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A sliding window algorithm receives a stream of symbols and has to output at each time instant a certain value which only depends on the last $n$ symbols. If the algorithm is randomized, then at each time instant it produces an incorrect…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-22 Moses Ganardi , Danny Hucke , Markus Lohrey

This paper considers the problem of guessing the realization of a finite alphabet source when some side information is provided. The only knowledge the guesser has about the source and the correlated side information is that the joint…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-16 Rajesh Sundaresan

The fidelity-based smooth min-relative entropy is a distinguishability measure that has appeared in a variety of contexts in prior work on quantum information, including resource theories like thermodynamics and coherence. Here we provide a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-29 Theshani Nuradha , Mark M. Wilde

Quantum error correction promises a viable path to fault-tolerant computations, enabling exponential error suppression when the device's error rates remain below the protocol's threshold. This threshold, however, strongly depends on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-11 Maurice D. Hanisch , Bence Hetényi , James R. Wootton

We consider the problem of estimating a parameter associated to a Bayesian inverse problem. Treating the unknown initial condition as a nuisance parameter, typically one must resort to a numerical approximation of gradient of the…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-03-17 Ajay Jasra , Kody J. H. Law , Deng Lu

We study problems with stochastic uncertainty information on intervals for which the precise value can be queried by paying a cost. The goal is to devise an adaptive decision tree to find a correct solution to the problem in consideration…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Steven Chaplick , Magnús M. Halldórsson , Murilo S. de Lima , Tigran Tonoyan

High-dimensional linear regression under heavy-tailed noise or outlier corruption is challenging, both computationally and statistically. Convex approaches have been proven statistically optimal but suffer from high computational costs,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-05-11 Yinan Shen , Jingyang Li , Jian-Feng Cai , Dong Xia

Consider a process satisfying a stochastic differential equation with unknown drift parameter, and suppose that discrete observations are given. It is known that a simple least squares estimator (LSE) can be consistent, but numerically…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-03-17 Yasutaka Shimizu

Quantifying the uncertainty of an object's pose estimate is essential for robust control and planning. Although pose estimation is a well-studied robotics problem, attaching statistically rigorous uncertainty is not well understood without…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Lorenzo Shaikewitz , Charis Georgiou , Luca Carlone

Errors due to hardware or low level software problems, if detected, can be fixed by various schemes, such as recomputation from a checkpoint. Silent errors are errors in application state that have escaped low-level error detection. At…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2018-01-08 Austin R. Benson , Sven Schmit , Robert Schreiber

Understanding the fundamental limits of robust supervised learning has emerged as a problem of immense interest, from both practical and theoretical standpoints. In particular, it is critical to determine classifier-agnostic bounds on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Arjun Nitin Bhagoji , Daniel Cullina , Vikash Sehwag , Prateek Mittal

We investigate the small deviation probabilities of a class of very smooth stationary Gaussian processes playing an important role in Bayesian statistical inference. Our calculations are based on the appropriate modification of the entropy…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-06-22 F. Aurzada , I. A. Ibragimov , M. A. Lifshits , J. H. van Zanten

Compressed sensing typically deals with the estimation of a system input from its noise-corrupted linear measurements, where the number of measurements is smaller than the number of input components. The performance of the estimation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Jin Tan , Danielle Carmon , Dror Baron

In this paper, online linear regression in environments corrupted by non-Gaussian noise (especially heavy-tailed noise) is addressed. In such environments, the error between the system output and the label also does not follow a Gaussian…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Sajjad Bahrami , Ertem Tuncel

R\'enyi divergences play a pivotal role in information theory, statistics, and machine learning. While several estimators of these divergences have been proposed in the literature with their consistency properties established and minimax…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Sreejith Sreekumar , Kengo Kato

In the classical source coding problem, the compressed source is reconstructed at the decoder with respect to some distortion metric. Motivated by settings in which we are interested in more than simply reconstructing the compressed source,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Oğuzhan Kubilay Ülger , Elza Erkip

We study the rate of decay of the probability of error for distinguishing between a sparse signal with noise, modeled as a sparse mixture, from pure noise. This problem has many applications in signal processing, evolutionary biology,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-28 Jonathan G. Ligo , George V. Moustakides , Venugopal V. Veeravalli

We present a theoretical analysis and empirical evaluations of a novel set of techniques for computational cost reduction of classifiers that are based on learned transform and soft-threshold. By modifying optimization procedures for…

We present an information-theoretic framework for discrete diffusion models that yields principled estimators of log-likelihood using score-matching losses. Inspired by the I-MMSE identity for the Gaussian setup, we derive analogous results…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Moongyu Jeon , Sangwoo Shin , Dongjae Jeon , Albert No

We propose in this paper a differentiable learning loss between time series, building upon the celebrated dynamic time warping (DTW) discrepancy. Unlike the Euclidean distance, DTW can compare time series of variable size and is robust to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-21 Marco Cuturi , Mathieu Blondel