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A new multivariate density estimator for stationary sequences is obtained by Fourier inversion of the thresholded empirical characteristic function. This estimator does not depend on the choice of parameters related to the smoothness of the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-05-24 Sinda Ammous , Jérôme Dedecker , Céline Duval

The problem of finding the expected value of a statistic of a locally stable point process in a bounded region is addressed. We propose an adaptive importance sampling for solving the problem. In our proposal, we restrict the importance…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-04 Hee-Geon Kang , Sunggon Kim

We obtain order estimates in the spaces $L_p$ of the best $n$-term trigonometric orthogonal approximations of the classes ${\cal F}_{q}^{\psi}$ of periodic functions, whose Fourier coefficients decrease faster then any power function. We…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2013-03-05 Andriy L. Shidlich

This paper discusses predictive densities under the Kullback--Leibler loss for high-dimensional Poisson sequence models under sparsity constraints. Sparsity in count data implies zero-inflation. We present a class of Bayes predictive…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-09-08 Keisuke Yano , Ryoya Kaneko , Fumiyasu Komaki

Consider the problem of estimating the $\gamma$-level set $G^*_{\gamma}=\{x:f(x)\geq\gamma\}$ of an unknown $d$-dimensional density function $f$ based on $n$ independent observations $X_1,...,X_n$ from the density. This problem has been…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2009-08-26 Aarti Singh , Clayton Scott , Robert Nowak

A constrained L1 minimization method is proposed for estimating a sparse inverse covariance matrix based on a sample of $n$ iid $p$-variate random variables. The resulting estimator is shown to enjoy a number of desirable properties. In…

Methodology · Statistics 2011-02-14 Tony Cai , Weidong Liu , Xi Luo

Precision matrix is of significant importance in a wide range of applications in multivariate analysis. This paper considers adaptive minimax estimation of sparse precision matrices in the high dimensional setting. Optimal rates of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2012-12-13 T. Tony Cai , Weidong Liu , Harrison H. Zhou

We tackle the inverse problem of reconstructing an unknown finite measure $\mu$ from a noisy observation of a generalized moment of $\mu$ defined as the integral of a continuous and bounded operator $\Phi$ with respect to $\mu$. When only a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2009-06-03 Jean-Michel Loubes , Paul Rochet

In this paper, we propose a novel sparse learning based feature selection method that directly optimizes a large margin linear classification model sparsity with l_(2,p)-norm (0 < p < 1)subject to data-fitting constraints, rather than using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-04-03 Hanyang Peng , Yong Fan

Sparse additive models are families of $d$-variate functions that have the additive decomposition $f^* = \sum_{j \in S} f^*_j$, where $S$ is an unknown subset of cardinality $s \ll d$. In this paper, we consider the case where each…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2011-12-20 Garvesh Raskutti , Martin J. Wainwright , Bin Yu

In metric of spaces $L_{s}, \ 1< s\leq\infty$, we obtain exact order estimates of best approximations and approximations by Fourier sums of classes of convolutions the periodic functions that belong to unit ball of space $L_{1}$, with…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2014-10-16 T. A. Stepaniuk

In this paper, we establish explicit convergence rates for the stochastic smooth approximations of infimal convolutions introduced and developed in \cite{MR4581306,MR4923371}. In particular, we quantify the convergence of the associated…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-23 Diego Morales , Pedro Pérez-Aros , Emilio Vilches

Many applications of machine learning on discrete domains, such as learning preference functions in recommender systems or auctions, can be reduced to estimating a set function that is sparse in the Fourier domain. In this work, we present…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Chris Wendler , Andisheh Amrollahi , Bastian Seifert , Andreas Krause , Markus Püschel

We consider the problem of estimating the slope parameter in circular functional linear regression, where scalar responses Y1,...,Yn are modeled in dependence of 1-periodic, second order stationary random functions X1,...,Xn. We consider an…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2010-10-01 Fabienne Comte , Jan Johannes

We study nonasymptotic minimax estimation of the linear functional $L(\theta)=\eta^\top \theta$ for a high-dimensional $s$-sparse mean vector with an arbitrary loading vector $\eta$. For symmetric noise with exponentially decaying tails, we…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-29 Jie Xie , Dongming Huang

In this paper, we propose a low-rank approximation method based on discrete least-squares for the approximation of a multivariate function from random, noisy-free observations. Sparsity inducing regularization techniques are used within…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-12-09 Mathilde Chevreuil , Régis Lebrun , Anthony Nouy , Prashant Rai

Nearest neighbor methods are a popular class of nonparametric estimators with several desirable properties, such as adaptivity to different distance scales in different regions of space. Prior work on convergence rates for nearest neighbor…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-07-03 Kamalika Chaudhuri , Sanjoy Dasgupta

In this paper we will consider the estimation of a monotone regression (or density) function in a fixed point by the least squares (Grenander) estimator. We will show that this estimator is fully adaptive, in the sense that the attained…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2009-09-11 Eric Cator

This paper is motivated by structured sparsity for deep neural network training. We study a weighted group L0-norm constraint, and present the projection and normal cone of this set. Using randomized smoothing, we develop zeroth and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-22 Michael R. Metel

Machine learning is used to approximate density functionals. For the model problem of the kinetic energy of non-interacting fermions in 1d, mean absolute errors below 1 kcal/mol on test densities similar to the training set are reached with…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 John C. Snyder , Matthias Rupp , Katja Hansen , Klaus-Robert Müller , Kieron Burke