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Text classification is the task of automatically assigning text documents correct labels from a predefined set of categories. In real-life (text) classification tasks, observations and misclassification costs are often unevenly distributed between the classes - known as the problem of imbalanced data. Synthetic oversampling is a popular approach to imbalanced classification. The idea is to generate synthetic observations in the minority class to balance the classes in the training set. Many general-purpose oversampling methods can be applied to text data; however, imbalanced text data poses a number of distinctive difficulties that stem from the unique nature of text compared to ...
In good arm identification (GAI), the goal is to identify one arm whose average performance exceeds a given threshold, referred to as a good arm, if it exists. Few works have studied GAI in the fixed-budget setting when the sampling budget is fixed beforehand, or in the anytime setting, when a recommendation can be asked at any time. We propose APGAI, an anytime and parameter-free sampling rule for GAI in stochastic bandits. APGAI can be straightforwardly used in fixed-confidence and fixed-budget settings. First, we derive upper bounds on its probability of error at any time. They show that adaptive strategies ...
In probabilistic Latent Semantic Indexing (pLSI), word frequencies across document corpora are modeled through a low-rank factorization of the expected document-term matrix into topic-word and topic-document components. In this paper, we study the estimation of the topic-word matrix under a sparsity structure motivated by Zipf's law: word frequencies within each topic exhibit a rapid empirical decay, with most probability mass concentrated on a small subset of words. Motivated by this observation, we introduce a spectral estimator that adaptively thresholds rare words prior to factorization. We show that the resulting estimator achieves an $\ell_1$-error rate whose dependence on the vocabulary size ...
Hallucinations, defined as instances where Large Language Models (LLMs) generate false or misleading content, pose a significant challenge that impacts the safety and trust of downstream applications. We introduce UQLM, a Python package for LLM hallucination detection using state-of-the-art uncertainty quantification (UQ) techniques. This toolkit offers a suite of UQ-based scorers that compute response-level confidence scores ranging from 0 to 1. This library provides an off-the-shelf solution for UQ-based hallucination detection that can be easily integrated to enhance the reliability of LLM outputs.
We study reserve price optimization in multi-phase second price auctions, where the seller's prior actions affect the bidders' later valuations through a Markov Decision Process (MDP). Compared to the bandit setting in existing works, the setting in ours involves three challenges.
First, from the seller's perspective, we need to efficiently explore the environment in the presence of potentially untruthful bidders who aim to manipulate the seller's policy.
Second, we want to minimize the seller's revenue regret when the market noise distribution is unknown. Third, the seller's per-step revenue is an unknown, nonlinear random variable, and cannot even be directly observed from the ...
This work introduces a novel principle for disentanglement we call mechanism sparsity regularization, which applies when the latent factors of interest depend sparsely on observed auxiliary variables and/or past latent factors. We propose a representation learning method that induces disentanglement by simultaneously learning the latent factors and the sparse causal graphical model that explains them. We develop a nonparametric identifiability theory that formalizes this principle and shows that the latent factors can be recovered by regularizing the learned causal graph to be sparse, under some assumptions such as the absence of instantaneous causal effects between latent factors. More precisely, we ...
Graph neural networks (GNNs) have become pivotal tools for processing graph-structured data, leveraging the message passing scheme as their core mechanism. However, traditional GNNs often grapple with issues such as instability, over-smoothing, and over-squashing, which can degrade performance and create a trade-off dilemma. In this paper, we introduce a discriminatively trained, multi-layer Deep Scattering Message Passing (DSMP) neural network designed to overcome these challenges. By harnessing spectral transformation, the DSMP model aggregates neighboring nodes with global information, thereby enhancing the precision and accuracy of graph signal processing. We provide theoretical proofs demonstrating the DSMP's effectiveness in mitigating these issues under ...
We study decentralized optimization over a network of agents, modeled as an undirected graph and operating without a central server. The objective is to minimize a composite function $f+r$, where $f$ is a (strongly) convex function representing the average of the agents' losses, and $r$ is a convex, extended-value function (regularizer).
We introduce DCatalyst, a unified black-box framework that injects Nesterov-type acceleration into decentralized optimization algorithms. At its core, DCatalyst is an inexact, momentum-accelerated proximal scheme (outer loop) that seamlessly wraps around a given decentralized method (inner loop). We show that DCatalyst attains optimal (up to logarithmic factors) communication and computational ...
Conformal prediction, a powerful framework for constructing prediction intervals for response variables using any regression function estimators, often faces the challenge of producing overly broad intervals with limited target data. In this paper, we study the transfer learning problem in conformal prediction, aiming to improve the precision of the prediction interval of the target data with insufficient data by leveraging related auxiliary source datasets. Allowing for the potential non-exchangeability between source and target datasets, we propose two transfer conformal prediction algorithms designed for scenarios where knowledge of informative source data is either present or absent. Our approach uses conditional Kullback-Leibler ...
Extremile regression, as a least squares analog of quantile regression, is potentially a useful tool for modeling and understanding the extreme tails of a distribution. However, existing extremile regression methods, as nonparametric approaches, may face challenges in high-dimensional settings due to data sparsity, computational inefficiency, and the risk of overfitting. While linear regression, particularly in high-dimensional settings, serves as the foundation for many other statistical and machine learning models due to its simplicity, interpretability, and relatively easy implementation, this paper introduces a novel definition of linear extremile regression along with an accompanying estimation methodology. The regression coefficient estimators of this ...
