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Robust High-Dimensional Mean Estimation With Low Data Size, an Empirical Study

Machine Learning 2025-02-18 v1 Machine Learning

Abstract

Robust statistics aims to compute quantities to represent data where a fraction of it may be arbitrarily corrupted. The most essential statistic is the mean, and in recent years, there has been a flurry of theoretical advancement for efficiently estimating the mean in high dimensions on corrupted data. While several algorithms have been proposed that achieve near-optimal error, they all rely on large data size requirements as a function of dimension. In this paper, we perform an extensive experimentation over various mean estimation techniques where data size might not meet this requirement due to the high-dimensional setting.

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@article{arxiv.2502.11324,
  title  = {Robust High-Dimensional Mean Estimation With Low Data Size, an Empirical Study},
  author = {Cullen Anderson and Jeff M. Phillips},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.11324},
  year   = {2025}
}
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