Alon Orlitsky

Affiliations:
  • University of California, San Diego, USA


According to our database1, Alon Orlitsky authored at least 125 papers between 1984 and 2023.

Collaborative distances:
  • Dijkstra number2 of three.
  • Erdős number3 of two.

Awards

IEEE Fellow

IEEE Fellow 2006, "For contributions to zero-error information theory.".

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Bibliography

2023
Linear Regression using Heterogeneous Data Batches.
CoRR, 2023

2022
Robust estimation algorithms don't need to know the corruption level.
CoRR, 2022

TURF: Two-Factor, Universal, Robust, Fast Distribution Learning Algorithm.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning, 2022

2021
Robust Density Estimation from Batches: The Best Things in Life are (Nearly) Free.
Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Machine Learning, 2021

Compressed Maximum Likelihood.
Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Machine Learning, 2021

2020
Profile Entropy: A Fundamental Measure for the Learnability and Compressibility of Discrete Distributions.
CoRR, 2020

A General Method for Robust Learning from Batches.
Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 33: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2020, 2020

Linear-Sample Learning of Low-Rank Distributions.
Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 33: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2020, 2020

Profile Entropy: A Fundamental Measure for the Learnability and Compressibility of Distributions.
Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 33: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2020, 2020

SURF: A Simple, Universal, Robust, Fast Distribution Learning Algorithm.
Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 33: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2020, 2020

On Learning Parametric Non-Smooth Continuous Distributions.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, 2020

Optimal Robust Learning of Discrete Distributions from Batches.
Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Machine Learning, 2020

Data Amplification: Instance-Optimal Property Estimation.
Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Machine Learning, 2020

Optimal Sequential Maximization: One Interview is Enough!
Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Machine Learning, 2020

Towards Competitive N-gram Smoothing.
Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, 2020

2019
Robust Learning of Discrete Distributions from Batches.
CoRR, 2019

Unified Sample-Optimal Property Estimation in Near-Linear Time.
Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 32: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2019, 2019

The Broad Optimality of Profile Maximum Likelihood.
Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 32: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2019, 2019

Doubly-Competitive Distribution Estimation.
Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Machine Learning, 2019

2018
Maximum Selection and Sorting with Adversarial Comparators.
J. Mach. Learn. Res., 2018

Data Amplification: A Unified and Competitive Approach to Property Estimation.
Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 31: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2018, 2018

On Learning Markov Chains.
Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 31: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2018, 2018

Adaptive Estimation of Generalized Distance to Uniformity.
Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, 2018

The Limits of Maxing, Ranking, and Preference Learning.
Proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Machine Learning, 2018

2017
Estimating Renyi Entropy of Discrete Distributions.
IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 2017

The power of absolute discounting: all-dimensional distribution estimation.
Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 30: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2017, 2017

Maxing and Ranking with Few Assumptions.
Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 30: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2017, 2017

Maximum Selection and Ranking under Noisy Comparisons.
Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Machine Learning, 2017

A Unified Maximum Likelihood Approach for Estimating Symmetric Properties of Discrete Distributions.
Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Machine Learning, 2017

2016
A Unified Maximum Likelihood Approach for Optimal Distribution Property Estimation.
Electron. Colloquium Comput. Complex., 2016

Maximum Selection and Sorting with Adversarial Comparators and an Application to Density Estimation.
CoRR, 2016

Near-Optimal Smoothing of Structured Conditional Probability Matrices.
Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 29: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2016, 2016

Learning Markov distributions: Does estimation trump compression?
Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, 2016

Estimating the number of defectives with group testing.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, 2016

2015
String Reconstruction from Substring Compositions.
SIAM J. Discret. Math., 2015

Competitive Distribution Estimation.
CoRR, 2015

The Complexity of Estimating Rényi Entropy.
Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, 2015

Competitive Distribution Estimation: Why is Good-Turing Good.
Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 28: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2015, 2015

Universal compression of power-law distributions.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, 2015

On Learning Distributions from their Samples.
Proceedings of The 28th Conference on Learning Theory, 2015

Faster Algorithms for Testing under Conditional Sampling.
Proceedings of The 28th Conference on Learning Theory, 2015

2014
Universal compression of Gaussian sources with unknown parameters.
CoRR, 2014

Universal Compression of Envelope Classes: Tight Characterization via Poisson Sampling.
CoRR, 2014

Near-Optimal-Sample Estimators for Spherical Gaussian Mixtures.
Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 27: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2014, 2014

Sublinear algorithms for outlier detection and generalized closeness testing.
Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Honolulu, HI, USA, June 29, 2014

Poissonization and universal compression of envelope classes.
Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Honolulu, HI, USA, June 29, 2014

Efficient compression of monotone and m-modal distributions.
Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Honolulu, HI, USA, June 29, 2014

Sorting with adversarial comparators and application to density estimation.
Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Honolulu, HI, USA, June 29, 2014

Quadratic-backtracking algorithm for string reconstruction from substring compositions.
Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Honolulu, HI, USA, June 29, 2014

2013
Guest Editorial: In-Network Computation: Exploring the Fundamental Limits.
IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun., 2013

Tight bounds for universal compression of large alphabets.
Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, 2013

Optimal Probability Estimation with Applications to Prediction and Classification.
Proceedings of the COLT 2013, 2013

A Competitive Test for Uniformity of Monotone Distributions.
Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, 2013

2012
Competitive Classification and Closeness Testing.
Proceedings of the COLT 2012, 2012

Tight Bounds on Profile Redundancy and Distinguishability.
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

On the query computation and verification of functions.
Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, 2012