In recent work concerned with the approximation and expressive powers of deep neural networks, Daubechies, DeVore, Foucart, Hanin, and Petrova introduced a system of piecewise linear functions, which can be easily reproduced by artificial neural networks with the ReLU activation function, and showed that it forms a Riesz basis of $L_2([0, 1])$. Their work was subsequently generalized to the multivariate setting by Schneider and Vybíral. In the work at hand, we show that this system serves as a Riesz basis also for Sobolev spaces $W^s([0,1]^d)$ and Barron classes ${\mathbb B}^s([0,1]^d)$ with smoothness %%LATEST_NEWS%%\lt s\lt 1$. We apply this fact to ...
There has been increasing research attention on community detection in directed and bipartite networks. However, these studies often fail to consider the popularity of nodes in different communities, which is a common phenomenon in real-world networks. To address this issue, we propose a new probabilistic framework called the Two-Way Node Popularity Model (TNPM). The TNPM also accommodates edges from different distributions within a general sub-Gaussian family. We introduce the Delete-One-Method (DOM) for model fitting and community structure identification, and provide a comprehensive theoretical analysis with novel technical skills dealing with sub-Gaussian generalization. Additionally, we propose the Two-Stage Divided Cosine Algorithm ...
This paper explores the theoretical foundations of fair regression under the constraint of demographic parity within the unawareness framework, where disparate treatment is prohibited, extending existing results where such treatment is permitted. Specifically, we aim to characterize the optimal fair regression function when minimizing the quadratic loss. Our results reveal that this function is given by the solution to a barycenter problem with optimal transport costs. Additionally, we study the connection between optimal fair cost-sensitive classification, and optimal fair regression. We demonstrate that nestedness of the decision sets of the classifiers is both necessary and sufficient to establish a form ...
Motivated by real-world applications that necessitate responsible experimentation, we introduce the problem of best arm identification (BAI) with minimal regret. This variant of the multi-armed bandit problem elegantly amalgamates two of its most ubiquitous objectives: regret minimization and BAI. More precisely, the agent's goal is to identify the best arm with a prescribed confidence level $\delta$, while minimizing the cumulative regret up to the stopping time. Focusing on single-parameter exponential families of distributions, we leverage information-theoretic techniques to establish an instance-dependent lower bound on the expected cumulative regret. Moreover, we present an impossibility result that underscores the tension between cumulative ...
In the absence of explicit or tractable likelihoods, Bayesians often resort to approximate Bayesian computation (ABC) for inference. Our work bridges ABC with deep neural implicit samplers based on generative adversarial networks (GANs) and adversarial variational Bayes. Both ABC and GANs compare aspects of observed and fake data to simulate from posteriors and likelihoods, respectively. We develop a Bayesian GAN (B-GAN) sampler that directly targets the posterior by solving an adversarial optimization problem. B-GAN is driven by a deterministic mapping learned on the ABC reference by conditional GANs.
Once the mapping has been trained, iid posterior samples are obtained by filtering ...
An unsolved issue in widely used methods such as Support Vector Data Description (SVDD) and Small Sphere and Large Margin SVM (SSLM) for anomaly detection is their nonconvexity, which hampers the analysis of optimal solutions in a manner similar to SVMs and limits their applicability in large-scale scenarios. In this paper, we introduce a novel convex SSLM formulation which has been demonstrated to revert to a convex quadratic programming problem for hyperparameter values of interest. Leveraging the convexity of our method, we derive numerous results that are unattainable with traditional nonconvex approaches. We conduct a thorough analysis of how hyperparameters ...
Tensors, which give a faithful and effective representation to deliver the intrinsic structure of multi-dimensional data, play a crucial role in an increasing number of signal processing and machine learning problems. However, tensor data are often accompanied by arbitrary signal corruptions, including missing entries and sparse noise. A fundamental challenge is to reliably extract the meaningful information from corrupted tensor data in a statistically and computationally efficient manner. This paper develops a scaled gradient descent (ScaledGD) algorithm to directly estimate the tensor factors with tailored spectral initializations under the tensor-tensor product (t-product) and tensor singular value decomposition (t-SVD) framework. With ...
Block majorization-minimization (BMM) is a simple iterative algorithm for nonconvex optimization that sequentially minimizes a majorizing surrogate of the objective function in each block coordinate while the other block coordinates are held fixed. We consider a family of BMM algorithms for minimizing nonsmooth nonconvex objectives, where each parameter block is constrained within a subset of a Riemannian manifold. We establish that this algorithm converges asymptotically to the set of stationary points, and attains an $\epsilon$-stationary point within $\widetilde{O}(\epsilon^{-2})$ iterations. In particular, the assumptions for our complexity results are completely Euclidean when the underlying manifold is a product of Euclidean or ...
This paper studies minimax optimization problems defined over infinite-dimensional function classes of over-parameterized two-layer neural networks. In particular, we consider the minimax optimization problem stemming from estimating linear functional equations defined by conditional expectations, where the objective functions are quadratic in the functional spaces. We address (i) the convergence of the stochastic gradient descent-ascent algorithm and (ii) the representation learning of the neural networks. We establish convergence in the mean-field regime by considering the continuous-time, infinite-width limit of the optimization dynamics.
Under this regime, stochastic gradient descent-ascent corresponds to a Wasserstein gradient flow over the space of probability measures defined over ...
