Department of Computer Science | Institute of Theoretical Computer Science | CADMO
Prof. Emo Welzl and Prof. Bernd Gärtner
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Date and Time: Thursday, May 20, 2021, 12:15 pm
Duration: 30 minutes
Location: Zoom: conference room
Speaker: Gleb Novikov
We consider a robust linear regression model y=Xβ+η, where an adversary oblivious to the design matrix X may choose η to be an arbitrary vector with 0 < α < 1 fraction of entries bounded by 1 in absolute value. We show that for Gaussian design matrices the Huber loss estimator for β is consistent for every sample size n= ω(d/α2) and achieves an error rate of O(d/α2n)1/2. Both bounds are optimal (up to constant factors). Prior to our work no estimator was known to be consistent in this model except for quadratic sample size n > d2 or for logarithmic inlier fraction α > 1/log n. Our results extend to designs far beyond the Gaussian case and, under some symmetry assumptions on the noise, only require the column span of X to not contain approximately sparse vectors.
This is a joint work with Tommaso d'Orsi and David Steurer.
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