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ArticleElectronic journal of statistics2026

Distributed robust estimation and inference with contaminated data.

Peiliang Zhang, Wen-Xin Zhou, Zhao Ren

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Article in Electronic journal of statistics, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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3 authors.

Peiliang ZhangDepartment of Statistics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 15260, USA.
Wen-Xin ZhouDepartment of Information and Decision Sciences, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60607, USA.
Zhao RenDepartment of Statistics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 15260, USA.

Funding

An effective statistical inference framework to develop innovative compensations for protein mutationsR01GM157600 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI Zhao Ren · 2024 to 2026
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NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM157600
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We study the problem of robust estimation and inference for contaminated data in distributed learning systems. Existing methods, such as those designed for Byzantine failures, typically assume that contamination is limited to a small subset of machines experiencing complete failure. In contrast, we address

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Bootstrap inferencecommunication-efficient estimationdistributed learningHuber’s contamination modelM-estimatorPrimary 62F35, 62F40robust regressionsecondary 62C20, 62J05

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PMID42559644
PMCPMC13441429

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