Variational inference (VI) has emerged as a popular method for approximate inference for high-dimensional Bayesian models. In this paper, we propose a novel VI method that extends the naive mean field via entropic regularization, referred to as $\Xi$-variational inference ($\Xi$-VI). $\Xi$-VI has a close connection to the entropic optimal transport problem and benefits from the computationally efficient Sinkhorn algorithm. We show that $\Xi$-variational posteriors effectively recover the true posterior dependency, where the likelihood function is downweighted by a regularization parameter. We analyze the role of dimensionality of the parameter space on the accuracy of $\Xi$-variational approximation and the computational complexity ...
Heterogeneous auxiliary information commonly arises in big data due to diverse study settings and privacy constraints. Excluding such indirect evidence often results in a substantial loss of statistical inference efficiency. This article proposes a novel framework for integrating a mixture of individual-level data and multiple external heterogeneous summary statistics by multiplying likelihood functions and confidence densities. Theoretically, we show that the proposed method possesses desirable properties and can achieve statistical efficiency comparable to that of the individual participant data (IPD) estimator, which uses all available individual-level data. Furthermore, we develop a communication-efficient distributed inference procedure for massive datasets with heterogeneous ...
Bayesian hierarchical modeling is a natural framework to effectively integrate data and borrow information across groups. In this paper, we address problems related to density estimation and identifying clusters across related groups, by proposing a hierarchical Bayesian approach that incorporates additional covariate information. To achieve flexibility, our approach builds on ideas from Bayesian nonparametrics, combining the hierarchical Dirichlet process with dependent Dirichlet processes. The proposed model is widely applicable, accommodating multiple and mixed covariate types through appropriate kernel functions as well as different output types through suitable component-specific likelihoods. This extends our ability to discern the relationship between covariates and ...
Best Arm Identification (BAI) problems are progressively used for data-sensitive applications, such as designing adaptive clinical trials, tuning hyper-parameters, and conducting user studies. Motivated by the data privacy concerns invoked by these applications, we study the problem of BAI with fixed confidence in both the local and central models, i.e. under $\epsilon$-local and $\epsilon$-global Differential Privacy (DP). First, to quantify the cost of privacy,
we derive lower bounds on the sample complexity of any $\delta$-correct BAI algorithm satisfying$\epsilon$-global DP or $\epsilon$-local DP. Our lower bounds suggest the existence of two privacy regimes. In the high-privacy regime, the hardness depends on a ...
This paper focuses on approximation and learning performances of deep convolutional neural networks with zero-padding and max-pooling. We prove that, to approximate $r$-smooth function, the approximation rates of deep convolutional neural networks with depth $L$ are of order $ (L/\log L)^{-2r/d} $, which is optimal up to a logarithmic factor. Furthermore, we deduce almost optimal generalization errors for implementing empirical risk minimization over deep convolutional neural networks. Our theoretical results are verified by several numerical experiments to show the power of the convolutional structure, zero-padding and max-pooling.
Local differential privacy has become a central topic in data privacy research, offering strong privacy guarantees by perturbing user data at the source and removing the need for a trusted curator. However, the noise introduced by local differential privacy often significantly reduces data utility. To address this issue, we reinterpret private learning under local differential privacy as a transfer learning problem, where the noisy data serve as the source domain and the unobserved clean data as the target. We propose novel techniques specifically designed for local differential privacy to improve classification performance without compromising privacy: (1) a noised binary feedback-based ...
Multi-relational networks among entities are frequently observed in the era of big data. Quantifying the effects of multiple networks has attracted significant research interest recently. In this work, we model multiple network effects through an autoregressive framework for tensor-valued time series. To characterize the potential heterogeneity of the networks and handle the high dimensionality of the time series data simultaneously, we assume a separate group structure for entities in each network and estimate all group memberships in a data-driven fashion. Specifically, we propose a group tensor network autoregression (GTNAR) model, which assumes that within each network, entities in the same ...
In the framework of the FD (frequent directions) algorithm, we first develop two efficient algorithms for low-rank matrix approximations under the embedding matrices composed of the product of any SpEmb (sparse embedding) matrix and any standard Gaussian matrix, or any SpEmb matrix and any SRHT (subsampled randomized Hadamard transform) matrix. The theoretical results are also achieved based on the bounds of singular values of standard Gaussian matrices and the theoretical results for SpEmb and SRHT matrices. With a given Tucker-rank, we then obtain several efficient FD-based randomized variants of T-HOSVD (the truncated high-order singular value decomposition) and ST-HOSVD (sequentially T-HOSVD), ...
The task of causal representation learning aims to uncover latent higher-level causal variables that affect lower-level observations. Identifying the true latent causal variables from observed data, while allowing instantaneous causal relations among latent variables, remains a challenge, however. To this end, we start with the analysis of three intrinsic indeterminacies in identifying latent variables from observations: transitivity, permutation indeterminacy, and scaling indeterminacy. We find that transitivity acts as a key role in impeding the identifiability of latent causal variables. To address the unidentifiable issue due to transitivity, we introduce a novel identifiability condition where the underlying latent causal model satisfies ...
We study manifold learning with multidimensional scaling for samples of metric space valued data. By adopting a global version of ISOMAP we obtain low-dimensional Euclidean representations. A key
innovation is that we demonstrate that global Fréchet regression
can be utilized for mapping the elements of a convex set in the Euclidean representation space back to the metric space where the objects reside. We refer to this approach as Fréchet manifold learning and showcase it with
one-dimensional distributions as random objects, equipped with the Wasserstein metric, which is an important special case of our general approach. The
resulting low-dimensional representations mimic ...
