Two-parameter models can learn high-dimensional targets via gradient flow.
problem Learning high-dimensional targets with limited parameters.
method Gradient flow approach for W<d models. result Two-parameter models can learn targets with arbitrarily high success probability.
Method learns feature map between source and target domains for high-dimensional regression with missing features.
problem High-dimensional regression with differing feature sets in target and source domains.
method First learns a feature map between missing and observed features using source data, then imputes missing features in target domain, and performs two-step transfer learning for penalized regression.
result Developed upper bounds on estimation and prediction errors for HTL, showing dependence on model complexity, sample size, feature map quality, and domain differences.
Trans-Ising combines auxiliary datasets to estimate high-dimensional Ising models.
problem Limited target sample sizes and difficulty in using auxiliary binary datasets of unknown relevance.
method Trans-Ising uses a loss-based source screening rule and a two-stage estimation procedure.
result Trans-Ising achieves lower estimation errors than target-only estimation and naive data pooling.
SMART-FAN-Lasso fine-tunes neural networks for high-dimensional nonparametric regression.
problem Fine-tuning neural networks for high-dimensional nonparametric regression with variable selection.
method Source-model-augmented residual tuning (SMART) framework for neural Lasso.
result SMART-FAN-Lasso achieves statistical acceleration over single-task learning under precise conditions.
New approach predicts under latent shifts using high-dimensional images.
problem Prediction under latent subgroup shifts with high-dimensional observations.
method Recognition-parametrised model (RPM) for identifying causal latent structure.
result Successfully adapts predictions for high-dimensional image data.
New research shows CFG improves high-dimensional data generation.
problem Characterizing CFG's effect on high-dimensional distributions.
method High-dimensional analysis of CFG's impact on target distributions.
result CFG accurately reproduces the target distribution in high dimensions.
Deep networks learn hierarchical functions more efficiently than shallow ones.
problem Understanding the advantage of deep neural networks over shallow models.
method Analytical study of learning dynamics and generalization performance of deep networks compared to shallow ones.
result Deep networks reduce effective dimensionality, enabling learning with fewer samples.
New algorithm uniformly samples high-dimensional convex bodies efficiently.
problem Uniform sampling of high-dimensional convex bodies.
method Stochastic diffusion perspective to show contraction to the target distribution.
result Achieves state-of-the-art runtime complexity with strong guarantees on output.
High-dimensional geometry makes adversarial examples easier to construct.
problem Adversarial examples in deep neural networks
method Systematic study of input dimensionality
result Adversarial examples become easier to construct as dimensionality increases.
Generative algorithms learn high-dimensional data efficiently and generate new samples.
problem Learning from scarce high-dimensional data.
method Lipschitz-regularized gradient flows and particle-based algorithms.
result Correctly transports gene expression data points with high dimensionality.
New method for valid prediction sets in high-dimensional covariate shifts.
problem Valid prediction sets in high-dimensional covariate shifts.
method Likelihood-ratio regularized quantile regression (LR-QR) algorithm.
result LR-QR constructs valid prediction sets with desired coverage in target domain.
Proposes a method to improve regression model performance with limited target data using fused-regularizer.
problem Model shifts and covariate shifts in high-dimensional regression.
method Two-step method with fused-regularizer to leverage source data for target task.
result Robust to covariate shifts, minimax-optimal under certain conditions, and validated by numerical tests.
A new method improves SVI for high-dimensional, poorly-conditioned distributions.
problem Challenges in existing SVI methods for high-dimensional, poorly-conditioned distributions.
method Trust-region optimization approach leveraging conditional independences and second-order information.
result Superior numerical performance and better scalability in high-dimensional distributions.
The paper develops a minimax optimal method for high-dimensional regression using auxiliary data.
problem High-dimensional additive regression with heavy-tailed errors and transfer learning.
method Smooth backfitting estimator with local linear smoothing, followed by a two-stage estimation method.
result The method achieves the minimax optimal rate under certain conditions.
Unified model detects transferable variables and source data in high-dimensional linear regression.
problem Scarcity of target data and heterogeneity of source and target data distributions.
method UTrans model, estimation error bounds, hypothesis testing for source detection.
result UTrans achieves lower estimation and prediction errors than existing methods.
Paper tackles high-dimensional quantile regression with distribution shift using transfer learning.
problem Efficiency of knowledge transfer is severely impacted by distribution shift in high-dimensional regression.
method Proposes a novel transferable set and framework for three types of distribution shift: parameter, covariate, and residual.
result Establishes estimation error bounds and source detection consistency for the proposed method.
