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Bayesian inference requires approximation methods to become computable, but for most of them it is impossible to quantify how close the approximation is to the true posterior. In this work, we present a theorem upper-bounding the KL…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-27 Guillaume P. Dehaene

Automating algorithm configuration is growing increasingly necessary as algorithms come with more and more tunable parameters. It is common to tune parameters using machine learning, optimizing performance metrics such as runtime and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-12-25 Maria-Florina Balcan , Tuomas Sandholm , Ellen Vitercik

We consider the recovery of square-integrable signals from discrete, equidistant samples of their Gabor transform magnitude and show that, in general, signals can not be recovered from such samples. In particular, we show that for any…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-03 Rima Alaifari , Matthias Wellershoff

The \(L_1/L_2\) norm ratio has gained significant attention as a measure of sparsity due to three merits: sharper approximation to the \(L_0\) norm compared to the \(L_1\) norm, being parameter-free and scale-invariant, and exceptional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-14 Min Tao , Xiao-Ping Zhang , Yun-Bin Zhao

We study depth separation in infinite-width neural networks, where complexity is controlled by the overall squared $\ell_2$-norm of the weights (sum of squares of all weights in the network). Whereas previous depth separation results…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Suzanna Parkinson , Greg Ongie , Rebecca Willett , Ohad Shamir , Nathan Srebro

We introduce general tools for designing efficient private estimation algorithms, in the high-dimensional settings, whose statistical guarantees almost match those of the best known non-private algorithms. To illustrate our techniques, we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Hongjie Chen , Vincent Cohen-Addad , Tommaso d'Orsi , Alessandro Epasto , Jacob Imola , David Steurer , Stefan Tiegel

Linear structural equation models postulate noisy linear relationships between variables of interest. Each model corresponds to a path diagram, which is a mixed graph with directed edges that encode the domains of the linear functions and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-05-16 Mathias Drton , Christopher Fox , Andreas Käufl , Guillaume Pouliot

We study the non-convex optimization landscape for maximum likelihood estimation in the discrete orbit recovery model with Gaussian noise. This model is motivated by applications in molecular microscopy and image processing, where each…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-03-02 Zhou Fan , Yi Sun , Tianhao Wang , Yihong Wu

We provide asymptotically sharp bounds for the Gaussian surface area and the Gaussian noise sensitivity of polynomial threshold functions. In particular we show that if $f$ is a degree-$d$ polynomial threshold function, then its Gaussian…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2009-12-15 Daniel M. Kane

This paper studies the problem of clustering in the two-component Gaussian mixture model where the centers are separated by $2\Delta$ for some $\Delta>0$. We characterize the exact phase transition threshold, given by $$ \bar{\Delta}_n^{2}…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-07-07 Mohamed Ndaoud

In this paper, we investigate the approximation problem for functions in Gaussian Sobolev spaces $W^s_p(\mathbb{R}^d, \gamma)$ of smoothness $s > 0$, where the approximation error is measured in the Gaussian Lebesgue space…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Van Kien Nguyen

Recently, there was a substantial progress in the problem of sampling recovery on function classes with mixed smoothness. Mostly, it has been done by proving new and sometimes optimal upper bounds for both linear sampling recovery and for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-29 A. Gasnikov , V. Temlyakov

This paper considers the following question: how well can depth-two ReLU networks with randomly initialized bottom-level weights represent smooth functions? We give near-matching upper- and lower-bounds for $L_2$-approximation in terms of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-09 Daniel Hsu , Clayton Sanford , Rocco A. Servedio , Emmanouil-Vasileios Vlatakis-Gkaragkounis

Our main focus is on the generalization bound, which serves as an upper limit for the generalization error. Our analysis delves into regression and classification tasks separately to ensure a thorough examination. We assume the target…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-07-30 Wen-Liang Hwang

Numerical solutions of differential equations are usually not smooth functions. However, they should resemble the smoothness of the corresponding real solutions in one way or another. In two of our recent papers, a kind of spacial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-07-13 Tong Sun

We consider the approximate recovery of multivariate periodic functions from a discrete set of function values taken on a rank-$s$ integration lattice. The main result is the fact that any (non-)linear reconstruction algorithm taking…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-02 Glenn Byrenheid , Lutz Kämmerer , Tino Ullrich , Toni Volkmer

Learning non-linear systems from noisy, limited, and/or dependent data is an important task across various scientific fields including statistics, engineering, computer science, mathematics, and many more. In general, this learning task is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Lam Si Tung Ho , Hayden Schaeffer , Giang Tran , Rachel Ward

For statistical modeling wherein the data regime is unfavorable in terms of dimensionality relative to the sample size, finding hidden sparsity in the ground truth can be critical in formulating an accurate statistical model. The so-called…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-04 Matteo Bergamaschi , Andrea Cristofari , Vyacheslav Kungurtsev , Francesco Rinaldi

Optimizing and certifying the positivity of polynomials are fundamental primitives across mathematics and engineering applications, from dynamical systems to operations research. However, solving these problems in practice requires large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Hannah Lawrence , Mitchell Tong Harris

In this paper, we investigate the sample complexity of recovering tensors with low symmetric rank from symmetric rank-one measurements. This setting is particularly motivated by the study of higher-order interactions and the analysis of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-02-10 Eren C. Kızıldağ