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For solving linear inverse problems, particularly of the type that appears in tomographic imaging and compressive sensing, this paper develops two new approaches. The first approach is an iterative algorithm that minimizes a regularized…

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We study the problem of learning a directed acyclic graph from data generated according to an additive, non-linear structural equation model with Gaussian noise. We express each non-linear function through a basis expansion, and derive a…

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Sparse graphical modelling has attained widespread attention across various academic fields. We propose two new graphical model approaches, Gslope and Tslope, which provide sparse estimates of the precision matrix by penalizing its sorted…

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In this paper, we develop a randomized algorithm and theory for learning a sparse model from large-scale and high-dimensional data, which is usually formulated as an empirical risk minimization problem with a sparsity-inducing regularizer.…

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Recently it has become popular to learn sparse Gaussian graphical models (GGMs) by imposing l1 or group l1,2 penalties on the elements of the precision matrix. Thispenalized likelihood approach results in a tractable convex optimization…

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Graphical models are widely used in scienti fic and engineering research to represent conditional independence structures between random variables. In many controlled experiments, environmental changes or external stimuli can often alter…

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We consider structure discovery of undirected graphical models from observational data. Inferring likely structures from few examples is a complex task often requiring the formulation of priors and sophisticated inference procedures.…

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Randomized iterative algorithms have attracted much attention in recent years because they can approximately solve large-scale linear systems of equations without accessing the entire coefficient matrix. In this paper, we propose two novel…

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We tackle the problem of system identification, where we select inputs, observe the corresponding outputs from the true system, and optimize the parameters of our model to best fit the data. We propose a practical and computationally…

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We consider the problem of reconstructing rank-one matrices from random linear measurements, a task that appears in a variety of problems in signal processing, statistics, and machine learning. In this paper, we focus on the Alternating…

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Gaussian graphical models (GGM) have been widely used in many high-dimensional applications ranging from biological and financial data to recommender systems. Sparsity in GGM plays a central role both statistically and computationally.…

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In this paper, we address the problem of learning the structure of a pairwise graphical model from samples in a high-dimensional setting. Our first main result studies the sparsistency, or consistency in sparsity pattern recovery,…

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Gaussian graphical modeling has been widely used to explore various network structures, such as gene regulatory networks and social networks. We often use a penalized maximum likelihood approach with the $L_1$ penalty for learning a…

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