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Estimation of Markov Random Field and covariance models from high-dimensional data represents a canonical problem that has received a lot of attention in the literature. A key assumption, widely employed, is that of {\em sparsity} of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-16 Davoud Ataee Tarzanagh , George Michailidis

We address the new problem of estimating a piece-wise constant signal with the purpose of detecting its change points and the levels of clusters. Our approach is to model it as a nonparametric penalized least square model selection on a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-12-04 Othmane Mazhar , Cristian R. Rojas , Carlo Fischione , Mohammad R. Hesamzadeh

We address the problem of detection and estimation of one or two change-points in the mean of a series of random variables. We use the formalism of set estimation in regression: To each point of a design is attached a binary label that…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-09-07 Victor-Emmanuel Brunel

Correlation matrices are omnipresent in multivariate data analysis. When the number d of variables is large, the sample estimates of correlation matrices are typically noisy and conceal underlying dependence patterns. We consider the case…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-10-24 Samuel Perreault , Thierry Duchesne , Johanna G. Nešlehová

A block decomposition method is proposed for minimizing a (possibly non-convex) continuously differentiable function subject to one linear equality constraint and simple bounds on the variables. The proposed method iteratively selects a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-06 Andrea Cristofari

In [Steinerberger, Q. Appl. Math., 79:3, 419-429, 2021] and [Shao, SIAM J. Matrix Anal. Appl. 44(1), 212-239, 2023], two new types of Kaczmarz algorithms, which share some similarities, for consistent linear systems were proposed. These two…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-30 Changpeng Shao

In recent years, various means of efficiently detecting changepoints in the univariate setting have been proposed, with one popular approach involving minimising a penalised cost function using dynamic programming. In some situations, these…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-10-09 S. O. Tickle , I. A. Eckley , P. Fearnhead , K. Haynes

In this work, we first present an adaptive deterministic block coordinate descent method with momentum (mADBCD) to solve the linear least-squares problem, which is based on Polyak's heavy ball method and a new column selection criterion for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-29 Long-Ze Tan , Ming-Yu Deng , Jia-Li Qiu , Xue-Ping Guo

We consider the problem of estimating fold-changes in the expected value of a multivariate outcome observed with unknown sample-specific and category-specific perturbations. This challenge arises in high-throughput sequencing studies of the…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-24 David S Clausen , Sarah Teichman , Amy D Willis

This paper considers the problem of estimating a change point in the covariance matrix in a sequence of high-dimensional vectors, where the dimension is substantially larger than the sample size. A two-stage approach is proposed to…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-07-31 H. Dette , G. M. Pan , Q. Yang

Linear constraints for a matrix polytope with no fractional vertex are investigated as intersecting research among permutation codes, rank modulations, and linear programming methods. By focusing the discussion to the block structure of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-02-07 Manabu Hagiwara

In this work, we propose a novel discrete-time distributed algorithm for finding least-squares solutions of linear algebraic equations with a scheduling protocol to further enhance its scalability. Each agent in the network is assumed to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-24 Shenyu Liu

Structured sparsity is an important part of the modern statistical toolkit. We say a set of model parameters has block diagonal sparsity up to permutations if its elements can be viewed as the edges of a graph that has multiple connected…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-10-12 Iain Carmichael

The root-cause diagnostics of product quality defects in multistage manufacturing processes often requires a joint identification of crucial stages and process variables. To meet this requirement, this paper proposes a novel penalized…

Applications · Statistics 2020-06-11 Cheoljoon Jeong , Xiaolei Fang

We study the asymptotics in $L^2$ for complexity penalized least squares regression for the discrete approximation of finite-dimensional signals on continuous domains - e.g. images - by piecewise smooth functions. We introduce a fairly…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-01-30 Laurent Demaret , Felix Friedrich , Volkmar Liebscher , Gerhard Winkler

At each iteration of a Block Coordinate Descent method one minimizes an approximation of the objective function with respect to a generally small set of variables subject to constraints in which these variables are involved. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-28 E. G. Birgin , J. M. Martínez

Novel sparse reconstruction algorithms are proposed for beamspace channel estimation in massive multiple-input multiple-output systems. The proposed algorithms minimize a least-squares objective having a nonconvex regularizer. This…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Pengxia Wu , Julian Cheng

We consider the least-squares finite element method (lsfem) for systems of nonlinear ordinary differential equations and establish an optimal error estimate for this method when piecewise linear elements are used. The main assumptions are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-01 Matthias Chung , Justin Krueger , Honghu Liu

A convincing feature of least-squares finite element methods is the built-in a posteriori error estimator for any conforming discretization. In order to generalize this property to discontinuous finite element ansatz functions, this paper…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-18 Philipp Bringmann

We introduce an adaptive element-based domain decomposition (DD) method for solving saddle point problems defined as a block two by two matrix. The algorithm does not require any knowledge of the constrained space. We assume that all sub…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Frédéric Nataf , Pierre-Henri Tournier