VLDB 2026 Research / reviewers in the wild / expert
Beatrice Bertolotti
dblp:380/2372
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1ranked-venue papers
1as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
—ORCID · none
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Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Theoretical computer science
1 paper |
Mathematical optimization · 39% Algorithms and data structures · 30% Computational geometry · 30% |
Topics — the 4 heaviest of 5, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Computational geometry › proximity problems
geometric median |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Simple and Optimal Sublinear Algorithms for Mean Estimation · NeurIPS 2025 |
Mathematical optimization › statistical estimation › multivariate estimation
mean estimation |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Simple and Optimal Sublinear Algorithms for Mean Estimation · NeurIPS 2025 |
Algorithms and data structures
sublinear algorithms |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Simple and Optimal Sublinear Algorithms for Mean Estimation · NeurIPS 2025 |
Mathematical optimization
gradient descent |
0.3 | 1 | 2025 | Simple and Optimal Sublinear Algorithms for Mean Estimation · NeurIPS 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
random sampling · 0.9order statistics · 0.9gradient descent · 0.9coordinate-wise median · 0.9
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Simple and Optimal Sublinear Algorithms for Mean EstimationabstractWe study the sublinear multivariate mean estimation problem in $d$-dimensional Euclidean space. Specifically, we aim to find the mean $\mu$ of a ground point set $A$, which minimizes the sum of squared Euclidean distances of the points in $A$ to $\mu$. We first show that a multiplicative $(1+\varepsilon)$ approximation to $\mu$ can be found with probability $1-\delta$ using $O(\varepsilon^{-1}\log \delta^{-1})$ many independent uniform random samples, and provide a matching lower bound. Furthermore, we give two estimators with optimal sample complexity that can be computed in optimal running time for extracting a suitable approximate mean:
1. The coordinate-wise median of $\log \delta^{-1}$ sample means of sample size $\varepsilon^{-1}$. As a corollary, we also show improved convergence rates for this estimator for estimating means of multivariate distributions.
2. The geometric median of $\log \delta^{-1}$ sample means of sample size $\varepsilon^{-1}$. To compute a solution efficiently, we design a novel and simple gradient descent algorithm that is significantly faster for our specific setting than all other known algorithms for computing geometric medians.
In addition, we propose an order statistics approach that is empirically competitive with these algorithms, has an optimal sample complexity and matches the running time up to lower order terms.
We finally provide an extensive experimental evaluation among several estimators which concludes that the geometric-median-of-means-based approach is typically the most competitive in practice. Beatrice Bertolotti, Matteo Russo 0002, Chris Schwiegelshohn, Sudarshan Shyam |
NeurIPS | 1 |