Ankur Moitra

Orcid: 0000-0001-7047-0495

Affiliations:
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA


According to our database1, Ankur Moitra authored at least 108 papers between 2009 and 2024.

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2024
High-Temperature Gibbs States are Unentangled and Efficiently Preparable.
CoRR, 2024

2023
Robustly Learning General Mixtures of Gaussians.
J. ACM, June, 2023

Learning quantum Hamiltonians at any temperature in polynomial time.
CoRR, 2023

Exploring and Learning in Sparse Linear MDPs without Computationally Intractable Oracles.
CoRR, 2023

Planning and Learning in Partially Observable Systems via Filter Stability.
Proceedings of the 55th Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing, 2023

A New Approach to Learning Linear Dynamical Systems.
Proceedings of the 55th Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing, 2023

Robust Voting Rules from Algorithmic Robust Statistics.
Proceedings of the 2023 ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, 2023

Provable benefits of score matching.
Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 36: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2023, 2023

Tensor Decompositions Meet Control Theory: Learning General Mixtures of Linear Dynamical Systems.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning, 2023

Provably Auditing Ordinary Least Squares in Low Dimensions.
Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Learning Representations, 2023

Distilling Model Failures as Directions in Latent Space.
Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Learning Representations, 2023

Strong Spatial Mixing for Colorings on Trees and its Algorithmic Applications.
Proceedings of the 64th IEEE Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, 2023

2022
Noisy tensor completion via the sum-of-squares hierarchy.
Math. Program., 2022

From algorithms to connectivity and back: finding a giant component in random k-SAT.
CoRR, 2022

Planning in Observable POMDPs in Quasipolynomial Time.
CoRR, 2022

Kalman filtering with adversarial corruptions.
Proceedings of the STOC '22: 54th Annual ACM SIGACT Symposium on Theory of Computing, Rome, Italy, June 20, 2022

Robust Model Selection and Nearly-Proper Learning for GMMs.
Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 35: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2022, 2022

Learning in Observable POMDPs, without Computationally Intractable Oracles.
Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 35: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2022, 2022

Polynomial time guarantees for the Burer-Monteiro method.
Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 35: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2022, 2022

Minimax Rates for Robust Community Detection.
Proceedings of the 63rd IEEE Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, 2022

Learning GMMs with Nearly Optimal Robustness Guarantees.
Proceedings of the Conference on Learning Theory, 2-5 July 2022, London, UK., 2022

Can Q-learning be Improved with Advice?
Proceedings of the Conference on Learning Theory, 2-5 July 2022, London, UK., 2022

2021
Spoofing Generalization: When Can't You Trust Proprietary Models?
CoRR, 2021

Sparsification for Sums of Exponentials and its Algorithmic Applications.
CoRR, 2021

How to Decompose a Tensor with Group Structure.
CoRR, 2021

No-go Theorem for Acceleration in the Hyperbolic Plane.
CoRR, 2021

Robustness meets algorithms.
Commun. ACM, 2021

Settling the robust learnability of mixtures of Gaussians.
Proceedings of the STOC '21: 53rd Annual ACM SIGACT Symposium on Theory of Computing, 2021

Algorithmic foundations for the diffraction limit.
Proceedings of the STOC '21: 53rd Annual ACM SIGACT Symposium on Theory of Computing, 2021

A No-go Theorem for Robust Acceleration in the Hyperbolic Plane.
Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 34: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2021, 2021

Online and Distribution-Free Robustness: Regression and Contextual Bandits with Huber Contamination.
Proceedings of the 62nd IEEE Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, 2021

Learning to Sample from Censored Markov Random Fields.
Proceedings of the Conference on Learning Theory, 2021

2020
How Many Subpopulations Is Too Many? Exponential Lower Bounds for Inferring Population Histories.
J. Comput. Biol., 2020

Classification Under Misspecification: Halfspaces, Generalized Linear Models, and Connections to Evolvability.
CoRR, 2020

Fast Convergence for Langevin Diffusion with Matrix Manifold Structure.
CoRR, 2020

