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most citedTractability from overparametrization: The example of the negative perceptron

8 citations · 13 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.LG2026

Replica Symmetry Breaking and Algorithmic Thresholds in Empirical Risk Minimization under Multi-Index Model

Andrea Montanari, Kangjie Zhou

Modern machine learning models are trained by optimizing high-dimensional non-convex empirical risk functions. Such cost functions can have a multitude of local optima and yet, gra…

cs.RO2023

Informative Path Planning of Autonomous Vehicle for Parking Occupancy Estimation

Yunze Hu, Jiaao Chen, Kangjie Zhou +3

Parking occupancy estimation holds significant potential in facilitating parking resource management and mitigating traffic congestion. Existing approaches employ robotic systems t…

cs.RO2023★ 1 cited

Probabilistic Visibility-Aware Trajectory Planning for Target Tracking in Cluttered Environments

Han Gao, Pengying Wu, Yao Su +4

Target tracking has numerous significant civilian and military applications, and maintaining the visibility of the target plays a vital role in ensuring the success of the tracking…

cs.LG2023★ 4 cited

Learning time-scales in two-layers neural networks

Raphaël Berthier, Andrea Montanari, Kangjie Zhou

Gradient-based learning in multi-layer neural networks displays a number of striking features. In particular, the decrease rate of empirical risk is non-monotone even after averagi…

cs.LG2022

Lower Bounds for the Convergence of Tensor Power Iteration on Random Overcomplete Models

Yuchen Wu, Kangjie Zhou

Tensor decomposition serves as a powerful primitive in statistics and machine learning, and has numerous applications in problems such as learning latent variable models or mixture…

stat.ML2022

Overparametrized linear dimensionality reductions: From projection pursuit to two-layer neural networks

Andrea Montanari, Kangjie Zhou

Given a cloud of data points in , consider all projections onto -dimensional subspaces of and, for each such projection, the empirical distribut…

cs.LG2021★ 8 cited

Tractability from overparametrization: The example of the negative perceptron

Andrea Montanari, Yiqiao Zhong, Kangjie Zhou

In the negative perceptron problem we are given data points , where is a -dimensional vector and is a binary l…

stat.ME2021

Propensity Score Adapted Covariate Selection for Causal Inference

Kangjie Zhou, Jinzhu Jia

In this paper, we propose a propensity score adapted variable selection procedure to select covariates for inclusion in propensity score models, in order to eliminate confounding b…

stat.ME2021

Variance Reduction for Causal Inference

Kangjie Zhou, Jinzhu Jia

Propensity score methods have been shown to be powerful in obtaining efficient estimators of average treatment effect (ATE) from observational data, especially under the existence…