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Optimal rates for k-NN density and mode estimation

Authors: Sanjoy Dasgupta, Samory Kpotufe

NeurIPS 2014 | Venue PDF | LLM Run Details

Reproducibility Variable Result LLM Response
Research Type Theoretical We present two related contributions of independent interest: (1) high-probability finite sample rates for k-NN density estimation, and (2) practical mode estimators based on k-NN which attain minimax-optimal rates under surprisingly general distributional conditions. The proof of these results are concise applications of Lemma 2 above. They are given in the appendix (long version).
Researcher Affiliation Academia Sanjoy Dasgupta University of California, San Diego, CSE EMAIL Samory Kpotufe Princeton University, ORFE EMAIL
Pseudocode Yes Figure 1: Estimate the mode of a unimodal density f from X[n]. (Content: Return arg maxx X[n] fk(x).) Figure 3: Estimate the modes of a multimodal f from X[n]. The parameter Ο΅ serves to prune. (Content describing algorithm steps)
Open Source Code No The paper does not provide any information or links regarding the availability of open-source code for the described methodology.
Open Datasets No This is a theoretical paper that does not report on empirical experiments with datasets, and therefore does not mention public dataset availability.
Dataset Splits No This is a theoretical paper that does not report on empirical experiments with datasets, and therefore does not provide dataset split information.
Hardware Specification No This is a theoretical paper and does not specify hardware used for experiments.
Software Dependencies No This is a theoretical paper and does not list specific software dependencies with version numbers.
Experiment Setup No This is a theoretical paper and does not provide details about an experimental setup, hyperparameters, or training configurations.