Research

 

Preprints

Jing, L., Rinaldo, A. and Wasserman, L. (2012). A Conformal Prediction Approach to Explore Functional Data. arxiv

Balakrishnan, S., Kolar, M., Rinaldo, A. and Singh, A. (2012). Recovering Block-structured Activations Using Compressive Measurements, arxiv.

Rinaldo, A., Petrovíc, S. and Fienberg, S.E. (2010). On the Existence of the MLE for a Directed Random Graph Network Model with Reciprocation. arxiv

Rinaldo, A. (2006). Computing Maximum Likelihood Estimates in Log-Linear Models. Manuscript proposing computational procedures for extended maximum likelihood estimation (extracted from my Ph.D. thesis). draft pdf. A small MATLAB toolbox implementing some of the routines described in the document, which was written for testing purposes, is also available without any warranty!

 

 

Publications

Poczos, B., Rinaldo, A., Singh, A. and Wasserman, L. (2012). Distribution-Free Distribution Regression, AISTATS 2013. arxiv

Sharpnak, J., Rinaldo, A. and Singh, A. (2012). Changepoint Detection over Graphs with the Spectral Scan Statistic, AISTATS 2013. arxiv

Rinaldo, A., Petrovíc, S. and Fienberg, S.E.  (2011). Maximum Likelihood Estimation in Network Models. arxivR code

Hall, R., Rinaldo, A. and Wasserman, L. (2012). Differential Privacy for Functions and Functional Data, to appear in the Journal of Machine Learning Researcharxiv.

Hall, R., Rinaldo, A. and Wasserman, L. (2011). Random Differential Privacy, to appear in the Journal of Privacy and Confidentialityarxiv

Shalizi, C. R. and Rinaldo, A. (2012). Consistency under Sampling of Exponential Random Graph Models, to appear in the Annals of Statisticsarxiv

Rinaldo, A., Singh, A., Nugent, R. and Wasserman, L. (2012). Stability of Density-Based Clustering, to appear in Journal of Machine Learning, arxiv

Fienberg, S.E. and  Rinaldo, A. (2012). Maximum Likelihood Estimation in Log-linear Models, to appear in the Annals of Statistics. pdf of the paper and pdf of the supplementary material. The original version of the manuscript appeared on the arxiv under the title ”Maximum Likelihood Estimation in Log-linear Models: Theory and Algorithms.”

Balakrishnan, S., Rinaldo, A., Sheehy, D. R., Singh, A. and Wasserman, L. (2012). Minimax rates for homology inference, AISTATS 2012. arxiv

Sharpnack, J.,  Rinaldo, A. and Singh, A. (2012). Sparsistency of the Edge Lasso over Graphs, AISTATS 2012.

Balakrishnan,  S., Kolar, M., Rinaldo, A., Singh, A. and Wasserman, L. (2011). Statistical and computational tradeoffs in biclustering, NIPS 2011 Workshop on Computational Trade-offs in Statistical Learning. pdf

Kolar, M., Balakrishnan,  S., Rinaldo, A. and Singh, A. (2011). Minimax Localization of Structural Information in Large Noisy Matrices, Neural Information Processing Systems, NIPS 2011. pdf

Yang, X., Fienberg, S.E. and Rinaldo, A. (2011). Differential Privacy for Protecting Multi-dimensional Contingency Table Data: Extensions and Applications, to appear in Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality. pdf

Nardi, Y. and Rinaldo, A. (2011). The Log-linear Group Lasso Estimator for Hierarchical Log-Linear Models and Its Asymptotic Properties, to appear in Bernoulli. pdf

Nardi, Y. and Rinaldo, A. (2011). Autoregressive Process Modeling via the Lasso Procedure, to appear in the Journal of Multivariate Analysis. pdf

Fienberg, S.E., Rinaldo, A. and Yang, X. (2011). Differential Privacy and the Risk-Utility Tradeoff for Multi-dimensional Contingency Tables, Lecture Notes in Computer Science,2011, Volume 6344, 187–199, Springer. pdf

Rinaldo, A. and Wasserman, L. (2010). Generalized Density Clustering, The Annals of Statistics, 38(5), 2678–2722. pdf

Petrovíc, S., Rinaldo, A. and Fienberg, S.E. (2009). Algebraic Statistics for a Directed Random Graph Model with Reciprocation, to appear in the volume, Algebraic Methods in Statistics and Probability II, Contemporary Mathematics series, published by the American Mathematical Society. pdf

Fienberg, S.E., Petrovíc, S. and Rinaldo, A. (2009). Algebraic Statistics for p_1 Random Graphs Models: Markov Bases and their Uses, to appear in a collection titled “Looking back: A festschrift to Honor Paul Holland”,  published by the Educational Testing Services.

Rinaldo, A. (2009). Properties and Refinement of the Fused Lasso, The Annals of Statistics 37, 5B, 2922–2952. pdf

Rinaldo, A., Fienberg, S.E. and Zhou, Y. (2009). On the Geometry of Discrete Exponential Families with Application to Exponential Random Graph  Models,   Electronic Journal of Statistics, 3, 446–484. pdf MATLAB scripts and GUI

Nardi, Y. and Rinaldo, A. (2008). On the Asymptotic Properties of The Group Lasso Estimator in Least Squares Problem, Electronic Journal of Statistics, 2, 605–633. pdf

Dobra, A., Fienberg, S.E., Rinaldo, A., Slavkovic, A. and Zhou, Y. (2008). Algebraic Statistics and Contingency Table Problems: Estimation and Disclosure Limitation,  in Emerging Applications of Algebraic Geometry, (M. Putinar, S. Sullivant, eds.), IMA Series in Applied Mathematics, Springer-Verlag. pdf

Fienberg, S.E., Hersh, P., Rinaldo, A. and Zhou, Y. (2007). Maximum Likelihood Estimation in Latent Class Models For Contingency Table Data, in  Algebraic and Geometric Methods in Statistics, Cambridge University Press. pdf

Fienberg, S. E., Rinaldo, A. (2007). Three Centuries of Categorical Data Analysis: Log-linear Models and Maximum Likelihood Estimation,  Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 137, 11, 3420-3445. Special Issue: In Celebration of the Centennial of The Birth of Samarendra Nath Roy (1906-1964). pdf

Eriksson, N., Fienberg, E. S., Rinaldo, A., Sullivant, S. (2006). Polyhedral Conditions for the Nonexistence of the MLE for Hierarchical Log-linear Models, Journal of Symbolic Computation, 41, 222–233. Special Issue on Algebraic Statistics. pdf

Rinaldo, A., Balcanu, S., Devlin, B., Sonpar, V., Wasserman, L., Roeder, K. (2005). Characterization of Multilocus Linkage Disequilibrium, Genetic Epidemiology, 28 (3), 193–206. pdf and poster version