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Yicheng Li

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5 published item(s)

preprint2026arXiv

General Lower Bounds for Differentially Private Federated Learning with Arbitrary Public-Transcript Interactions

We prove a general lower bound for differentially private federated learning protocols with arbitrary public-transcript interactions. The protocol may use any number of adaptive rounds, and each client's local samples may be reused across rounds. For parameter estimation under squared \(\ell_2\) loss, we establish a federated van Trees lower bound for every estimator satisfying a total clientwise sample-level zero-concentrated differential privacy (zCDP) constraint. The main technical ingredient is a privacy-information contraction inequality for complete public transcripts. We illustrate the bound through applications to mean estimation, linear regression, and nonparametric regression.

preprint2026arXiv

Large Dimensional Kernel Ridge Regression: Extending to Product Kernels

Recent studies have reported $\textit{saturation effects}$ and $\textit{multiple descent behavior}$ in large dimensional kernel ridge regression (KRR). However, these findings are predominantly derived under restrictive settings, such as inner product kernels on sphere or strong eigenfunction assumptions like hypercontractivity. Whether such behaviors hold for other kernels remains an open question. In this paper, we establish a broad, new family of large dimensional kernels and derive the corresponding convergence rates of the generalization error. As a result, we recover key phenomena previously associated with inner product kernels on sphere, including: $i)$ the $\textit{minimax optimality}$ when the source condition $s\le 1$; $ii)$ the $\textit{saturation effect}$ when $s>1$; $iii)$ a $\textit{periodic plateau phenomenon}$ in the convergence rate and a $\textit {multiple-descent behavior}$ with respect to the sample size $n$.

preprint2024arXiv

Optimal Rates of Kernel Ridge Regression under Source Condition in Large Dimensions

Motivated by the studies of neural networks (e.g.,the neural tangent kernel theory), we perform a study on the large-dimensional behavior of kernel ridge regression (KRR) where the sample size $n \asymp d^γ$ for some $γ> 0$. Given an RKHS $\mathcal{H}$ associated with an inner product kernel defined on the sphere $\mathbb{S}^{d}$, we suppose that the true function $f_ρ^{*} \in [\mathcal{H}]^{s}$, the interpolation space of $\mathcal{H}$ with source condition $s>0$. We first determined the exact order (both upper and lower bound) of the generalization error of kernel ridge regression for the optimally chosen regularization parameter $λ$. We then further showed that when $0<s\le1$, KRR is minimax optimal; and when $s>1$, KRR is not minimax optimal (a.k.a. he saturation effect). Our results illustrate that the curves of rate varying along $γ$ exhibit the periodic plateau behavior and the multiple descent behavior and show how the curves evolve with $s>0$. Interestingly, our work provides a unified viewpoint of several recent works on kernel regression in the large-dimensional setting, which correspond to $s=0$ and $s=1$ respectively.

preprint2022arXiv

A non-local gradient based approach of infinity Laplacian with $Γ$-convergence

We propose an infinity Laplacian method to address the problem of interpolation on an unstructured point cloud. In doing so, we find the labeling function with the smallest infinity norm of its gradient. By introducing the non-local gradient, the continuous functional is approximated with a discrete form. The discrete problem is convex and can be solved efficiently with the split Bregman method. Experimental results indicate that our approach provides consistent interpolations and the labeling functions obtained are globally smooth, even in the case of extreme low sampling rate. More importantly, convergence of the discrete minimizer to the optimal continuous labeling function is proved using $Γ$-convergence and compactness, which guarantees the reliability of the infinity Laplacian method in various potential applications.

preprint2020arXiv

An Integrated Enhancement Solution for 24-hour Colorful Imaging

The current industry practice for 24-hour outdoor imaging is to use a silicon camera supplemented with near-infrared (NIR) illumination. This will result in color images with poor contrast at daytime and absence of chrominance at nighttime. For this dilemma, all existing solutions try to capture RGB and NIR images separately. However, they need additional hardware support and suffer from various drawbacks, including short service life, high price, specific usage scenario, etc. In this paper, we propose a novel and integrated enhancement solution that produces clear color images, whether at abundant sunlight daytime or extremely low-light nighttime. Our key idea is to separate the VIS and NIR information from mixed signals, and enhance the VIS signal adaptively with the NIR signal as assistance. To this end, we build an optical system to collect a new VIS-NIR-MIX dataset and present a physically meaningful image processing algorithm based on CNN. Extensive experiments show outstanding results, which demonstrate the effectiveness of our solution.