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Poster
Data Structures for Density Estimation
Anders Aamand · Alexandr Andoni · Justin Chen · Piotr Indyk · Shyam Narayanan · Sandeep Silwal

Tue Jul 25 02:00 PM -- 04:30 PM (PDT) @ Exhibit Hall 1 #609
We study statistical/computational tradeoffs for the following density estimation problem: given $k$ distributions $v_1, \ldots, v_k$ over a discrete domain of size $n$, and sampling access to a distribution $p$, identify $v_i$ that is "close" to $p$. Our main result is the first data structure that, given a sublinear (in $n$) number of samples from $p$, identifies $v_i$ in time sublinear in $k$. We also give an improved version of the algorithm of Acharya et al. (2018) that reports $v_i$ in time linear in $k$. The experimental evaluation of the latter algorithm shows that it achieves a significant reduction in the number of operations needed to achieve a given accuracy compared to prior work.

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Anders Aamand (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Alexandr Andoni
Justin Chen (MIT)
Piotr Indyk (MIT)
Shyam Narayanan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Sandeep Silwal (MIT)

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