arXiv:2610. 01088v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The nonparametric maximum likelihood estimator (NPMLE) of a Gaussian location mixture maximizes the likelihood over the infinite-dimensional space of mixing distributions.
arXiv:2609.16622v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Parameter estimation in finite mixture models can exhibit highly heterogeneous convergence behavior: locally isolated components may be estimated sub...
arXiv:2607. 14304v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study sparse random geometric graphs generated by connecting pairs of high-dimensional vectors whose inner product exceeds a threshold.
arXiv:2606. 11469v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study the task of density estimation, where we hope to accurately estimate a probability density from $n$ samples.
arXiv:2409. 09903v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Softmax Mixture Models (SMMs) are discrete $K$-component mixture models for the probabilities of selecting one of $p$ candidate feature vectors $X_1,\ldots,X_p\in\mathbb{R}^L$ in heterogeneous populations and are widely used in econometrics and scientific applications.
arXiv:2609. 26647v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study statistical rates in entropic optimal transport in the semi-discrete regime where one measure has finite support and the other is subGaussian.
arXiv:2509. 22879v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Mixture models, such as Gaussian mixture models, are widely used in machine learning to represent complex data distributions.
arXiv:2004. 05813v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Suppose that we are given independent, identically distributed random samples $x_1,\cdots,x_n$ from a mixture at most $k$ many $d$-dimensional spherical Gaussian distributions $\mu_1,\cdots,\mu_{k_0}$ of identical and known variance $\sigma^2$ in each coordinate, such that the minimum $\ell^2$ distance between two distinct centers $y_l$ and $y_j$ is greater than $2\Delta\sigma \min\{\sqrt{d},\sqrt k\}$, where $\Delta>C_0$, and $C_0$ is a sufficiently large universal constant.
arXiv:2411. 12438v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We develop a new approach for clustering non-spherical (i.
arXiv:2506. 06584v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Learning Gaussian Mixture Models (GMMs) is a fundamental problem in statistics and machine learning, with the Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithm and its popular variant gradient EM being arguably the most widely used algorithms in practice.
arXiv:2603.19657v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We study model-order selection and component-mean estimation for multidimensional Gaussian mixture models with a known common covariance matr...
arXiv:2504.05161v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Score estimation is the backbone of score-based generative models (SGMs), especially denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPMs). A key...
arXiv:2607. 22889v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning the natural parameters $z \in \mathbb{R}^n$ of discrete distributions $\mu_z$ from independent samples constrained to a subset $S \subseteq \{0,1\}^n$ is a foundational challenge in high-dimensional statistics.