
arXiv: 1602.07616
In the noisy population recovery problem of Dvir et al., the goal is to learn an unknown distribution $f$ on binary strings of length $n$ from noisy samples. For some parameter $μ\in [0,1]$, a noisy sample is generated by flipping each coordinate of a sample from $f$ independently with probability $(1-μ)/2$. We assume an upper bound $k$ on the size of the support of the distribution, and the goal is to estimate the probability of any string to within some given error $\varepsilon$. It is known that the algorithmic complexity and sample complexity of this problem are polynomially related to each other. We show that for $μ> 0$, the sample complexity (and hence the algorithmic complexity) is bounded by a polynomial in $k$, $n$ and $1/\varepsilon$ improving upon the previous best result of $\mathsf{poly}(k^{\log\log k},n,1/\varepsilon)$ due to Lovett and Zhang. Our proof combines ideas from Lovett and Zhang with a \emph{noise attenuated} version of Möbius inversion. In turn, the latter crucially uses the construction of \emph{robust local inverse} due to Moitra and Saks.
FOS: Computer and information sciences, Computer Science - Computational Complexity, Computer Science - Machine Learning, Computer Science - Data Structures and Algorithms, Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS), Computational Complexity (cs.CC), Machine Learning (cs.LG)
FOS: Computer and information sciences, Computer Science - Computational Complexity, Computer Science - Machine Learning, Computer Science - Data Structures and Algorithms, Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS), Computational Complexity (cs.CC), Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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