arXiv Machine Learning

Sufficient Dimesion Reduction via Generalized Stein's Lemma

arXiv:2608. 15121v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sufficient dimension reduction (SDR) seeks the minimal subspace of the predictors that captures the full conditional distribution of the response, which is known as the central subspace (CS).

arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 25

Sufficiently Reduced Distributional Regression

Sufficiently Reduced Distributional Regression (SRDR) is a generative approach that merges conditional distribution estimation with nonlinear sufficient dimension reduction (SDR). By framing SDR as a risk minimization problem using strictly proper scoring rules, SRDR jointly learns a dimension reduction map and a generative prediction model through minimization of the energy score, which can be estimated via sampling. The method extends to multi‑environment data and classification, and theoretical results show convergence of estimated conditional distributions in energy distance, implying asymptotic sufficiency. In experiments on CT slice localization, superconductivity data, and digit classification, SRDR recovers low‑dimensional sufficient structure and matches or surpasses state‑of‑the‑art nonlinear SDR methods in representation quality and predictive performance.

By Alexander Henzi, Tiange Liu, Xinwei Shen
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 1

Prediction-Powered Conditional Inference

arXiv:2603.05575v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We study prediction-powered conditional inference in the setting where labeled data are scarce, unlabeled covariates are abundant, and a blac...

By Yang Sui, Jin Zhou, Hua Zhou, Xiaowu Dai
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 25

Stacked SVD or SVD stacked? A Random Matrix Theory perspective on data integration

The paper compares two popular data‑integration techniques—Stack‑SVD, which concatenates datasets before performing singular value decomposition, and SVD‑Stack, which first decomposes each dataset separately and then aggregates the leading singular vectors. By deriving exact asymptotic performance expressions and phase transitions in a proportional regime, the authors show that neither method uniformly dominates the other when unweighted, but optimally weighted Stack‑SVD outperforms optimally weighted SVD‑Stack when the low‑rank signal is fully shared. They also demonstrate that SVD‑Stack can excel with partially shared components and provide practical algorithms for estimating optimal weights, supported by simulations and genomic experiments.

By Tavor Z. Baharav, Phillip B. Nicol, Rafael A. Irizarry, Rong Ma
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 7

Distribution-free Deviation Bounds and The Role of Domain Knowledge in Learning via Model Selection with Cross-validation Risk Estimation

arXiv:2303. 08777v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Cross-validation is one of the most widely used tools for risk estimation and model selection in statistics and machine learning, yet its theoretical properties when embedded in a learning procedure remain insufficiently understood.

By Diego Marcondes, Cl\'audia Peixoto
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 8

Deep Single-Index Fr\'echet Regression

arXiv:2606. 06957v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Predicting outputs that are located in non-Euclidean spaces, such as probability distributions, networks, and symmetric positive-definite matrices, is becoming increasingly important in modern data analysis, particularly when inputs are high-dimensional.

By Muqing Cui, Yidong Zhou, Su I Iao, Hans-Georg M\"uller