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We propose an efficient way to sample from a class of structured multivariate Gaussian distributions which routinely arise as conditional posteriors of model parameters that are assigned a conditionally Gaussian prior. The proposed…

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In this work, we study scaling limits of shallow Bayesian neural networks (BNNs) via their connection to Gaussian processes (GPs), with an emphasis on statistical modeling, identifiability, and scalable inference. We first establish a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-27 Gracielle Antunes de Araújo , Flávio B. Gonçalves

The use of Gaussian processes (GPs) is supported by efficient sampling algorithms, a rich methodological literature, and strong theoretical grounding. However, due to their prohibitive computation and storage demands, the use of exact GPs…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-07-27 Kelly R. Moran , Matthew W. Wheeler

Approximate-message passing (AMP) algorithms have become an important element of high-dimensional statistical inference, mostly due to their adaptability and concentration properties, the state evolution (SE) equations. This is demonstrated…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Cédric Gerbelot , Raphaël Berthier

1. A standard Gaussian random matrix has full rank with probability 1 and is well-conditioned with a probability quite close to 1 and converging to 1 fast as the matrix deviates from square shape and becomes more rectangular. 2. If we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-03-17 Victor Y. Pan , Liang Zhao

Bayesian inference typically requires the computation of an approximation to the posterior distribution. An important requirement for an approximate Bayesian inference algorithm is to output high-accuracy posterior mean and uncertainty…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-10-03 Jonathan H. Huggins , Trevor Campbell , Mikołaj Kasprzak , Tamara Broderick

We consider a first-order aggregation model in both discrete and continuum formulations and show rigorously how it can be obtained as zero inertia limits of second-order models. In the continuum case the procedure consists in a macroscopic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-01-01 Razvan Fetecau , Weiran Sun

Approximate message passing (AMP) is a class of low-complexity, scalable algorithms for solving high-dimensional linear regression tasks where one wishes to recover an unknown signal from noisy, linear measurements. AMP is an iterative…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Yanting Ma , Cynthia Rush , Dror Baron

Generalised approximate message passing (GAMP) is an approximate Bayesian estimation algorithm for signals observed through a linear transform with a possibly non-linear subsequent measurement model. By leveraging prior information about…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-12-05 Christian Schou Oxvig , Thomas Arildsen

This paper addresses the reconstruction of sparse signals from generalized linear measurements. Signal sparsity is assumed to be sublinear in the signal dimension while it was proportional to the signal dimension in conventional research.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Keigo Takeuchi

We present a PAC-Bayes-style generalization bound which enables the replacement of the KL-divergence with a variety of Integral Probability Metrics (IPM). We provide instances of this bound with the IPM being the total variation metric and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-01-02 Ron Amit , Baruch Epstein , Shay Moran , Ron Meir

We study trade-offs between convergence rate and robustness to gradient errors in the context of first-order methods. Our focus is on generalized momentum methods (GMMs)--a broad class that includes Nesterov's accelerated gradient,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Mert Gürbüzbalaban , Yasa Syed , Necdet Serhat Aybat

Recently, Arjevani et al. [1] established a lower bound of iteration complexity for the first-order optimization under an $L$-smooth condition and a bounded noise variance assumption. However, a thorough review of existing literature on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Bohan Wang , Jingwen Fu , Huishuai Zhang , Nanning Zheng , Wei Chen

Gaussian mixture models form a flexible and expressive parametric family of distributions that has found applications in a wide variety of applications. Unfortunately, fitting these models to data is a notoriously hard problem from a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-01-05 Yuling Yan , Kaizheng Wang , Philippe Rigollet

We study first-order optimality conditions for constrained optimization in the Wasserstein space, whereby one seeks to minimize a real-valued function over the space of probability measures endowed with the Wasserstein distance. Our…

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We study the problem of solving strongly convex and smooth unconstrained optimization problems using stochastic first-order algorithms. We devise a novel algorithm, referred to as Recursive One-Over-T SGD (ROOT-SGD), based on an easily…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-19 Chris Junchi Li , Wenlong Mou , Martin J. Wainwright , Michael I. Jordan

We introduce an additive Gaussian process framework accounting for monotonicity constraints and scalable to high dimensions. Our contributions are threefold. First, we show that our framework enables to satisfy the constraints everywhere in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-05-18 Andrés F. López-Lopera , François Bachoc , Olivier Roustant

Retraining a model using its own predictions together with the original, potentially noisy labels is a well-known strategy for improving the model performance. While prior works have demonstrated the benefits of specific heuristic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Adel Javanmard , Rudrajit Das , Alessandro Epasto , Vahab Mirrokni

Zeroth-order optimization has emerged as a promising approach for fine-tuning large language models under differential privacy (DP) and memory constraints. While privacy amplification by iteration (PABI) provides convergent DP bounds for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Eli Chien , Wei-Ning Chen , Pan Li

We propose a determinant-free approach for simulation-based Bayesian inference in high-dimensional Gaussian models. We introduce auxiliary variables with covariance equal to the inverse covariance of the model. The joint probability of the…

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