Cyclical MCMC tackles high-dimensional multimodal distributions, showing convergence under certain conditions.
problem High-dimensional multimodal posterior distributions in deep learning.
method Cyclical MCMC framework that tracks tempered versions of the target distribution over time.
result Cyclical MCMC converges to the target distribution under fast mixing kernels but fails in slow mixing cases.
Study improves model fit by transferring info from related datasets.
problem Improving model fit on target data using source data.
method Proposes a transfer learning algorithm for GLMs, derives error bounds, and introduces detection of informative sources.
result Theoretical and practical improvements over classical methods in high-dimensional GLM settings.
A scalable method for accurate inference of low-dimensional parameters in high-dimensional linear regression.
problem Statistical inference for low-dimensional parameters in high-dimensional linear regression models.
method Mean-field variational Bayes approach, focusing on nuisance parameters and conditional distributions.
result Competitive numerical performance and theoretical guarantees for estimation and uncertainty quantification.
A model learns causal representations from high-dimensional data.
problem Challenges in learning causal representations from high-dimensional data.
method Formulated a latent variable decoder model, Decoder BCD, for Bayesian causal discovery.
result Shows that using known intervention targets as labels helps in unsupervised Bayesian inference over structure and parameters.
Gradient descent struggles with high-dimensional data fitting.
problem Gradient descent struggles with high-dimensional data fitting.
method Gradient descent training of a two-layer neural network on empirical or population risk.
result Gradient descent training may not decrease population risk faster than t−4/(d−2) under mean field scaling. Matrix completion is a modern missing data problem where both the missing structure and the underlying parameter are high dimensional. Although missing structure is a key component to any missing data problems, existing matrix completion methods often assume a simple uniform missing mechanism. In this work, we study ma…
The paper improves high-dimensional linear regression prediction and estimation using auxiliary samples.
problem Estimating and predicting high-dimensional linear regression models with auxiliary samples.
method Proposes Trans-Lasso for data-driven transfer learning, establishing optimality for prediction and estimation.
result Knowledge from auxiliary samples can improve learning performance in target problems.
New method estimates mutual information using normalizing flows.
problem Mutual information estimation in high-dimensional data.
method Normalizing flows to map data to target distributions with known MI.
result Theoretical guarantees and practical advantages demonstrated.
The paper improves classification accuracy by leveraging a shared signal across domains in high-dimensional classification.
problem Improving classification accuracy in high-dimensional data with shared signals across domains.
method Transfer learning for linear discriminant analysis, decomposing mean differences into common and domain-specific components.
result Deterministic limits for transfer performance, leading to optimal weights and corrections for bias.
Bayesian method corrects bias in treatment effect estimation.
problem Estimating treatment effects from observational data with high-dimensional nuisance parameters.
method Bayesian debiasing, targeted modeling, sample splitting.
result Marginal posterior for ATE satisfies Bernstein-von Mises theorem under correct nuisance model specification.
New MCMC method learns sparse preconditioner for high-dimensional problems.
problem High-dimensional sampling with complex correlation structures.
method Adaptive MCMC with sparse preconditioner using online PCA.
result Significant reduction in computational complexity and improved performance.
Feature selection is important for modeling high-dimensional data, where the number of variables can be much larger than the sample size. In this paper, we develop a support detection and root finding procedure to learn the high dimensional sparse generalized linear models and denote this method by GSDAR. Based on the …
Deep networks can approximate high-dimensional distributions from low-dimensional ones.
problem Approximating high-dimensional distributions from low-dimensional ones.
method Proved neural networks can transform low-dimensional distributions to high-dimensional ones with arbitrary closeness measured by Wasserstein distances and maximum mean discrepancy.
result Upper bounds of the approximation error are obtained in terms of the width and depth of neural network.
Proposes a transfer learning method for high-dimensional quantile regression.
problem Inadequate handling of heterogeneity and heavy tails in transfer learning.
method High-dimensional quantile regression framework with double transfer learning estimator.
result Established error bounds and valid confidence intervals for high-dimensional quantile regression coefficients.
TERA method speeds up derivative Gaussian processes in high dimensions.
problem High-dimensional function evaluations and gradient computations are computationally expensive.
method TERA uses exact gradient reduction to decouple n and d from the computational cost. result TERA achieves state-of-the-art predictive accuracy with orders of magnitude faster computation.
It is known that any target function is realized in a sufficiently small neighborhood of any randomly connected deep network, provided the width (the number of neurons in a layer) is sufficiently large. There are sophisticated theories and discussions concerning this striking fact, but rigorous theories are very compli…
Analyzes SGD dynamics in two-layer networks, bridging different regimes.
problem Understanding SGD dynamics in high-dimensional and mean-field settings.
method Rigorous analysis via deterministic low-dimensional description of sufficient statistics.
result Infinite-width dynamics remains close to a low-dimensional subspace.