The success of machine learning (ML) has been intimately linked with the availability of
large amounts of data, typically collected from heterogeneous sources and processed on
vast networks of computing devices (also called workers). Beyond accuracy, the use of ML
in critical domains such as healthcare and autonomous driving calls for robustness against
data poisoning and some faulty workers. The problem of Byzantine ML formalizes these
robustness issues by considering a distributed ML environment in which workers (storing
a portion of the global dataset) can deviate arbitrarily from the prescribed algorithm.
Although the problem has attracted a lot of attention from a theoretical point of view, its
practical ...
Training deep learning neural networks often requires massive amounts of computational ressources. We propose
to sequentially monitor network predictions to trigger retraining only if the predictions are no longer valid. This can reduce drastically computational costs and opens a door to green deep learning. Our approach is based on the relationship to projected second moments monitoring, a problem also arising in other areas such as computational finance. Various open-end as well as closed-end monitoring rules are studied under mild assumptions on the training sample and the observations of the monitoring period. The results allow for high-dimensional non-stationary time series data and ...
This study proposes and evaluates a novel Bayesian network classifier which can asymptotically estimate the true probability distribution of the class variable with the fewest class variable parameters among all structures for which the class variable has no parent. Moreover, to search for an optimal structure of the proposed classifier, we propose (1) a depth-first search based method and (2) an integer programming based method. The proposed methods are guaranteed to obtain the true probability distribution asymptotically while minimizing the number of class variable parameters. Comparative experiments using benchmark datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.
In recent years, diffusion models, and more generally score-based deep generative models, have achieved remarkable success in various applications, including image and audio generation. In this paper, we view diffusion models as an implicit approach to nonparametric density estimation and study them within a statistical framework to analyze their surprising performance. A key challenge in high-dimensional statistical inference is leveraging low-dimensional structures inherent in the data to mitigate the curse of dimensionality. We assume that the underlying density exhibits a low-dimensional structure by factorizing into low-dimensional components, a property common in examples such as Bayesian networks and Markov random fields. ...
Policy inference plays an essential role in the contextual bandit problem. In this paper, we use empirical likelihood to develop a Bayesian inference method for the joint analysis of multiple contextual bandit policies in finite sample regimes. The proposed inference method is robust to small sample sizes and is able to provide accurate uncertainty measurements for policy value evaluation. In addition, it allows for flexible inferences on policy comparison with full uncertainty quantification. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed inference method using Monte Carlo simulations and its application to an adolescent body mass index data set.
As machine learning models and datasets continue to grow, developing complex models has become increasingly computationally demanding. Knowledge distillation reduces deployment cost by compressing a large, well-trained teacher model into a compact student model, but it does not address settings where constructing the teacher itself is the bottleneck. Motivated by this challenge, we introduce Knowledge Cascade, a reverse knowledge distillation framework that uses information from a small, inexpensive student model to guide the development of a more complex teacher model. Although this direction is counterintuitive because the teacher typically has greater representational capacity, we show that student-to-teacher transfer can be ...
In this paper, we study the neural exploration strategy for contextual bandits.
The dilemma of exploitation and exploration widely exists in real-world applications such as recommender systems, online advertising, and clinical trials.
Contextual bandits provide principled methods to solve this dilemma, including two prevalent techniques: Thompson Sampling (TS), and Upper Confidence Bound (UCB).
Neural contextual bandits have been studied to adapt to the non-linear reward function, combined with TS or UCB strategies for exploration.
In this paper, we introduce, EE-Net, which is a novel framework to utilize another neural network to learn the potential gain of exploitation neural network for exploration, different from UCB-based ...
This paper investigates causal influences between agents linked by a social graph and interacting over time. In particular, the work examines the dynamics of social learning models and distributed decision-making protocols, and derives expressions that reveal the causal relations between pairs of agents and explain the flow of influence over the network. The results turn out to be dependent on the graph topology and the level of information that each agent has about the inference problem they are trying to solve. Using these conclusions, the paper proposes an algorithm to rank the overall influence between agents to discover highly influential ...
The Transformer model is widely used in various application areas of machine learning, such as natural language processing. This paper investigates the approximation of the Hölder continuous function class $\mathcal{H}_{Q}^{\beta}\left([0,1]^{d\times n},\mathbb{R}^{d\times n}\right)$ by Transformers and constructs several Transformers that can overcome the curse of dimensionality. These Transformers consist of one self-attention layer with one head and the softmax function as the activation function, along with several feedforward layers. For example, to achieve an approximation accuracy of $\epsilon$, if the activation functions of the feedforward layers in the Transformer are ReLU and floor, only $\mathcal{O}\left(\log\frac{1}{\epsilon}\right)$ layers of feedforward layers are needed, ...
We study the best-arm identification problem with fixed confidence when contextual (covariate) information is available in stochastic bandits. In each round, we observe contextual information before selecting an arm. The distribution of the reward associated with the selected arm depends on the observed contextual information. We are interested in finding the arm with the maximum mean reward marginalized over the contextual distribution and not the mean reward conditioned on contexts. Our goal is to identify the best arm with a minimal number of samples under a given error probability. First, we derive the instance-specific sample-complexity lower bounds under the contextual ...
