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We study the problem of learning multi-index models (MIMs), where the label depends on the input $\boldsymbol{x} \in \mathbb{R}^d$ only through an unknown $\mathsf{s}$-dimensional projection $\boldsymbol{W}_*^\mathsf{T} \boldsymbol{x} \in…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-11 Hugo Latourelle-Vigeant , Theodor Misiakiewicz

We focus on the task of learning a single index model $\sigma(w^\star \cdot x)$ with respect to the isotropic Gaussian distribution in $d$ dimensions. Prior work has shown that the sample complexity of learning $w^\star$ is governed by the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Alex Damian , Eshaan Nichani , Rong Ge , Jason D. Lee

A single-index model (SIM) is a function of the form $\sigma(\mathbf{w}^{\ast} \cdot \mathbf{x})$, where $\sigma: \mathbb{R} \to \mathbb{R}$ is a known link function and $\mathbf{w}^{\ast}$ is a hidden unit vector. We study the task of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Puqian Wang , Nikos Zarifis , Ilias Diakonikolas , Jelena Diakonikolas

The problem of statistical inference for regression coefficients in a high-dimensional single-index model is considered. Under elliptical symmetry, the single index model can be reformulated as a proxy linear model whose regression…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-03-02 Hamid Eftekhari , Moulinath Banerjee , Ya'acov Ritov

Sparse high-dimensional functions have arisen as a rich framework to study the behavior of gradient-descent methods using shallow neural networks, showcasing their ability to perform feature learning beyond linear models. Amongst those…

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Hamiltonian Learning is a process of recovering system Hamiltonian from measurements, which is a fundamental problem in quantum information processing. In this study, we investigate the problem of learning the symmetric Hamiltonian from its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 Jing Zhou , D. L. Zhou

We study the problem of gradient descent learning of a single-index target function $f_*(\boldsymbol{x}) = \textstyle\sigma_*\left(\langle\boldsymbol{x},\boldsymbol{\theta}\rangle\right)$ under isotropic Gaussian data in $\mathbb{R}^d$,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Jason D. Lee , Kazusato Oko , Taiji Suzuki , Denny Wu

Few neural architectures lend themselves to provable learning with gradient based methods. One popular model is the single-index model, in which labels are produced by composing an unknown linear projection with a possibly unknown scalar…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Aaron Zweig , Joan Bruna

We study the fundamental problem of learning a single neuron, i.e., a function of the form $\mathbf{x}\mapsto\sigma(\mathbf{w}\cdot\mathbf{x})$ for monotone activations $\sigma:\mathbb{R}\mapsto\mathbb{R}$, with respect to the $L_2^2$-loss…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Ilias Diakonikolas , Vasilis Kontonis , Christos Tzamos , Nikos Zarifis

Reflectional symmetry is ubiquitous in nature. While extrinsic reflectional symmetry can be easily parametrized and detected, intrinsic symmetry is much harder due to the high solution space. Previous works usually solve this problem by…

Graphics · Computer Science 2019-11-04 Yi-Ling Qiao , Lin Gao , Shu-Zhi Liu , Ligang Liu , Yu-Kun Lai , Xilin Chen

The problem of recovering a structured signal $\mathbf{x} \in \mathbb{C}^p$ from a set of dimensionality-reduced linear measurements $\mathbf{b} = \mathbf {A}\mathbf {x}$ arises in a variety of applications, such as medical imaging,…

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Regression with a spherical response is challenging due to the absence of linear structure, making standard regression models inadequate. Existing methods, mainly parametric, lack the flexibility to capture the complex relationship induced…

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The information exponent ([BAGJ21]) and its extensions -- which are equivalent to the lowest degree in the Hermite expansion of the link function (after a potential label transform) for Gaussian single-index models -- have played an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Yunwei Ren , Jason D. Lee

We consider the basic problem of learning Single-Index Models with respect to the square loss under the Gaussian distribution in the presence of adversarial label noise. Our main contribution is the first computationally efficient algorithm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Puqian Wang , Nikos Zarifis , Ilias Diakonikolas , Jelena Diakonikolas

Single Index Models (SIMs) are simple yet flexible semi-parametric models for machine learning, where the response variable is modeled as a monotonic function of a linear combination of features. Estimation in this context requires learning…

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Homomorphic sensing is a recent algebraic-geometric framework that studies the unique recovery of points in a linear subspace from their images under a given collection of linear maps. It has been successful in interpreting such a recovery…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Liangzu Peng , Manolis C. Tsakiris

Single-index models are a class of functions given by an unknown univariate ``link'' function applied to an unknown one-dimensional projection of the input. These models are particularly relevant in high dimension, when the data might…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Alberto Bietti , Joan Bruna , Clayton Sanford , Min Jae Song

A recent line of research termed unlabeled sensing and shuffled linear regression has been exploring under great generality the recovery of signals from subsampled and permuted measurements; a challenging problem in diverse fields of data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-19 Manolis C. Tsakiris , Liangzu Peng

Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) is a cornerstone algorithm for high-dimensional optimization, renowned for its empirical successes. Recent theoretical advances have provided a deep understanding of how SGD enables feature learning in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-23 Nived Rajaraman , Yanjun Han

Let $(\bX, Y)$ be a random pair taking values in $\mathbb R^p \times \mathbb R$. In the so-called single-index model, one has $Y=f^{\star}(\theta^{\star T}\bX)+\bW$, where $f^{\star}$ is an unknown univariate measurable function,…

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