Title
SoS degree reduction with applications to clustering and robust moment estimation
Abstract
ABSTRACTWe develop a general framework to significantly reduce the degree of sum-of-squares proofs by introducing new variables. To illustrate the power of this framework, we use it to speed up previous algorithms based on sum-of-squares for two important estimation problems, clustering and robust moment estimation. The resulting algorithms offer the same statistical guarantees as the previous best algorithms but have significantly faster running times. Roughly speaking, given a sample of n points in dimension d, our algorithms can exploit order-ℓ moments in time dO(ℓ) · nO(1), whereas a naive implementation requires time (d · n)O(ℓ). Since for the aforementioned applications, the typical sample size is dΘ(ℓ), our framework improves running times from dO(ℓ2) to dO(ℓ).
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.5555/3458064.3458088
Symposium on Discrete Algorithms
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
David Steurer193444.91
Stefan Tiegel200.34