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We consider the Orthogonal Least-Squares (OLS) algorithm for the recovery of a $m$-dimensional $k$-sparse signal from a low number of noisy linear measurements. The Exact Recovery Condition (ERC) in bounded noisy scenario is established for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-08-09 Abolfazl Hashemi , Haris Vikalo

In this paper we discuss the variable selection method from \ell0-norm constrained regression, which is equivalent to the problem of finding the best subset of a fixed size. Our study focuses on two aspects, consistency and computation. We…

Methodology · Statistics 2013-03-20 Shifeng Xiong

We consider the fundamental problem of estimating the mean of a vector $y=X\beta+z$, where $X$ is an $n\times p$ design matrix in which one can have far more variables than observations, and $z$ is a stochastic error term--the so-called…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2009-08-21 Emmanuel J. Candès , Yaniv Plan

The support recovery problem consists of determining a sparse subset of a set of variables that is relevant in generating a set of observations, and arises in a diverse range of settings such as compressive sensing, and subset selection in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-31 Jonathan Scarlett , Volkan Cevher

Label noise is a common issue in real-world datasets that inevitably impacts the generalization of models. This study focuses on robust classification tasks where the label noise is instance-dependent. Estimating the transition matrix…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Yukun Yang , Naihao Wang , Haixin Yang , Ruirui Li

Sparse representation-based classifiers have shown outstanding accuracy and robustness in image classification tasks even with the presence of intense noise and occlusion. However, it has been discovered that the performance degrades…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-12-22 Xiaoxia Sun , Nasser M. Nasrabadi , Trac D. Tran

In several applications, input samples are more naturally represented in terms of similarities between each other, rather than in terms of feature vectors. In these settings, machine-learning algorithms can become very computationally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-19 Ambra Demontis , Marco Melis , Battista Biggio , Giorgio Fumera , Fabio Roli

High-dimensional sparse modeling via regularization provides a powerful tool for analyzing large-scale data sets and obtaining meaningful, interpretable models. The use of nonconvex penalty functions shows advantage in selecting important…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-05-12 Zemin Zheng , Yingying Fan , Jinchi Lv

Sparse coding refers to the pursuit of the sparsest representation of a signal in a typically overcomplete dictionary. From a Bayesian perspective, sparse coding provides a Maximum a Posteriori (MAP) estimate of the unknown vector under a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-04 Dror Simon , Jeremias Sulam , Yaniv Romano , Yue M. Lu , Michael Elad

Classification and probability estimation are fundamental tasks with broad applications across modern machine learning and data science, spanning fields such as biology, medicine, engineering, and computer science. Recent development of…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-25 Liyun Zeng , Hao Helen Zhang

Canonical correlation analysis (CCA) describes the associations between two sets of variables by maximizing the correlation between linear combinations of the variables in each data set. However, in high-dimensional settings where the…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-01-07 Ines Wilms , Christophe Croux

In this paper, we study the sharp oracle bounds for Slope and Lasso and generalize the results in Bellec et al. (2018) to allow the case that the parameter vector is not exactly sparse and obtain the optimal bounds for $\ell_q$ estimation…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-07-26 Zhiyong Zhou

Sparse decision trees are one of the most common forms of interpretable models. While recent advances have produced algorithms that fully optimize sparse decision trees for prediction, that work does not address policy design, because the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Ali Behrouz , Mathias Lecuyer , Cynthia Rudin , Margo Seltzer

We consider the problems of estimation and selection of parameters endowed with a known group structure, when the groups are assumed to be sign-coherent, that is, gathering either nonnegative, nonpositive or null parameters. To tackle this…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-03-19 Julien Chiquet , Yves Grandvalet , Camille Charbonnier

We present improved sampling complexity bounds for stable and robust sparse recovery in compressed sensing. Our unified analysis based on l1 minimization encompasses the case where (i) the measurements are block-structured samples in order…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Ben Adcock , Claire Boyer , Simone Brugiapaglia

We consider a high-dimensional regression model with a possible change-point due to a covariate threshold and develop the Lasso estimator of regression coefficients as well as the threshold parameter. Our Lasso estimator not only selects…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-08-23 Sokbae Lee , Myung Hwan Seo , Youngki Shin

In this thesis we discuss machine learning methods performing automated variable selection for learning sparse predictive models. There are multiple reasons for promoting sparsity in the predictive models. By relying on a limited set of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-27 Magda Gregorova

This article introduces a subbagging (subsample aggregating) approach for variable selection in regression within the context of big data. The proposed subbagging approach not only ensures that variable selection is scalable given the…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-03-10 Xian Li , Xuan Liang , Tao Zou

Sparse principal component analysis addresses the problem of finding a linear combination of the variables in a given data set with a sparse coefficients vector that maximizes the variability of the data. This model enhances the ability to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-09 Amir Beck , Yakov Vaisbourd

Simultaneous feature selection and non-linear function estimation is challenging in modeling, especially in high-dimensional settings where the number of variables exceeds the available sample size. In this article, we investigate the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-01-05 Bin Luo , Susan Halabi