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Recently the adaption problem of Information-Based Complexity (IBC) for linear problems in the randomized setting was solved in Heinrich (J. Complexity 82, 2024, 101821). Several papers treating further aspects of this problem followed.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-26 Stefan Heinrich

We study the problem of robustly estimating the mean or location parameter without moment assumptions. We show that for a large class of symmetric distributions, the same error as in the Gaussian setting can be achieved efficiently. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Gleb Novikov , David Steurer , Stefan Tiegel

1-bit compressive sensing aims to recover sparse signals from quantized 1-bit measurements. Designing efficient approaches that could handle noisy 1-bit measurements is important in a variety of applications. In this paper we use the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Shuai Huang , Trac D. Tran

Background: We proposed approximate Bayesian computation with single distribution selection (ABC-SD) for estimating mean and standard deviation from other reported summary statistics. The ABC-SD generates pseudo data from a single…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-07-12 Deukwoo Kwon , Isildinha M. Reis

This paper considers the problem of obtaining bounded time-average expected queue sizes in a single-queue system with a partial-feedback structure. Time is slotted; in slot $t$ the transmitter chooses a rate $V(t)$ from a continuous…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-06 Mevan Wijewardena , Kamiar Asgari , Michael J. Neely

One of the primary challenges in large-scale distributed learning stems from stringent communication constraints. While several recent works address this challenge for static optimization problems, sequential decision-making under…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Aritra Mitra , Hamed Hassani , George J. Pappas

Uncertainty quantification is essential in decision-making, especially when joint distributions of random variables are involved. While conformal prediction provides distribution-free prediction sets with valid coverage guarantees, it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Rui Luo , Zhixin Zhou

In recent years, there has been an increasing demand on efficient algorithms for large scale change point detection problems. To this end, we propose seeded binary segmentation, an approach relying on a deterministic construction of…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-03-13 Solt Kovács , Housen Li , Peter Bühlmann , Axel Munk

We design an $(\varepsilon, \delta)$-differentially private algorithm to estimate the mean of a $d$-variate distribution, with unknown covariance $\Sigma$, that is adaptive to $\Sigma$. To within polylogarithmic factors, the estimator…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-01-18 John Duchi , Saminul Haque , Rohith Kuditipudi

We develop efficient binary (i.e., 1-bit) and multi-bit coding schemes for estimating the scale parameter of $\alpha$-stable distributions. The work is motivated by the recent work on one scan 1-bit compressed sensing (sparse signal…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-02-02 Ping Li

We estimate on a compact interval densities with isolated irregularities, such as discontinuities or discontinuities in some derivatives. From independent and identically distributed observations we construct a kernel estimator with…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-07-16 Céline Duval , Émeline Schmisser

We study distributed estimation methods under communication constraints in a distributed version of the nonparametric random design regression model. We derive minimax lower bounds and exhibit methods that attain those bounds. Moreover, we…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-02-06 Botond Szabo , Harry van Zanten

We present new M-estimators of the mean and variance of real valued random variables, based on PAC-Bayes bounds. We analyze the non-asymptotic minimax properties of the deviations of those estimators for sample distributions having either a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2011-08-15 Olivier Catoni

We study the mean estimation problem under communication and local differential privacy constraints. While previous work has proposed \emph{order}-optimal algorithms for the same problem (i.e., asymptotically optimal as we spend more bits),…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Berivan Isik , Wei-Ning Chen , Ayfer Ozgur , Tsachy Weissman , Albert No

One-bit quantization with time-varying sampling thresholds has recently found significant utilization potential in statistical signal processing applications due to its relatively low power consumption and low implementation cost. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Arian Eamaz , Farhang Yeganegi , Deanna Needell , Mojtaba Soltanalian

We study the problem of learning general (i.e., not necessarily homogeneous) halfspaces with Random Classification Noise under the Gaussian distribution. We establish nearly-matching algorithmic and Statistical Query (SQ) lower bound…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Ilias Diakonikolas , Jelena Diakonikolas , Daniel M. Kane , Puqian Wang , Nikos Zarifis

In the setting of entangled single-sample distributions, the goal is to estimate some common parameter shared by a family of $n$ distributions, given one single sample from each distribution. This paper studies mean estimation for entangled…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Yingyu Liang , Hui Yuan

In this paper, we consider the distributed mean estimation problem where the server has access to some side information, e.g., its local computed mean estimation or the received information sent by the distributed clients at the previous…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-05 Kai Liang , Youlong Wu

We study the performance of a wide class of convex optimization-based estimators for recovering a signal from corrupted one-bit measurements in high-dimensions. Our general result predicts sharply the performance of such estimators in the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-01-27 Hossein Taheri , Ramtin Pedarsani , Christos Thrampoulidis

We consider the problem of PAC-learning from distributed data and analyze fundamental communication complexity questions involved. We provide general upper and lower bounds on the amount of communication needed to learn well, showing that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-05-28 Maria-Florina Balcan , Avrim Blum , Shai Fine , Yishay Mansour