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This paper tackles the problem of selecting among several linear estimators in non-parametric regression; this includes model selection for linear regression, the choice of a regularization parameter in kernel ridge regression, spline…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2011-09-15 Sylvain Arlot , Francis Bach

The least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (Lasso) is a popular method for high-dimensional statistics. However, it is known that the Lasso often has estimation bias and prediction error. To address such disadvantages, many…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-29 Guo Liu

$\ell_p$-norm penalization, notably the Lasso, has become a standard technique, extending shrinkage regression to subset selection. Despite aiming for oracle properties and consistent estimation, existing Lasso-derived methods still rely on…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-06-23 Sihyung Park , Leonard A. Stefanski

Random forests are a statistical learning technique that use bootstrap aggregation to average high-variance and low-bias trees. Improvements to random forests, such as applying Lasso regression to the tree predictions, have been proposed in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-13 Jing Shang , James Bannon , Benjamin Haibe-Kains , Robert Tibshirani

Regularization is widely used in statistics and machine learning to prevent overfitting and gear solution towards prior information. In general, a regularized estimation problem minimizes the sum of a loss function and a penalty term. The…

Computation · Statistics 2012-01-18 Hua Zhou , Yichao Wu

Augmenting a smooth cost function with an $\ell_1$ penalty allows analysts to efficiently conduct estimation and variable selection simultaneously in sophisticated models and can be efficiently implemented using proximal gradient methods.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-12-10 Nathan Wycoff , Lisa O. Singh , Ali Arab , Katharine M. Donato

Competing risks data refer to situations where the occurrence of one event pre- cludes the possibility of other events happening, resulting in multiple mutually exclusive events. This data type is commonly encountered in medical research…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-10-21 Fatemeh Mahmoudi , Chenxi Li , Kaida Cai , Xuewen Lu

The sparse portfolio selection problem is one of the most famous and frequently-studied problems in the optimization and financial economics literatures. In a universe of risky assets, the goal is to construct a portfolio with maximal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-22 Dimitris Bertsimas , Ryan Cory-Wright

Multi-view data have been routinely collected in various fields of science and engineering. A general problem is to study the predictive association between multivariate responses and multi-view predictor sets, all of which can be of high…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-07-30 Gen Li , Xiaokang Liu , Kun Chen

This article describes a full Bayesian treatment for simultaneous fixed-effect selection and parameter estimation in high-dimensional generalized linear mixed models. The approach consists of using a Bayesian adaptive Lasso penalty for…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-08-31 Dao Thanh Tung , Minh-Ngoc Tran , Tran Manh Cuong

In this paper, we propose a novel adaptive reduced-rank strategy for very large multiuser multi-input multi-output (MIMO) systems. The proposed reduced-rank scheme is based on the concept of joint iterative optimization (JIO) of filters…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-20 Yunlong Cai , Rodrigo C. de Lamare

Autoregressive (AR) models are highly effective for image generation, yet their standard maximum-likelihood estimation training lacks direct optimization for sample quality and diversity. While reinforcement learning (RL) has been used to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Orhun Buğra Baran , Melih Kandemir , Ramazan Gokberk Cinbis

The need for fast sparse optimization is emerging, e.g., to deal with large-dimensional data-driven problems and to track time-varying systems. In the framework of linear sparse optimization, the iterative shrinkage-thresholding algorithm…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-22 Vito Cerone , Sophie M. Fosson , Diego Regruto

In this article we study the problem of recovering the unknown solution of a linear ill-posed problem, via iterative regularization methods. We review the problem of projection-regularization from a statistical point of view. A basic…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2007-06-13 Ana K. Fermin , Carenne Ludena

Within the statistical and machine learning literature, regularization techniques are often used to construct sparse (predictive) models. Most regularization strategies only work for data where all predictors are treated identically, such…

Computation · Statistics 2020-12-16 Sander Devriendt , Katrien Antonio , Tom Reynkens , Roel Verbelen

The scalable adaptive cubic regularization method ($\mathrm{ARC_{q}K}$: Dussault et al. in Math. Program. Ser. A 207(1-2): 191-225, 2024) has been recently proposed for unconstrained optimization. It has excellent convergence properties,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Yonggang Pei , Yubing Lin , Shuai Shao , Mauricio Silva Louzeiro , Detong Zhu

Model selection based on classical information criteria, such as BIC, is generally computationally demanding, but its properties are well studied. On the other hand, model selection based on parameter shrinkage by $\ell_1$-type penalties is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-07-10 Kun Zhang , Heng Peng , Laiwan Chan , Aapo Hyvarinen

We study ridge estimation of the precision matrix in the high-dimensional setting where the number of variables is large relative to the sample size. We first review two archetypal ridge estimators and note that their utilized penalties do…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-06-17 Wessel N. van Wieringen , Carel F. W. Peeters

In high-dimensional model selection problems, penalized simple least-square approaches have been extensively used. This paper addresses the question of both robustness and efficiency of penalized model selection methods, and proposes a…

Methodology · Statistics 2011-07-06 Jelena Bradic , Jianqing Fan , Weiwei Wang

The graphical Lasso (GLASSO) is a widely used algorithm for learning high-dimensional undirected Gaussian graphical models (GGM). Given i.i.d. observations from a multivariate normal distribution, GLASSO estimates the precision matrix by…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-01-15 Ha Nguyen , Sumanta Basu