Deviation inequalities for stochastic approximation methods.
problem Establishing bounds on the deviation of stochastic approximation methods.
method Martingale approximation method for separately Lipschitz functions.
result Established various deviation inequalities for stochastic approximation by averaging and minimization.
Develops a fast variational approximation for high-dimensional empirical Bayes posteriors.
problem Optimal posterior computation in high-dimensional settings with prior tails effect.
method Variational approximation of empirical Bayes posterior with data-driven centers and thin-tailed conjugate priors.
result Retains optimal concentration rate properties and superior performance compared to existing methods.
Natural gradient descent, which preconditions a gradient descent update with the Fisher information matrix of the underlying statistical model, is a way to capture partial second-order information. Several highly visible works have advocated an approximation known as the empirical Fisher, drawing connections between ap…
New learning algorithm for real analytic functions without gradient descent.
problem Learning real analytic functions without gradient descent.
method Taylor approximation and sampling data distribution.
result Nonuniform learning result for real analytic functions.
Detect changes in noisy dynamical systems using empirical approximations and finite-sample bounds.
problem Change detection in noisy dynamical systems
method Partition-based empirical approximations and finite-state stationary distribution stability
result Finite-sample bound for empirical stationary density
Shampoo optimizes preconditioners for faster convergence in machine learning.
problem Improving convergence speed in machine learning optimization.
method Explicit connection between Shampoo's Kronecker product approximation and optimal matrix approximations.
result The square of Shampoo's approximation is equivalent to a single power iteration step for optimal Kronecker product approximation.
Efficiently selects important variables in high-dimensional logistic regression.
problem Variable selection in high-dimensional logistic regression with binary responses.
method Developed a variational empirical Bayes approach for efficient model space marginal distribution.
result The variational approximation inherits strong selection consistency from the posterior distribution.
We provide a fast approximation to eNTKs for neural networks.
problem Efficiently computing eNTKs for large networks.
method Developed and proved the 'sum of logits' approximation.
result The 'sum of logits' approximation converges to eNTKs at initialization.
A new ABC method uses variational approximations for efficient inference.
problem Computational challenges in Bayesian inference for complex models.
method Variational approximation for log-posterior, empirical likelihood for estimating expected log-likelihood, differential entropy estimation.
result Posterior consistency established for the proposed method.
A new method approximates expected empirical loss for stochastic deep learning tasks.
problem Determining optimal step sizes for stochastic gradient descent in deep learning.
method Applying one-dimensional function fitting to noisy losses of vertical cross sections to approximate expected empirical loss.
result The method leads to a robust and straightforward optimization method that performs well across datasets and architectures.
An important task in computational statistics and machine learning is to approximate a posterior distribution p(x) with an empirical measure supported on a set of representative points {xi}i=1n. This paper focuses on methods where the selection of points is essentially deterministic, with an emphasis on achi…
Flexible empirical Bayes for large-scale multiple linear regression.
problem Large-scale multiple linear regression with flexible priors and efficient computation.
method Adaptive shrinkage priors combined with variational approximations for hyperparameter estimation.
result The posterior mean from the empirical Bayes method solves a penalized regression problem.
Simulation-based inference methods can produce unreliable posterior approximations.
problem Reliability of simulation-based inference methods for scientific use cases.
method Benchmarked algorithms including Neural Posterior Estimation, Neural Ratio Estimation, Sequential Neural Likelihood, and Approximate Bayesian Computation.
result Ensembling posterior surrogates provides more reliable approximations.
We address the problem of learning the parameters in graphical models when inference is intractable. A common strategy in this case is to replace the partition function with its Bethe approximation. We show that there exists a regime of empirical marginals where such Bethe learning will fail. By failure we mean that th…
We investigate how to train kernel approximation methods that generalize well under a memory budget. Building on recent theoretical work, we define a measure of kernel approximation error which we find to be more predictive of the empirical generalization performance of kernel approximation methods than conventional me…
New method approximates CV efficiently for large-scale problems.
problem High computational cost of standard CV in large-scale problems.
method Iterative first-order algorithm to approximate CV solution.
result Extends CV approximation guarantees to non-converged solutions.
