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Sparsity-constrained optimization is an important and challenging problem that has wide applicability in data mining, machine learning, and statistics. In this paper, we focus on sparsity-constrained optimization in cases where the cost…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-12-19 Feng Chen , Baojian Zhou

Estimation of structure, such as in variable selection, graphical modelling or cluster analysis is notoriously difficult, especially for high-dimensional data. We introduce stability selection. It is based on subsampling in combination with…

Methodology · Statistics 2009-05-16 Nicolai Meinshausen , Peter Buehlmann

An important problem in modeling networks is how to generate a randomly sampled graph with given degrees. A popular model is the configuration model, a network with assigned degrees and random connections. The erased configuration model is…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-10-18 Remco van der Hofstad , Pim van der Hoorn , Nelly Litvak , Clara Stegehuis

Understanding the data-generating process is essential for building machine learning models that generalise well while ensuring robustness and interpretability. This paper addresses the fundamental challenge of modelling the data generation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Bohan Tang , Keyue Jiang , Laura Toni , Siheng Chen , Xiaowen Dong

This paper addresses learning of sparse structural changes or differential network between two classes of non-paranormal graphical models. We assume a multi-source and heterogeneous dataset is available for each class, where the covariance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Mojtaba Nikahd , Seyed Abolfazl Motahari

The problem of aligning Erd\"os-R\'enyi random graphs is a noisy, average-case version of the graph isomorphism problem, in which a pair of correlated random graphs is observed through a random permutation of their vertices. We study a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Giovanni Piccioli , Guilhem Semerjian , Gabriele Sicuro , Lenka Zdeborová

We study structure learning for linear Gaussian SEMs in the presence of latent confounding. Existing continuous methods excel when errors are independent, while deconfounding-first pipelines rely on pervasive factor structure or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Samhita Pal , James O'quinn , Kaveh Aryan , Heather Pua , James P. Long , Amir Asiaee

A sparse stochastic block model (SBM) with two communities is defined by the community probability $\pi_0,\pi_1$, and the connection probability between communities $a,b\in\{0,1\}$, namely $q_{ab} = \frac{\alpha_{ab}}{n}$. When $q_{ab}$ is…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-10-17 Lu Liu

Several learning applications require solving high-dimensional regression problems where the relevant features belong to a small number of (overlapping) groups. For very large datasets and under standard sparsity constraints, hard…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-05-30 Prateek Jain , Nikhil Rao , Inderjit Dhillon

Gaussian Graphical Models (GGMs) or Gauss Markov random fields are widely used in many applications, and the trade-off between the modeling capacity and the efficiency of learning and inference has been an important research problem. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-11-12 Ying Liu , Alan S. Willsky

Graph is a fundamental mathematical structure in characterizing relations between different objects and has been widely used on various learning tasks. Most methods implicitly assume a given graph to be accurate and complete. However, real…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Xuanting Xie , Zhao Kang , Wenyu Chen

We present two algorithms for learning the structure of a Markov network from data: GSMN* and GSIMN. Both algorithms use statistical independence tests to infer the structure by successively constraining the set of structures consistent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-01-16 Facundo Bromberg , Dimitris Margaritis , Vasant Honavar

The goal of predictive sparse coding is to learn a representation of examples as sparse linear combinations of elements from a dictionary, such that a learned hypothesis linear in the new representation performs well on a predictive task.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-10-09 Nishant A. Mehta , Alexander G. Gray

Structure learning is a core problem in AI central to the fields of neuro-symbolic AI and statistical relational learning. It consists in automatically learning a logical theory from data. The basis for structure learning is mining…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Jonathan Feldstein , Dominic Phillips , Efthymia Tsamoura

We consider the problem of model selection in Gaussian Markov fields in the sample deficient scenario. The benchmark information-theoretic results in the case of d-regular graphs require the number of samples to be at least proportional to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-03-30 Ilya Soloveychik , Vahid Tarokh

Intensively growing approach in signal processing and acquisition, the Compressive Sensing approach, allows sparse signals to be recovered from small number of randomly acquired signal coefficients. This paper analyses some of the commonly…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-02-21 Tamara Koljensic , Caslav Labudovic

Scanning probe experiments such as scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and atomic force microscopy (AFM) on strongly correlated electronic systems often reveal complex pattern formation on multiple length scales. By studying the universal…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-04-03 L. Burzawa , Shuo Liu , E. W. Carlson

Large-scale recurrent networks have drawn increasing attention recently because of their capabilities in modeling a large variety of real-world phenomena and physical mechanisms. This paper studies how to identify all authentic connections…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-06-23 Yiyuan She , Yuejia He , Dapeng Wu

The sparsity in levels model recently inspired a new generation of effective acquisition and reconstruction modalities for compressive imaging. Moreover, it naturally arises in various areas of signal processing such as parallel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Ben Adcock , Simone Brugiapaglia , Matthew King-Roskamp

The rapid progress of Artificial Intelligence research came with the development of increasingly complex deep learning models, leading to growing challenges in terms of computational complexity, energy efficiency and interpretability. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Yuanrong Wang , Antonio Briola , Tomaso Aste