Search Results for author: Puning Zhao

Found 9 papers, 0 papers with code

Minimax Optimal $Q$ Learning with Nearest Neighbors

no code implementations3 Aug 2023 Puning Zhao, Lifeng Lai

A modification of the original $Q$ learning method was proposed in (Shah and Xie, 2018), which estimates $Q$ values with nearest neighbors.

Q-Learning

High Dimensional Distributed Gradient Descent with Arbitrary Number of Byzantine Attackers

no code implementations25 Jul 2023 Puning Zhao, Zhiguo Wan

In this paper, we design a new method that is suitable for high dimensional problems, under arbitrary number of Byzantine attackers.

Robust Nonparametric Regression under Poisoning Attack

no code implementations26 May 2023 Puning Zhao, Zhiguo Wan

The final estimate is nearly minimax optimal for arbitrary $q$, up to a $\ln N$ factor.

regression

Optimal Stochastic Nonconvex Optimization with Bandit Feedback

no code implementations30 Mar 2021 Puning Zhao, Lifeng Lai

In this paper, we analyze the continuous armed bandit problems for nonconvex cost functions under certain smoothness and sublevel set assumptions.

Analysis of KNN Density Estimation

no code implementations30 Sep 2020 Puning Zhao, Lifeng Lai

We show that kNN density estimation is minimax optimal under both $\ell_1$ and $\ell_\infty$ criteria, if the support set is known.

Density Estimation

Minimax Optimal Estimation of KL Divergence for Continuous Distributions

no code implementations26 Feb 2020 Puning Zhao, Lifeng Lai

Estimating Kullback-Leibler divergence from identical and independently distributed samples is an important problem in various domains.

Minimax Rate Optimal Adaptive Nearest Neighbor Classification and Regression

no code implementations22 Oct 2019 Puning Zhao, Lifeng Lai

For both classification and regression problems, existing works have shown that, if the distribution of the feature vector has bounded support and the probability density function is bounded away from zero in its support, the convergence rate of the standard kNN method, in which k is the same for all test samples, is minimax optimal.

Classification General Classification +1

Analysis of KNN Information Estimators for Smooth Distributions

no code implementations27 Oct 2018 Puning Zhao, Lifeng Lai

Existing work has analyzed the convergence rate of this estimator for random variables whose densities are bounded away from zero in its support.

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