Posterior sampling estimator achieves near-optimal recovery guarantees for signals from any prior distribution.
problem Characterizing measurement complexity for signals from any prior distribution, including the entire space.
method Characterization of measurement complexity using posterior sampling estimator for Gaussian measurements and any prior distribution.
result Posterior sampling estimator achieves near-optimal recovery guarantees for signals from any prior distribution, robust to model mismatch.
Spectral methods achieve near-optimal performance in orthogonal and permutation group synchronization.
problem Recovering group elements from pairwise measurements in computer vision.
method Spectral methods applied with the leave-one-out technique.
result Near-optimal performance bounds for orthogonal and permutation group synchronization established.
Paper quantizes heavy-tailed data for near optimal estimation rates.
problem Estimating parameters from heavy-tailed data with quantization.
method Truncate and dither data, then uniformly quantize; achieves near minimax rates.
result Near optimal estimation rates achievable with quantized data.
Paper tackles clustering with ordinal comparisons, achieving near-optimal results.
problem Clustering with ordinal comparisons when similarity measures are not available.
method Two-step procedure: estimate similarity matrix from comparisons, then apply SDP clustering.
result Near-optimal recovery of planted clustering using near-optimal number of comparisons.
This paper investigates the problem of sparse signal recovery in the presence of additive impulsive noise. The heavytailed impulsive noise is well modelled with stable distributions. Since there is no explicit formulation for the probability density function of SαS distribution, alternative approximations like Genera…
Polynomial-time algorithm for near-optimal community detection in graphs.
problem Node-private community estimation in stochastic block models.
method Explicit Lipschitz surrogate and accept-reject algorithm for sampling community labels.
result Achieves minimax rates for exact recovery with polynomial-time runtime and logarithmic privacy parameter.
This paper optimizes learning from data with over-parameterization.
problem Learning an unknown function from data with various model assumptions.
method Solving a discrete over-parameterized optimization problem with a penalty term.
result Near optimal approximation of the function f can be found. In this paper we develop a novel computational sensing framework for sensing and recovering structured signals. When trained on a set of representative signals, our framework learns to take undersampled measurements and recover signals from them using a deep convolutional neural network. In other words, it learns a tra…
A regularized risk minimization procedure for regression function estimation is introduced that achieves near optimal accuracy and confidence under general conditions, including heavy-tailed predictor and response variables. The procedure is based on median-of-means tournaments, introduced by the authors in [8]. It is …
We study the problem of recovery of matrices that are simultaneously low rank and row and/or column sparse. Such matrices appear in recent applications in cognitive neuroscience, imaging, computer vision, macroeconomics, and genetics. We propose a GDT (Gradient Descent with hard Thresholding) algorithm to efficiently r…
This paper proposes a simple adaptive sensing and group testing algorithm for sparse signal recovery. The algorithm, termed Compressive Adaptive Sense and Search (CASS), is shown to be near-optimal in that it succeeds at the lowest possible signal-to-noise-ratio (SNR) levels, improving on previous work in adaptive comp…
Spectral method for joint community detection and group synchronization.
problem Jointly detecting communities and synchronizing orthogonal groups in graphs.
method Spectral decomposition followed by CPQR factorization.
result Near-optimal guarantees for exact and stable recovery of cluster memberships and orthogonal transforms.
The paper analyzes tensor recovery from symmetric rank-one measurements using information theory.
problem Recovering tensors with low symmetric rank from symmetric rank-one measurements.
method Covering numbers argument, Carbery-Wright inequality, orthogonal polynomials, Fano's inequality.
result Near-optimal sample complexity bounds for log-concave distributions.
Unified approach for learning quantum operations from measurements.
problem Accurate reconstruction of unknown quantum operations from noisy measurements.
method Matrix sensing techniques, randomized measurement design, blockwise measurement design, alternating least squares (ALS).
result The proposed method provides theoretical guarantees for the identifiability and recovery of low-rank superoperators in the presence of noise.
We consider the problem of automated assignment of papers to reviewers in conference peer review, with a focus on fairness and statistical accuracy. Our fairness objective is to maximize the review quality of the most disadvantaged paper, in contrast to the commonly used objective of maximizing the total quality over a…
We study model recovery for data classification, where the training labels are generated from a one-hidden-layer neural network with sigmoid activations, also known as a single-layer feedforward network, and the goal is to recover the weights of the neural network. We consider two network models, the fully-connected ne…
Robust methods for high-dimensional linear learning improve performance under heavy-tailed distributions and outliers.
problem Efficient learning in high-dimensional settings with robustness to outliers and heavy-tailed data.
method Two algorithms depending on gradient-Lipschitz loss function, applied to sparse, group-sparse, and low-rank matrix recovery.
result Achieved near-optimal estimation rates under heavy-tails and outliers, with computational cost comparable to non-robust methods.
