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Nonconvex regularization has been popularly used in low-rank matrix learning. However, extending it for low-rank tensor learning is still computationally expensive. To address this problem, we develop an efficient solver for use with a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Quanming Yao , Yaqing Wang , Bo Han , James Kwok

Current methods for regularization in machine learning require quite specific model assumptions (e.g. a kernel shape) that are not derived from prior knowledge about the application, but must be imposed merely to make the method work. We…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-11-01 Matthias Wieler

Here we present an expository, general analysis of valid post-selection or post-regularization inference about a low-dimensional target parameter, $\alpha$, in the presence of a very high-dimensional nuisance parameter, $\eta$, which is…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-10-03 Victor Chernozhukov , Christian Hansen , Martin Spindler

In this paper, the estimation problem for sparse reduced rank regression (SRRR) model is considered. The SRRR model is widely used for dimension reduction and variable selection with applications in signal processing, econometrics, etc. The…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-03-21 Ziping Zhao , Daniel P. Palomar

Estimating a low rank matrix from its linear measurements is a problem of central importance in contemporary statistical analysis. The choice of tuning parameters for estimators remains an important challenge from a theoretical and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-09-24 Rahul Mazumder , Haolei Weng

In this work we are interested in the problems of supervised learning and variable selection when the input-output dependence is described by a nonlinear function depending on a few variables. Our goal is to consider a sparse nonparametric…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2012-08-14 Lorenzo Rosasco , Silvia Villa , Sofia Mosci , Matteo Santoro , Alessandro verri

This paper studies a regularized matrix tri-factorization \(A\approx PDQ\), where \(P\) and \(Q\) are side factors and \(D\) is a central core whose conditioning can be explicitly regularized or constrained. The formulation is a structured…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Ronald Katende

Matrix-valued optimization tasks, including those involving symmetric positive definite (SPD) matrices, arise in a wide range of applications in machine learning, data science and statistics. Classically, such problems are solved via…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-15 Andrew Cheng , Melanie Weber

The topic of recovery of a structured model given a small number of linear observations has been well-studied in recent years. Examples include recovering sparse or group-sparse vectors, low-rank matrices, and the sum of sparse and low-rank…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-28 Samet Oymak , Amin Jalali , Maryam Fazel , Yonina C. Eldar , Babak Hassibi

Regularized nonnegative low-rank approximations, such as sparse Nonnegative Matrix Factorization or sparse Nonnegative Tucker Decomposition, form an important branch of dimensionality reduction models known for their enhanced…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Jeremy E. Cohen , Valentin Leplat

Performance of regularized least-squares estimation in noisy compressed sensing is analyzed in the limit when the dimensions of the measurement matrix grow large. The sensing matrix is considered to be from a class of random ensembles that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-08 Mikko Vehkapera , Yoshiyuki Kabashima , Saikat Chatterjee

Matrix regression plays an important role in modern data analysis due to its ability to handle complex relationships involving both matrix and vector variables. We propose a class of regularized regression models capable of predicting both…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-14 Meixia Lin , Ziyang Zeng , Yangjing Zhang

Many statistical estimators for high-dimensional linear regression are M-estimators, formed through minimizing a data-dependent square loss function plus a regularizer. This work considers a new class of estimators implicitly defined…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-02-15 Peng Zhao , Yun Yang , Qiao-Chu He

Mathematically characterizing the implicit regularization induced by gradient-based optimization is a longstanding pursuit in the theory of deep learning. A widespread hope is that a characterization based on minimization of norms may…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Noam Razin , Nadav Cohen

Estimating linear, mean-square continuous functionals is a pivotal challenge in statistics. In high-dimensional contexts, this estimation is often performed under the assumption of exact model sparsity, meaning that only a small number of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-08-04 Jelena Bradic , Victor Chernozhukov , Whitney K. Newey , Yinchu Zhu

We consider a minimization problem whose objective function is the sum of a fidelity term, not necessarily convex, and a regularization term defined by a positive regularization parameter $\lambda$ multiple of the $\ell_0$ norm composed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-17 Yuesheng Xu

To address the challenges of reliable statistical inference in high-dimensional models, we introduce the Synthetic-data Regularized Estimator (SRE). Unlike traditional regularization methods, the SRE regularizes the complex target model via…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-03-18 Weihao Li , Dongming Huang

The problem of matrix sensing, or trace regression, is a problem wherein one wishes to estimate a low-rank matrix from linear measurements perturbed with noise. A number of existing works have studied both convex and nonconvex approaches to…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-26 Joshua Agterberg , René Vidal

Analysis of non-asymptotic estimation error and structured statistical recovery based on norm regularized regression, such as Lasso, needs to consider four aspects: the norm, the loss function, the design matrix, and the noise model. This…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-12-01 Arindam Banerjee , Sheng Chen , Farideh Fazayeli , Vidyashankar Sivakumar

In the past decade, sparse and low-rank recovery have drawn much attention in many areas such as signal/image processing, statistics, bioinformatics and machine learning. To achieve sparsity and/or low-rankness inducing, the $\ell_1$ norm…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-07 Fei Wen , Lei Chu , Peilin Liu , Robert C. Qiu