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Recently several methods were proposed for sparse optimization which make careful use of second-order information [10, 28, 16, 3] to improve local convergence rates. These methods construct a composite quadratic approximation using Hessian…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-07-15 Katya Scheinberg , Xiaocheng Tang

In this chapter, we discuss recent work on learning sparse approximations to high-dimensional functions on data, where the target functions may be scalar-, vector- or even Hilbert space-valued. Our main objective is to study how the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-08 Ben Adcock , Juan M. Cardenas , Nick Dexter , Sebastian Moraga

Our objective is to efficiently design a robust projection matrix $\Phi$ for the Compressive Sensing (CS) systems when applied to the signals that are not exactly sparse. The optimal projection matrix is obtained by mainly minimizing the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-09-07 Tao Hong , Zhihui Zhu

The success of the compressed sensing paradigm has shown that a substantial reduction in sampling and storage complexity can be achieved in certain linear and non-adaptive estimation problems. It is therefore an advisable strategy for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-08-27 Peter Jung , Philipp Walk

We present a new method for estimating multivariate, second-order stationary Gaussian Random Field (GRF) models based on the Sparse Precision matrix Selection (SPS) algorithm, proposed by Davanloo et al. (2015) for estimating scalar GRF…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-01-12 Sam Davanloo Tajbakhsh , Necdet Serhat Aybat , Enrique del Castillo

We present new algorithms for the randomized construction of hierarchically semi-separable matrices, addressing several practical issues. The HSS construction algorithms use a partially matrix-free, adaptive randomized projection scheme to…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2018-10-15 Christopher Gorman , Gustavo Chávez , Pieter Ghysels , Théo Mary , François-Henry Rouet , Xiaoye Sherry Li

We introduce and compare new compression approaches to obtain regularized solutions of large linear systems which are commonly encountered in large scale inverse problems. We first describe how to approximate matrix vector operations with a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-12 Sergey Voronin , Dylan Mikesell , Guust Nolet

Despite impressive performance, deep neural networks require significant memory and computation costs, prohibiting their application in resource-constrained scenarios. Sparse training is one of the most common techniques to reduce these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Bowen Lei , Dongkuan Xu , Ruqi Zhang , Shuren He , Bani K. Mallick

In this study, we propose a projection estimation method for large-dimensional matrix factor models with cross-sectionally spiked eigenvalues. By projecting the observation matrix onto the row or column factor space, we simplify factor…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-12-04 Long Yu , Yong He , Xin-bing Kong , Xinsheng Zhang

We consider the maximum likelihood estimation of sparse inverse covariance matrices. We demonstrate that current heuristic approaches primarily encourage robustness, instead of the desired sparsity. We give a novel approach that solves the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-08 Dimitris Bertsimas , Jourdain Lamperski , Jean Pauphilet

We develop an exact coordinate descent algorithm for high-dimensional regularized Huber regression. In contrast to composite gradient descent methods, our algorithm fully exploits the advantages of coordinate descent when the underlying…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-10-16 Younghoon Kim , Po-Ling Loh , Sumanta Basu

We propose and analyze a variant of Sparse Polyak for high dimensional M-estimation problems. Sparse Polyak proposes a novel adaptive step-size rule tailored to suitably estimate the problem's curvature in the high-dimensional setting,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-25 Tianqi Qiao , Marie Maros

In this paper, a new nonlinear filter based on sparse-grid quadrature method has been proposed. The proposed filter is named as adaptive sparse-grid Gauss-Hermite filter (ASGHF). Ordinary sparse-grid technique treats all the dimensions…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-03-28 Abhinoy Kumar Singh , Rahul Radhakrishnan , Shovan Bhaumik , Paresh Date

The problem of super-resolution compressive sensing (SR-CS) is crucial for various wireless sensing and communication applications. Existing methods often suffer from limited resolution capabilities and sensitivity to hyper-parameters,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-12 Yufan Zhou , Jingyi Li , Wenkang Xu , An Liu

Covariance estimation for high-dimensional datasets is a fundamental problem in modern day statistics with numerous applications. In these high dimensional datasets, the number of variables p is typically larger than the sample size n. A…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-10-11 Kshitij Khare , Sang Oh , Syed Rahman , Bala Rajaratnam

In this paper, we present and analyze a new set of low-rank recovery algorithms for linear inverse problems within the class of hard thresholding methods. We provide strategies on how to set up these algorithms via basic ingredients for…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2013-01-15 Anastasios Kyrillidis , Volkan Cevher

This article explores the estimation of precision matrices in high-dimensional Gaussian graphical models. We address the challenge of improving the accuracy of maximum likelihood-based precision estimation through penalization.…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-12-27 A. Bekker , A. Kheyri , M. Arashi

We study the problem of residual error estimation for matrix and vector norms using a linear sketch. Such estimates can be used, for example, to quickly assess how useful a more expensive low-rank approximation computation will be. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Yi Li , Honghao Lin , David P. Woodruff

We consider the problem of low rank matrix recovery in a stochastically noisy high dimensional setting. We propose a new estimator for the low rank matrix, based on the iterative hard thresholding method, and that is computationally…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-03-02 Alexandra Carpentier , Arlene K. H. Kim

We propose SparseContrast, a new framework that merges dynamic sparse attention with contrastive learning for medical imaging, with a focus on chest X-ray disease detection in low-data settings. Traditional contrastive learning methods rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Paarth Prasad , Ruchika Malhotra