Efficiently learning structured distributions from untrusted batches.
Proceedings of the 52nd Annual ACM SIGACT Symposium on Theory of Computing, 2020

Tensor Completion Made Practical.
Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 33: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2020, 2020

Learning Some Popular Gaussian Graphical Models without Condition Number Bounds.
Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 33: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2020, 2020

Classification Under Misspecification: Halfspaces, Generalized Linear Models, and Evolvability.
Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 33: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2020, 2020

Learning Structured Distributions From Untrusted Batches: Faster and Simpler.
Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 33: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2020, 2020

Parallels Between Phase Transitions and Circuit Complexity?
Proceedings of the Conference on Learning Theory, 2020

Better Algorithms for Estimating Non-Parametric Models in Crowd-Sourcing and Rank Aggregation.
Proceedings of the Conference on Learning Theory, 2020

Rigorous Guarantees for Tyler's M-Estimator via Quantum Expansion.
Proceedings of the Conference on Learning Theory, 2020

Semirandom Stochastic Block Models.
Proceedings of the Beyond the Worst-Case Analysis of Algorithms, 2020

Topic Models and Nonnegative Matrix Factorization.
Proceedings of the Beyond the Worst-Case Analysis of Algorithms, 2020

2019
Robust Estimators in High-Dimensions Without the Computational Intractability.
SIAM J. Comput., 2019

Approximate Counting, the Lovász Local Lemma, and Inference in Graphical Models.
J. ACM, 2019

The Circuit Complexity of Inference.
CoRR, 2019

Spectral methods from tensor networks.
Proceedings of the 51st Annual ACM SIGACT Symposium on Theory of Computing, 2019

Beyond the low-degree algorithm: mixtures of subcubes and their applications.
Proceedings of the 51st Annual ACM SIGACT Symposium on Theory of Computing, 2019

Learning restricted Boltzmann machines via influence maximization.
Proceedings of the 51st Annual ACM SIGACT Symposium on Theory of Computing, 2019

Improved Bounds for Randomly Sampling Colorings via Linear Programming.
Proceedings of the Thirtieth Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, 2019

The Paulsen Problem Made Simple.
Proceedings of the 10th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference, 2019

2018
Optimality and Sub-optimality of PCA I: Spiked Random Matrix Models.
CoRR, 2018

Learning Restricted Boltzmann Machines via Influence Maximization.
CoRR, 2018

Linear Programming Bounds for Randomly Sampling Colorings.
CoRR, 2018

Learning Mixtures of Product Distributions via Higher Multilinear Moments.
CoRR, 2018

Learning topic models - provably and efficiently.
Commun. ACM, 2018

Robustness Meets Algorithms (Invited Talk).
Proceedings of the 16th Scandinavian Symposium and Workshops on Algorithm Theory, 2018

Robustly Learning a Gaussian: Getting Optimal Error, Efficiently.
Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, 2018

Efficiently Learning Mixtures of Mallows Models.
Proceedings of the 59th IEEE Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, 2018

2017
Information Theoretic Properties of Markov Random Fields, and their Algorithmic Applications.
Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 30: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2017, 2017

Learning Determinantal Point Processes with Moments and Cycles.
Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Machine Learning, 2017

Being Robust (in High Dimensions) Can Be Practical.
Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Machine Learning, 2017

Rates of estimation for determinantal point processes.
Proceedings of the 30th Conference on Learning Theory, 2017

2016
An Almost Optimal Algorithm for Computing Nonnegative Rank.
SIAM J. Comput., 2016

Computing a Nonnegative Matrix Factorization - Provably.
SIAM J. Comput., 2016

A Nearly Tight Sum-of-Squares Lower Bound for the Planted Clique Problem.
Electron. Colloquium Comput. Complex., 2016

Message-passing algorithms for synchronization problems over compact groups.
CoRR, 2016

Optimality and Sub-optimality of PCA for Spiked Random Matrices and Synchronization.
CoRR, 2016

How robust are reconstruction thresholds for community detection?
Proceedings of the 48th Annual ACM SIGACT Symposium on Theory of Computing, 2016

Provable Algorithms for Inference in Topic Models.
Proceedings of the 33nd International Conference on Machine Learning, 2016

