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Lior Danon

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1since 2021 · last 2022
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Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021

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Theoretical computer science
1 paper
Mathematical optimization · 100%

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TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Mathematical optimization › continuous optimization
convex optimization
0.612022
Frank-Wolfe-based Algorithms for Approximating Tyler's M-estimator · NeurIPS 2022
Mathematical optimization
frank-wolfe algorithm
0.612022
Frank-Wolfe-based Algorithms for Approximating Tyler's M-estimator · NeurIPS 2022
Mathematical optimization › statistical estimation › covariance estimation
robust covariance estimation
0.612022
Frank-Wolfe-based Algorithms for Approximating Tyler's M-estimator · NeurIPS 2022

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geodesic frank-wolfe · 0.6away-steps · 0.6adaptive stepsizes · 0.6
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2022 Frank-Wolfe-based Algorithms for Approximating Tyler's M-estimator
abstract
Tyler's M-estimator is a well known procedure for robust and heavy-tailed covariance estimation. Tyler himself suggested an iterative fixed-point algorithm for computing his estimator however, it requires super-linear (in the size of the data) runtime per iteration, which maybe prohibitive in large scale. In this work we propose, to the best of our knowledge, the first Frank-Wolfe-based algorithms for computing Tyler's estimator. One variant uses standard Frank-Wolfe steps, the second also considers \textit{away-steps} (AFW), and the third is a \textit{geodesic} version of AFW (GAFW). AFW provably requires, up to a log factor, only linear time per iteration, while GAFW runs in linear time (up to a log factor) in a large $n$ (number of data-points) regime. All three variants are shown to provably converge to the optimal solution with sublinear rate, under standard assumptions, despite the fact that the underlying optimization problem is not convex nor smooth. Under an additional fairly mild assumption, that holds with probability 1 when the (normalized) data-points are i.i.d. samples from a continuous distribution supported on the entire unit sphere, AFW and GAFW are proved to converge with linear rates. Importantly, all three variants are parameter-free and use adaptive step-sizes.
Lior Danon, Dan Garber
NeurIPS1