Paper presents a robust Kalman filter for state estimation.
problem Robust state estimation under process and measurement noise.
method Generalized Bayesian approach to a Weighted Observation Likelihood Filter (WoLF) framework.
result Achieved robust state estimation against both process and measurement noise.
The paper examines how to make multivariate estimators robust against adversarial data modifications.
problem Adversarial robustness of multivariate M-Estimators. method Adversarial Influence Function (AIF) to measure robustness; optimal modification strategy and AIF characterization; optimal M-estimator design. result Characterization of optimal M-estimator with smallest AIF for joint location and scale estimation. Paper improves RLS for sparse outlier detection in linear models.
problem Outliers contaminate linear regression models infrequently.
method Hierarchical-optimization recursive least squares with sparsity-inducing regularization.
result The method robustly estimates linear filters/systems with outliers.
Paper proposes methods to make OT robust to outliers.
problem Optimal transport is sensitive to outliers.
method Detect outliers using adversarial training, adjust transport cost based on classifier predictions.
result Outliers are detected and do not affect transport in experiments.
Adaptive methods learn from multiple datasets, leveraging similarities and robust to outliers.
problem Simultaneously analyze multiple datasets with possible similarities and differences.
method Adaptive multi-task learning methods that automatically utilize similarities and handle differences.
result Sharp statistical guarantees and robustness against outlier tasks demonstrated.
Over the past years Robust PCA has been established as a standard tool for reliable low-rank approximation of matrices in the presence of outliers. Recently, the Robust PCA approach via nuclear norm minimization has been extended to matrices with linear structures which appear in applications such as system identificat…
MFRDE uses medians of forest estimators to robustly estimate densities in noisy data.
problem Robust density estimation in the presence of outliers.
method MFRDE uses pointwise median operation on forest density estimators fitted on subsampled datasets.
result MFRDE achieves robustness against all outliers while maintaining accuracy for density estimation.
New algorithm robust to outliers in Bayesian Optimization.
problem Vulnerability of Bayesian Optimization to extreme outliers.
method Introduces a new adversary with a frequency-bounded corruption budget and derives RCGP-UCB algorithm.
result Achieves sublinear regret in the presence of up to O(T1/4) and O(T1/7) corruptions with possibly infinite magnitude. New robust loss functions improve matrix completion accuracy.
problem Outliers in data corrupting matrix completion accuracy.
method Developed nonconvex M-estimator functions to down-weight outliers.
result Proposed methods outperform competitors in recovery accuracy and runtime.
RVAE detects and repairs corrupted cells in mixed-type tabular data.
problem Outlier detection and repair in mixed-type tabular data.
method Robust Variational Autoencoder (RVAE) learns the joint distribution of clean data and identifies outlier cells.
result RVAE outperforms state-of-the-art methods in cell outlier detection and repair for tabular data.
ORAT improves model robustness against outliers and adversarial attacks.
problem Challenges of training data like outliers and adversarial samples.
method Bi-level optimization with robust rank-based loss function.
result ORAT achieves theoretical consistency and uniform convergence rates.
K-means clustering improved for robustness to outliers and distribution shifts.
problem K-means is brittle to outliers, distribution shifts, and limited samples.
method Developed a distributionally robust variant using Wasserstein-2 ball around the empirical distribution.
result Substantial gains in outlier detection and robustness to noise demonstrated.
Advances in sensor technology have enabled the collection of large-scale datasets. Such datasets can be extremely noisy and often contain a significant amount of outliers that result from sensor malfunction or human operation faults. In order to utilize such data for real-world applications, it is critical to detect ou…
Paper introduces robust, dynamic coreset for outlier-resilient learning problems.
problem Dealing with outliers in continuous-and-bounded learning problems.
method Proposes a novel robust coreset method for fully-dynamic environments.
result First robust and fully-dynamic coreset construction method for optimization problems.
Efficient SVD algorithm robust to outliers.
problem Outliers in data matrix affect SVD accuracy and speed.
method Spherically Normalized SVD (SpherSVD) algorithm.
result Significantly faster and more robust than existing methods.
