A locally-built, LLM-digested index of recent arXiv papers in quant finance, geometry/topology, and statistical ML — keyword search served straight from SQLite on this machine.
The objective of this paper is to introduce the notion of generalized almost statistical (briefly, GAS) convergence of bounded real sequences, which generalizes the notion of almost convergence as well as statistical convergence of bounded real sequences. As a special kind of Banach limit functional, we also introduce …
Many statistical M-estimators are based on convex optimization problems formed by the combination of a data-dependent loss function with a norm-based regularizer. We analyze the convergence rates of projected gradient and composite gradient methods for solving such problems, working within a high-dimensional framewor…
Identifying statistical dependence between the features and the label is a fundamental problem in supervised learning. This paper presents a framework for estimating dependence between numerical features and a categorical label using generalized Gini distance, an energy distance in reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (RK…
We study statistical risk minimization problems under a privacy model in which the data is kept confidential even from the learner. In this local privacy framework, we establish sharp upper and lower bounds on the convergence rates of statistical estimation procedures. As a consequence, we exhibit a precise tradeoff be…
The purpose of this paper is to provide a sharp analysis on the asymptotic behavior of the Durbin-Watson statistic. We focus our attention on the first-order autoregressive process where the driven noise is also given by a first-order autoregressive process. We establish the almost sure convergence and the asymptotic n…
SVRG and its variants are among the state of art optimization algorithms for large scale machine learning problems. It is well known that SVRG converges linearly when the objective function is strongly convex. However this setup can be restrictive, and does not include several important formulations such as Lasso, grou…
Differential privacy is a cryptographically-motivated definition of privacy which has gained significant attention over the past few years. Differentially private solutions enforce privacy by adding random noise to a function computed over the data, and the challenge in designing such algorithms is to control the added…
Computational topology has recently known an important development toward data analysis, giving birth to the field of topological data analysis. Topological persistence, or persistent homology, appears as a fundamental tool in this field. In this paper, we study topological persistence in general metric spaces, with a …
In this paper, we consider stochastic dual coordinate (SDCA) {\em without} strongly convex assumption or convex assumption. We show that SDCA converges linearly under mild conditions termed restricted strong convexity. This covers a wide array of popular statistical models including Lasso, group Lasso, and logistic reg…
We study the convergence of the Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithm for mixtures of linear regressions with an arbitrary number k of components. We show that as long as signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is Ω~(k), well-initialized EM converges to the true regression parameters. Previous results for k≥3 hav…
In this paper, we examine a geometrical projection algorithm for statistical inference. The algorithm is based on Pythagorean relation and it is derivative-free as well as representation-free that is useful in nonparametric cases. We derive a bound of learning rate to guarantee local convergence. In special cases of m-…
Gradient descent on MMD GAN parameter space converges globally to target distribution.
problem Convergence of gradient descent in Maximum Mean Discrepancy (MMD) GANs.
method Proposes a parametric kernelized gradient flow that mimics the min-max game in gradient regularized MMD GAN.
result Gradient descent on the generator's parameter space in gradient regularized MMD GAN is globally convergent to the target distribution under certain conditions.
New concentration inequality for U-statistics of Markov chains.
problem Proving a concentration inequality for U-statistics of order two in uniformly ergodic Markov chains.
method Inductive analysis using martingale techniques, uniform ergodicity, Nummelin splitting, and Bernstein's inequality.
result Recovery of convergence rate for U-statistics of independent random variables and canonical kernels, with improved results for dependent kernels.
We provide theoretical analysis of the statistical and computational properties of penalized M-estimators that can be formulated as the solution to a possibly nonconvex optimization problem. Many important estimators fall in this category, including least squares regression with nonconvex regularization, generalized …
When the data are stored in a distributed manner, direct application of traditional statistical inference procedures is often prohibitive due to communication cost and privacy concerns. This paper develops and investigates two Communication-Efficient Accurate Statistical Estimators (CEASE), implemented through iterativ…
Interneurons improve learning in neural networks by accelerating convergence.
problem Rapid adaptation to changing input statistics in neural networks.
method Two mathematically tractable recurrent linear neural networks were compared: one with direct recurrent connections and the other with interneurons that mediate recurrent communication.
result The network with interneurons converges more quickly than the network with direct recurrent connections, scaling logarithmically with initialization spectrum.