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The Sorted L-One Estimator (SLOPE) is a popular regularization method in regression, which induces clustering of the estimated coefficients. That is, the estimator can have coefficients of identical magnitude. In this paper, we derive an…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-04-17 Ivan Hejný , Jonas Wallin , Małgorzata Bogdan

We introduce and study weak o-minimality in the context of complete types in an arbitrary first-order theory. A type $p\in S(A)$ is weakly o-minimal if for some relatively $A$-definable linear order, $<$, on $p(\mathfrak{C})$ every…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Slavko Moconja , Predrag Tanović

This paper proposes a new interpretation of sparse penalties such as the elastic-net and the group-lasso. Beyond providing a new viewpoint on these penalization schemes, our approach results in a unified optimization strategy. Our…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-07-20 Yves Grandvalet , Julien Chiquet , Christophe Ambroise

Consider the regularized sparse minimization problem, which involves empirical sums of loss functions for $n$ data points (each of dimension $d$) and a nonconvex sparsity penalty. We prove that finding an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-06-20 Yichen Chen , Dongdong Ge , Mengdi Wang , Zizhuo Wang , Yinyu Ye , Hao Yin

This paper aims to build an estimate of an unknown density of the data with measurement error as a linear combination of functions from a dictionary. Inspired by the penalization approach, we propose the weighted Elastic-net penalized…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-07-07 Xiaowei Yang , Huiming Zhang , Haoyu Wei , Shouzheng Zhang

We show that any Littlewood--Paley square function $S$ satisfying a minimal local testing condition is dominated by a sparse form, \begin{equation*} \langle (Sf)^2,g \rangle\le C \sum_{I \in \mathscr{S}} \langle \lvert f\rvert\rangle_I^2…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2020-11-03 Gianmarco Brocchi

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

We analyze a simple prefiltered variation of the least squares estimator for the problem of estimation with biased, semi-parametric noise, an error model studied more broadly in causal statistics and active learning. We prove an oracle…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-05 Max Simchowitz , Ross Boczar , Benjamin Recht

When the design matrix has orthonormal columns, "soft thresholding" the ordinary least squares (OLS) solution produces the Lasso solution [Tibshirani, 1996]. If one uses the Puffer preconditioned Lasso [Jia and Rohe, 2012], then this result…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-12-04 Karl Rohe

In this paper we propose a new approach to study the properties of the Partial Least Squares (PLS) estimator. This approach relies on the link between PLS and discrete orthogonal polynomials. Indeed many important PLS objects can be…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-11-04 Mélanie Blazère , Fabrice Gamboa , Jean-Michel Loubes

We consider the weak-type inequality for Littlewood-Paley square functions on A_p weighted Lebesgue spaces. Of interest is the sharp in the A_p characteristic estimate. The case of 1<p<2 is subcritical, and the sharp power of 1/p is…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2012-11-20 Michael T Lacey , James Scurry

To conduct regression analysis for data contaminated with outliers, many approaches have been proposed for simultaneous outlier detection and robust regression, so is the approach proposed in this manuscript. This new approach is called…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-03-25 Xiaoli Gao , Yixin Fang

We build a unifying convex analysis framework characterizing the statistical properties of a large class of penalized estimators, both under a regular and an irregular design. Our framework interprets penalized estimators as proximal…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Alberto Quaini , Fabio Trojani

We present a novel algorithm that allows us to gain detailed insight into the effects of sparsity in linear and nonlinear optimization, which is of great importance in many scientific areas such as image and signal processing, medical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-23 Katharina Bieker , Bennet Gebken , Sebastian Peitz

In this work we consider numerical efficiency and convergence rates for solvers of non-convex multi-penalty formulations when reconstructing sparse signals from noisy linear measurements. We extend an existing approach, based on reduction…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-15 Zeljko Kereta , Johannes Maly , Valeriya Naumova

Scaled sparse linear regression jointly estimates the regression coefficients and noise level in a linear model. It chooses an equilibrium with a sparse regression method by iteratively estimating the noise level via the mean residual…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2012-06-22 Tingni Sun , Cun-Hui Zhang

The abundance of high-dimensional data in the modern sciences has generated tremendous interest in penalized estimators such as the lasso, scaled lasso, square-root lasso, elastic net, and many others. In this paper, we establish a general…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-03-14 Johannes Lederer , Lu Yu , Irina Gaynanova

Second-order methods are of great importance for composite convex optimization problems due to their local super-linear convergence rates (under appropriate assumptions). However, the presence of even a simple nonsmooth function in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-19 Dan Garber

Partial linear models have been widely used as flexible method for modelling linear components in conjunction with non-parametric ones. Despite the presence of the non-parametric part, the linear, parametric part can under certain…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-07-04 Patric Müller , Sara van de Geer

We consider regression scenarios where it is natural to impose an order constraint on the coefficients. We propose an order-constrained version of L1-regularized regression for this problem, and show how to solve it efficiently using the…

Applications · Statistics 2017-06-01 Xiaotong Suo , Robert Tibshirani