New algorithms recover clusters with minimal queries, connecting margins to recoverability.
problem Active cluster recovery with oracle queries for minimal cost.
method Introducing margin-based clustering, designing algorithms for various spaces.
result Achieve O(logn) queries for general pseudometric spaces and convex clusters. This work obtains novel finite sample guarantees for Principal Component Analysis (PCA). These hold even when the corrupting noise is non-isotropic, and a part (or all of it) is data-dependent. Because of the latter, in general, the noise and the true data are correlated. The results in this work are a significant impr…
New bounds for adaptive control in high dimensions without fixed state space.
problem Adaptive control of linear systems in high or infinite dimensions.
method Novel perturbation bound for certainty equivalence, scaling with prediction error.
result First regret bounds for LQR in infinite dimensional systems, independent of ambient dimension.
This paper optimizes sampling for least-squares approximation.
problem Optimizing sampling for least-squares approximation in arbitrary linear spaces.
method Introducing the Christoffel function to construct near-optimal random sampling strategies.
result The number of samples scales log-linearly in the dimension of the approximation space.
Study of active learning in geometric block model for community detection.
problem Active learning for community detection in geometric block model.
method Proposed two active learning algorithms combining motif-counting with label query policies.
result Sampling labels of a vanishingly small fraction of nodes is sufficient for exact recovery.
New algorithm resists contamination in high-dimensional regression with optimal performance.
problem Adversarial and measurement errors in high-dimensional data.
method Adversarial Contamination-resistant Iterative Hard Thresholding (AC-IHT) algorithm.
result Achieves minimax near-optimal estimation and signal-adaptive support recovery.
Near-optimal sample complexity for phase retrieval with generative priors.
problem Phase retrieval with magnitude-only measurements and sparse signals.
method Near-optimal sample complexity with i.i.d. Gaussian measurements and generative models.
result O(k log L) samples suffice for phase retrieval with generative priors.
Bayesian method estimates dynamics from near-optimal trajectories.
problem Estimating dynamics from near-optimal expert trajectories in reinforcement learning.
method Constraint-based Bayesian approach integrating expert near-optimality.
result Significant improvements in decision-making and transfer success.
Paper tackles non-stationary kernelized bandits with near-optimal algorithm.
problem Minimizing regret in a time-varying reward function.
method Near-optimal algorithm with a novel restarting phased elimination with random permutation (R-PERP).
result Regret upper bound matches the lower bound, making the algorithm near-optimal.
Joint matching over a collection of objects aims at aggregating information from a large collection of similar instances (e.g. images, graphs, shapes) to improve maps between pairs of them. Given multiple matches computed between a few object pairs in isolation, the goal is to recover an entire collection of maps that …
We study the worst-case adaptive optimization problem with budget constraint that is useful for modeling various practical applications in artificial intelligence and machine learning. We investigate the near-optimality of greedy algorithms for this problem with both modular and non-modular cost functions. In both case…
Efficiently estimates distributed mean with side information, near-optimal and universal.
problem Distributed mean estimation with side information in communication constrained settings.
method Wyner-Ziv estimators for communication and computation efficiency.
result Near-optimal and universal recovery guarantees for distributed optimization and compression.
Efficient streaming algorithms for robust statistics with near-optimal memory.
problem High-dimensional robust statistics tasks in streaming model.
method First efficient streaming algorithms with near-optimal memory requirements.
result Near-optimal error guarantees and space complexity nearly-linear in the dimension for robust mean estimation.
We derive an arbitrage free relationship between recovery swap rates, digital default swap spreads and conventional CDS spreads, and argue that the fair forward recovery rate used in recovery swaps must contain a convexity premium over the expected recovery value.
Efficient tensor decomposition for count data models achieves near-optimal multiway analysis.
problem Efficient tensor decomposition for count data models.
method Rank-constrained maximum-likelihood estimator for tensor decomposition.
result Achieves multiway analysis with variance matching Cramér-Rao Lower Bound up to constants and logarithmic factors.