Nyström KPCA balances computational efficiency and statistical accuracy.
problem Computational burden in large sample situations for kernel methods.
method Theoretical analysis of Nyström approximate kernel principal component analysis (KPCA).
result Nyström approximate KPCA matches statistical performance of non-approximate KPCA while being computationally beneficial.
New method for high-dimensional linear regression using empirical Bayes.
problem Estimating prior in high-dimensional linear regression.
method Variational empirical Bayes approach with NPMLE and mean field approximation.
result Established asymptotic consistency and computational efficiency of the method.
The study approximates option prices using Hermite polynomials without assuming a specific distribution.
problem Approximating option prices without assuming a specific distribution of returns.
method Approximating the logarithmic return's density by a linear combination of rescaled Hermite polynomials.
result Empirical results suggest reasonable performance for options with moderate strike prices.
Bayesian neural networks approximate Gaussian, this method adapts to non-Gaussian posteriors.
problem Bayesian neural networks struggle with non-Gaussian posteriors, leading to poor performance.
method Proposes a Riemannian Laplace approximation to adapt to the shape of the true posterior.
result Consistently improves over conventional Laplace approximation across tasks.
Empirical study of IRMv1, an invariant risk minimization framework.
problem Learning predictors invariant to spurious correlations across different training environments.
method Extending ColoredMNIST experiment to various settings.
result IRMv1 performs better as spurious correlation varies more widely.
We propose an efficient algorithm for approximate computation of the profile maximum likelihood (PML), a variant of maximum likelihood maximizing the probability of observing a sufficient statistic rather than the empirical sample. The PML has appealing theoretical properties, but is difficult to compute exactly. Inspi…
NHGD solves bilevel optimization problems with reduced computational time.
problem Solving bilevel optimization problems with high computational cost.
method Exploits statistical structure of inner optimization to use empirical Fisher matrix as Hessian surrogate, enabling parallel optimization and approximation.
result NHGD achieves error bounds and sample complexity guarantees matching state-of-the-art methods, with significantly reduced computational time.
Large-scale kernel approximation is an important problem in machine learning research. Approaches using random Fourier features have become increasingly popular [Rahimi and Recht, 2007], where kernel approximation is treated as empirical mean estimation via Monte Carlo (MC) or Quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) integration [Yang …
Spectral features of the empirical moment matrix constitute a resourceful tool for unveiling properties of a cloud of points, among which, density, support and latent structures. It is already well known that the empirical moment matrix encodes a great deal of subtle attributes of the underlying measure. Starting from …
ENIAC method optimizes and explores complex RL problems with non-linear policies.
problem Theoretical understanding of non-linear policies in RL with strategic exploration.
method ENIAC, an actor-critic method for non-linear function approximation.
result ENIAC finds near-optimal policies in polynomial exploration rounds under bounded eluder dimension.
Empirical Bayes rates via variational approximations and prior decomposition.
problem Nonparametric and high-dimensional inference convergence rates.
method Variational perspective and prior decomposition.
result Empirical Bayes posterior rates derived from variational Bayes.
cCorrGAN approximates conditional correlation matrices using GANs.
problem Learning empirical conditional distributions in the elliptope of correlation matrices.
method Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) applied to correlation matrices.
result Validated through Monte Carlo simulations in finance.
Certified training improves robustness against adversarial attacks.
problem Certified training's gap with empirical robustness limits its practical utility.
method Combining adversarial attacks with network over-approximations.
result Certified training can prevent catastrophic overfitting and bridge the gap to multi-step baselines.
New method approximates CV for model assessment and selection.
problem Efficient model assessment and selection with large number of folds.
method Approximates expensive refitting with a single Newton step warm-started from full training set optimizer.
result Uniform non-asymptotic, deterministic model assessment guarantees for approximate CV.
We discuss the problem of risk estimation in the classification problem, with specific focus on finding distributions that maximize the confidence intervals of risk estimation. We derived simple analytic approximations for the maximum bias of empirical risk for histogram classifier. We carry out a detailed study on usi…
New method approximates high-dimensional probability densities efficiently.
problem Approximating high-dimensional probability densities accurately and efficiently.
method Hierarchical tensor-network approach using randomized SVD and linear equations.
result The method effectively approximates high-dimensional densities with linear complexity.
