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High-dimensional sparse modeling with censored survival data is of great practical importance, as exemplified by modern applications in high-throughput genomic data analysis and credit risk analysis. In this article, we propose a class of…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-03-19 Wei Lin , Jinchi Lv

It was recently established that for convex optimization problems with sparse optimal solutions (be it entry-wise sparsity or matrix rank-wise sparsity) it is possible to design first-order methods with linear convergence rates that depend…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-20 Dan Garber

This paper considers the partially functional linear model (PFLM) where all predictive features consist of a functional covariate and a high dimensional scalar vector. Over an infinite dimensional reproducing kernel Hilbert space, the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-10-19 Shaogao Lv , Xin He , Junhui Wang

In this paper, we consider a well-known sparse optimization problem that aims to find a sparse solution of a possibly noisy underdetermined system of linear equations. Mathematically, it can be modeled in a unified manner by minimizing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-01 Lei Yang , Xiaojun Chen , Shuhuang Xiang

In this paper, we establish minimax optimal rates of convergence for prediction in a semi-functional linear model that consists of a functional component and a less smooth nonparametric component. Our results reveal that the smoother…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-11-01 Keli Guo , Jun Fan , Lixing Zhu

We obtain minimax-optimal convergence rates in the supremum norm, including information-theoretic lower bounds, for estimating the covariance kernel of a stochastic process which is repeatedly observed at discrete, synchronous design…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Max Berger , Hajo Holzmann

Under the reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (RKHS), we consider the penalized least-squares of the partially functional linear models (PFLM), whose predictor contains both functional and traditional multivariate parts, and the multivariate…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-10-03 Huiming Zhang , Xiaoyu Lei

We study Sparse Multiple Kernel Learning (SMKL), which is the problem of selecting a sparse convex combination of prespecified kernels for support vector binary classification. Unlike prevailing l1 regularized approaches that approximate a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-03 Dimitris Bertsimas , Caio de Prospero Iglesias , Nicholas A. G. Johnson

This paper considers sparse spiked covariance matrix models in the high-dimensional setting and studies the minimax estimation of the covariance matrix and the principal subspace as well as the minimax rank detection. The optimal rate of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-03-29 Tony Cai , Zongming Ma , Yihong Wu

Given a dictionary of $M_n$ initial estimates of the unknown true regression function, we aim to construct linearly aggregated estimators that target the best performance among all the linear combinations under a sparse $q$-norm ($0 \leq q…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2012-01-16 Zhan Wang , Sandra Paterlini , Frank Gao , Yuhong Yang

Recent theoretical studies proved that deep neural network (DNN) estimators obtained by minimizing empirical risk with a certain sparsity constraint can attain optimal convergence rates for regression and classification problems. However,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-08-10 Ilsang Ohn , Yongdai Kim

Suppose we are given a matrix that is formed by adding an unknown sparse matrix to an unknown low-rank matrix. Our goal is to decompose the given matrix into its sparse and low-rank components. Such a problem arises in a number of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-08-09 Venkat Chandrasekaran , Sujay Sanghavi , Pablo A. Parrilo , Alan S. Willsky

Sparse approximate solutions to linear equations are classically obtained via L1 norm regularized least squares, but this method often underestimates the true solution. As an alternative to the L1 norm, this paper proposes a class of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-20 Ivan Selesnick

We demonstrate an equivalence between reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS) embeddings of conditional distributions and vector-valued regressors. This connection introduces a natural regularized loss function which the RKHS embeddings…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-07-25 Steffen Grünewälder , Guy Lever , Luca Baldassarre , Sam Patterson , Arthur Gretton , Massimilano Pontil

In complex visual recognition tasks it is typical to adopt multiple descriptors, that describe different aspects of the images, for obtaining an improved recognition performance. Descriptors that have diverse forms can be fused into a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-15 Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan , Karthikeyan Natesan Ramamurthy , Andreas Spanias

We consider the global minimization of smooth functions based solely on function evaluations. Algorithms that achieve the optimal number of function evaluations for a given precision level typically rely on explicitly constructing an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-23 Alessandro Rudi , Ulysse Marteau-Ferey , Francis Bach

For the problem of high-dimensional sparse linear regression, it is known that an $\ell_0$-based estimator can achieve a $1/n$ "fast" rate on the prediction error without any conditions on the design matrix, whereas in absence of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-12-01 Yuchen Zhang , Martin J. Wainwright , Michael I. Jordan

For the Gaussian sequence model, we obtain non-asymptotic minimax rates of estimation of the linear, quadratic and the L2-norm functionals on classes of sparse vectors and construct optimal estimators that attain these rates. The main…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-02-04 Olivier Collier , Laëtitia Comminges , Alexandre B. Tsybakov

High-dimensional functional data have become increasingly prevalent in modern applications such as high-frequency financial data and neuroimaging data analysis. We investigate a class of high-dimensional linear regression models, where each…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-11-06 Xingche Guo , Yehua Li , Tailen Hsing

This paper presents Sparse Gradient Descent as a solution for variable selection in convex piecewise linear regression, where the model is given as the maximum of $k$-affine functions $ x \mapsto \max_{j \in [k]} \langle a_j^\star, x…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-07 Haitham Kanj , Seonho Kim , Kiryung Lee