English
Related papers

Related papers: Optimal detection of sparse principal components i…

200 papers

We present a novel, general, and unifying point of view on sparse approaches to polynomial optimization. Solving polynomial optimization problems to global optimality is a ubiquitous challenge in many areas of science and engineering.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-07 Gennadiy Averkov , Benjamin Peters , Sebastian Sager

Under a standard assumption in complexity theory (NP not in P/poly), we demonstrate a gap between the minimax prediction risk for sparse linear regression that can be achieved by polynomial-time algorithms, and that achieved by optimal…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-05-22 Yuchen Zhang , Martin J. Wainwright , Michael I. Jordan

High-dimensional learning problems, where the number of features exceeds the sample size, often require sparse regularization for effective prediction and variable selection. While established for fully supervised data, these techniques…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-01 The Tien Mai , Mai Anh Nguyen , Trung Nghia Nguyen

In optimal experimental design, the objective is to select a limited set of experiments that maximizes information about unknown model parameters based on factor levels. This work addresses the generalized D-optimal design problem, allowing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Aditya Pillai , Gabriel Ponte , Marcia Fampa , Jon Lee , and Mohit Singh , Weijun Xie

In this work, we study complex-valued data detection performance in massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. We focus on the problem of recovering an $n$-dimensional signal whose entries are drawn from an arbitrary…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Ayed M. Alrashdi , Houssem Sifaou

We propose a new estimator for the high-dimensional linear regression model with observation error in the design where the number of coefficients is potentially larger than the sample size. The main novelty of our procedure is that the…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-09-09 Alexandre Belloni , Abhishek Kaul , Mathieu Rosenbaum

Missing data occur frequently in a wide range of applications. In this paper, we consider estimation of high-dimensional covariance matrices in the presence of missing observations under a general missing completely at random model in the…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-05-17 T. Tony Cai , Anru Zhang

In this paper, we investigate the recovery of a sparse weight vector (parameters vector) from a set of noisy linear combinations. However, only partial information about the matrix representing the linear combinations is available. Assuming…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Ashkan Esmaeili , Arash Amini , Farokh Marvasti

In this paper we consider the problem of recovering a high dimensional data matrix from a set of incomplete and noisy linear measurements. We introduce a new model that can efficiently restrict the degrees of freedom of the problem and is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-11-22 Mohammad Golbabaee , Pierre Vandergheynst

We study the high-dimensional inference of a rank-one signal corrupted by sparse noise. The noise is modelled as the adjacency matrix of a weighted undirected graph with finite average connectivity in the large size limit. Using the replica…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-18 Urte Adomaityte , Gabriele Sicuro , Pierpaolo Vivo

This work studies the problem of maximizing a higher degree real homogeneous multivariate polynomial over the unit sphere. This problem is equivalent to finding the leading eigenvalue of the associated symmetric tensor of higher order,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-02 Yuning Yang , Guoyin Li

Robust statistical inference often faces a severe computational-statistical gap when dealing with complex parameter spaces. We investigate minimax signal detection in the Gaussian sequence model under strong $\epsilon$-contamination, where…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Yikun Li , Matey Neykov

We develop and analyze stochastic optimization algorithms for problems in which the expected loss is strongly convex, and the optimum is (approximately) sparse. Previous approaches are able to exploit only one of these two structures,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2012-07-19 Alekh Agarwal , Sahand Negahban , Martin J. Wainwright

The present paper concerns large covariance matrix estimation via composite minimization under the assumption of low rank plus sparse structure. In this approach, the low rank plus sparse decomposition of the covariance matrix is recovered…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-12-16 Matteo Farnè , Angela Montanari

Detection of a signal under noise is a classical signal processing problem. When monitoring spatial phenomena under a fixed budget, i.e., either physical, economical or computational constraints, the selection of a subset of available…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-08-01 Mario Coutino , Sundeep Prabhakar Chepuri , Geert Leus

We consider the densest submatrix problem, which seeks the submatrix of fixed size of a given binary matrix that contains the most nonzero entries. This problem is a natural generalization of fundamental problems in combinatorial…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-13 Valentine Olanubi , Phineas Agar , Brendan Ames

Efficient algorithms for the sparse solution of under-determined linear systems $Ax = b$ are known for matrices $A$ satisfying suitable assumptions like the restricted isometry property (RIP). Without such assumptions little is known and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-22 G. Welper

We study sparse principal component analysis in the high-dimensional, sample-limited regime, aiming to recover a leading component supported on a few coordinates. Despite extensive progress, most methods and analyses are tailored to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Mengchu Xu , Jian Wang , Yonina C. Eldar

In many applications that require matrix solutions of minimal rank, the underlying cost function is non-convex leading to an intractable, NP-hard optimization problem. Consequently, the convex nuclear norm is frequently used as a surrogate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-08-12 David Wipf

In many applications that require matrix solutions of minimal rank, the underlying cost function is non-convex leading to an intractable, NP-hard optimization problem. Consequently, the convex nuclear norm is frequently used as a surrogate…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2012-07-11 David Wipf