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U-statistics are a fundamental class of estimators that generalize the sample mean and underpin much of nonparametric statistics. Although extensively studied in both statistics and probability, key challenges remain: their high…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-19 Cesare Miglioli , Jordan Awan

We establish a finite-sample Berry-Esseen theorem for the entrywise limits of the eigenvectors for a broad collection of signal-plus-noise random matrix models under challenging weak signal regimes. The signal strength is characterized by a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-03-08 Fangzheng Xie

We prove the Central Limit Theorem for finite-dimensional vectors of linear eigenvalue statistics of submatrices of Wigner random matrices under the assumption that test functions are sufficiently smooth. We connect the asymptotic…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-05-06 Lingyun Li , Matthew Reed , Alexander Soshnikov

Stochastic gradient algorithm is a key ingredient of many machine learning methods, particularly appropriate for large-scale learning.However, a major caveat of large data is their incompleteness.We propose an averaged stochastic gradient…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-06-09 Julie Josse , Aude Sportisse , Claire Boyer , Aymeric Dieuleveut

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

We study the asymptotic distribution of the output of a stable Linear Time-Invariant (LTI) system driven by a non-Gaussian stochastic input. Motivated by longstanding heuristics in the stochastic describing function method, we rigorously…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-03 Yashaswini Murthy , Bassam Bamieh , R. Srikant

We provide optimal lower bounds for two well-known parameter estimation (also known as statistical estimation) tasks in high dimensions with approximate differential privacy. First, we prove that for any $\alpha \le O(1)$, estimating the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-01-05 Shyam Narayanan

Motivated by problems in controlled experiments, we study the discrepancy of random matrices with continuous entries where the number of columns $n$ is much larger than the number of rows $m$. Our first result shows that if $\omega(1) = m =…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Paxton Turner , Raghu Meka , Philippe Rigollet

Using Stein's method, we prove an abstract result that yields multivariate central limit theorems with a rate of convergence for time-dependent dynamical systems. As examples we study a model of expanding circle maps and a quasistatic…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-10-17 Olli Hella

We revisit the classic problem of estimating the degree distribution moments of an undirected graph. Consider an undirected graph $G=(V,E)$ with $n$ vertices, and define (for $s > 0$) $\mu_s = \frac{1}{n}\cdot\sum_{v \in V} d^s_v$. Our aim…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-02-17 Talya Eden , Dana Ron , C. Seshadhri

The main result of this paper is a general central limit theorem for distributions defined by certain renewal type equations. We apply this to weakly self-avoiding random walks. We give good error estimates and Gaussian tail estimates which…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Erwin Bolthausen , Christine Ritzmann

The union-closed sets conjecture states that in any nonempty union-closed family $\mathcal{F}$ of subsets of a finite set, there exists an element contained in at least a proportion $1/2$ of the sets of $\mathcal{F}$. Using the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-05-24 Lei Yu

We consider the number of crossings in a random embedding of a graph, $G$, with vertices in convex position. We give explicit formulas for the mean and variance of the number of crossings as a function of various subgraph counts of $G$.…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-10-14 Santiago Arenas-Velilla , Octavio Arizmendi , J. E. Paguyo

Stochastic approximation (SA) is a method for finding the root of an operator perturbed by noise. There is a rich literature establishing the asymptotic normality of rescaled SA iterates under fairly mild conditions. However, these…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-17 Shaan Ul Haque , Zedong Wang , Zixuan Zhang , Siva Theja Maguluri

Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) has become a cornerstone method in modern data science. However, deploying SGD in high-stakes applications necessitates rigorous quantification of its inherent uncertainty. In this work, we establish…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Bhavya Agrawalla , Krishnakumar Balasubramanian , Promit Ghosal

In this work we study the rate of convergence in the central limit theorem for the Euclidean norm of random orthogonal projections of vectors chosen at random from an $\ell_p^n$-ball which has been obtained in [Alonso-Guti\'errez, Prochno,…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-11-05 Samuel G. G. Johnston , Joscha Prochno

We present a new approach, inspired by Stein's method, to prove a central limit theorem (CLT) for linear statistics of $\beta$-ensembles in the one-cut regime. Compared with the previous proofs, our result requires less regularity on the…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Gaultier Lambert , Michel Ledoux , Christian Webb

We consider the following second-order stochastic differential equation on $\mathbb{R}^{2d}$: \begin{equation*} dX_t^m=Y_t^mdt, \quad mdY_t^m=b(X_t^m)dt+\sigma(X_t^m)dB_t-Y^m_tdt, \end{equation*} where $X^m_t$ and $Y^m_t$ represent the…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Shiyu Liu , Wei Liu , Lihu Xu

The subspace identification method (SIM) has become a widely adopted approach for the identification of discrete-time linear time-invariant (LTI) systems. In this paper, we derive finite sample high-probability error bounds for the system…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-03 Shuai Sun , Weikang Hu , Xu Wang

The Kolmogorov distances between a symmetric hypergeometric law with standard deviation $\sigma$ and its usual normal approximations are computed and shown to be less than $1/(\sqrt{8\pi}\,\sigma)$, with the order $1/\sigma$ and the…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-05-01 Lutz Mattner , Jona Schulz