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We revisit the input perturbations framework for differential privacy where noise is added to the input $A\in \mathcal{S}$ and the result is then projected back to the space of admissible datasets $\mathcal{S}$. Through this framework, we…

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We consider high dimensional sparse regression, and develop strategies able to deal with arbitrary -- possibly, severe or coordinated -- errors in the covariance matrix $X$. These may come from corrupted data, persistent experimental…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-01-15 Yudong Chen , Constantine Caramanis , Shie Mannor

We consider the problem of finding a dense submatrix of a matrix with i.i.d. Gaussian entries, where density is measured by average value. This problem arose from practical applications in biology and social sciences…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-07-28 Shankar Bhamidi , David Gamarnik , Shuyang Gong

We exhibit a randomized algorithm which given a matrix $A\in \mathbb{C}^{n\times n}$ with $\|A\|\le 1$ and $\delta>0$, computes with high probability an invertible $V$ and diagonal $D$ such that $\|A-VDV^{-1}\|\le \delta$ using…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-21 Jess Banks , Jorge Garza-Vargas , Archit Kulkarni , Nikhil Srivastava

We study the problem of recovering an incomplete $m\times n$ matrix of rank $r$ with columns arriving online over time. This is known as the problem of life-long matrix completion, and is widely applied to recommendation system, computer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-12-04 Maria-Florina Balcan , Hongyang Zhang

The fastest known algorithms for dealing with structured matrices, in the sense of the displacement rank measure, are randomized. For handling classical displacement structures, they achieve the complexity bounds…

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In the context of the compressed sensing problem, we propose a new ensemble of sparse random matrices which allow one (i) to acquire and compress a {\rho}0-sparse signal of length N in a time linear in N and (ii) to perfectly recover the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-04-15 Maria Chiara Angelini , Federico Ricci-Tersenghi , Yoshiyuki Kabashima

Given an arbitrary matrix $A\in\mathbb{R}^{n\times n}$, we consider the fundamental problem of computing $Ax$ for any $x\in\mathbb{R}^n$ such that $Ax$ is $s$-sparse. While fast algorithms exist for particular choices of $A$, such as the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Tim Fuchs , David Gross , Felix Krahmer , Richard Kueng , Dustin G. Mixon

This Ph.D. thesis contains original contributions to several areas within the disciplines of disordered systems, numerical linear algebra, and scientific computing: (1) Theoretical and numerical study of the errors caused by using certain…

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We present an iterative algorithm for computing an invariant subspace associated with the algebraically smallest eigenvalues of a large sparse or structured Hermitian matrix A. We are interested in the case in which the dimension of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-22 Eugene Vecharynski , Chao Yang , John E. Pask

We study the problem of recovering Gaussian data under adversarial corruptions when the noises are low-rank and the corruptions are on the coordinate level. Concretely, we assume that the Gaussian noises lie in an unknown $k$-dimensional…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Weihao Kong , Mingda Qiao , Rajat Sen

We propose a general random subspace framework for unconstrained nonconvex optimization problems that requires a weak probabilistic assumption on the subspace gradient, which we show to be satisfied by various random matrix ensembles, such…

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Precision matrix estimation is a fundamental topic in multivariate statistics and modern machine learning. This paper proposes an adversarially perturbed precision matrix estimation framework, motivated by recent developments in adversarial…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-25 Yiling Xie

We consider a structured estimation problem where an observed matrix is assumed to be generated as an $s$-sparse linear combination of $N$ given $n\times n$ positive-semidefinite matrices. Recovering the unknown $N$-dimensional and…

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We propose an efficient optimization algorithm for selecting a subset of training data to induce sparsity for Gaussian process regression. The algorithm estimates an inducing set and the hyperparameters using a single objective, either the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-11-12 Yanshuai Cao , Marcus A. Brubaker , David J. Fleet , Aaron Hertzmann

We study the Gaussian Process regression model in the context of training data with noise in both input and output. The presence of two sources of noise makes the task of learning accurate predictive models extremely challenging. However,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-07-03 Cuong Tran , Vladimir Pavlovic , Robert Kopp

Gaussian processes (GPs) are widely used in nonparametric regression, classification and spatio-temporal modeling, motivated in part by a rich literature on theoretical properties. However, a well known drawback of GPs that limits their use…

Methodology · Statistics 2011-06-29 Anjishnu Banerjee , David Dunson , Surya Tokdar

In prior work, Gupta et al. (SPAA 2022) presented a distributed algorithm for multiplying sparse $n \times n$ matrices, using $n$ computers. They assumed that the input matrices are uniformly sparse--there are at most $d$ non-zeros in each…

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Training and inference in Gaussian processes (GPs) require solving linear systems with $n\times n$ kernel matrices. To address the prohibitive $\mathcal{O}(n^3)$ time complexity, recent work has employed fast iterative methods, like…

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