11 accepted papers
A rigid motion in $\mathbb{R}^d$ consists of a proper rotation and a translation, and it can be represented as a matrix in $\mathbb{R}^{(d+1)\times (d+1)}$. The problem of rigid motion synchronization aims to estimate a collection of rigid motions $G^*_1, \dots, G^*_n$ from noisy observations of the…
Language models often default to a narrow set of high-probability outputs, leaving their generation paths homogeneous and prone to mode collapse. Sampling-based strategies inject randomness but still struggle to guarantee diversity across multiple concurrent generation runs. We address this limitati…
Best-of-N reasoning improves the accuracy of language models in solving mathematical tasks by sampling multiple candidate solutions and then selecting the best one based on some criteria. A critical bottleneck for this strategy is the output diversity limit, which occurs when the model generates sim
The cubic regularization method (CR) is a popular algorithm for unconstrained non-convex optimization. At each iteration, CR solves a cubically regularized quadratic problem, called the cubic regularization subproblem (CRS). One way to solve the CRS relies on solving the secular equation, whose comp…
Principal component analysis is a simple yet useful dimensionality reduction technique in modern machine learning pipelines. In consequential domains such as college admission, healthcare and credit approval, it is imperative to take into account emerging criteria such as the fairness and the robust…
Algorithmic recourse aims to recommend an informative feedback to overturn an unfavorable machine learning decision. We introduce in this paper the Bayesian recourse, a model-agnostic recourse that minimizes the posterior probability odds ratio. Further, we present its min-max robust counterpart wit…
Least squares estimators, when trained on few target domain samples, may predict poorly. Supervised domain adaptation aims to improve the predictive accuracy by exploiting additional labeled training samples from a source distribution that is close to the target distribution. Given available data, w…
Variable selection is one of the most important tasks in statistics and machine learning. To incorporate more prior information about the regression coefficients, various constrained Lasso models have been proposed in the literature. Compared with the classic (unconstrained) Lasso model, the algorit…
A fundamental problem arising in many areas of machine learning is the evaluation of the likelihood of a given observation under different nominal distributions. Frequently, these nominal distributions are themselves estimated from data, which makes them susceptible to estimation errors. We thus pro…
The likelihood function is a fundamental component in Bayesian statistics. However, evaluating the likelihood of an observation is computationally intractable in many applications. In this paper, we propose a non-parametric approximation of the likelihood that identifies a probability measure which…
In this work, we consider the robust beamforming design for secondary downlink multicasting channels, where primary users are present with norm-bounded channel errors. In particular, the max-min-fair formulation is considered and the resulting design problem is a quadratically constrained quadratic…