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We consider the hypothesis testing problem of deciding whether an observed high-dimensional vector has independent normal components or, alternatively, if it has a small subset of correlated components. The correlated components may have a…

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Correlation analysis is a fundamental problem in statistics. In this paper, we consider the correlation detection problem between a pair of Erdos-Renyi graphs. Specifically, the problem is formulated as a hypothesis testing problem: under…

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In this paper, we investigate the problem of deciding whether two random databases $\mathsf{X}\in\mathcal{X}^{n\times d}$ and $\mathsf{Y}\in\mathcal{Y}^{n\times d}$ are statistically dependent or not. This is formulated as a hypothesis…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Vered Paslev , Wasim Huleihel

We study the problem of detecting the correlation between two Gaussian databases $\mathsf{X}\in\mathbb{R}^{n\times d}$ and $\mathsf{Y}^{n\times d}$, each composed of $n$ users with $d$ features. This problem is relevant in the analysis of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Dor Elimelech , Wasim Huleihel

We investigate the problem of detecting correlation between two Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi graphs $G(n,p)$, formulated as a hypothesis testing problem: under the null hypothesis, the two graphs are independent, while under the alternative…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Dong Huang , Pengkun Yang

Correlation analysis is a fundamental step in uncovering meaningful insights from complex datasets. In this paper, we study the problem of detecting correlations between two random graphs following the Gaussian Wigner model with unlabeled…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-05-21 Dong Huang , Pengkun Yang

We take a different look at the problem of testing the independence of two metric-space-valued random variables using the distance correlation. Instead of testing if the distance correlation vanishes exactly, we are interested in the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-11-19 Holger Dette , Marius Kroll

In this paper, we consider the hypothesis testing of correlation between two $m$-uniform hypergraphs on $n$ unlabelled nodes. Under the null hypothesis, the hypergraphs are independent, while under the alternative hypothesis, the hyperdges…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-02-15 Mingao Yuan , Zuofeng Shang

In this paper, the maximal nonlinear conditional correlation of two random vectors $X$ and $Y$ given another random vector $Z$, denoted by $\rho_1(X,Y|Z)$, is defined as a measure of conditional association, which satisfies certain…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2010-10-20 Tzee-Ming Huang

Discovering a correlation from one variable to another variable is of fundamental scientific and practical interest. While existing correlation measures are suitable for discovering average correlation, they fail to discover hidden or…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-22 Hyeji Kim , Weihao Gao , Sreeram Kannan , Sewoong Oh , Pramod Viswanath

In this paper, our interest is in the problem of simultaneous hypothesis testing when the test statistics corresponding to the individual hypotheses are possibly correlated. Specifically, we consider the case when the test statistics…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-01-14 Anupam Kundu , Subir Kumar Bhandari

In this work, we propose an efficient two-stage algorithm solving a joint problem of correlation detection and partial alignment recovery between two Gaussian databases. Correlation detection is a hypothesis testing problem; under the null…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Ran Tamir

We propose a new procedure for testing whether two networks are edge-correlated through some latent vertex correspondence. The test statistic is based on counting the co-occurrences of signed trees for a family of non-isomorphic trees. When…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-04-05 Cheng Mao , Yihong Wu , Jiaming Xu , Sophie H. Yu

A collaborative distributed binary decision problem is considered. Two statisticians are required to declare the correct probability measure of two jointly distributed memoryless process, denoted by $X^n=(X_1,\dots,X_n)$ and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-11 Gil Katz , Pablo Piantanida , Merouane Debbah

We study the problem of detecting the edge correlation between two random graphs with $n$ unlabeled nodes. This is formalized as a hypothesis testing problem, where under the null hypothesis, the two graphs are independently generated;…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-02-09 Yihong Wu , Jiaming Xu , Sophie H. Yu

We study a class of hypothesis testing problems in which, upon observing the realization of an $n$-dimensional Gaussian vector, one has to decide whether the vector was drawn from a standard normal distribution or, alternatively, whether…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2010-11-22 Louigi Addario-Berry , Nicolas Broutin , Luc Devroye , Gábor Lugosi

In this paper, we address the problem of testing independence between two high-dimensional random vectors. Our approach involves a series of max-sum tests based on three well-known classes of rank-based correlations. These correlation…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-04-04 Hongfei Wang , Binghui Liu , Long Feng

This paper considers the problem of detecting whether two databases, each consisting of $n$ users with $d$ Gaussian features, are correlated. Under the null hypothesis, the databases are independent. Under the alternate hypothesis, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-27 Zeynep K , Bobak Nazer

This paper proposes a new statistic to test independence between two high dimensional random vectors ${\mathbf{X}}:p_1\times1$ and ${\mathbf{Y}}:p_2\times1$. The proposed statistic is based on the sum of regularized sample canonical…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-03-19 Yanrong Yang , Guangming Pan

The problem of detecting edge correlation between two Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi random graphs on $n$ unlabeled nodes can be formulated as a hypothesis testing problem: under the null hypothesis, the two graphs are sampled independently; under the…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-05-31 Jian Ding , Hang Du
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