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Jan 23
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Minimax Rates of Estimation for Sparse PCA in High Dimensions
Authors: V. Vu, J. Lei
Presenter: Vince Vu
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Jan 30
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Simpler Approach To Matrix Completion (arXiv)
Authors: B. Recht
Presenter: Aaditya Ramdas
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Feb 6
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Variance estimation using refitted cross-validation in ultrahigh dimensional regression (arXiv)
Authors: J. Fan, S. Guo and N. Hao
Presenter: James Sharpnack
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Feb 13
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Noisy Independent Factor Analysis Model for Density Estimation and Classification (arXiv)
Authors: Umberto Amato, Anestis Antoniadis, Alexander Samarov, Alexander Tsybakov
Presenter: Larry Wasserman
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Feb 20
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Lower Bounds for Passive and Active Learning (here)
Authors: M. Raginsky and A. Rakhlin
Presenter: Steve Hanneke
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Feb 27
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Tight conditions for consistent variable selection in high dimensional nonparametric regression (arXiv)
Authors: Laetitia Comminges, Arnak Dalalyan
Presenter: Ina Fiterau
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Mar 5
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On Low-Dimensional Projections of High-Dimensional Distributions (arXiv)
Authors: Lutz Dumbgen, Perla Zerial
Presenter: Martin Azizyan
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Mar 19
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A Geometric Analysis of Subspace Clustering with Outliers (arXiv)
Authors: Mahdi Soltanolkotabi and Emmanuel J. Candes
Presenter: Sivaraman Balakrishnan
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Mar 26
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THE LASSO, CORRELATED DESIGN, AND IMPROVED ORACLE INEQUALITIES (arXiv)
Authors: Sara van de Geer and Johannes Lederer
Presenter: Mladen Kolar
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