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48 results for Support Estimation

KSG mutual information estimator, which is based on the distances of each sample to its k-th nearest neighbor, is widely used to estimate mutual information between two continuous random variables. Existing work has analyzed the convergence rate of this estimator for random variables whose densities are bounded away fr…

2018-10-27abs ↗pdf ↗

Estimates support in distributions with sampling artifacts and errors.

problem Support estimation in the presence of sampling artifacts and errors.
method Regularized weighted Chebyshev approximations with Touchard polynomials, discretized semi-infinte programming.
result Significant improvements over noiseless support estimation methods.

The paper improves support recovery in high-dimensional precision matrix estimation using meta learning.

problem Support recovery in high-dimensional precision matrix estimation with reduced sample complexity.
method Pooling samples from different tasks and using an improper 1\ell_1-regularized log-determinant Bregman divergence to estimate a single precision matrix.
result The support of the improperly estimated single precision matrix is equal to the true support union with high probability.

New algorithm recovers model coefficients and supports from noisy data.

problem Simultaneous estimation and support recovery in linear models with Gaussian noise.
method Projection-based algorithm for STG regularized minimization problem, proving convergence and support recovery guarantees.
result New algorithm outperforms existing methods in support recovery for various data setups.

The paper analyzes kNN density estimation's convergence rates under different conditions.

problem Analyzing convergence rates of kNN density estimation under bounded and unbounded support conditions.
method Examined two cases: bounded support with known and unknown support sets, and unbounded support with smooth density function.
result kNN density estimation is minimax optimal under certain conditions and better than kernel density estimation in some cases.

CASP selects reliable policies for two-stage recommender systems by considering both value and support.

problem The selection of a generator in two-stage recommender systems affects both the policy value and the data support used to estimate it.
method CASP combines doubly robust value estimation with a support-burden penalty.
result CASP selects lower-burden policies when estimated value and support credibility are in tension.

SAIL improves AIL by weighting adversarial rewards with support estimation.

problem Training instability and reward bias in AIL.
method Support-weighted Adversarial Imitation Learning (SAIL) extends AIL with support estimation to improve reinforcement signals.
result SAIL achieves better performance and stability on benchmark tasks.

Constructs a support-preserving homotopy for differential forms with boundary decay estimates.

problem Non-uniqueness of chain homotopies in de Rham complexes with boundary decay properties.
method Constructs a specific chain homotopy with desirable support propagation and boundary decay estimates.
result Obtains a support-preserving right inverse of the divergence operator with optimal decay estimates.

Paper supports robust estimation in regression with heavy-tailed errors.

problem Support estimation in high-dimensional heteroscedastic mean regression.
method Use of Huber loss function and adaptive LASSO penalty for robust estimation.
result Sign-consistency and optimal rates of convergence in \ell_\infty norm.

We propose a Generalized Dantzig Selector (GDS) for linear models, in which any norm encoding the parameter structure can be leveraged for estimation. We investigate both computational and statistical aspects of the GDS. Based on conjugate proximal operator, a flexible inexact ADMM framework is designed for solving GDS…

2014-06-20abs ↗pdf ↗

This letter presents a novel Block Bayesian Hypothesis Testing Algorithm (Block-BHTA) for reconstructing block sparse signals with unknown block structures. The Block-BHTA comprises the detection and recovery of the supports, and the estimation of the amplitudes of the block sparse signal. The support detection and rec…

2015-08-22abs ↗pdf ↗

Unified framework for robust, stable, and efficient density ratio estimation.

problem Density-chasm and support-chasm problems in density ratio estimation.
method Dequantified diffusion-Schrödinger bridge (D3RE) framework with DDBI and DSBI.
result Offers uniform approximation and bounded time scores in theory and empirical performance.

Paper tackles distributed quantile regression with improved efficiency and support recovery.

problem Challenges in distributed estimation and support recovery for high-dimensional linear quantile regression.
method Transformed quantile regression into least-squares optimization, applied double-smoothing approach, developed efficient algorithm.
result Achieved near-oracle convergence rate and high support recovery accuracy.

Estimates multiple related causal graphs with shared causal order.

problem Discovering multiple related Gaussian DAGs with shared causal order.
method Proposes a l1/l2l_1/l_2-regularized MLE for joint estimation of KK linear structural equation models.
result Joint estimator achieves better sample complexity and consistency in causal order recovery.

In this paper, we aim at recovering an undirected weighted graph of NN vertices from the knowledge of a perturbed version of the eigenspaces of its adjacency matrix WW. For instance, this situation arises for stationary signals on graphs or for Markov chains observed at random times. Our approach is based on minimizi…

2016-03-26abs ↗pdf ↗

Develops a support-aware framework for reserve-policy selection in advertising markets.

problem Log-based reserve-price evaluation risks weak support and subgroup harm.
method Support-aware offline decision framework converting logged evidence into certified policies.
result Preserves the best gate-passing policy while eliminating only policies with certified regret.

A simple method for estimating PMF on large supports, preserving structure and suppressing noise.

problem Nonparametric estimation of multi-modal, heavy-tailed PMF on large discrete support.
method Data-dependent low-pass filtering on a line graph Laplacian.
result Smooth, multi-modal estimate of PMF that preserves coarse structure and suppresses noise.

