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most citedNearest Neighbour Based Estimates of Gradients: Sharp Nonasymptotic Bounds and Applications

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18 papers

math.ST2026

A uniform relative deviation inequality for VC-subgraph classes

François Portier

We establish a new Bernstein-type deviation inequality for classes of functions whose complexity is characterized through subgraphs. The inequality is non-asymptotic, involves expl…

math.ST2026

Revisiting local regression: shape regularity, uniform rates, and the limits of random splits

Jérémy Bettinger, François Portier, Adrien Saumard

Considering pointwise and sup-norm estimation, we analyze the non-asymptotic behavior of local averaging estimators for Lipschitz regression functions. Building on a general deviat…

math.OC2026

Importance Sampling Optimization with Laplace Principle

Radu-Alexandru Dragomir, François Portier, Victor Priser

Grid search and random search are widely used techniques for hyperparameter tuning in machine learning, especially when gradient information is unavailable. In these methods, a fin…

math.ST2025

On the pointwise and sup-norm errors for local regression estimators

Jérémy Bettinger, François Portier, Adrien Saumard

In this paper, we analyze the behavior of various non-parametric local regression estimators, i.e. estimators that are based on local averaging, for estimating a Lipschitz regressi…

math.ST2025

A theory of shape regularity for local regression maps

Jérémy Bettinger, François Portier, Adrien Saumard

We introduce the concept of shape-regular regression maps as a framework to derive optimal rates of convergence for various non-parametric local regression estimators. Using Vapnik…

math.ST2024★ 1 cited

Stochastic mirror descent for nonparametric adaptive importance sampling

Pascal Bianchi, Bernard Delyon, Victor Priser +1

This paper addresses the problem of approximating an unknown probability distribution with density -- which can only be evaluated up to an unknown scaling factor -- with the he…