SURF simplifies distribution estimation with simple, robust, and fast algorithms.
problem Efficient and accurate distribution estimation in statistics and machine learning.
method Piecewise polynomial approximation using empirical probability interpolation and divide-and-conquer merging.
result Surpassing state-of-the-art algorithms in efficiency and accuracy, SURF estimates distributions robustly and quickly.
In stochastic optimization, the population risk is generally approximated by the empirical risk. However, in the large-scale setting, minimization of the empirical risk may be computationally restrictive. In this paper, we design an efficient algorithm to approximate the population risk minimizer in generalized linear …
Investigates the impact of finite VC dimension on neural network approximation and learning.
problem The influence of VC dimension on neural network approximation and learning from samples.
method Analysis of high-dimensional geometry and statistical learning theory, focusing on VC dimension.
result Finite VC dimension is beneficial for uniform convergence of empirical errors but not for approximation of functions from a probability distribution.
This work extends balancing to various simulation-based inference algorithms for more conservative posterior approximations.
problem Overconfident posterior approximations in simulation-based inference.
method Introduces a balanced version of neural posterior estimation and contrastive neural ratio estimation.
result Balanced versions tend to produce conservative posterior approximations on various benchmarks.
We study compressing empirical measures in finite RKHSs using convex optimization.
problem Efficiently approximating empirical measures in high-dimensional spaces.
method Convex optimization and lower bounds on ball size.
result High probability lower bounds on ball size under various conditions.
New algorithms delete user data from machine learning models efficiently.
problem Deleting user data from machine learning models trained with empirical risk minimization.
method Developed an online unlearning algorithm using the infinitesimal jackknife, targeting non-smooth regularizers.
result Empirically improved runtime while maintaining memory requirements and test accuracy.
Neural networks estimate statistical divergences with performance guarantees.
problem Estimating statistical divergences with theoretical performance guarantees.
method Parametrizing empirical variational form by a neural network and optimizing over parameter space.
result Established non-asymptotic absolute error bounds for neural estimators of four f-divergences. Privacy concern has been increasingly important in many machine learning (ML) problems. We study empirical risk minimization (ERM) problems under secure multi-party computation (MPC) frameworks. Main technical tools for MPC have been developed based on cryptography. One of limitations in current cryptographically priva…
We consider the problem of improving kernel approximation via randomized feature maps. These maps arise as Monte Carlo approximation to integral representations of kernel functions and scale up kernel methods for larger datasets. Based on an efficient numerical integration technique, we propose a unifying approach that…
Paper introduces deterministic EM approximations for non-convex likelihood functions.
problem Deterministic approximations for the E-step of EM algorithm are lacking.
method Developed a theoretical framework for deterministic approximations, analyzed Riemann sums and tempered EM.
result Proved convergence guarantees for deterministic approximations and new non-trivial temperature profiles.
Bayesian approach fixes overconfidence in ReLU networks, even slightly.
problem Overconfidence in ReLU networks far from training data.
method Theoretical analysis of approximate Gaussian distributions on ReLU weights, and empirical validation.
result Even a simplistic Bayesian approximation fixes overconfidence issues.
While Bayesian neural networks (BNNs) hold the promise of being flexible, well-calibrated statistical models, inference often requires approximations whose consequences are poorly understood. We study the quality of common variational methods in approximating the Bayesian predictive distribution. For single-hidden laye…
In graph-based active learning, algorithms based on expected error minimization (EEM) have been popular and yield good empirical performance. The exact computation of EEM optimally balances exploration and exploitation. In practice, however, EEM-based algorithms employ various approximations due to the computational ha…
An autonomous variational inference algorithm for arbitrary graphical models requires the ability to optimize variational approximations over the space of model parameters as well as over the choice of tractable families used for the variational approximation. In this paper, we present a novel combination of graph part…
Improved ADMM for convex distributed learning with differential privacy.
problem Privacy concerns in distributed learning with sensitive data.
method Approximate multi-step ADMM with calibrated noise.
result Higher utility and error bounds asymptotic to state-of-the-art.
Diffusion models can memorize training data, limiting their creativity and privacy.
problem Memorization in diffusion models that reproduces training data instead of generating novel outputs.
method Dual-separation approach via statistical estimation and network approximation.
result Pruning-based method reduces memorization while maintaining generation quality.