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The paper proposes a method for constructing a sparse estimator for the inverse covariance (concentration) matrix in high-dimensional settings. The estimator uses a penalized normal likelihood approach and forces sparsity by using a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2008-06-26 Adam J. Rothman , Peter J. Bickel , Elizaveta Levina , Ji Zhu

A constrained L1 minimization method is proposed for estimating a sparse inverse covariance matrix based on a sample of $n$ iid $p$-variate random variables. The resulting estimator is shown to enjoy a number of desirable properties. In…

Methodology · Statistics 2011-02-14 Tony Cai , Weidong Liu , Xi Luo

Estimating covariance matrices with high-dimensional complex data presents significant challenges, particularly concerning positive definiteness, sparsity, and numerical stability. Existing robust sparse estimators often fail to guarantee…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-12-30 Shaoxin Wang , Ziyun Ma

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

Many popular statistical models, such as factor and random effects models, give arise a certain type of covariance structures that is a summation of low rank and sparse matrices. This paper introduces a penalized approximation framework to…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-03-19 Xi Luo

This paper studies the sparsistency and rates of convergence for estimating sparse covariance and precision matrices based on penalized likelihood with nonconvex penalty functions. Here, sparsistency refers to the property that all…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2009-11-20 Clifford Lam , Jianqing Fan

We develop a method for estimating well-conditioned and sparse covariance and inverse covariance matrices from a sample of vectors drawn from a sub-gaussian distribution in high dimensional setting. The proposed estimators are obtained by…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-11-21 Ashwini Maurya

We propose a novel estimation approach for the covariance matrix based on the $l_1$-regularized approximate factor model. Our sparse approximate factor (SAF) covariance estimator allows for the existence of weak factors and hence relaxes…

Econometrics · Economics 2019-06-14 Maurizio Daniele , Winfried Pohlmeier , Aygul Zagidullina

This paper studies the problem of estimating a large coefficient matrix in a multiple response linear regression model when the coefficient matrix could be both of low rank and sparse in the sense that most nonzero entries concentrate on a…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-03-18 Zhuang Ma , Zongming Ma , Tingni Sun

Estimation of low-rank matrices is of significant interest in a range of contemporary applications. In this paper, we introduce a rank-one projection model for low-rank matrix recovery and propose a constrained nuclear norm minimization…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-12-10 T. Tony Cai , Anru Zhang

The paper introduces a penalized matrix estimation procedure aiming at solutions which are sparse and low-rank at the same time. Such structures arise in the context of social networks or protein interactions where underlying graphs have…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-07-03 Emile Richard , Pierre-Andre Savalle , Nicolas Vayatis

This paper provides a comprehensive estimation framework via nuclear norm plus $l_1$ norm penalization for high-dimensional approximate factor models with a sparse residual covariance. The underlying assumptions allow for non-pervasive…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-04-07 Matteo Farnè , Angela Montanari

Given a sample covariance matrix, we solve a maximum likelihood problem penalized by the number of nonzero coefficients in the inverse covariance matrix. Our objective is to find a sparse representation of the sample data and to highlight…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-06-13 Alexandre d'Aspremont , Onureena Banerjee , Laurent El Ghaoui

Sparse reduced rank regression is an essential statistical learning method. In the contemporary literature, estimation is typically formulated as a nonconvex optimization that often yields to a local optimum in numerical computation. Yet,…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-12-06 Canhong Wen , Ruipeng Dong , Xueqin Wang , Weiyu Li , Heping Zhang

The paper proposes a new covariance estimator for large covariance matrices when the variables have a natural ordering. Using the Cholesky decomposition of the inverse, we impose a banded structure on the Cholesky factor, and select the…

Applications · Statistics 2008-12-18 Elizaveta Levina , Adam Rothman , Ji Zhu

This paper provides a comprehensive estimation framework for large covariance matrices via a log-det heuristics augmented by a nuclear norm plus $\ell_{1}$-norm penalty. We develop the model framework, which includes high-dimensional…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-05-06 Enrico Bernardi , Matteo Farnè

The thresholding covariance estimator has nice asymptotic properties for estimating sparse large covariance matrices, but it often has negative eigenvalues when used in real data analysis. To simultaneously achieve sparsity and positive…

Methodology · Statistics 2012-08-29 Lingzhou Xue , Shiqian Ma , Hui Zou

Recently, there has been focus on penalized log-likelihood covariance estimation for sparse inverse covariance (precision) matrices. The penalty is responsible for inducing sparsity, and a very common choice is the convex $l_1$ norm.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-07-19 Goran Marjanovic , Alfred O. Hero

We develop a Bayesian methodology aimed at simultaneously estimating low-rank and row-sparse matrices in a high-dimensional multiple-response linear regression model. We consider a carefully devised shrinkage prior on the matrix of…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-04-10 Antik Chakraborty , Anirban Bhattacharya , Bani K. Mallick

Estimating covariance matrices is a problem of fundamental importance in multivariate statistics. In practice it is increasingly frequent to work with data matrices $X$ of dimension $n\times p$, where $p$ and $n$ are both large. Results…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2009-01-22 Noureddine El Karoui
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