Recent work has demonstrated the effectiveness of gradient descent for directly recovering the factors of low-rank matrices from random linear measurements in a globally convergent manner when initialized properly. However, the performance of existing algorithms is highly sensitive in the presence of outliers that may …
The paper offers simple, near-optimal algorithms for multi-group learning.
problem Learning predictors within subgroups of a population, addressing fairness and hidden stratification.
method Studies the structure of solutions and provides simple, near-optimal algorithms.
result Simple and near-optimal algorithms for multi-group learning.
Paper tackles 1-bit compressed sensing, presenting efficient algorithm for sparse signal estimation.
problem Estimating sparse signals from binary measurements.
method Non-convex sparsity-constrained program with one-shot hard thresholding.
result Simple algorithm produces accurate signal approximation with high probability.
Method uses Seq2Seq learning to automatically generate recovery commands for ICT systems.
problem Manual decision-making for recovery commands is time-consuming and error-prone.
method Seq2Seq neural network model trained on past logs and commands.
result The model can estimate accurate recovery commands from new failures.
We study the problem of regret minimization for distributed bandits learning, in which M agents work collaboratively to minimize their total regret under the coordination of a central server. Our goal is to design communication protocols with near-optimal regret and little communication cost, which is measured by the…
Paper presents ABGD for efficient piecewise linear regression in high dimensions.
problem Efficiently solving piecewise linear regression in high-dimensional spaces.
method Parametrizes piecewise linear functions as difference of max-affine functions, using ABGD algorithm.
result ABGD converges linearly to an ε-accurate estimate with optimal sample complexity.
A new model explains U- and Swoosh-shaped stock price recovery during the COVID-19.
problem Modeling stock price recovery during the COVID-19 with V- and L-shaped recovery.
method Introducing a sentiment variable θ to quantify investor sentiment and simulate U- and Swoosh-shaped recovery. result The model explains U- and Swoosh-shaped recovery of sectoral indices with positive sentiment.
This paper improves support recovery in universal one-bit compressed sensing.
problem Support recovery in one-bit compressed sensing for sparse signals.
method Proposes approximate support recovery and superset recovery algorithms with polynomial-time complexity.
result Achieves improved support recovery with fewer measurements compared to existing methods.
This work provides a guaranteed tensor recovery method by combining low-rankness and smoothness priors.
problem Guaranteed tensor recovery with theoretical guarantees for low-rank and smoothness priors.
method Developed a new regularization term that combines low-rankness and smoothness priors, proving exact recovery guarantees.
result Rigorously proved exact recovery guarantees for tensor completion and tensor robust principal component analysis.
This paper tackles tensor recovery from noisy and multi-level quantized measurements.
problem Tensors from multi-level quantized measurements.
method Nonconvex optimization problem with alternating proximal gradient descent.
result The recovery error diminishes to zero with increasing tensor dimensions.
New algorithm detects changes quickly without knowing parameters, near optimally.
problem Quickest change detection with unknown parameters.
method Leverages theoretical asymptotic properties to derive a scalable approximate algorithm with near optimal performance.
result Detects changes in constant complexity with near optimal performance.
We discuss a general notion of "sparsity structure" and associated recoveries of a sparse signal from its linear image of reduced dimension possibly corrupted with noise. Our approach allows for unified treatment of (a) the "usual sparsity" and "usual ℓ1 recovery," (b) block-sparsity with possibly overlapping blo…
Efficiently find near-optimal medical treatments with less trial and error.
problem Finding effective medical treatments through trial and error.
method Formalizes the problem, uses a causal inference framework, and proposes model-based dynamic programming and greedy algorithms.
result Our methods compare favorably to model-free reinforcement learning, offering a more transparent trade-off between search time and treatment efficacy.
New DP algorithms achieve near-optimal regret bounds for online learning problems.
problem Online learning problems with zero-loss solutions and differential privacy constraints.
method Developed new Differentially Private algorithms with near-optimal regret bounds.
result Achieved near-optimal regret bounds for various online prediction and convex optimization problems.
We consider the problem of signal recovery on graphs as graphs model data with complex structure as signals on a graph. Graph signal recovery implies recovery of one or multiple smooth graph signals from noisy, corrupted, or incomplete measurements. We propose a graph signal model and formulate signal recovery as a cor…
IRKSN algorithm achieves sparse recovery with wider applicability conditions.
problem Sparse recovery challenges due to NP-hard nature and restrictive conditions.
method IRKSN algorithm based on k-support norm regularizer. result Achieves sparse recovery with explicit constants and standard linear rate.