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The analytic characterization of the high-dimensional behavior of optimization for Generalized Linear Models (GLMs) with Gaussian data has been a central focus in statistics and probability in recent years. While convex cases, such as the…

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In a recent article (Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 110(36), 14557-14562), El Karoui et al. study the distribution of robust regression estimators in the regime in which the number of parameters p is of the same order as the number of samples n.…

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We consider the problem of signal estimation in generalized linear models defined via rotationally invariant design matrices. Since these matrices can have an arbitrary spectral distribution, this model is well suited for capturing complex…

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We consider the problem of localizing change points in a generalized linear model (GLM), a model that covers many widely studied problems in statistical learning including linear, logistic, and rectified linear regression. We propose a…

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Characterizing the distribution of high-dimensional statistical estimators is a challenging task, due to the breakdown of classical asymptotic theory in high dimension. This paper makes progress towards this by developing non-asymptotic…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-01-09 Gen Li , Yuting Wei

We study quantum neural networks where the generated function is the expectation value of the sum of single-qubit observables across all qubits. In [Girardi \emph{et al.}, arXiv:2402.08726], it is proven that the probability distributions…

Recently, Approximate Message Passing (AMP) has been integrated with stochastic localization (diffusion model) by providing a computationally efficient estimator of the posterior mean. Existing (rigorous) analysis typically proves the…

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In this work, we develop first-order (Hessian-free) and zero-order (derivative-free) implementations of the Cubically regularized Newton method for solving general non-convex optimization problems. For that, we employ finite difference…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-06 Nikita Doikov , Geovani Nunes Grapiglia

We consider a broad class of Approximate Message Passing (AMP) algorithms defined as a Lipschitzian functional iteration in terms of an $n\times n$ random symmetric matrix $A$. We establish universality in noise for this AMP in the…

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Modern large-scale statistical models require to estimate thousands to millions of parameters. This is often accomplished by iterative algorithms such as gradient descent, projected gradient descent or their accelerated versions. What are…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-03-04 Michael Celentano , Andrea Montanari , Yuchen Wu

We propose and analyze an approximate message passing (AMP) algorithm for the matrix tensor product model, which is a generalization of the standard spiked matrix models that allows for multiple types of pairwise observations over a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-06-28 Riccardo Rossetti , Galen Reeves

Approximate Message Passing (AMP) algorithms are a family of iterative algorithms based on large random matrices with the special property of tracking the statistical properties of their iterates. They are used in various fields such as…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-03-27 Mohammed-Younes Gueddari , Walid Hachem , Jamal Najim

Gaussian and quadratic approximations of message passing algorithms on graphs have attracted considerable recent attention due to their computational simplicity, analytic tractability, and wide applicability in optimization and statistical…

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Approximate Message Passing (AMP) is a class of iterative algorithms that have found applications in many problems in high-dimensional statistics and machine learning. In its general form, AMP can be formulated as an iterative procedure…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-05-02 Rishabh Dudeja , Yue M. Lu , Subhabrata Sen

We introduce PF-AGD, the first parameter-free, deterministic, accelerated first-order method to achieve $O(\epsilon^{-5/3}\log(1/\epsilon))$ oracle complexity bound when minimizing sufficiently smooth, non-convex functions; this is the…

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We consider the linear regression problem, where the goal is to recover the vector $\boldsymbol{x}\in\mathbb{R}^n$ from measurements $\boldsymbol{y}=\boldsymbol{A}\boldsymbol{x}+\boldsymbol{w}\in\mathbb{R}^m$ under known matrix…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Philip Schniter

We prove universality for Approximate Message Passing (AMP) with polynomial nonlinearities applied to symmetric sub-Gaussian matrices $A\in\mathbb R^{N\times N}$. Our approach is combinatorial: we represent AMP iterates as sums over trees…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-12-09 David Kogan

Approximate message passing (AMP) is a low-cost iterative parameter-estimation technique for certain high-dimensional linear systems with non-Gaussian distributions. However, AMP only applies to independent identically distributed (IID)…

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We study expected generalization bounds for the Hierarchical Federated Learning (HFL) setup using Wasserstein distance. We introduce a generalized framework in which data is sampled hierarchically, and we model it with a multi-layered tree…

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We derive generalization error bounds for the training of two-layer neural networks without assuming boundedness of the loss function, using Wasserstein distance estimates on the discrepancy between a probability distribution and its…

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