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most citedEstimation from Pairwise Comparisons: Sharp Minimax Bounds with Topology Dependence

59 citations · 102 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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28 papers

math.ST20222 cited

Local permutation tests for conditional independence

Ilmun Kim, Matey Neykov, Sivaraman Balakrishnan +1

In this paper, we investigate local permutation tests for testing conditional independence between two random vectors and given . The local permutation test determines t…

cs.LG20215 cited

Mixture Proportion Estimation and PU Learning: A Modern Approach

Saurabh Garg, Yifan Wu, Alex Smola +2

Given only positive examples and unlabeled examples (from both positive and negative classes), we might hope nevertheless to estimate an accurate positive-versus-negative classifie…

math.ST20213 cited

Minimax Optimal Regression over Sobolev Spaces via Laplacian Regularization on Neighborhood Graphs

Alden Green, Sivaraman Balakrishnan, Ryan J. Tibshirani

In this paper we study the statistical properties of Laplacian smoothing, a graph-based approach to nonparametric regression. Under standard regularity conditions, we establish upp…

cs.LG2021

RATT: Leveraging Unlabeled Data to Guarantee Generalization

Saurabh Garg, Sivaraman Balakrishnan, J. Zico Kolter +1

To assess generalization, machine learning scientists typically either (i) bound the generalization gap and then (after training) plug in the empirical risk to obtain a bound on th…

math.ST2021

Minimax Optimal Conditional Density Estimation under Total Variation Smoothness

Michael Li, Matey Neykov, Sivaraman Balakrishnan

This paper studies the minimax rate of nonparametric conditional density estimation under a weighted absolute value loss function in a multivariate setting. We first demonstrate th…

stat.ME20212 cited

Semiparametric counterfactual density estimation

Edward H. Kennedy, Sivaraman Balakrishnan, Larry Wasserman

Causal effects are often characterized with averages, which can give an incomplete picture of the underlying counterfactual distributions. Here we consider estimating the entire co…