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We introduce a new measure of robustness for statistical estimators, which we call \emph{empirical sensitivity}. An estimator $\hat \theta$ has bounded empirical sensitivity if, with high probability over a dataset $X = (X_1, \dots, X_n)…

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This paper studies binary classification in robust one-bit compressed sensing with adversarial errors. It is assumed that the model is overparameterized and that the parameter of interest is effectively sparse. AdaBoost is considered, and,…

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We consider a distributionally robust stochastic optimization problem and formulate it as a stochastic two-level composition optimization problem with the use of the mean--semideviation risk measure. In this setting, we consider a single…

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We consider a graph-structured change point problem in which we observe a random vector with piecewise constant but unknown mean and whose independent, sub-Gaussian coordinates correspond to the $n$ nodes of a fixed graph. We are interested…

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In this paper, we study two problems: (1) estimation of a $d$-dimensional log-concave distribution and (2) bounded multivariate convex regression with random design with an underlying log-concave density or a compactly supported…

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We solve the problem of estimating the distribution of presumed i.i.d. observations for the total variation loss. Our approach is based on density models and is versatile enough to cope with many different ones, including some density…

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Learning with label dependent label noise has been extensively explored in both theory and practice; however, dealing with instance (i.e., feature) and label dependent label noise continues to be a challenging task. The difficulty arises…

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Convex and penalized robust regression methods often suffer from a persistent bias induced by large outliers, limiting their effectiveness in adversarial or heavy-tailed settings. In this work, we study a smooth redescending non-convex…

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Assume that $X_{1}, \ldots, X_{N}$ is an $\varepsilon$-contaminated sample of $N$ independent Gaussian vectors in $\mathbb{R}^d$ with mean $\mu$ and covariance $\Sigma$. In the strong $\varepsilon$-contamination model we assume that the…

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System identification is a fundamental problem in control and learning, particularly in high-stakes applications where data efficiency is critical. Classical approaches, such as the ordinary least squares estimator (OLS), achieve an…

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