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Convergence rates are established for an inexact accelerated alternating direction method of multipliers (I-ADMM) for general separable convex optimization with a linear constraint. Both ergodic and non-ergodic iterates are analyzed.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-20 William W. Hager , Hongchao Zhang

Noisy matrix completion has attracted significant attention due to its applications in recommendation systems, signal processing and image restoration. Most existing works rely on (weighted) least squares methods under various low-rank…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-12-17 Ziyuan Chen , Fang Yao

Sparse covariance matrices play crucial roles by encoding the interdependencies between variables in numerous fields such as genetics and neuroscience. Despite substantial studies on sparse covariance matrices, existing methods face several…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-03 Rakheon Kim , Irina Gaynanova

The computational cost of many signal processing and machine learning techniques is often dominated by the cost of applying certain linear operators to high-dimensional vectors. This paper introduces an algorithm aimed at reducing the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-30 Luc Le Magoarou , Rémi Gribonval

This paper is concerned with the problem of approximating the determinant of A for a large sparse symmetric positive definite matrix A. It is shown that an efficient solution of this problem is obtained by using a sparse approximate inverse…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2007-05-23 Arnold Reusken

Estimation of a precision matrix (i.e., inverse covariance matrix) is widely used to exploit conditional independence among continuous variables. The influence of abnormal observations is exacerbated in a high dimensional setting as the…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-05-17 Peng Tang , Huijing Jiang , Heeyoung Kim , Xinwei Deng

We consider sparse matrix estimation where the goal is to estimate an $n\times n$ matrix from noisy observations of a small subset of its entries. We analyze the estimation error of the popularly utilized collaborative filtering algorithm…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Christian Borgs , Jennifer Chayes , Devavrat Shah , Christina Lee Yu

For solving pseudo-convex global optimization problems, we present a novel fully adaptive steepest descent method (or ASDM) without any hard-to-estimate parameters. For the step-size regulation in an $\varepsilon$-normalized direction, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-12 Z. R. Gabidullina

A framework is introduced for sequentially solving convex stochastic minimization problems, where the objective functions change slowly, in the sense that the distance between successive minimizers is bounded. The minimization problems are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-12 Craig Wilson , Venugopal Veeravalli , Angelia Nedich

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

Traditional machine learning methods usually minimize a simple loss function to learn a predictive model, and then use a complex performance measure to measure the prediction performance. However, minimizing a simple loss function cannot…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-11-19 Ning Zhang , Prathamesh Chandrasekar

In this paper we discuss an application of Stochastic Approximation to statistical estimation of high-dimensional sparse parameters. The proposed solution reduces to resolving a penalized stochastic optimization problem on each stage of a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-10-25 Sasila Ilandarideva , Yannis Bekri , Anatoli Juditsky , Vianney Perchet

This paper aims to develop an optimality theory for linear discriminant analysis in the high-dimensional setting. A data-driven and tuning free classification rule, which is based on an adaptive constrained $\ell_1$ minimization approach,…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-04-10 T. Tony Cai , Linjun Zhang

In recent years, pattern analysis plays an important role in data mining and recognition, and many variants have been proposed to handle complicated scenarios. In the literature, it has been quite familiar with high dimensionality of data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-09 Miao Cheng , Zunren Liu , Hongwei Zou , Ah Chung Tsoi

We consider the problem of matrix completion on an $n \times m$ matrix. We introduce the problem of Interpretable Matrix Completion that aims to provide meaningful insights for the low-rank matrix using side information. We show that the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-05 Dimitris Bertsimas , Michael Lingzhi Li

We consider adaptive approximations of the parameter-to-solution map for elliptic operator equations depending on a large or infinite number of parameters, comparing approximation strategies of different degrees of nonlinearity: sparse…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-04-04 Markus Bachmayr , Albert Cohen , Wolfgang Dahmen

We address the problem of estimating a random vector X from two sets of measurements Y and Z, such that the estimator is linear in Y. We show that the partially linear minimum mean squared error (PLMMSE) estimator does not require knowing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-27 Tomer Michaeli , Daniel Sigalov , Yonina C. Eldar

We propose methodology for statistical inference for low-dimensional parameters of sparse precision matrices in a high-dimensional setting. Our method leads to a non-sparse estimator of the precision matrix whose entries have a Gaussian…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-08-13 Jana Jankova , Sara van de Geer

The classical alternating minimization (or projection) algorithm has been successful in the context of solving optimization problems over two variables. The iterative nature and simplicity of the algorithm has led to its application to many…

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Large scale multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system is considered one of promising technologies for realizing next-generation wireless communication system (5G) to increasing the degrees of freedom in space and enhancing the link…

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