A Polynomial-Time Form of Robust Regression

Abstract

Despite the variety of robust regression methods that have been developed, current regression formulations are either NP-hard, or allow unbounded response to even a single leverage point. We present a general formulation for robust regression --Variational M-estimation--that unifies a number of robust regression methods while allowing a tractable approximation strategy. We develop an estimator that requires only polynomial-time, while achieving certain robustness and consistency guarantees. An experimental evaluation demonstrates the effectiveness of the new estimation approach compared to standard methods.

Cite

Text

Yu et al. "A Polynomial-Time Form of Robust Regression." Neural Information Processing Systems, 2012.

Markdown

[Yu et al. "A Polynomial-Time Form of Robust Regression." Neural Information Processing Systems, 2012.](https://mlanthology.org/neurips/2012/yu2012neurips-polynomialtime/)

BibTeX

@inproceedings{yu2012neurips-polynomialtime,
  title     = {{A Polynomial-Time Form of Robust Regression}},
  author    = {Yu, Yao-liang and Aslan, Özlem and Schuurmans, Dale},
  booktitle = {Neural Information Processing Systems},
  year      = {2012},
  pages     = {2483-2491},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/neurips/2012/yu2012neurips-polynomialtime/}
}