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We propose a new penalized method for variable selection and estimation that explicitly incorporates the correlation patterns among predictors. This method is based on a combination of the minimax concave penalty and Laplacian quadratic…

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Many statistical estimation procedures lead to nonconvex optimization problems. Algorithms to solve these are often guaranteed to output a stationary point of the optimization problem. Oracle inequalities are an important theoretical…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-02-28 Andreas Elsener , Sara van de Geer

Extending the results of Bellec, Lecu\'e and Tsybakov to the setting of sparse high-dimensional linear regression with unknown variance, we show that two estimators, the Square-Root Lasso and the Square-Root Slope can achieve the optimal…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-12-12 Alexis Derumigny

Sorted L-One Penalized Estimator (SLOPE) is a relatively new convex optimization procedure for selecting predictors in large data bases. Contrary to LASSO, SLOPE has been proved to be asymptotically minimax in the context of sparse…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-05-11 Michał Kos , Małgorzata Bogdan

Regularized regression approaches such as the Lasso have been widely adopted for constructing sparse linear models in high-dimensional datasets. A complexity in fitting these models is the tuning of the parameters which control the level of…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-03-12 Ellis Patrick , Samuel Mueller

The lasso is the most famous sparse regression and feature selection method. One reason for its popularity is the speed at which the underlying optimization problem can be solved. Sorted L-One Penalized Estimation (SLOPE) is a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-14 Johan Larsson , Quentin Klopfenstein , Mathurin Massias , Jonas Wallin

This paper considers the problem of inference in a linear regression model with outliers where the number of outliers can grow with sample size but their proportion goes to 0. We apply the square-root lasso estimator penalizing the l1-norm…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-06-05 Jad Beyhum

The explicit regularization and optimality of deep neural networks estimators from independent data have made considerable progress recently. The study of such properties on dependent data is still a challenge. In this paper, we carry out…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-07-09 William Kengne , Modou Wade

Penalized estimation principle is fundamental to high-dimensional problems. In the literature, it has been extensively and successfully applied to various models with only structural parameters. As a contrast, in this paper, we apply this…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-08-03 Jianqing Fan , Runlong Tang , Xiaofeng Shi

Popular regularizers with non-differentiable penalties, such as Lasso, Elastic Net, Generalized Lasso, or SLOPE, reduce the dimension of the parameter space by inducing sparsity or clustering in the estimators' coordinates. In this paper,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-01-03 Ivan Hejný , Jonas Wallin , Małgorzata Bogdan , Michał Kos

Due to its low computational cost, Lasso is an attractive regularization method for high-dimensional statistical settings. In this paper, we consider multivariate counting processes depending on an unknown function parameter to be estimated…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-04-08 Niels Richard Hansen , Patricia Reynaud-Bouret , Vincent Rivoirard

The performance of Least Squares (LS) estimators is studied in isotonic, unimodal and convex regression. Our results have the form of sharp oracle inequalities that account for the model misspecification error. In isotonic and unimodal…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-08-09 Pierre C. Bellec

Tuning the regularization parameter in penalized regression models is an expensive task, requiring multiple models to be fit along a path of parameters. Strong screening rules drastically reduce computational costs by lowering the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-07 Fabio Feser , Marina Evangelou

We study high-dimensional linear models and the $\ell_1$-penalized least squares estimator, also known as the Lasso estimator. In literature, oracle inequalities have been derived under restricted eigenvalue or compatibility conditions. In…

Methodology · Statistics 2011-07-04 Sara van de Geer , Johannes Lederer

We provide a necessary and sufficient condition for the uniqueness of penalized least-squares estimators whose penalty term is given by a norm with a polytope unit ball, covering a wide range of methods including SLOPE, PACS, fused,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-11-29 Ulrike Schneider , Patrick Tardivel

We propose a pivotal method for estimating high-dimensional sparse linear regression models, where the overall number of regressors $p$ is large, possibly much larger than $n$, but only $s$ regressors are significant. The method is a…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-03-17 Alexandre Belloni , Victor Chernozhukov , Lie Wang

Sorted $L_1$ penalization estimator (SLOPE) is a regularization technique for sorted absolute coefficients in high-dimensional regression. By arbitrarily setting its regularization weights $\lambda$ under the monotonicity constraint, SLOPE…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-10-30 Shunichi Nomura

We proposed a new penalized method in this paper to solve sparse Poisson Regression problems. Being different from $\ell_1$ penalized log-likelihood estimation, our new method can be viewed as penalized weighted score function method. We…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-03-14 Jinzhu Jia , Fang Xie , Lihu Xu

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

The lasso and related sparsity inducing algorithms have been the target of substantial theoretical and applied research. Correspondingly, many results are known about their behavior for a fixed or optimally chosen tuning parameter specified…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-06-23 Darren Homrighausen , Daniel J. McDonald