English
Related papers

Related papers: Computational lower bounds in latent models: clust…

200 papers

Subspace clustering becomes inherently difficult near intersections, where points from different subspaces are barely separated. Most existing theoretical results address this issue by imposing separation or sampling assumptions that limit…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Kalle Alaluusua , Konstantin Avrachenkov , B. R. Vinay Kumar , Lasse Leskelä

In cluster analysis interest lies in probabilistically capturing partitions of individuals, items or observations into groups, such that those belonging to the same group share similar attributes or relational profiles. Bayesian posterior…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-03-23 Riccardo Rastelli , Nial Friel

We consider the task of detecting a hidden bipartite subgraph in a given random graph. This is formulated as a hypothesis testing problem, under the null hypothesis, the graph is a realization of an Erd\H{o}s-R\'{e}nyi random graph over $n$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Asaf Rotenberg , Wasim Huleihel , Ofer Shayevitz

We study the computational complexity of some explainable clustering problems in the framework proposed by [Dasgupta et al., ICML 2020], where explainability is achieved via axis-aligned decision trees. We consider the $k$-means,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Eduardo Sany Laber

One of the biggest open problems in computational algebra is the design of efficient algorithms for Gr{\"o}bner basis computations that take into account the sparsity of the input polynomials. We can perform such computations in the case of…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2018-06-22 Matías Bender , Jean-Charles Faugère , Elias Tsigaridas

Many high dimensional sparse learning problems are formulated as nonconvex optimization. A popular approach to solve these nonconvex optimization problems is through convex relaxations such as linear and semidefinite programming. In this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-03-17 Zhaoran Wang , Quanquan Gu , Han Liu

In the past decade, sparse principal component analysis has emerged as an archetypal problem for illustrating statistical-computational tradeoffs. This trend has largely been driven by a line of research aiming to characterize the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-02-21 Matthew Brennan , Guy Bresler

Finding cliques in random graphs and the closely related "planted" clique variant, where a clique of size t is planted in a random G(n,1/2) graph, have been the focus of substantial study in algorithm design. Despite much effort, the best…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-11-14 Raghu Meka , Avi Wigderson

Max-cut, clustering, and many other partitioning problems that are of significant importance to machine learning and other scientific fields are NP-hard, a reality that has motivated researchers to develop a wealth of approximation…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Maria-Florina Balcan , Vaishnavh Nagarajan , Ellen Vitercik , Colin White

The problem of constrained clustering has attracted significant attention in the past decades. In this paper, we study the balanced $k$-center, $k$-median, and $k$-means clustering problems where the size of each cluster is constrained by…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Hu Ding

In several application domains, high-dimensional observations are collected and then analysed in search for naturally occurring data clusters which might provide further insights about the nature of the problem. In this paper we describe a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2012-03-07 Brian McWilliams , Giovanni Montana

We study the fundamental problem of clustering $n$ points into $K$ groups drawn from a mixture of isotropic Gaussians in $\mathbb{R}^d$. Specifically, we investigate the requisite minimal distance $\Delta$ between mean vectors to partially…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-27 Alexandra Carpentier , Nicolas Verzelen

In this contribution, the clustering procedure based on K-Means algorithm is studied as an inverse problem, which is a special case of the illposed problems. The attempts to improve the quality of the clustering inverse problem drive to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-16 Alberto Arturo Vergani

The works presented in this habilitation concern the algorithmics of polynomials. This is a central topic in computer algebra, with numerous applications both within and outside the field - cryptography, error-correcting codes, etc. For…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Bruno Grenet

Canonical correlation analysis is a classical technique for exploring the relationship between two sets of variables. It has important applications in analyzing high dimensional datasets originated from genomics, imaging and other fields.…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-04-05 Chao Gao , Zongming Ma , Harrison H. Zhou

The clustering problem, and more generally, latent factor discovery --or latent space inference-- is formulated in terms of the Wasserstein barycenter problem from optimal transport. The objective proposed is the maximization of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-18 Hongkang Yang , Esteban G. Tabak

Particle swarm optimization is used in several combinatorial optimization problems. In this work, particle swarms are used to solve quadratic programming problems with quadratic constraints. The approach of particle swarms is an example for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-07-24 Deepak Kumar , A G Ramakrishnan

A low-rank transformation learning framework for subspace clustering and classification is here proposed. Many high-dimensional data, such as face images and motion sequences, approximately lie in a union of low-dimensional subspaces. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-03-11 Qiang Qiu , Guillermo Sapiro

Tensor PCA is a stylized statistical inference problem introduced by Montanari and Richard to study the computational difficulty of estimating an unknown parameter from higher-order moment tensors. Unlike its matrix counterpart, Tensor PCA…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-01-23 Rishabh Dudeja , Daniel Hsu

We study computational-statistical gaps for improper learning in sparse linear regression. More specifically, given $n$ samples from a $k$-sparse linear model in dimension $d$, we ask what is the minimum sample complexity to efficiently (in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Rares-Darius Buhai , Jingqiu Ding , Stefan Tiegel