This paper studies how to compress neural networks while maintaining accuracy.
problem Compressing a two-layer neural network with fewer nodes without losing accuracy.
method Using tools from high-dimensional probability, the authors minimize the L_2 loss between the target and compressed networks.
result The error rate of the approximation is shown as a function of input dimension and network size in the mean-field limit.
The paper addresses the selection of synthetic data for improving classifier performance, focusing on the role of covariance shift.
problem The effectiveness of synthetic data in improving classifier performance is questioned, and the specific properties affecting this performance are unclear.
method The paper uses high-dimensional regression to analyze synthetic data selection, focusing on the covariance shift between synthetic and target distributions.
result The covariance shift between synthetic and target distributions affects the generalization error of classifiers, but the mean shift does not.
New method improves sampling from high-dimensional target densities.
problem Sampling from high-dimensional target densities using Monte Carlo algorithms.
method Extends Metropolis-Adjusted Langevin Diffusion algorithm with random precondition matrix modeling.
result Significantly improves performance and computational efficiency over standard MCMC methods.
Estimates target GGM using auxiliary studies with false discovery rate control.
problem Estimating high-dimensional GGMs from related studies.
method Transfer learning with Trans-CLIME and debiased Trans-CLIME estimators.
result Debiased Trans-CLIME estimator provides element-wise asymptotic normality and false discovery rate control.
Graphical models have become a very popular tool for representing dependencies within a large set of variables and are key for representing causal structures. We provide results for uniform inference on high-dimensional graphical models with the number of target parameters d being possible much larger than sample siz…
This paper introduces a neural sampler for scalable sampling from complex distributions.
problem Efficiently sampling from high-dimensional un-normalized distributions.
method Neural implicit sampler trained with KL and Fisher divergence methods.
result The neural sampler generates large batches of samples with low computational costs.
Transfer learning improves MNI's performance in high-dimensional linear regression.
problem Improving model performance in high-dimensional linear regression with diverse data.
method Proposes a Transfer MNI approach, analyzing its excess risk and conditions for outperformance.
result Identifies free-lunch covariate shift regimes where knowledge transfer benefits.
New algorithms improve sampling from complex distributions.
problem Sampling from high-dimensional target distributions with super-linearly growing potentials.
method Proposed aHOLA and aHOLLA algorithms with non-asymptotic convergence bounds.
result Achieved state-of-the-art rates of convergence in non-convex settings.
Data repetition improves SGD's learning of high-dimensional functions.
problem Learning pertinent features in multi-index models with high-dimensional noisy data.
method Investigation of two-layer shallow neural networks trained with gradient-based algorithms, focusing on data repetition.
result Data repetition significantly improves the computational efficiency of SGD, learning all directions with at most O(dlogd) steps. Paper proposes SDDP for improving time series forecasting with high-dimensional predictors.
problem Improving time series forecasting with high-dimensional predictors.
method SDDP framework that incorporates target variable and lagged observations into factor extraction process.
result SDDP improves predictive accuracy in time series forecasting.
We consider the problem of jointly estimating multiple inverse covariance matrices from high-dimensional data consisting of distinct classes. An ℓ2-penalized maximum likelihood approach is employed. The suggested approach is flexible and generic, incorporating several other ℓ2-penalized estimators as specia…
Efficiently transforms samples from various statistical models.
problem Approximately transforming samples from one statistical model to another without knowing the source model's parameters.
method Constructs computationally efficient procedures to reduce uniform, Erlang, and Laplace models to general target families.
result Establishes nonasymptotic reductions between canonical high-dimensional problems, such as mixtures of experts, phase retrieval, and signal denoising.
New framework for scalable approximate inference tackles high-dimensional models and large datasets.
problem Efficient approximate inference for high-dimensional probability models and large datasets.
method Combines Stein's method with adaptive importance sampling and gradient-based sampling.
result Proposed algorithms improve upon existing methods in terms of efficiency and applicability.
Nested Slice Sampling accelerates Nested Sampling for GPU acceleration.
problem Challenging inference for complex, multimodal targets.
method Vectorized Nested Slice Sampling using Hit-and-Run Slice Sampling.
result NSS maintains accurate evidence estimates and high-quality posterior samples, robust on multimodal problems.
New method debiases counterfactual distributions using observational data.
problem Estimating counterfactual distributions under interventions without relying on observational data.
method Flow-matching approach to learn counterfactual distributions from observational data.
result Deconfounding flows outperform existing debiased counterfactual distribution estimators.