Paper analyzes adaptive Lasso for high-dimensional diffusion processes, improving support recovery and bias.

problem Support recovery for high-dimensional diffusion processes under sparsity constraints.
method Adaptive Lasso estimator for d-dimensional ergodic diffusion process, focusing on linear models.
result Adaptive Lasso achieves support recovery and asymptotic normality for drift parameter under certain conditions.

Normalizing flows can now estimate densities on unknown manifolds.

problem Normalizing flows struggle with data on unknown low-dimensional manifolds.
method Conformal Embedding Flows, which combine standard flows with trainable conformal embeddings.
result Tractable density estimation on manifold-supported data is possible.

Paper proposes CIV estimator for categorical instruments in small sample settings.

problem Estimation with categorical instruments in settings with few observations per category.
method CIV estimator leveraging regularization assumption for latent categorical variable.
result CIV estimator is asymptotically normal, efficient, and semiparametrically efficient under homoskedasticity.

Study improves density estimation for compact domains using hh-lifted KL divergence.

problem Estimating probability density functions on compact domains.
method Introduced hh-lifted Kullback--Leibler (KL) divergence for risk minimization.
result Proved O(1/n)\mathcal{O}(1/{\sqrt{n}}) bound on estimation error.

We propose one-class support measure machines (OCSMMs) for group anomaly detection which aims at recognizing anomalous aggregate behaviors of data points. The OCSMMs generalize well-known one-class support vector machines (OCSVMs) to a space of probability measures. By formulating the problem as quantile estimation on …

2014-08-09abs ↗pdf ↗

We propose one-class support measure machines (OCSMMs) for group anomaly detection which aims at recognizing anomalous aggregate behaviors of data points. The OCSMMs generalize well-known one-class support vector machines (OCSVMs) to a space of probability measures. By formulating the problem as quantile estimation on …

2013-03-01abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper estimates EOT maps for non-compactly supported measures with subGaussian target.

problem Estimating EOT maps between non-compactly supported measures.
method Uses bias-variance decomposition, T1-transport inequalities, and concentration of measure results.
result Shows error decay rates for different cases of subGaussian measures.

New method estimates individual treatment effects using domain generalization.

problem Estimating causal individual treatment effects from observational data with treatment bias.
method Invariant Risk Minimization (IRM) framework to learn predictors invariant to domain-dependent factors.
result IRM-based ITE estimator shows gains over classical regression approaches in settings with pronounced support mismatch.

A large number of algorithms in machine learning, from principal component analysis (PCA), and its non-linear (kernel) extensions, to more recent spectral embedding and support estimation methods, rely on estimating a linear subspace from samples. In this paper we introduce a general formulation of this problem and der…

2014-08-21abs ↗pdf ↗

New results on risk estimation for SVM and related methods.

problem Estimating risk in support vector machine applications.
method Expanding relaxation theory to support vector methods and analyzing their generalization ability.
result Risk approaches ratio of complexity to data sample size as sample size increases.

The paper reduces sample complexity for estimating novel task parameters with few meta-learning tasks.

problem Meta-learning sparse linear regression with limited data.
method Accessing multiple similar tasks to recover common support and reduce novel task sample complexity.
result The sample complexity for estimating the parameter of a novel task is greatly reduced to O(1) with respect to the number of tasks.

In this correspondence, we obtain exact recovery conditions for regularized modified basis pursuit (reg-mod-BP) and discuss when the obtained conditions are weaker than those for modified-CS or for basis pursuit (BP). The discussion is also supported by simulation comparisons. Reg-mod-BP provides a solution to the spar…

2011-08-16abs ↗pdf ↗

Least Squares Estimators are suboptimal for 5D convex functions.

problem Suboptimality of Least Squares Estimators in estimating multidimensional convex functions.
method Analysis of natural subclasses of convex functions in random and fixed design settings.
result Risk of LSE is n2/dn^{-2/d} while minimax risk is n4/(d+4)n^{-4/(d+4)} for d5d \geq 5.

BDSG generates samples on distribution boundaries, improving anomaly detection.

problem Difficulty in capturing multimodal supports and approximating distribution tails.
method Invertible Residual Network (IResNet) and Residual Flow (ResFlow) for density estimation; compound loss function for boundary samples.
result Competitive performance on synthetic and multimodal data compared to existing methods.

This research improves uncertainty estimation for medical predictions, enhancing model trust and decision support.

problem Improving model uncertainty estimation for rare medical conditions.
method Developed and refined heuristics for selecting uncertainty estimation techniques, distinguishing them by clinical use-case. Also, compared ensembles vs. auto-encoders for detecting out-of-domain examples.
result Auto-encoders outperform ensembles in detecting out-of-domain examples, highlighting their importance for medical tabular data.

Importance sampling is often used in machine learning when training and testing data come from different distributions. In this paper we propose a new variant of importance sampling that can reduce the variance of importance sampling-based estimates by orders of magnitude when the supports of the training and testing d…

2016-11-10abs ↗pdf ↗

Algorithm estimates graph structure with prior information and Langevin diffusion.

problem Support estimation of partially known Gaussian graphical models.
method Proposes an algorithm using annealed Langevin diffusion and graph neural networks to estimate the posterior distribution of the graph.
result Demonstrates the benefits of the approach through numerical experiments.

We generalize stochastic smoothing for gradient estimation of non-differentiable functions.

problem Gradient estimation for non-differentiable functions.
method Developed a general framework for relaxation and gradient estimation of non-differentiable black-box functions using stochastic smoothing with reduced assumptions.
result Empirically validated the effectiveness of variance reduction strategies for various non-differentiable tasks.