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An energy efficient use of large scale sensor networks necessitates activating a subset of possible sensors for estimation at a fusion center. The problem is inherently combinatorial; to this end, a set of iterative, randomized algorithms…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-13 Arpan Chattopadhyay , Urbashi Mitra

In this paper we investigate the problem of estimating the regression function in models with correlated observations. The data is obtained from several experimental units each of them forms a time series. We propose a new estimator based…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-06-13 Djihad Benelmadani , Karim Benhenni , Sana Louhichi

Distributed estimation in the context of sensor networks is considered, where distributed agents are given a set of sensor measurements, and are tasked with estimating a target variable. A subset of sensors are assumed to be faulty. The…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-26 Marian Temprana Alonso , Farhad Shirani , S. Sitharama Iyengar

As artificial intelligence is increasingly affecting all parts of society and life, there is growing recognition that human interpretability of machine learning models is important. It is often argued that accuracy or other similar…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-06-27 Kush R. Varshney , Prashant Khanduri , Pranay Sharma , Shan Zhang , Pramod K. Varshney

We study a collaborative learning problem where $m$ agents aim to estimate a vector $\mu =(\mu_1,\ldots,\mu_d)\in \mathbb{R}^d$ by sampling from associated univariate normal distributions $\{\mathcal{N}(\mu_k, \sigma^2)\}_{k\in[d]}$. Agent…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Alex Clinton , Yiding Chen , Xiaojin Zhu , Kirthevasan Kandasamy

As with classic statistics, functional regression models are invaluable in the analysis of functional data. While there are now extensive tools with accompanying theory available for linear models, there is still a great deal of work to be…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-06-25 Matthew Reimherr , Bharath Sriperumbudur , Bahaeddine Taoufik

We propose a novel adaptive learning algorithm based on iterative orthogonal projections in the Cartesian product of multiple reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (RKHSs). The task is estimating/tracking nonlinear functions which are supposed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-10-28 Masahiro Yukawa

We advance a novel computational model of multi-agent, cooperative joint actions that is grounded in the cognitive framework of active inference. The model assumes that to solve a joint task, such as pressing together a red or blue button,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Domenico Maisto , Francesco Donnarumma , Giovanni Pezzulo

Iterative algorithms are fundamental tools for approximating fixed-points of nonexpansive operators in real Hilbert spaces. Among them, Krasnosel'ski\u{\i}--Mann iteration and Halpern iteration are two widely used schemes. In this work, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-20 Yifan Bai , Yantao Li , Jian Yu , Jingwei Liang

The existing research on spectral algorithms, applied within a Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space (RKHS), has primarily focused on general kernel functions, often neglecting the inherent structure of the input feature space. Our paper…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-03-08 Weichun Xia , Lei Shi

Variable selection is central to high-dimensional data analysis, and various algorithms have been developed. Ideally, a variable selection algorithm shall be flexible, scalable, and with theoretical guarantee, yet most existing algorithms…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-02-04 Xin He , Junhui Wang , Shaogao Lv

Motivated by the need of processing functional-valued data, or more general, operatorvalued data, we introduce the notion of the operator reproducing kernel Hilbert space (ORKHS). This space admits a unique operator reproducing kernel which…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2016-10-23 Rui Wang , Yuesheng Xu

This work develops a fully decentralized multi-agent algorithm for policy evaluation. The proposed scheme can be applied to two distinct scenarios. In the first scenario, a collection of agents have distinct datasets gathered following…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Lucas Cassano , Kun Yuan , Ali H. Sayed

Distributed aggregative optimization methods are gaining increased traction due to their ability to address cooperative control and optimization problems, where the objective function of each agent depends not only on its own decision…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Ziqin Chen , Magnus Egerstedt , Yongqiang Wang

We develop algorithms for collaborative control of AI agents and critics in a multi-actor, multi-critic federated multi-agent system. Each AI agent and critic has access to classical machine learning or generative AI foundation models. The…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Syed Eqbal Alam , Zhan Shu

We propose a novel test procedure for comparing mean functions across two groups within the reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS) framework. Our proposed method is adept at handling sparsely and irregularly sampled functional data when…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-01-29 Chi Zhang , Peijun Sang , Yingli Qin

Current evaluations of agents remain centered around one-shot task completion, failing to account for the inherently iterative and collaborative nature of many real-world problems, where human goals are often underspecified and evolve. We…

Common estimation algorithms, such as least squares estimation or the Kalman filter, operate on a state in a state space S that is represented as a real-valued vector. However, for many quantities, most notably orientations in 3D, S is not…

Robotics · Computer Science 2011-07-07 Christoph Hertzberg , René Wagner , Udo Frese , Lutz Schröder

We examine the problem of joint top-down active search of multiple objects under interaction, e.g., person riding a bicycle, cups held by the table, etc.. Such objects under interaction often can provide contextual cues to each other to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-21 Xiangyu Kong , Bo Xin , Yizhou Wang , Gang Hua

Robotic affordance estimation is challenging due to visual, geometric, and semantic ambiguities in sensory input. We propose a method that disambiguates these signals using two coupled recursive estimators for sub-aspects of affordances:…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Patrick Lowin , Vito Mengers , Oliver Brock