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The problem of matching two sets of features appears in various tasks of computer vision and can be often formalized as a problem of permutation estimation. We address this problem from a statistical point of view and provide a theoretical…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-02-03 Olivier Collier , Arnak S. Dalalyan

In the inverse Gaussian sequence space model with additional noisy observations of the operator, we derive nonasymptotic minimax radii of testing for ellipsoid-type alternatives simultaneously for both the signal detection problem (testing…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-02-19 Sandra Schluttenhofer , Jan Johannes

In this paper, we consider the problem of testing equality of the covariance matrices of L complex Gaussian multivariate time series of dimension $M$ . We study the special case where each of the L covariance matrices is modeled as a rank K…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-04-11 Rémi Beisson , Pascal Vallet , Audrey Giremus , Guillaume Ginolhac

Consider the Gaussian vector model with mean value {\theta}. We study the twin problems of estimating the number |{\theta}|_0 of non-zero components of {\theta} and testing whether |{\theta}|_0 is smaller than some value. For testing, we…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-03-02 Alexandra Carpentier , Nicolas Verzelen

Given a heterogeneous Gaussian sequence model with unknown mean $\theta \in \mathbb R^d$ and known covariance matrix $\Sigma = \operatorname{diag}(\sigma_1^2,\dots, \sigma_d^2)$, we study the signal detection problem against sparse…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-08-03 Julien Chhor , Rajarshi Mukherjee , Subhabrata Sen

We consider the equivalent problems of estimating the residual variance, the proportion of explained variance $\eta$ and the signal strength in a high-dimensional linear regression model with Gaussian random design. Our aim is to understand…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-03-17 Nicolas Verzelen , Elisabeth Gassiat

We study sparse principal components analysis in the high-dimensional setting, where $p$ (the number of variables) can be much larger than $n$ (the number of observations). We prove optimal, non-asymptotic lower and upper bounds on the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2012-02-07 Vincent Q. Vu , Jing Lei

Stochastic processes are often used to model complex scientific problems in fields ranging from biology and finance to engineering and physical science. This paper investigates rate-optimal estimation of the volatility matrix of a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-01-30 Minjing Tao , Yazhen Wang , Harrison H. Zhou

The problem of detecting changes in covariance for a single pair of features has been studied in some detail, but may be limited in importance or general applicability. In contrast, testing equality of covariance matrices of a {\it set} of…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-12-12 Yi-Hui Zhou

Sparse linear regression is one of the classical and extensively studied problems in high-dimensional statistics and compressed sensing. Despite the substantial body of literature dedicated to this problem, the precise determination of its…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-05-10 Yilin Guo , Shubhangi Ghosh , Haolei Weng , Arian Maleki

A common task in physics, information theory, and other fields is the analysis of properties of subsystems of a given system. Given the covariance matrix $M$ of a system of $n$ coupled variables, the covariance matrices of the subsystems…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-01-30 Alice C. Schwarze , Philip S. Chodrow , Mason A. Porter

We derive minimax testing errors in a distributed framework where the data is split over multiple machines and their communication to a central machine is limited to $b$ bits. We investigate both the $d$- and infinite-dimensional signal…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-12-13 Botond Szabó , Lasse Vuursteen , Harry van Zanten

Motivated by applications in cybersecurity and epidemiology, we consider the problem of detecting an abrupt change in the intensity of a Poisson process, characterised by a jump (non transitory change) or a bump (transitory change) from…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-06-09 Magalie Fromont , Fabrice Grela , Ronan Le Guével

We consider the problem of robustly testing the norm of a high-dimensional sparse signal vector under two different observation models. In the first model, we are given $n$ i.i.d. samples from the distribution…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Anand Jerry George , Clément L. Canonne

This paper considers a sequence of random variables generated according to a common distribution. The distribution might undergo periods of transient changes at an unknown set of time instants, referred to as change-points. The objective is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-26 Javad Heydari , Ali Tajer

We study the accuracy of estimating the covariance and the precision matrix of a $D$-variate sub-Gaussian distribution along a prescribed subspace or direction using the finite sample covariance. Our results show that the estimation…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-01-14 Zeljko Kereta , Timo Klock

Covariance matrix plays a central role in multivariate statistical analysis. Significant advances have been made recently on developing both theory and methodology for estimating large covariance matrices. However, a minimax theory has yet…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2010-10-20 T. Tony Cai , Cun-Hui Zhang , Harrison H. Zhou

We obtain the minimax rate for a mean location model with a bounded star-shaped set $K \subseteq \mathbb{R}^n$ constraint on the mean, in an adversarially corrupted data setting with Gaussian noise. We assume an unknown fraction $\epsilon…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-06 Akshay Prasadan , Matey Neykov

Sparse additive models are an attractive choice in circumstances calling for modelling flexibility in the face of high dimensionality. We study the signal detection problem and establish the minimax separation rate for the detection of a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-10-03 Subhodh Kotekal , Chao Gao

We study the problem of detecting a change in the mean of one-dimensional Gaussian process data. This problem is investigated in the setting of increasing domain (customarily employed in time series analysis) and in the setting of fixed…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-04-11 Hossein Keshavarz , Clayton Scott , XuanLong Nguyen