English
Related papers

Related papers: Statistical efficiency of curve fitting algorithms

200 papers

We revisit the problem of computing submatrices of the Cram\'er-Rao bound (CRB), which lower bounds the variance of any unbiased estimator of a vector parameter $\vth$. We explore iterative methods that avoid direct inversion of the Fisher…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-04 Paul Tune

Estimation of a location parameter based on noisy and binary quantized measurements is considered in this letter. We study the behavior of the Cramer-Rao bound as a function of the quantizer threshold for different symmetric unimodal noise…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-28 Rodrigo Cabral Farias , Eric Moisan , Jean-Marc Brossier

We analyze a stochastic approximation algorithm for decision-dependent problems, wherein the data distribution used by the algorithm evolves along the iterate sequence. The primary examples of such problems appear in performative prediction…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-15 Joshua Cutler , Mateo Díaz , Dmitriy Drusvyatskiy

Purpose: To develop neural network (NN)-based quantitative MRI parameter estimators with minimal bias and a variance close to the Cram\'er-Rao bound. Theory and Methods: We generalize the mean squared error loss to control the bias and…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-05-07 Andrew Mao , Sebastian Flassbeck , Jakob Assländer

This work is concerned with the estimation of multidimensional regression and the asymptotic behaviour of the test involved in selecting models. The main problem with such models is that we need to know the covariance matrix of the noise to…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2008-02-20 Joseph Rynkiewicz

Sharp asymptotic lower bounds of the expected quadratic variation of discretization error in stochastic integration are given. The theory relies on inequalities for the kurtosis and skewness of a general random variable which are themselves…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-04-04 Masaaki Fukasawa

This paper presents a new performance bound for estimation problems where the parameter to estimate lies in a Riemannian manifold (a smooth manifold endowed with a Riemannian metric) and follows a given prior distribution. In this setup,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-09-10 Florent Bouchard , Alexandre Renaux , Guillaume Ginolhac , Arnaud Breloy

This paper studies the problem of estimating a large coefficient matrix in a multiple response linear regression model when the coefficient matrix could be both of low rank and sparse in the sense that most nonzero entries concentrate on a…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-03-18 Zhuang Ma , Zongming Ma , Tingni Sun

The Bayesian Cram\'er-Rao bound (CRB) provides a lower bound on the mean square error of any Bayesian estimator under mild regularity conditions. It can be used to benchmark the performance of statistical estimators, and provides a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-09-09 Evan Scope Crafts , Xianyang Zhang , Bo Zhao

The paper deals with asymptotic properties of the adaptive procedure proposed in the author paper (2007) for estimation of unknown nonparametric regression. We prove that this procedure is asymptotically efficient for a quadratic risk. It…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2008-12-18 Leonid Galtchouk , Serguey Pergamenshchikov

The performance of machine learning models often relies on large labeled datasets; however, data collected from diverse sources can contain label noise. Recent work has shown that, in noisy settings, there may exist a subset of the training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Kumar Shubham , Pavan Karjol , Kiran M K , Prathosh AP

This paper examines the ability of greedy algorithms to estimate a block sparse parameter vector from noisy measurements. In particular, block sparse versions of the orthogonal matching pursuit and thresholding algorithms are analyzed under…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-19 Zvika Ben-Haim , Yonina C. Eldar

Estimation problems with constrained parameter spaces arise in various settings. In many of these problems, the observations available to the statistician can be modelled as arising from the noisy realization of the image of a random linear…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-03-23 Reese Pathak , Martin J. Wainwright , Lin Xiao

We address the problem of learning an unknown smooth function and its derivatives from noisy pointwise evaluations under the supremum norm. While classical nonparametric regression provides a strong theoretical foundation, traditional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Davide Maran , Marcello Restelli

In this work, we investigate data fitting problems with random noises. A randomized progressive iterative regularization method is proposed. It works well for large-scale matrix computations and converges in expectation to the least-squares…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-05 Dakang Cen , Wenlong Zhang , Junbin Zhong

In this paper, adaptive estimation based on noisy quantized observations is studied. A low complexity adaptive algorithm using a quantizer with adjustable input gain and offset is presented. Three possible scalar models for the parameter to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-10-15 Rodrigo Cabral Farias , Jean-Marc Brossier

Non linear regression models are a standard tool for modeling real phenomena, with several applications in machine learning, ecology, econometry... Estimating the parameters of the model has garnered a lot of attention during many years. We…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-09-17 Peggy Cénac , Antoine Godichon-Baggioni , Bruno Portier

Efficient estimation of wideband spectrum is of great importance for applications such as cognitive radio. Recently, sub-Nyquist sampling schemes based on compressed sensing have been proposed to greatly reduce the sampling rate. However,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-05-23 Haoyu Fu , Yuejie Chi

The Cram\'er-Rao bound (CRB), a well-known lower bound on the performance of any unbiased parameter estimator, has been used to study a wide variety of problems. However, to obtain the CRB, requires an analytical expression for the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Hai Victor Habi , Hagit Messer , Yoram Bresler

Recent work has generalized several results concerning the well-understood spiked Wigner matrix model of a low-rank signal matrix corrupted by additive i.i.d. Gaussian noise to the inhomogeneous case, where the noise has a variance profile.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-10 Debsurya De , Dmitriy Kunisky