistair Stewart

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 offline change point detection and localization problem in the context of piecewise stationary networks, where the observable is a finite sequence of networks. We develop algorithms involving some suitably modified CUSUM…

This paper introduces a novel approach for recovering sparse signals using sorted L1/L2 minimization. The proposed method assigns higher weights to indices with smaller absolute values and lower weights to larger values, effectively…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-09 Chao Wang , Ming Yan , Junjie Yu

We consider a statistical problem of detection of a signal with unknown energy in a multi-channel system, observed in a Gaussian noise. We assume that the signal can appear in the $k$-th channel with a known small prior probability…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-12-19 Evgeny Burnaev , Georgy Golubev

We investigate the performance of the scan (maximum likelihood ratio statistic) and of the average likelihood ratio statistic in the problem of detecting a deterministic signal with unknown spatial extent in the prototypical univariate…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-02-26 Hock Peng Chan , Guenther Walther

We propose methodology for statistical inference for low-dimensional parameters of sparse precision matrices in a high-dimensional setting. Our method leads to a non-sparse estimator of the precision matrix whose entries have a Gaussian…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-08-13 Jana Jankova , Sara van de Geer

The performance of Bayesian detection of Gaussian signals using noisy observations is investigated via the error exponent for the average error probability. Under unknown signal correlation structure or limited processing capability it is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-11-11 Youngchul Sung , Lang Tong , H. Vincent Poor

We consider the change detection problem where the pre-change observation vectors are purely noise and the post-change observation vectors are noise-corrupted compressive measurements of sparse signals with a common support, measured using…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-01-25 Aditi Jain , Pradeep Sarvepalli , Srikrishna Bhashyam , Arun Pachai Kannu

This work investigates multiple testing by considering minimax separation rates in the sparse sequence model, when the testing risk is measured as the sum FDR+FNR (False Discovery Rate plus False Negative Rate). First using the popular…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-08-31 Kweku Abraham , Ismael Castillo , Etienne Roquain

In signal processing and data recovery, reconstructing a signal from quadratic measurements poses a significant challenge, particularly in high-dimensional settings where measurements $m$ is far less than the signal dimension $n$ (i.e., $m…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Jinming Wen , Yi Hu , Meng Huang

We consider the following detection problem: given a realization of a symmetric matrix ${\mathbf{X}}$ of dimension $n$, distinguish between the hypothesis that all upper triangular variables are i.i.d. Gaussians variables with mean 0 and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-11-25 Andrea Montanari , Daniel Reichman , Ofer Zeitouni

We consider the problem of sparse normal means estimation in a distributed setting with communication constraints. We assume there are $M$ machines, each holding $d$-dimensional observations of a $K$-sparse vector $\mu$ corrupted by…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-02-15 Chen Amiraz , Robert Krauthgamer , Boaz Nadler

In this paper, we introduce a new detection algorithm for large-scale wireless systems, referred to as post sparse error detection (PSED) algorithm, that employs a sparse error recovery algorithm to refine the estimate of a symbol vector…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-12-08 Jun Won Choi , Byonghyo Shim

In high-dimensional linear regression, the goal pursued here is to estimate an unknown regression function using linear combinations of a suitable set of covariates. One of the key assumptions for the success of any statistical procedure in…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-03-13 Philippe Rigollet , Alexandre Tsybakov

We design statistical hypothesis tests for performing leak detection in water pipeline channels. By applying an appropriate model for signal propagation, we show that the detection problem becomes one of distinguishing signal from noise,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-25 Liusha Yang , Matthew R. McKay , Xun Wang

This paper investigates asymptotic minimaxity properties of Bayesian multiple testing rules in the sparse Gaussian sequence model using a broad class of global-local scale mixtures of normals as priors for the means. Minimaxity is studied…

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We introduce a novel Bayesian approach for both covariate selection and sparse precision matrix estimation in the context of high-dimensional Gaussian graphical models involving multiple responses. Our approach provides a sparse estimation…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-09-25 Anwesha Chakravarti , Naveen N. Narishetty , Feng Liang

Change detection involves segmenting sequential data such that observations in the same segment share some desired properties. Multivariate change detection continues to be a challenging problem due to the variety of ways change points can…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-10-16 Wenyu Zhang , Daniel Gilbert , David Matteson

We study an inhomogeneous sparse random graph on [N] = {1, . . . , N } as introduced in a seminal paper by Bollobas, Janson and Riordan (2007): vertices have a type (here in a compact metric space S), and edges between different vertices…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-08-21 Luisa Andreis , Wolfgang König , Heide Langhammer , Robert I. A. Patterson