MTLRRC improves MTL by robustly clustering tasks and detecting outliers.
problem Improving MTL by handling outlier tasks and sharing common information.
method Robust regularized clustering with non-convex group penalties.
result MTLRRC effectively detects and clusters tasks, improving overall performance.
We consider the task of robust non-linear regression in the presence of both inlier noise and outliers. Assuming that the unknown non-linear function belongs to a Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space (RKHS), our goal is to estimate the set of the associated unknown parameters. Due to the presence of outliers, common techni…
New method corrects deep neural network variance for outlier data.
problem Outliers in deep neural network outputs.
method Gradient Conjugate Priors (GCP) network.
result Corrected variance is in a small neighborhood of ground truth variance.
A new robust PCA method uses Innovation Search and Leverage Scores.
problem Outlier detection and robust PCA in data clustering.
method Innovation Search and Leverage Scores.
result The method provides theoretical guarantees and outperforms existing algorithms.
Paper explores robustness of CCS model for matrix completion.
problem Robustness of cross-concentrated sampling model against sparse outliers.
method Proposes Robust CUR Completion (RCURC) algorithm for efficient non-convex iterative matrix completion.
result Empirical validation of RCURC's efficiency and robustness in synthetic and real datasets.
The maximum correntropy criterion (MCC) has recently been successfully applied in robust regression, classification and adaptive filtering, where the correntropy is maximized instead of minimizing the well-known mean square error (MSE) to improve the robustness with respect to outliers (or impulsive noises). Considerab…
A new method preserves useful information in data rows with outlying cells.
problem Preserving useful information in data rows with outlying cells.
method Cellwise robust Minimum Covariance Determinant (cellMCD) method using observed likelihood and a penalty term on cellwise outliers.
result The cellMCD method performs well in simulations and on real data.
New method robustifies topological data analysis against outliers.
problem Outliers make topological data analysis unstable.
method Proposed a robust distance function (MoM Dist) for persistent homology.
result MoM Dist sublevel filtrations and weighted filtrations are consistent estimators in adversarial settings.
Method matches noisy remote sensing images robustly.
problem Matching noisy remote sensing images.
method Combining attention mechanism with feature enhancement.
result More efficient and accurate matches achieved.
Principal component analysis (PCA) is widely used for dimensionality reduction, with well-documented merits in various applications involving high-dimensional data, including computer vision, preference measurement, and bioinformatics. In this context, the fresh look advocated here permeates benefits from variable sele…
Enhances predictive models against misspecification and outliers.
problem Suboptimal generalization under misspecification and outliers.
method Combines PACm ensemble bounds with a generalized logarithm score function. result Produces predictive distributions resistant to both misspecification and outliers.
A new robust scaling approach improves downstream metabolomics analysis.
problem Challenges in choosing scaling techniques for metabolomics data.
method Introduces a weighted scaling approach robust to outliers.
result The proposed method outperforms traditional scaling techniques in both outlier-free and outlier-present datasets.
HSNLD solves robust Hankel recovery efficiently and robustly.
problem Robust Hankel recovery of sparse outliers and missing entries.
method Hankel Structured Newton-Like Descent (HSNLD) algorithm.
result HSNLD achieves linear convergence independent of the condition number.
Exponential Lasso improves Lasso's robustness to outliers and heavy-tailed noise.
problem Lasso's sensitivity to outliers and heavy-tailed noise in high-dimensional statistics.
method Integrates an exponential-type loss function into the Lasso framework.
result Achieves strong statistical convergence rates robust to heavy-tailed contamination.
Novel LRMC tackles missing data and outliers in large-scale low-rank data recovery.
problem Missing data and extreme outliers in low-rank data analysis.
method Learned Robust Matrix Completion (LRMC) using deep unfolding and flexible neural network framework.
result LRMC achieves optimum performance with low computational complexity and linear convergence.
Medix uses the median to detect outliers from unlabeled data for robust OOD detection.
problem Challenges in using unlabeled data for OOD detection due to mixed InD and OOD samples.
method Introduces Medix, a framework using the median operation to identify outliers from unlabeled data.
result Empirical results show Medix outperforms existing methods in open-world settings.
