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New statistical method offers adaptive confidence sets with computational trade-offs

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Researchers have developed a new method for constructing adaptive confidence sets for mean vectors of multivariate Gaussians, particularly under Huber contamination where the contamination proportion is unknown. This approach quantifies uncertainty across all one-dimensional projections, achieving an information-theoretically optimal adaptive confidence set. However, the optimal construction is computationally infeasible, as indicated by a Statistical Query (SQ) lower bound that reveals both statistical and computational barriers to adaptation within the SQ framework. A practical, low-degree moment-matching algorithm is proposed, which offers a near-optimal diameter bound with feasible sample and time complexity. AI

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  1. arXiv stat.ML TIER_1 English(EN) · Ilias Diakonikolas, Chao Gao, Daniel M. Kane, Yuetian Luo ·

    Adaptive Robust Confidence Sets in High Dimensions

    arXiv:2610.15723v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study adaptive confidence sets for mean vectors of multivariate Gaussians with identity covariance under Huber contamination when the contamination proportion is unknown. We show that an information-theoretically optimal adapti…

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