arXiv:2606. 27685v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Pervasive data contamination -- stemming from measurement errors, outliers, or adversarial corruption -- has motivated the development of robust statistical methods.
By Shixiang Liu, Hanming Yang
arXiv:2410. 07719v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Despite being widely adopted as a canonical framework for learning robust models, adversarial training suffers from robust overfitting.
By Yuelin Xu, Xiao Zhang
arXiv:2603.01337v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: We study adaptive estimation and inference in linear inverse problems defined by conditional moment restrictions. These problems are typically ill-...
By Jiyuan Tan, Vasilis Syrgkanis
arXiv:2609. 39449v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Distributionally robust optimization (DRO) studies parameter estimation under uncertainty in the underlying probability distribution and has emerged as a principled framework for analyzing robustness and generalization.
By Elis Stefansson, David V\"avinggren, Ant\^onio H. Ribeiro
The paper revisits median‑of‑means estimation from a deterministic optimization perspective, introducing a family of block‑Lp estimators (for 0 < p ≤ 1) that achieve robust learning with heavy‑tailed and adversarially corrupted data. It shows that any convex block M‑estimator cannot attain the trimmed‑block oracle constant, while the nonconvex block‑Lp family provides finite‑sample robustness bounds that approach this oracle constant as p decreases. The authors also prove that the block‑Lp objectives have a benign landscape—every local minimum is close to the true parameter—and combine these results with block‑level concentration to obtain sub‑Gaussian deviation bounds under finite 2+δ moments, extending to high‑dimensional robust mean estimation and sparse regression.
By Angshul Majumdar
arXiv:2605. 29497v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We study the problem of robustly learning Gaussian Single Index Models (SIMs) in the presence of heavy-tailed noise and a constant fraction of adversarially corrupted covariates and responses.
By Santanu Das, Sagnik Chatterjee, Jatin Batra