Paper quantifies label shift robustly.
problem Quantifying label shift in datasets.
method Robust estimators of label distribution.
result Maximum Likelihood Estimator is a robust estimator.
RobustTrend filters time series trends robustly against outliers and abrupt changes.
problem Extracting accurate trend signals from noisy, potentially abrupt-changing time series.
method Uses Huber loss for outlier suppression and a combination of first and second order differences for regularization.
result Our algorithm outperforms existing methods in synthetic and real-world datasets.
Gaussian Graphical Models (GGMs) are popular tools for studying network structures. However, many modern applications such as gene network discovery and social interactions analysis often involve high-dimensional noisy data with outliers or heavier tails than the Gaussian distribution. In this paper, we propose the Tri…
Study improves data quality assessment for structural monitoring data.
problem Ensuring reliability of structural health monitoring data.
method Probabilistic data quality assessment using a conditional diffusion model.
result Significantly improves accuracy of data quality assessment.
New robust method for high-dimensional data analysis in imaging studies.
problem Analyzing high-dimensional data with complex dependence and outliers.
method Robust high-dimensional regression with coefficient thresholding and Huber loss.
result Statistical consistency and computational convergence under high-dimensional settings.
Method scales Bayesian inference to large datasets and robustifies against outliers.
problem Scalability and robustness to outliers in Bayesian inference.
method Variational inference with β-divergence and Riemannian coresets. result Efficiently constructs cleansed data summaries robust to outliers.
Picket guards against corrupted data in machine learning models.
problem Data corruption biases models and invalidates predictions.
method PicketNet detects corrupted data using self-supervised deep learning; flags corrupted queries online.
result Picket consistently protects models from corrupted data during training and deployment.
QAPCA uses quantum annealing for robust PCA.
problem Outliers in data skew L2-norm principal components.
method Quantum annealing for L1-norm optimization.
result QAPCA's reconstruction error is comparable to L1-BF.
Nonparametric methods are widely applicable to statistical inference problems, since they rely on a few modeling assumptions. In this context, the fresh look advocated here permeates benefits from variable selection and compressive sampling, to robustify nonparametric regression against outliers - that is, data markedl…
It is important to detect anomalous inputs when deploying machine learning systems. The use of larger and more complex inputs in deep learning magnifies the difficulty of distinguishing between anomalous and in-distribution examples. At the same time, diverse image and text data are available in enormous quantities. We…
Robust GP model detects and corrects sparse outliers.
problem Non-Gaussian noise in real-world data.
method Relevance pursuit for data-point-specific noise levels.
result Strong concavity and approximation guarantees for subset selection.
In high-dimensional data, many sparse regression methods have been proposed. However, they may not be robust against outliers. Recently, the use of density power weight has been studied for robust parameter estimation and the corresponding divergences have been discussed. One of such divergences is the γ-divergence a…
This paper defends SVMs against poisoning attacks using DBSCAN and hardness proofs.
problem Adversarial injection of specially crafted samples into training data to misclassify SVMs.
method Two strategies: robust SVM algorithms and data sanitization (DBSCAN).
result Proves hardness of simple SVM problem and effectiveness of DBSCAN for poisoning attacks.
A robust approach compensates for small-data tasks in mixed linear regression.
problem Learning from small batches of data in tasks with many similar but insufficiently labeled examples.
method Spectral approach combining outlier-robust PCA and sum-of-squares algorithms.
result The approach achieves a graceful statistical trade-off, allowing smaller tasks than previously required.
We present a Distributionally Robust Optimization (DRO) approach to estimate a robustified regression plane in a linear regression setting, when the observed samples are potentially contaminated with adversarially corrupted outliers. Our approach mitigates the impact of outliers through hedging against a family of dist…
This work tackles robust multi-source domain adaptation under label shift.
problem Label shift and data contamination in multi-source domain adaptation.
method Domain-weighted empirical risk minimization framework with refinement procedure.
result The proposed method achieves superior performance in multi-category classification problems.
A new method centers outliers in robust PCA without manual intervention.
problem Outliers in robust PCA require manual centering, complicating the analysis.
method Introduces a 'bias trick' to automatically center non-outliers.
result First optimal RPCA algorithm with automatic centering.