Robust estimators in high-dimensions without the computational intractability

I Diakonikolas, G Kamath, D Kane, J Li, A Moitra… - SIAM Journal on …, 2019 - SIAM
We study high-dimensional distribution learning in an agnostic setting where an adversary is
allowed to arbitrarily corrupt an ε-fraction of the samples. Such questions have a rich history …

Statistical query lower bounds for robust estimation of high-dimensional gaussians and gaussian mixtures

I Diakonikolas, DM Kane… - 2017 IEEE 58th Annual …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We describe a general technique that yields the first Statistical Query lower bounds for a
range of fundamental high-dimensional learning problems involving Gaussian distributions …

Private hypothesis selection

M Bun, G Kamath, T Steinke… - Advances in Neural …, 2019 - proceedings.neurips.cc
We provide a differentially private algorithm for hypothesis selection. Given samples from an
unknown probability distribution $ P $ and a set of $ m $ probability distributions $\mathcal …

Learning mixtures of linear regressions in subexponential time via fourier moments

S Chen, J Li, Z Song - Proceedings of the 52nd Annual ACM SIGACT …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
We consider the problem of learning a mixture of linear regressions (MLRs). An MLR is
specified by k nonnegative mixing weights p 1,…, pk summing to 1, and k unknown …

Testing shape restrictions of discrete distributions

CL Canonne, I Diakonikolas, T Gouleakis… - Theory of Computing …, 2018 - Springer
We study the question of testing structured properties (classes) of discrete distributions.
Specifically, given sample access to an arbitrary distribution D over n and a property PP, the …

Principled approaches to robust machine learning and beyond

JZ Li - 2018 - dspace.mit.edu
As we apply machine learning to more and more important tasks, it becomes increasingly
important that these algorithms are robust to systematic, or worse, malicious, noise. Despite …

The Poisson binomial distribution—Old & new

W Tang, F Tang - Statistical Science, 2023 - projecteuclid.org
The Poisson Binomial Distribution-Old & New Page 1 Statistical Science 2023, Vol. 38, No. 1,
108–119 https://doi.org/10.1214/22-STS852 © Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 2023 The …

Efficiently learning structured distributions from untrusted batches

S Chen, J Li, A Moitra - Proceedings of the 52nd Annual ACM SIGACT …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
We study the problem, introduced by Qiao and Valiant, of learning from untrusted batches.
Here, we assume m users, all of whom have samples from some underlying distribution over …

The fourier transform of poisson multinomial distributions and its algorithmic applications

I Diakonikolas, DM Kane, A Stewart - … of the forty-eighth annual ACM …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
An (n, k)-Poisson Multinomial Distribution (PMD) is a random variable of the form X=∑ i= 1 n
X i, where the X i's are independent random vectors supported on the set of standard basis …

Learning and covering sums of independent random variables with unbounded support

A Kalavasis, K Stavropoulos… - Advances in Neural …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
We study the problem of covering and learning sums $ X= X_1+\cdots+ X_n $ of
independent integer-valued random variables $ X_i $(SIIRVs) with infinite support. De et al …