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Outlier-Robust Sparse Mean Estimation for Heavy-Tailed Di...
Ilias Diakonikolas, Daniel M. Kane, Jasper C. H. Lee, Ankit Pens · 2022-11-30 · via cs.DS updates on arXiv.org

We study the fundamental task of outlier-robust mean estimation for heavy-tailed distributions in the presence of sparsity. Specifically, given a small number of corrupted samples from a high-dimensional heavy-tailed distribution whose mean $μ$ is guaranteed to be sparse, the goal is to efficiently compute a hypothesis that accurately approximates $μ$ with high probability. Prior work had obtained efficient algorithms for robust sparse mean estimation of light-tailed distributions. In this work, we give the first sample-efficient and polynomial-time robust sparse mean estimator for heavy-tailed distributions under mild moment assumptions. Our algorithm achieves the optimal asymptotic error using a number of samples scaling logarithmically with the ambient dimension. Importantly, the sample complexity of our method is optimal as a function of the failure probability $τ$, having an additive $\log(1/τ)$ dependence. Our algorithm leverages the stability-based approach from the algorithmic robust statistics literature, with crucial (and necessary) adaptations required in our setting. Our analysis may be of independent interest, involving the delicate design of a (non-spectral) decomposition for positive semi-definite matrices satisfying certain sparsity properties.