Estimating multiple concurrent processes.
Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, 2012

2011
Competitive Closeness Testing.
Proceedings of the COLT 2011, 2011

Algebraic computation of pattern maximum likelihood.
Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory Proceedings, 2011

Expected query complexity of symmetric boolean functions.
Proceedings of the 49th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, 2011

2010
Silence-based communication.
IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 2010

Classification using pattern probability estimators.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, 2010

Exact calculation of pattern probabilities.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, 2010

On reconstructing a string from its substring compositions.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, 2010

2009
Recent results on pattern maximum likelihood.
Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE Information Theory Workshop, 2009

The maximum likelihood probability of unique-singleton, ternary, and length-7 patterns.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, 2009

The maximum likelihood probability of skewed patterns.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, 2009

2008
Further results on relative redundancy.
Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, 2008

2007
Population estimation with performance guarantees.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, 2007

Single versus multiple rounds for distributed function computation.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, 2007

2006
Limit Results on Pattern Entropy.
IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 2006

Universal Compression of Markov and Related Sources Over Arbitrary Alphabets.
IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 2006

Theoretical and Experimental Results on Modeling Low Probabilities.
Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE Information Theory Workshop, 2006

Relative redundancy for large alphabets.
Proceedings of the Proceedings 2006 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, 2006

Silence Based Communication for Sensor Networks.
Proceedings of the Proceedings 2006 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, 2006

Modifying Distances.
Proceedings of the Semi-Supervised Learning, 2006

2005
Stopping set distribution of LDPC code ensembles.
IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 2005

A lower bound on compression of unknown alphabets.
Theor. Comput. Sci., 2005

Innovation and pattern entropy of stationary processes.
Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, 2005

Convergence of profile based estimators.
Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, 2005

Supervised dimensionality reduction using mixture models.
Proceedings of the Machine Learning, 2005

Estimating and computing density based distance metrics.
Proceedings of the Machine Learning, 2005

2004
Universal compression of memoryless sources over unknown alphabets.
IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 2004

Speaking of infinity [i.i.d. strings].
IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 2004

On Modeling Profiles Instead of Values.
Proceedings of the UAI '04, 2004

Semi-parametric Exponential Family PCA.
Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 17 [Neural Information Processing Systems, 2004

Relative redundancy: a more stringent performance guarantee for universal compression.
Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, 2004

Algorithms for modeling distributions over large alphabets.
Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, 2004

On the redundancy of HMM patterns.
Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, 2004

2003
One-way communication and error-correcting codes.
IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 2003

On Nearest-Neighbor Error-Correcting Output Codes with Application to All-Pairs Multiclass Support Vector Machines.
J. Mach. Learn. Res., 2003

Discriminative Gaussian Mixture Models: A Comparison with Kernel Classifiers.
Proceedings of the Machine Learning, 2003

Always Good Turing: Asymptotically Optimal Probability Estimation.
Proceedings of the 44th Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS 2003), 2003

Performance of universal codes over infinite alphabets.
Proceedings of the 2003 Data Compression Conference (DCC 2003), 2003

Universal Coding of Zipf Distributions.
Proceedings of the Computational Learning Theory and Kernel Machines, 2003

2002
Scalar versus vector quantization: Worst case analysis.
IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 2002

Combined binary classifiers with applications to speech recognition.
Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP2002, 2002

2001
Coding for computing.
IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 2001

On codes that avoid specified differences.
IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 2001

2000
Server-assisted speech recognition over the Internet.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2000

1998
Zero-Error Information Theory.
IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 1998

Design of Shapes for Precise Image Registration.
IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 1998

1996
Source coding and graph entropies.
IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 1996

On Edge-colored Interior Planar Graphs on a Circle and the Expected Number of RNA Secondary Structures.
Discret. Appl. Math., 1996

1995
Vector Analysis of Threshold Functions
Inf. Comput., July, 1995

Repeated communication and Ramsey graphs.
IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 1995

1994
Lower bounds on threshold and related circuits via communication complexity.
IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 1994

A lower bound on the expected length of one-to-one codes.
IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 1994

1993
Three results on interactive communication.
IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 1993

Privacy, additional information and communication.
IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 1993

Interactive Communication of Balanced Distributions and of Correlated Files.
SIAM J. Discret. Math., 1993

Asymptotic Component Densities in Programmable Gate Arrays Realizing All Circuits of a Given Size.
Algorithmica, 1993

1992
Average-case interactive communication.
IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 1992

1991
Worst-case interactive communication - II: Two messages are not optimal.
IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 1991

Interactive Communication: Balanced Distributions, Correlated Files, and Average-Case Complexity
Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, 1991

A Geometric Approach to Threshold Circuit Complexity.
Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Workshop on Computational Learning Theory, 1991

1990
Average and randomized communication complexity.
IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 1990

Worst-case interactive communication I: Two messages are almost optimal.
IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 1990

A Spectral Lower Bound Techniqye for the Size of Decision Trees and Two Level AND/OR Circuits.
IEEE Trans. Computers, 1990

Two Messages are Almost Optimal for Conveying Information.
Proceedings of the Ninth Annual ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing, 1990

On the Circuit Complexity of Neural Networks.
Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 3, 1990

1989
Feeback in Discrete Communication.
Proceedings of the Distributed Computing And Cryptography, 1989

1988
Self-avoiding random loops.
IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 1988

1984
Communication with Secrecy Constraints
Proceedings of the 16th Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing, April 30, 1984

Interactive Data Comparison
Proceedings of the 25th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, 1984


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