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We give an efficient algorithm for finding sparse approximate solutions to linear systems of equations with nonnegative coefficients. Unlike most known results for sparse recovery, we do not require {\em any} assumption on the matrix other…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-01-09 Aditya Bhaskara , Ananda Theertha Suresh , Morteza Zadimoghaddam

Finding the sparsest solutions to a tensor complementarity problem is generally NP-hard due to the nonconvexity and noncontinuity of the involved $\ell_0$ norm. In this paper, a special type of tensor complementarity problems with…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2015-05-06 Ziyan Luo , Liqun Qi , Naihua Xiu

We present a Bayesian non-negative tensor factorization model for count-valued tensor data, and develop scalable inference algorithms (both batch and online) for dealing with massive tensors. Our generative model can handle overdispersed…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-08-19 Changwei Hu , Piyush Rai , Changyou Chen , Matthew Harding , Lawrence Carin

Finding methods for making generalizable predictions is a fundamental problem of machine learning. By looking into similarities between the prediction problem for unknown data and the lossless compression we have found an approach that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Michael Tetelman

To address the common problem of high dimensionality in tensor regressions, we introduce a generalized tensor random projection method that embeds high-dimensional tensor-valued covariates into low-dimensional subspaces with minimal loss of…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-10-03 Roberto Casarin , Radu Craiu , Qing Wang

In this article, we derive a Bayesian model to learning the sparse and low rank PARAFAC decomposition for the observed tensor with missing values via the elastic net, with property to find the true rank and sparse factor matrix which is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-30 Songting Shi , Xiang Li , Arkadiusz Sitek , Quanzheng Li

The bias-variance decomposition is a central result in statistics and machine learning, but is typically presented only for the squared error. We present a generalization of the bias-variance decomposition where the prediction error is a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-13 David Pfau

In this paper we introduce two conceptual algorithms for minimising abstract convex functions. Both algorithms rely on solving a proximal-type subproblem with an abstract Bregman distance based proximal term. We prove their convergence when…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-09 Reinier Díaz Millán , Julien Ugon

Tensors are multi-way arrays, and the Candecomp/Parafac (CP) tensor factorization has found application in many different domains. The CP model is typically fit using a least squares objective function, which is a maximum likelihood…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-10-18 Eric C. Chi , Tamara G. Kolda

Yuan's theorem of the alternative is an important theoretical tool in optimization, which provides a checkable certificate for the infeasibility of a strict inequality system involving two homogeneous quadratic functions. In this paper, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-09-02 Shenglong Hu , Guoyin Li , Liqun Qi

We consider the problem of solving mixed random linear equations with $k$ components. This is the noiseless setting of mixed linear regression. The goal is to estimate multiple linear models from mixed samples in the case where the labels…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-08-23 Xinyang Yi , Constantine Caramanis , Sujay Sanghavi

This paper brings a contribution to the Bayesian theory of nonparametric and semiparametric estimation. We are interested in the asymptotic normality of the posterior distribution in Gaussian linear regression models when the number of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2012-03-05 Dominique Bontemps

We study the l^{p_1,...,p_m} singular value problem for non-negative tensors. We prove a general Perron-Frobenius theorem for weakly irreducible and irreducible nonnegative tensors and provide a Collatz-Wielandt characterization of the…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2015-03-05 Antoine Gautier , Matthias Hein

There exist linear relations among tensor entries of low rank tensors. These linear relations can be expressed by multi-linear polynomials, which are called generating polynomials. We use generating polynomials to compute tensor rank…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-17 Jiawang Nie , Li Wang , Zequn Zheng

We prove an existence and uniqueness result for Neumann boundary problem of a parabolic partial differential equation (PDE for short) with a singular nonlinear divergence term which can only be understood in a weak sense. A probabilistic…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-02-22 Xue Yang , Jing Zhang

We investigate the convergence rates of variational posterior distributions for statistical inverse problems involving nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs). Departing from exact Bayesian inference, variational inference…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Shaokang Zu , Junxiong Jia , Deyu Meng

We consider nonparametric Bayesian inference in a multidimensional diffusion model with reflecting boundary conditions based on discrete high-frequency observations. We prove a general posterior contraction rate theorem in $L^2$-loss, which…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Marc Hoffmann , Kolyan Ray

We pose the problem of approximating optimally a given nonnegative signal with the scalar autoconvolution of a nonnegative signal. The I-divergence is chosen as the optimality criterion being well suited to incorporate nonnegativity…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-04 Lorenzo Finesso , Peter Spreij

This paper is motivated by Davenport's problem and the subsequent work regarding badly approximable points in submanifolds of a Euclidian space. We study the problem in the area of twisted Diophantine approximation and present two different…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2017-05-17 Paloma Bengoechea , Nikolay Moshchevitin , Natalia Stepanova

We introduce the Poisson tensor completion (PTC) estimator that exploits inter-sample relationships to compute a low-rank Poisson tensor decomposition of the frequency histogram for samples of a multivariate distribution. Our crucial…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Daniel M. Dunlavy , Richard B. Lehoucq , Carolyn D. Mayer , Arvind Prasadan