2015
Beating the random assignment on constraint satisfaction problems of bounded degree.
Electron. Colloquium Comput. Complex., 2015

Tensor Prediction, Rademacher Complexity and Random 3-XOR.
CoRR, 2015

Provable ICA with Unknown Gaussian Noise, and Implications for Gaussian Mixtures and Autoencoders.
Algorithmica, 2015

Super-resolution, Extremal Functions and the Condition Number of Vandermonde Matrices.
Proceedings of the Forty-Seventh Annual ACM on Symposium on Theory of Computing, 2015

Nonnegative Matrix Factorization: Algorithms, Complexity and Applications.
Proceedings of the 2015 ACM on International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation, 2015

Beyond Matrix Completion (Invited Talk).
Proceedings of the 35th IARCS Annual Conference on Foundation of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science, 2015

Simple, Efficient, and Neural Algorithms for Sparse Coding.
Proceedings of The 28th Conference on Learning Theory, 2015

2014
Efficient Coding for Interactive Communication.
IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 2014

The Threshold for Super-resolution via Extremal Functions.
CoRR, 2014

Smoothed analysis of tensor decompositions.
Proceedings of the Symposium on Theory of Computing, 2014

A Polynomial-time Approximation Scheme for Fault-tolerant Distributed Storage.
Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, 2014

Open Problem: Tensor Decompositions: Algorithms up to the Uniqueness Threshold?
Proceedings of The 27th Conference on Learning Theory, 2014

New Algorithms for Learning Incoherent and Overcomplete Dictionaries.
Proceedings of The 27th Conference on Learning Theory, 2014

2013
Vertex Sparsification and Oblivious Reductions.
SIAM J. Comput., 2013

A Practical Algorithm for Topic Modeling with Provable Guarantees.
Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Machine Learning, 2013

A Polynomial Time Algorithm for Lossy Population Recovery.
Proceedings of the 54th Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, 2013

Algorithms and Hardness for Robust Subspace Recovery.
Proceedings of the COLT 2013, 2013

2012
Pareto Optimal Solutions for Smoothed Analysts.
SIAM J. Comput., 2012

A Singly-Exponential Time Algorithm for Computing Nonnegative Rank.
Electron. Colloquium Comput. Complex., 2012

An Information Complexity Approach to Extended Formulations.
Electron. Colloquium Comput. Complex., 2012

Can We Reconcile Robustness and Efficiency in Unsupervised Learning?
CoRR, 2012

Disentangling Gaussians.
Commun. ACM, 2012

Nearly complete graphs decomposable into large induced matchings and their applications.
Proceedings of the 44th Symposium on Theory of Computing Conference, 2012

"Provable ICA with Unknown Gaussian Noise, with Implications for Gaussian Mixtures and Autoencoders".
Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 25: 26th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2012. Proceedings of a meeting held December 3-6, 2012

Learning Topic Models - Going beyond SVD.
Proceedings of the 53rd Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, 2012

2011
Vertex sparsification and universal rounding algorithms.
PhD thesis, 2011

Efficiently Coding for Interactive Communication.
Electron. Colloquium Comput. Complex., 2011

Dueling algorithms.
Proceedings of the 43rd ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing, 2011

Capacitated Metric Labeling.
Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, 2011

Efficient and Explicit Coding for Interactive Communication.
Proceedings of the IEEE 52nd Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, 2011

2010
Some Results on Greedy Embeddings in Metric Spaces.
Discret. Comput. Geom., 2010

Extensions and limits to vertex sparsification.
Proceedings of the 42nd ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing, 2010

Efficiently learning mixtures of two Gaussians.
Proceedings of the 42nd ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing, 2010

Settling the Polynomial Learnability of Mixtures of Gaussians.
Proceedings of the 51th Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, 2010

Vertex Sparsifiers and Abstract Rounding Algorithms.
Proceedings of the 51th Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, 2010

2009
Approximation Algorithms for Multicommodity-Type Problems with Guarantees Independent of the Graph Size.
Proceedings of the 50th Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, 2009


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