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One of the common challenges faced by researchers in recent data analysis is missing values. In the context of penalized linear regression, which has been extensively explored over several decades, missing values introduce bias and yield a…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-04-21 Seongoh Park , Seongjin Lee , Nguyen Thi Hai Yen , Nguyen Phuoc Long , Johan Lim

Recently, based on the idea of randomizing space theory, random convex analysis has been being developed in order to deal with the corresponding problems in random environments such as analysis of conditional convex risk measures and the…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2017-09-11 Tiexin Guo , Erxin Zhang , Mingzhi Wu , Bixuan Yang , George Yuan , Xiaolin Zeng

We establish the existence of solutions to common noise McKean-Vlasov martingale problems for coefficients with low regularity. Our approach is able to handle the key challenge posed by drift coefficients that are discontinuous with respect…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-09-01 Robert Alexander Crowell

This paper investigates global and local laws for sample covariance matrices with general growth rates of dimensions. The sample size $N$ and population dimension $M$ can have the same order in logarithm, which implies that their ratio…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-11-05 Bing-Yi Jing , Weiming Li , Jiahui Xie , Yangchun Zhang , Wang Zhou

We extend to the matrix setting a recent result of Srivastava-Vershynin about estimating the covariance matrix of a random vector. The result can be in- terpreted as a quantified version of the law of large numbers for positive…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-11-16 Pierre Youssef

We show that standard extragradient methods (i.e. mirror prox and dual extrapolation) recover optimal accelerated rates for first-order minimization of smooth convex functions. To obtain this result we provide a fine-grained…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-16 Michael B. Cohen , Aaron Sidford , Kevin Tian

We establish the existence of martingale solutions to a class of stochastic conservation equations. The underlying models correspond to random perturbations of kinetic models for collective motion such as the Cucker-Smale and Motsch-Tadmor…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-07-06 Arnaud Debussche , Angelo Rosello

Conservation laws are usually studied in the context of sufficient regularity conditions imposed on the flux function, usually $C^{2}$ and uniform convexity. Some results are proven with the aid of variational methods and a unique minimizer…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-03-06 Carey Caginalp

We propose a distributionally robust formulation for simultaneously estimating the covariance matrix and the precision matrix of a random vector.The proposed model minimizes the worst-case weighted sum of the Frobenius loss of the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-19 Renjie Chen , Viet Anh Nguyen , Huifu Xu

We extend the proof of the local semicircle law for generalized Wigner matrices given in [4] to the case when the matrix of variances has an eigenvalue $ -1 $. In particular, this result provides a short proof of the optimal local…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-11-11 Oskari Ajanki , Laszlo Erdos , Torben Krüger

This paper studies the use of a machine learning-based estimator as a control variate for mitigating the variance of Monte Carlo sampling. Specifically, we seek to uncover the key factors that influence the efficiency of control variates in…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-05-29 Jose Blanchet , Haoxuan Chen , Yiping Lu , Lexing Ying

Two widely used randomized algorithms are the sketch-and-solve method for least-squares regression and the randomized SVD for low-rank approximation. These algorithms apply a random embedding to compress a target matrix, and they perform…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Ethan N. Epperly , Robert J. Webber

Recently there were proposed some innovative convex optimization concepts, namely, relative smoothness [1] and relative strong convexity [2,3]. These approaches have significantly expanded the class of applicability of gradient-type methods…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-19 Fedor Stonyakin , Alexander Titov , Mohammad Alkousa , Oleg Savchuk , Alexander Gasnikov

The stochastic gradient Langevin Dynamics is one of the most fundamental algorithms to solve sampling problems and non-convex optimization appearing in several machine learning applications. Especially, its variance reduced versions have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Yuri Kinoshita , Taiji Suzuki

Considering a critical branching random walk on the real line. In a recent paper, Aidekon [3] developed a powerful method to obtain the convergence in law of its minimum after a log-factor normalization. By an adaptation of this method, we…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-09-01 Thomas Madaule

We find the local rate of convergence of the least squares estimator (LSE) of a one dimensional convex regression function when (a) a certain number of derivatives vanish at the point of interest, and (b) the true regression function is…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-11-17 Promit Ghosal , Bodhisattva Sen

The purpose of this article is to study the convergence of a low order finite element approximation for a natural convection problem. We prove that the discretization based on P1 polynomials for every variable (velocity, pressure and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-27 Ionut Danaila , Francky Luddens , Cécile Legrand

We estimate the global minimum variance (GMV) portfolio in the high-dimensional case using results from random matrix theory. This approach leads to a shrinkage-type estimator which is distribution-free and it is optimal in the sense of…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2023-04-19 Taras Bodnar , Nestor Parolya , Wolfgang Schmid

After proper rescaling and under some technical assumptions, the smallest eigenvalue of a sample covariance matrix with aspect ratio bounded away from 1 converges to the Tracy--Widom distribution. This complements the results on the largest…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-01-25 Ohad N. Feldheim , Sasha Sodin

We study random transformations built from intermittent maps on the unit interval that share a common neutral fixed point. We focus mainly on random selections of Pomeu-Manneville-type maps $T_\alpha$ using the full parameter range $0<…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-08-11 Wael Bahsoun , Christopher Bose