For scientific machine learning tasks with a lot of custom code, picking the right Automatic Differentiation (AD) system matters. Our Julia package DifferentiationInterface.jl provides a common frontend to a dozen AD backends, unlocking easy comparison and modular development. In particular, its built-in preparation mechanism leverages the strengths of each backend by amortizing one-time computations. This is key to enabling sophisticated features like sparsity handling without putting additional burdens on the user.
Unsupervised feature selection has drawn wide attention in the era of big data, since it serves as a fundamental technique for dimensionality reduction. However, many existing unsupervised feature selection models and solution methods are primarily designed for practical applications, and often lack rigorous theoretical support, such as convergence guarantees. In this paper, we first establish a novel unsupervised feature selection model based on regularized minimization with nonnegative orthogonality constraints, which has advantages of embedding feature selection into the nonnegative spectral clustering and preventing overfitting. To solve the proposed model, we develop an effective inexact augmented Lagrangian multiplier method, in which ...
We propose a novel method for estimating heterogeneous treatment effects based on the fused lasso. By first ordering samples based on the propensity or prognostic score, we match units from the treatment and control groups. We then run the fused lasso to obtain piecewise constant treatment effects with respect to the ordering defined by the score. Similar to the existing methods based on discretizing the score, our methods yield interpretable subgroup effects. However, existing methods fixed the subgroup a priori, but our causal fused lasso forms data-adaptive subgroups. We show that the estimator consistently estimates the treatment effects conditional on ...
We propose a novel generative model for time series based on Schrödinger bridge (SB) approach. This consists in the entropic interpolation via optimal transport between a reference probability measure on path space and a target measure consistent with the joint data distribution of the time series. The solution is characterized by a stochastic differential equation on finite horizon with a path-dependent drift function, hence respec\-ting the temporal dynamics of the time series distribution.
We estimate the drift function from data samples by nonparametric, e.g. kernel regression methods, and the simulation of the SB diffusion yields new synthetic data samples of the ...
This paper proposes a method for dimension reduction that preserves information in unsupervised learning with high-dimensional heterogeneous data, specifically targeting change point detection and clustering analysis. Our main strategy is to apply a Corrected Kernel Principal Component Analysis (CKPCA) method to construct the so-called kernel mean embedding deviation subspace. The approach efficiently identifies distributional changes in these dimension reduction subspaces for unsupervised dimension reduction.
For change point detection, we demonstrate that the locations and number of change points in the dimension-reduced subspaces are identical to those in the original data.
Furthermore, we extend this approach to clustering by embedding the original data ...
Machine learning algorithms may have disparate impacts on protected groups. To address this, we develop methods for Bayes-optimal fair classification, aiming to minimize classification error subject to given group fairness constraints. We introduce the notion of linear disparity measures, which are linear functions of a probabilistic classifier; and bilinear disparity measures, which are also linear in the group-wise regression functions. We show that several popular disparity measures---the deviations from demographic parity, equality of opportunity, and predictive equality---are bilinear.
We find the form of Bayes-optimal fair classifiers under a single linear disparity measure, by uncovering a connection with the Neyman-Pearson lemma. For ...
We consider the problem of density-ratio estimation using Bregman Divergence with Deep ReLU feedforward neural networks (BDD). We establish non-asymptotic error bounds for BDD density-ratio estimators, which are minimax optimal up to a logarithmic factor when the data distribution has finite support. As an application of our theoretical findings, we propose an estimator for the KL-divergence that is asymptotically normal, leveraging our convergence results for the deep density-ratio estimator and a data-splitting method. We also extend our results to cases with unbounded support and unbounded density ratios. Furthermore, we show that the BDD density-ratio estimator can mitigate the curse of ...
Infinitely wide or deep neural networks (NNs) with independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) parameters have been shown to be equivalent to Gaussian processes. Because of the favorable properties of Gaussian processes, this equivalence is commonly employed to analyze neural networks and has led to various breakthroughs over the years. However, neural networks and Gaussian processes are equivalent only in the limit; in the finite case there are currently no methods available to approximate a trained neural network with a Gaussian model with bounds on the approximation error. In this work, we present an algorithmic framework to approximate a neural network ...
We study policy evaluation of offline contextual bandits subject to unobserved confounders. Sensitivity analysis methods are commonly used to estimate the policy value under the worst-case confounding scenario within a given uncertainty set. However, existing work often resorts to some coarse relaxation of the uncertainty set for the sake of tractability, leading to overly conservative estimation of the policy value. In this paper, we propose a general estimator that provides a sharp lower bound of the policy value using convex programming. The generality of our estimator enables various extensions such as sensitivity analysis using f-divergence, model selection with cross validation ...
Since its introduction in 2017, the Transformer has emerged as the leading neural network architecture, catalyzing revolutionary advancements in many AI disciplines. The key innovation in Transformer is a Self-Attention (SA) mechanism designed to capture contextual information. However, stacking up more layers of the same design has failed to produce trainable deeper Transformers. Thus far, various architectural modifications to the original design have been proposed to enable deeper depths for Transformer models, but a thorough understanding of this depth issue remains lacking. In this paper, we conduct a comprehensive investigation to substantiate the claim that the depth problem is caused ...
We consider one-shot distributed learning problems in a reproducing kernel Hilbert space framework. Current results are limited to the least-squares loss and extensions beyond this meet with some significant technical challenges. We establish the optimal rate of distributed learning for some general class of convex loss functions satisfying mild assumptions, using a novel empirical process on the Bregman divergence induced by the loss, which is essential for carrying out a quadratic approximation in the infinite-dimensional space. The empirical process is bounded by relating the Bregman divergence induced by the loss to the supremum norm and the $L^2$-norm of the functions. ...
