Samuel B. Hopkins

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University of California, Berkeley

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Algorithms and computational complexity: high-dimensional statistics, convex programming, linear and semidefinite programming hierarchies, approximation algorithms, combinatorial optimization, hardness of learning and approximation

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Mean estimation with sub-Gaussian rates in polynomial time

Samuel B. Hopkins

ANNALS OF STATISTICS, no. 2 (2020): 1193-1213

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Statistical Query Algorithms and Low-Degree Tests Are Almost Equivalent

Matthew Brennan,Guy Bresler,Samuel B. Hopkins,Jerry Li,Tselil Schramm

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Estimating Rank-One Spikes from Heavy-Tailed Noise via Self-Avoiding Walks

Jingqiu Ding,Samuel B. Hopkins,David Steurer

NIPS 2020, (2020)

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Robust and Heavy-Tailed Mean Estimation Made Simple, via Regret Minimization

Samuel B. Hopkins,Jerry Li,Fred Zhang

NIPS 2020, (2020)

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Smoothed Complexity of 2-player Nash Equilibria

Shant Boodaghians,Joshua Brakensiek,Samuel B. Hopkins,Aviad Rubinstein

FOCS, pp.271-282, (2020)

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Robustly Learning any Clusterable Mixture of Gaussians

Diakonikolas Ilias,Hopkins Samuel B.,Kane Daniel, Karmalkar Sushrut

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Algorithms for Heavy-Tailed Statistics: Regression, Covariance Estimation, and Beyond

Cherapanamjeri Yeshwanth,Hopkins Samuel B., Kathuria Tarun,Raghavendra Prasad, Tripuraneni Nilesh

STOC '20: 52nd Annual ACM SIGACT Symposium on Theory of Computing Chicago IL ..., pp.601-609, (2019)

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Subexponential LPs Approximate Max-Cut

Hopkins Samuel B.,Schramm Tselil, Trevisan Luca

FOCS, pp.943-953, (2019)

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Quantum Entropy Scoring for Fast Robust Mean Estimation and Improved Outlier Detection

Yihe Dong,Samuel B. Hopkins,Jerry Li

ADVANCES IN NEURAL INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEMS 32 (NIPS 2019), (2019): 6065-6075

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How Hard Is Robust Mean Estimation

Samuel B. Hopkins,Jerry Li

COLT, (2019): 1649-1682

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A Robust Spectral Algorithm for Overcomplete Tensor Decomposition

Samuel B. Hopkins,Tselil Schramm,Jonathan Shi

COLT, pp.1683-1722, (2019)

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Sum-of-Squares Meets Program Obfuscation, Revisited

Boaz Barak,Samuel B. Hopkins, Aayush Jain,Pravesh Kothari,Amit Sahai

ADVANCES IN CRYPTOLOGY - EUROCRYPT 2019, PT I, (2018): 226-250

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Mixture models, robustness, and sum of squares proofs

Samuel B. Hopkins,Jerry Li

STOC '18: Symposium on Theory of Computing Los Angeles CA USA June, 20..., (2018): 1021-1034

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Sub-Gaussian Mean Estimation in Polynomial Time

Samuel B. Hopkins

arXiv: Statistics Theory, (2018)

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On the Integrality Gap of Degree-4 Sum of Squares for Planted Clique

Samuel B. Hopkins,Pravesh Kothari,Aaron Henry Potechin,Prasad Raghavendra,Tselil Schramm

ACM Trans. Algorithms, no. 3 (2018): 28:1-28:31

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Bayesian estimation from few samples: community detection and related problems

Samuel B. Hopkins,David Steurer

arXiv: Data Structures and Algorithms, (2017)

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The Power of Sum-of-Squares for Detecting Hidden Structures

Samuel B. Hopkins,Pravesh K. Kothari,Aaron Potechin,Prasad Raghavendra,Tselil Schramm,David Steurer

2017 IEEE 58TH ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM ON FOUNDATIONS OF COMPUTER SCIENCE (FOCS), (2017): 720-731

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Fast spectral algorithms from sum-of-squares proofs: tensor decomposition and planted sparse vectors

Samuel B. Hopkins,Tselil Schramm,Jonathan Shi,David Steurer

STOC '16: Symposium on Theory of Computing Cambridge MA USA June, 2016, pp.178-191, (2016)

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A Nearly Tight Sum-of-Squares Lower Bound for the Planted Clique Problem

Boaz Barak,Samuel B. Hopkins,Jonathan A. Kelner,Pravesh Kothari,Ankur Moitra,Aaron Potechin

2016 IEEE 57TH ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM ON FOUNDATIONS OF COMPUTER SCIENCE (FOCS), (2016): 428-437

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Tensor principal component analysis via sum-of-square proofs

Samuel B. Hopkins,Jonathan Shi,David Steurer

computational learning theory, (2015): 956-1006

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