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most citedMultivariate Rank-based Distribution-free Nonparametric Testing using Measure Transportation

35 citations · 108 across the 20 of their papers we have counts for

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24 papers

math.ST2026

Sample complexity bounds for categorical Markov random fields via Discrete Diffusions

Shivam Kumar, Nabarun Deb

Many applications in statistics, economics, and physics require sampling from high-dimensional categorical distributions with local dependence structures. Examples include finite m…

math.PR2026

LDP for Tensor Forms

Reihaneh Malekian, Sohom Bhattacharya, Nabarun Deb +1

In this paper, we study the large deviation principle (LDP) for a tensor-weighted functional of i.i.d. random variables, when the sequence of tensors converges under a variant of t…

math.ST2026

Normal approximations in nonparametric empirical Bayes

Jiafeng Chen, Nabarun Deb, Nikolaos Ignatiadis

Empirical Bayes analyses routinely model noisy measurements of latent parameters as normal, justifying this by an informal appeal to the central limit theorem (CLT). This paper put…

math.ST2026

Parametric Mean-Field empirical Bayes in high-dimensional linear regression

Seunghyun Lee, Nabarun Deb

In this paper, we consider the problem of parametric empirical Bayes estimation of an i.i.d. prior in high-dimensional Bayesian linear regression, with random design. We obtain the…

math.ST2025

Pivotal CLTs for Pseudolikelihood via Conditional Centering in Dependent Random Fields

Nabarun Deb

In this paper, we study fluctuations of conditionally centered statistics of the form where $(σ_1,\ldots ,σ_N)…

math.ST2025

CLT in high-dimensional Bayesian linear regression with low SNR

Seunghyun Lee, Nabarun Deb, Sumit Mukherjee

We study central limit theorems for linear statistics in high-dimensional Bayesian linear regression with product priors. Unlike the existing literature where the focus is on poste…

math.ST2025

Phase Transition in Nonparametric Minimax Rates for Covariate Shifts on Approximate Manifolds

Yuyao Wang, Nabarun Deb, Debarghya Mukherjee

We study nonparametric regression under covariate shift with structured data, where a small amount of labeled target data is supplemented by a large labeled source dataset. In many…

stat.ML2025

No-Regret Generative Modeling via Parabolic Monge-Ampère PDE

Nabarun Deb, Tengyuan Liang

We introduce a novel generative modeling framework based on a discretized parabolic Monge-Ampère PDE, which emerges as a continuous limit of the Sinkhorn algorithm commonly used in…

math.PR2025

Fluctuations in random field Ising models

Seunghyun Lee, Nabarun Deb, Sumit Mukherjee

This paper establishes a CLT for linear statistics of the form with quantitative Berry-Esseen bounds, where is an observati…

math.ST2024

Distribution-free Measures of Association based on Optimal Transport

Nabarun Deb, Promit Ghosal, Bodhisattva Sen

In this paper we propose and study a class of nonparametric, yet interpretable measures of association between two random vectors and taking values in an…

math.ST2024

Trade-off Between Dependence and Complexity for Nonparametric Learning -- an Empirical Process Approach

Nabarun Deb, Debarghya Mukherjee

Empirical process theory for i.i.d. observations has emerged as a ubiquitous tool for understanding the generalization properties of various statistical problems. However, in many…

math.PR2023

Wasserstein Mirror Gradient Flow as the limit of the Sinkhorn Algorithm

Nabarun Deb, Young-Heon Kim, Soumik Pal +1

We prove that the sequence of marginals obtained from the iterations of the Sinkhorn algorithm or the iterative proportional fitting procedure (IPFP) on joint densities, converges…

math.PR2023

Gibbs Measures with Multilinear Forms

Sohom Bhattacharya, Nabarun Deb, Sumit Mukherjee

In this paper, we study a class of multilinear Gibbs measures with Hamiltonian given by a generalized -statistic and with a general base measure. Expressing the asympto…

math.PR2022

LDP for Inhomogeneous U-Statistics

Sohom Bhattacharya, Nabarun Deb, Sumit Mukherjee

In this paper we derive a Large Deviation Principle (LDP) for inhomogeneous U/V-statistics of a general order. Using this, we derive a LDP for two types of statistics: random multi…

stat.ME2021

Robustness and Efficiency of Rosenbaum's Rank-based Estimator in Randomized Trials: A Design-based Perspective

Aditya Ghosh, Nabarun Deb, Bikram Karmakar +1

Mean-based estimators of causal effects in randomized experiments may behave poorly if the potential outcomes have a heavy tail or contain outliers. An alternative estimator propos…

math.ST2021★ 28 cited

Rates of Estimation of Optimal Transport Maps using Plug-in Estimators via Barycentric Projections

Nabarun Deb, Promit Ghosal, Bodhisattva Sen

Optimal transport maps between two probability distributions and on have found extensive applications in both machine learning and statistics. In practice, t…

math.ST2021

Exact Detection Thresholds and Minimax Optimality of Chatterjee's Correlation Coefficient

Arnab Auddy, Nabarun Deb, Sagnik Nandy

Recently, Chatterjee (2021) introduced a new rank-based correlation coefficient which can be used to measure the strength of dependence between two random variables. This coefficie…

math.ST2021★ 2 cited

Pitman Efficiency Lower Bounds for Multivariate Distribution-Free Tests Based on Optimal Transport

Nabarun Deb, Bhaswar B. Bhattacharya, Bodhisattva Sen

Distribution-free tests such as the Wilcoxon rank sum test are popular for testing the equality of two univariate distributions. Among the important reasons for their popularity ar…

stat.ME2020★ 10 cited

Kernel Partial Correlation Coefficient -- a Measure of Conditional Dependence

Zhen Huang, Nabarun Deb, Bodhisattva Sen

In this paper we propose and study a class of simple, nonparametric, yet interpretable measures of conditional dependence between two random variables and given a third var…

math.PR2020★ 1 cited

Detecting Structured Signals in Ising Models

Nabarun Deb, Rajarshi Mukherjee, Sumit Mukherjee +1

In this paper, we study the effect of dependence on detecting a class of signals in Ising models, where the signals are present in a structured way. Examples include Ising Models o…

math.ST2020★ 31 cited

Measuring Association on Topological Spaces Using Kernels and Geometric Graphs

Nabarun Deb, Promit Ghosal, Bodhisattva Sen

In this paper we propose and study a class of simple, nonparametric, yet interpretable measures of association between two random variables and taking values in general top…

math.PR2020

Fluctuations in Mean-Field Ising models

Nabarun Deb, Sumit Mukherjee

In this paper, we study the fluctuations of the average magnetization in an Ising model on an approximately regular graph on vertices. In particular, if is \e…

math.ST2019★ 35 cited

Multivariate Rank-based Distribution-free Nonparametric Testing using Measure Transportation

Nabarun Deb, Bodhisattva Sen

In this paper, we propose a general framework for distribution-free nonparametric testing in multi-dimensions, based on a notion of multivariate ranks defined using the theory of m…

stat.ME2018★ 1 cited

Two-component Mixture Model in the Presence of Covariates

Nabarun Deb, Sujayam Saha, Adityanand Guntuboyina +1

In this paper, we study a generalization of the two-groups model in the presence of covariates --- a problem that has recently received much attention in the statistical literature…