Attention mechanisms have revolutionized several domains of artificial intelligence, such as natural language processing and computer vision, by enabling models to selectively focus on relevant parts of the input data. While recent work has characterized the optimization dynamics of gradient descent (GD) in attention-based models and the structural properties of its preferred solutions, less is known about more general optimization algorithms such as mirror descent (MD). In this paper, we investigate the convergence properties and implicit biases of a family of MD algorithms tailored for softmax attention mechanisms, with the potential function chosen as the $p$-th power of the $\ell_p$-norm. ...
This paper investigates the accuracy of generative models and the impact of knowledge transfer on their generation precision. Specifically, we examine a generative model for a target task, fine-tuned using a pre-trained model from a source task. Building on the "Shared Embedding" concept, which bridges the source and target tasks, we introduce a novel framework for transfer learning
under distribution metrics such as the Kullback-Leibler divergence. This framework underscores the importance of leveraging inherent similarities between diverse tasks despite their distinct data distributions. Our theory suggests that the shared structures can augment the generation accuracy for a target task, reliant on ...
We study treatment effect estimation with functional treatments where the average potential outcome functional is a function of functions, in contrast to continuous treatment effect estimation where the target is a function of real numbers. By considering a flexible scalar-on-function marginal structural model, a weight-modified kernel ridge regression (WMKRR) is adopted for estimation. The weights are constructed by directly minimizing the uniform balancing error resulting from a decomposition of the WMKRR estimator, instead of being estimated under a particular treatment selection model. Despite the complex structure of the uniform balancing error derived under WMKRR, finite-dimensional convex algorithms can be applied ...
We consider the problem of nonparametric density estimation under privacy constraints in an adversarial framework. To this end, we study minimax rates over Sobolev spaces under local differential privacy. We first obtain a lower bound which allows us to quantify the impact of privacy compared with the classical framework. Next, we introduce a new Coordinate block privacy mechanism that guarantees local differential privacy, which, coupled with a projection estimator, achieves the minimax optimal rates. Finally, we develop an adaptive procedure which is optimal in the minimax sense up to logarithmic terms.
Auto-Regressive Video Diffusion Models (AR-VDMs) have shown strong capabilities in generating long, photorealistic videos, but suffer from two key limitations: (i) history forgetting, where the model loses track of previously generated content, and (ii) temporal degradation, where frame quality deteriorates over time. Yet a rigorous theoretical analysis of these phenomena is lacking, and existing empirical understanding remains insufficiently grounded. In this paper, we introduce Meta-ARVDM, a unified analytical framework that studies both errors through the shared autoregressive structure of AR-VDMs. We show that history forgetting is characterized by the conditional mutual information between the generated output and preceding frames, conditioned ...
Domain-invariant representation learning and domain augmentation algorithms are two principal methodological paradigms for addressing domain generalization. They are widely employed in the machine learning literature to enhance domain invariance and domain diversity, respectively. However, existing risk bounds for domain generalization do not simultaneously capture the contributions of both approaches. This limitation arises because bounds derived directly in the original latent space are typically too coarse-grained and ambiguous to characterize how invariance and diversity jointly influence generalization. Since these two properties are often regarded as being inherently contradictory, it becomes difficult to disentangle and rigorously characterize their individual effects. To address ...
Many modern applications involve predicting structured, non-Euclidean outputs such as probability distributions, networks, and symmetric positive-definite matrices. These outputs are naturally modeled as elements of general metric spaces, where classical regression techniques that rely on vector space structure no longer apply. We introduce E2M (End-to-End Metric regression), a deep learning framework for predicting metric space-valued outputs. E2M performs prediction via weighted Fréchet means over training outputs, where the weights are learned by a neural network conditioned on the input. This construction provides a principled mechanism for geometry-aware prediction that avoids surrogate embeddings and restrictive parametric assumptions, while fully preserving the ...
We study the sample complexity of stochastic convex optimization when problem parameters such as the distance to optimality and the Lipschitz constant are unknown. We pursue two strategies. First, we develop a reliable model selection method that avoids overfitting to the validation set. This method allows us to generically tune the learning rate of stochastic optimization methods to match the optimal known-parameter sample complexity up to $\log\log$ factors. Second, we develop a regularization-based method that is specialized to the case that only the distance to optimality is unknown. More specifically, it uses norm-regularized empirical risk minimization to estimate the distance ...
This paper presents a tractable algorithm for estimating an unknown Lipschitz function from noisy observations and establishes an upper bound on its convergence rate. The approach extends max-affine methods from convex shape-restricted regression to the more general Lipschitz setting. A key component is a nonlinear feature expansion that maps max-affine functions into a subclass of delta-convex functions, which act as universal approximators of Lipschitz functions while preserving their Lipschitz constants. Leveraging this property, the estimator attains the minimax convergence rate (up to logarithmic factors) with respect to the intrinsic dimension of the data under squared loss and subgaussian distributions in ...
The impact of inference-time data perturbation (e.g., adversarial attacks) has been extensively studied in machine learning, leading to well-established certification techniques for adversarial robustness. In contrast, certifying models against training data perturbations remains a relatively under-explored area. These perturbations can arise in three critical contexts: adversarial data poisoning, where an adversary manipulates training samples to corrupt model performance; machine unlearning, which requires certifying model behavior under the removal of specific training data;
and differential privacy, where guarantees must be given with respect to substituting individual data points. This work introduces Abstract Gradient Training (AGT), a unified framework for certifying robustness ...
