The replicability crisis is a major issue across nearly all areas of
empirical science, calling for the formal study of replicability in statistics.
Motivated in this context, [Impagliazzo, Lei, Pitassi, and Sorrell STOC 2022]
introduced the notion of replicable learning algorithms, and gave basic
procedures for $1$-dimensional tasks including statistical queries. In this
work, we study the computational and statistical cost of replicability for
several fundamental high dimensional statistical tasks, including
multi-hypothesis testing and mean estimation.
Our main contribution establishes a computational and statistical equivalence
between optimal replicable algorithms and high dimensional isoperimetric
tilings. As a consequence, we obtain matching sample complexity upper and lower
bounds for replicable mean estimation of distributions with bounded covariance,
resolving an open problem of [Bun, Gaboardi, Hopkins, Impagliazzo, Lei,
Pitassi, Sivakumar, and Sorrell, STOC2023] and for the $N$-Coin Problem,
resolving a problem of [Karbasi, Velegkas, Yang, and Zhou, NeurIPS2023] up to
log factors.
While our equivalence is computational, allowing us to shave log factors in
sample complexity from the best known efficient algorithms, efficient
isoperimetric tilings are not known. To circumvent this, we introduce several
relaxed paradigms that do allow for sample and computationally efficient
algorithms, including allowing pre-processing, adaptivity, and approximate
replicability. In these cases we give efficient algorithms matching or beating
the best known sample complexity for mean estimation and the coin problem,
including a generic procedure that reduces the standard quadratic overhead of
replicability to linear in expectation.

研究了可复制性的计算和统计等价性以及高维统计任务中的样本复杂度，并提出了解决分布有有界协方差和 N-Coin 问题中的开放问题的有效算法。

高维统计中的可复制性

Replicability in High Dimensional Statistics

We investigate replicable learning algorithms. Ideally, we would like to
design algorithms that output the same canonical model over multiple runs, even
when different runs observe a different set of samples from the unknown data
distribution. In general, such a strong notion of replicability is not
achievable. Thus we consider two feasible notions of replicability called list
replicability and certificate replicability. Intuitively, these notions capture
the degree of (non) replicability. We design algorithms for certain learning
problems that are optimal in list and certificate complexity. We establish
matching impossibility results.

本研究探讨了可复制的学习算法，在考虑可行的可复制性观念和证明可复制性的基础上，设计了一些用于特定学习问题的算法，其列表和证明的复杂度是最优的，并提出了相应的不可能性结果。