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In this study, we investigate the bias and variance properties of the debiased Lasso in linear regression when the tuning parameter of the node-wise Lasso is selected to be smaller than in previous studies. We consider the case where the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-08-19 Akira Shinkyu , Naoya Sueishi

It is known that the Thresholded Lasso (TL), SCAD or MCP correct intrinsic estimation bias of the Lasso. In this paper we propose an alternative method of improving the Lasso for predictive models with general convex loss functions which…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-01-26 Piotr Pokarowski , Wojciech Rejchel , Agnieszka Soltys , Michal Frej , Jan Mielniczuk

In high dimensional sparse regression, pivotal estimators are estimators for which the optimal regularization parameter is independent of the noise level. The canonical pivotal estimator is the square-root Lasso, formulated along with its…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-09-04 Mathurin Massias , Quentin Bertrand , Alexandre Gramfort , Joseph Salmon

Penalized regression models such as the Lasso have proved useful for variable selection in many fields - especially for situations with high-dimensional data where the numbers of predictors far exceeds the number of observations. These…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-03-19 Kasper Brink-Jensen , Claus Thorn Ekstrøm

We consider the problem of sparse signal recovery from noisy measurements. Many of frequently used recovery methods rely on some sort of tuning depending on either noise or signal parameters. If no estimates for either of them are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Hendrik Bernd Petersen , Peter Jung

Recent results have proven the minimax optimality of LASSO and related algorithms for noisy linear regression. However, these results tend to rely on variance estimators that are inefficient or optimizations that are slower than LASSO…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-03-18 Christopher Kennedy , Rachel Ward

When the model is not known and parameter testing or interval estimation is conducted after model selection, it is necessary to consider selective inference. This paper discusses this issue in the context of sparse estimation. Firstly, we…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-10-12 Joe Suzuki

This paper studies schemes to de-bias the Lasso in a linear model $y=X\beta+\epsilon$ where the goal is to construct confidence intervals for $a_0^T\beta$ in a direction $a_0$, where $X$ has iid $N(0,\Sigma)$ rows. We show that previously…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-07-09 Pierre C. Bellec , Cun-Hui Zhang

Sparse linear regression is one of the classic problems in the field of statistics, which has deep connections and high intersections with optimization, computation, and machine learning. To address the effective handling of…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-08-04 Peili Li , Zhuomei Li , Yunhai Xiao , Chao Ying , Zhou Yu

We consider the problem of estimating an unknown signal $x_0$ from noisy linear observations $y = Ax_0 + z\in R^m$. In many practical instances, $x_0$ has a certain structure that can be captured by a structure inducing convex function…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-11-07 Samet Oymak , Christos Thrampoulidis , Babak Hassibi

We consider sparsity-based techniques for the approximation of high-dimensional functions from random pointwise evaluations. To date, almost all the works published in this field contain some a priori assumptions about the error corrupting…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-10 Ben Adcock , Anyi Bao , Simone Brugiapaglia

We study the multivariate square-root lasso, a method for fitting the multivariate response linear regression model with dependent errors. This estimator minimizes the nuclear norm of the residual matrix plus a convex penalty. Unlike…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-04-06 Aaron J. Molstad

In this paper, we propose a new method for estimation and constructing confidence intervals for low-dimensional components in a high-dimensional model. The proposed estimator, called Constrained Lasso (CLasso) estimator, is obtained by…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-04-19 Yun Yang

We study the problem of variable selection in convex nonparametric least squares (CNLS). Whereas the least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (Lasso) is a popular technique for least squares, its variable selection performance is…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-10-31 Zhiqiang Liao , Zhaonan Qu

LASSO inflicts shrinkage bias on estimated coefficients, which undermines asymptotic normality and invalidates standard inferential procedures based on the t-statistic. Given cross sectional data, the desparsified LASSO has emerged as a…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-21 Zhan Gao , Ji Hyung Lee , Ziwei Mei , Zhentao Shi

Given $n$ noisy samples with $p$ dimensions, where $n \ll p$, we show that the multi-step thresholding procedure based on the Lasso -- we call it the {\it Thresholded Lasso}, can accurately estimate a sparse vector $\beta \in {\mathbb R}^p$…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Shuheng Zhou

Large-scale empirical data, the sample size and the dimension are high, often exhibit various characteristics. For example, the noise term follows unknown distributions or the model is very sparse that the number of critical variables is…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-06-18 Yuehan Yang , Hu Yang

We propose a new estimator, the thresholded scaled Lasso, in high dimensional threshold regressions. First, we establish an upper bound on the $\ell_\infty$ estimation error of the scaled Lasso estimator of Lee et al. (2012). This is a…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-02-11 Laurent Callot , Mehmet Caner , Anders Bredahl Kock , Juan Andres Riquelme

In high-dimensional statistical inference in which the number of parameters to be estimated is larger than that of the holding data, regularized linear estimation techniques are widely used. These techniques have, however, some drawbacks.…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-08-06 Takashi Takahashi , Yoshiyuki Kabashima

In high dimension, it is customary to consider Lasso-type estimators to enforce sparsity. For standard Lasso theory to hold, the regularization parameter should be proportional to the noise level, yet the latter is generally unknown in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-10-19 Mathurin Massias , Olivier Fercoq , Alexandre Gramfort , Joseph Salmon