This paper develops a general framework for doubly debiased robust subsampling for transfer learning. The setting arises when massive source datasets are computationally infeasible to use in full, while naive or heuristic subsampling leads to biased estimators that further inherit transfer bias under source-target distributional shifts. We resolve these challenges through two complementary debiasing mechanisms. Inverse probability weighting removes subsampling bias by ensuring that subsample-based estimators represent the full source distribution, while a target-based one-step refinement recenters estimators towards the target distribution, thereby mitigating transfer bias. These corrections are embedded within a distributionally robust optimization design that simultaneously controls worst-case ...
The well-known graph-based clustering methods, including spectral clustering, symmetric non-negative matrix factorization, and doubly stochastic normalization, can be viewed as relaxations of the kernel k-means approach. However, we posit that these methods excessively relax their inherent low-rank, nonnegative, doubly stochastic, and orthonormal constraints to ensure numerical feasibility, potentially limiting their clustering efficacy. In this paper, guided by our systematic theoretical analyses, we propose Low-Rank Doubly stochastic clustering (LoRD), a model that only relaxes the orthonormal constraint to derive a probabilistic clustering results. Furthermore, by theoretically establishing the equivalence between orthogonality and Block diagonality under the doubly stochastic constraint, we propose ...
Decision Trees (DTs) are widely used in safety-critical domains such as medical diagnosis, valued for their interpretability and effectiveness on tabular data. However, training accurate oblique DTs is challenging due to complex optimization landscapes and overfitting risks, particularly in regression. Recent advances have introduced differentiable formulations that enable gradient-based training and joint optimization of decision boundaries and leaf regressors. Yet, existing approaches typically rely on approximations, either through probabilistic softening of boundaries (soft DTs) or quantized gradients such as the Straight-Through Estimator (STE). To overcome these limitations, we propose DTSemNet, a novel, semantically equivalent, and invertible representation of hard oblique ...
We investigate the convergence properties of popular data-augmentation samplers for Baye\-sian probit regression. Leveraging recent results on Gibbs samplers for log-concave targets, we provide simple and explicit non-asymptotic bounds on the associated mixing times (in Kullback-Leibler divergence). The bounds depend explicitly on the design matrix and the prior precision, while they hold uniformly over the vector of responses. We specialize the results for different regimes of statistical interest, when both the number of data points $n$ and parameters $p$ are large: in particular we identify scenarios where the mixing times remain bounded as $n,p\to\infty$, and ones where they do not. ...
Transformer models have achieved exceptional performance in various domains, including computer vision and time-series analysis. Their core attention mechanism is widely used to interpret model decisions by assigning importance weights to input regions, such as image patches or time series intervals. However, the reliability of these interpretations remains a major concern. High-attention weights do not necessarily indicate genuinely significant features; they may instead be artifacts of the model's computation, undermining their reliabilities in high-stakes applications such as medical diagnostics. To address this, we propose a novel statistical framework designed to quantify the significance of high-attention regions in Transformer models. Our ...
This paper introduces pyTAGI, a Python wrapper, and cuTAGI, its high-performance C++/CUDA backend, implementing Tractable Approximate Gaussian Inference (TAGI) for neural networks. TAGI treats all network quantities as Gaussian random variables and derives closed-form expressions for prior/posterior expected values, variances, and covariances, enabling analytic Bayesian learning without relying on gradient descent or backpropagation.
The libraries mimic PyTorch's sequential interface, allowing users to define models by stacking layers in order and performing uncertainty-aware Bayesian inference. Beyond epistemic uncertainty, it also allows quantifying heteroscedastic aleatoric uncertainty. cuTAGI's custom CPU/GPU kernels and distributed-data-parallel support via NCCL/MPI deliver competitive runtimes, while pyTAGI's pip-installable frontend ...
We prove that all 'gradient span algorithms' have asymptotically deterministic behavior on scaled Gaussian random functions as the dimension tends to infinity. This is a functional generalization of similar results for random quadratic functions and spin glasses. They explain the counterintuitive phenomenon that different training runs of many large machine learning models result in approximately equal cost curves despite random initialization on a complicated non-convex landscape. This 'predictable progress' phenomenon is exploited by the AutoML community: Since the optimization progress of a single run is already representative, multiple retries with the same hyperparameters are not necessary.
We propose an Embedding Network Autoregressive Model for multivariate networked longitudinal data. We assume the network is generated from a latent variable model, and these unobserved variables are included in a structural peer effect model or a time series network autoregressive model. This approach takes a unified view of two related yet different problems: (1) modeling and predicting multivariate networked time series data and (2) causal peer influence estimation in the presence of confounding due to homophily from finite-time longitudinal data. Our estimation strategy comprises estimating latent variables from the observed network, followed by least squares estimation of the network ...
Gaussian processes are flexible, probabilistic, non-parametric models widely used in machine learning and statistics. However, their scalability to large data sets is limited by computational constraints. To overcome these challenges, we propose Vecchia-inducing-points full-scale (VIF) approximations combining the strengths of global inducing points and local Vecchia approximations. Vecchia approximations excel in settings with low-dimensional inputs and moderately smooth covariance functions, while inducing point methods are better suited to high-dimensional inputs and smoother covariance functions. Our VIF approach bridges these two regimes by using an efficient correlation-based neighbor-finding strategy for the Vecchia approximation of the residual process, implemented via a modified ...
