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A common observation in data-driven applications is that high dimensional data has a low intrinsic dimension, at least locally. In this work, we consider the problem of estimating a $d$ dimensional sub-manifold of $\mathbb{R}^D$ from a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-07-21 Yariv Aizenbud , Barak Sober

Visual noise is often regarded as a disturbance in image quality, whereas it can also provide a crucial clue for image-based forensic tasks. Conventionally, noise is assumed to comprise an additive Gaussian model to be estimated and then…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Mian Zou , Heng Yao , Chuan Qin , Xinpeng Zhang

We study the Approximate Nearest Neighbor problem for metric spaces where the query points are constrained to lie on a subspace of low doubling dimension, while the data is high-dimensional. We show that this problem can be solved…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2012-09-19 Sariel Har-Peled , Nirman Kumar

Existing methods for retrieving k-nearest neighbours suffer from the curse of dimensionality. We argue this is caused in part by inherent deficiencies of space partitioning, which is the underlying strategy used by most existing methods. We…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-04-07 Ke Li , Jitendra Malik

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

We consider the $(1+\epsilon)$-approximate nearest neighbor search problem: given a set $X$ of $n$ points in a $d$-dimensional space, build a data structure that, given any query point $y$, finds a point $x \in X$ whose distance to $y$ is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Piotr Indyk , Tal Wagner

High-dimensional approximate $K$ nearest neighbor search (AKNN) is a fundamental task for various applications, including information retrieval. Most existing algorithms for AKNN can be decomposed into two main components, i.e., candidate…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Liwei Deng , Penghao Chen , Ximu Zeng , Tianfu Wang , Yan Zhao , Kai Zheng

Biased sampling and missing data complicates statistical problems ranging from causal inference to reinforcement learning. We often correct for biased sampling of summary statistics with matching methods and importance weighting. In this…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-06-02 James Sharpnack

Sparse embeddings of data form an attractive class due to their inherent interpretability: Every dimension is tied to a term in some vocabulary, making it easy to visually decipher the latent space. Sparsity, however, poses unique…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Sebastian Bruch , Franco Maria Nardini , Cosimo Rulli , Rossano Venturini

Gaussian process ($GP$) regression is a widely used non-parametric modeling tool, but its cubic complexity in the training size limits its use on massive data sets. A practical remedy is to predict using only the nearest neighbours of each…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-09 Robert Allison , Tomasz Maciazek , Anthony Stephenson

We consider the problem of finding high dimensional approximate nearest neighbors. Suppose there are d independent rare features, each having its own independent statistics. A point x will have x_{i}=0 denote the absence of feature i, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-10-24 Moshe Dubiner

Near neighbor search (NNS) is a powerful abstraction for data access; however, data indexing is troublesome even for approximate indexes. For intrinsically high-dimensional data, high-quality fast searches demand either indexes with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Eric S. Tellez , Guillermo Ruiz , Edgar Chavez , Mario Graff

Recent advances in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) have achieved remarkable success in high-fidelity Novel View Synthesis (NVS), yet the optimization process inevitably introduces noisy Gaussian primitives due to the sparse and incomplete…

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Although the standard formulations of prediction problems involve fully-observed and noiseless data drawn in an i.i.d. manner, many applications involve noisy and/or missing data, possibly involving dependence, as well. We study these…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-03-19 Po-Ling Loh , Martin J. Wainwright

We provide efficient algorithms for the problem of distribution learning from high-dimensional Gaussian data where in each sample, some of the variable values are missing. We suppose that the variables are missing not at random (MNAR). The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Arnab Bhattacharyya , Constantinos Daskalakis , Themis Gouleakis , Yuhao Wang

We study the problem of approximate near neighbor (ANN) search and show the following results: - An improved framework for solving the ANN problem using locality-sensitive hashing, reducing the number of evaluations of locality-sensitive…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Tobias Christiani

The density deconvolution problem involves recovering a target density g from a sample that has been corrupted by noise. From the perspective of Le Cam's local asymptotic normality theory, we show that non-parametric density deconvolution…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-07-06 Stefan Wager

The interplay between optimization and privacy has become a central theme in privacy-preserving machine learning. Noisy stochastic gradient descent (SGD) has emerged as a cornerstone algorithm, particularly in large-scale settings. These…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Shurong Lin , Eric D. Kolaczyk , Adam Smith , Elliot Paquette

A heuristic procedure based on novel recursive formulation of sinusoid (RFS) and on regression with predictive least-squares (LS) enables to decompose both uniformly and nonuniformly sampled 1-d signals into a sparse set of sinusoids (SSS).…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-13 Ivan Maric

Approximate nearest-neighbor search is a fundamental algorithmic problem that continues to inspire study due its essential role in numerous contexts. In contrast to most prior work, which has focused on point sets, we consider…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Ahmed Abdelkader , David M. Mount