In recent years, denoising diffusion models have become a crucial area of research due to their abundance in the rapidly expanding field of generative AI. While recent statistical advances have delivered explanations for the generation ability of idealised denoising diffusion models for high-dimensional target data, implementations introduce thresholding procedures for the generating process to overcome issues arising from the unbounded state space of such models. This mismatch between theoretical design and implementation of diffusion models has been addressed empirically by using a reflected diffusion process as the driver of noise instead. In this paper, we study statistical guarantees of these ...
We study the problem of learning multivariate dependencies in nonparametric and high-dimensional settings. This includes but is not limited to graphical models. Our approach effectively combines several features that are missing from previous work on this problem: We show how the entire dependence structure can be learned nonparametrically while simultaneously evading the curse of dimensionality and relaxing common assumptions such as faithfulness. To this end, we introduce and study the neighbourhood lattice decomposition of a distribution, which is a compact, non-graphical representation of conditional independence (CI) that is valid in the absence of a faithful graphical representation. We show that ...
Probabilistic generative models based on measure transport, such as diffusion and flow-based models, are often formulated in the language of Markovian stochastic dynamics, where the choice of the underlying process impacts both algorithmic design choices and theoretical analysis. In this paper, we aim to establish a rigorous mathematical foundation for denoising Markov models, a broad class of generative models that postulate a forward process transitioning from the target distribution to a simple, easy-to-sample distribution, alongside a backward process particularly constructed to enable efficient sampling in the reverse direction. Leveraging deep connections with nonequilibrium statistical mechanics and generalized Doob's $h$-transform, we ...
Many machine learning methods look for low-dimensional representations of the data. The underlying subspace can be estimated by first choosing a dimension q and then optimizing a certain objective function over the space of q-dimensional subspaces (the Grassmannian). Trying different q generally yields non-nested subspaces, which raises an important issue of consistency between the data representations. In this paper, we propose a simple and easily implementable principle to enforce nestedness in subspace learning methods. It consists in lifting Grassmannian optimization criteria to flag manifolds (the space of nested subspaces of increasing dimension) via nested projectors. We apply the flag trick ...
The Deep Graph Generation's panorama spans two extremes: one-shot and sequential models. The former generates nodes and edges jointly, while the latter samples them autoregressively. Each method performs better in different graph domains depending on size and topology, but neither is applicable to all graph categories. For instance, one-shot methods struggle with generating large graphs, while sequential methods underperform on smaller graphs. A possible way to overcome these limitations is to flexibly combine the two methods in a unique system. In this work, we propose the FLAGG (Flexible Autoregressive Graph Generation) framework, which sequentially generates portions of graphs with one-shot ...
In this paper, we focus on the decentralized stochastic subgradient-based methods in minimizing nonsmooth nonconvex functions without Clarke regularity, especially in the decentralized training of nonsmooth neural networks. We propose a general framework that
unifies various decentralized subgradient-based methods, such as decentralized stochastic subgradient descent (DSGD), DSGD with gradient-tracking technique (DSGD-T), and DSGD with momentum (DSGD-M). To establish the convergence properties of our proposed framework, we relate the discrete iterates to the trajectories of a continuous-time
differential inclusion, which is assumed to have a coercive Lyapunov function with a stable set A. We prove the asymptotic convergence of the iterates to the ...
Unlinked regression, in which covariates and responses are observed separately without known correspondence, has recently gained increasing attention.
Deconvolution, on the other hand, is a fundamental and challenging problem in nonparametric statistics with the aim of estimating the distribution of a latent random variable $Z$ based on observations contaminated by some additive noise. The complexity of this task is heavily influenced by the smoothness of the noise distribution and often leads to slow estimation rates.
In this paper, we combine the recent unlinked linear regression problem with the classical deconvolution framework. Specifically, we study nonparametric deconvolution under the assumption that $Z$ is ...
We propose a new stochastic proximal quasi-Newton method for minimizing the sum of two convex functions in the particular context that one of the functions is the average of a large number of smooth functions and the other one is nonsmooth. The new method integrates a simple single-loop SVRG (L-SVRG) technique for sampling the gradient and a stochastic limited-memory BFGS (L-BFGS) scheme for approximating the Hessian of the smooth function components. The globally linear convergence rate of the new method is proved under mild assumptions. It is also shown that the new method covers a proximal variant of the L-SVRG ...
A central question in vector- and function-valued learning is how to design kernels that capture both local and non-local interactions while remaining computationally tractable. Existing operator-valued kernels offer only partial answers: separable kernels are efficient but fail to model interactions across the function domain, while commutative kernels capture only pointwise structure. To address this, we propose spectral truncation kernels, a new class of positive definite kernels for vector- and function-valued learning based on spectral truncation and C*-algebra. By allowing noncommutative products in the kernel construction, the proposed kernels induce interactions across the data function domain and fill the gap between ...
Parameter transfer aims to improve parameter estimation accuracy by leveraging knowledge from related sources. This paper studies the parameter transfer problem from heterogeneous sources for high-dimensional M-estimators. Specifically, we propose a novel one-step estimator with a fused-regularizer and a target-data-oriented constraint, which can robustly capture parameter knowledge from source data in the presence of different types of data distribution shifts. Nonasymptotic bound is provided for the estimation error of target parameter, showing the proposed estimator could achieve effective parameter transfer under distribution shifts, and is guaranteed to perform no worse than any estimators learned only from the target data. We ...
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