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The Ridgeless minimum $\ell_2$-norm interpolator in overparametrized linear regression has attracted considerable attention in recent years in both machine learning and statistics communities. While it seems to defy conventional wisdom that…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Qiyang Han , Xiaocong Xu

We derive the asymptotic risk function of regularized empirical risk minimization (ERM) estimators tuned by $n$-fold cross-validation (CV). The out-of-sample prediction loss of such estimators converges in distribution to the squared-error…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Karun Adusumilli , Maximilian Kasy , Ashia Wilson

Recovering a low-complexity signal from its noisy observations by regularization methods is a cornerstone of inverse problems and compressed sensing. Stable recovery ensures that the original signal can be approximated linearly by optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-30 Tran T. A. Nghia , Huy N. Pham , Nghia V. Vo

This paper presents an error analysis of classical and learned Tikhonov regularization schemes for inverse problems. We first demonstrate, both theoretically and numerically, that using a fixed regularization parameter across varying noise…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Arne Behrens , Meira Iske , Ming Jiang , Peter Maass , Sebastian Neumayer

We consider a modified Tikhonov-type functional for the solution of ill-posed nonlinear inverse problems. Motivated by applications in the field of production engineering, we allow small deviations in the solution, which are modeled through…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-14 Iwona Piotrowska-Kurczewski , Georgia Sfakianaki

In this work, we construct a risk estimator for hard thresholding which can be used as a basis to solve the difficult task of automatically selecting the threshold. As hard thresholding is not even continuous, Stein's lemma cannot be used…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-01-25 Charles-Alban Deledalle , Gabriel Peyré , Jalal Fadili

Ill-posed linear inverse problems appear frequently in various signal processing applications. It can be very useful to have theoretical characterizations that quantify the level of ill-posedness for a given inverse problem and the degree…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-26 Justin P. Haldar

The recently developed data-driven eigenmatrix method shows very promising reconstruction accuracy in sparse recovery for a wide range of kernel functions and random sample locations. However, its current implementation can lead to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-15 Koung Hee Leem , Jun Liu , George Pelekanos

In an increasing number of applications, it is of interest to recover an approximately low-rank data matrix from noisy observations. This paper develops an unbiased risk estimate---holding in a Gaussian model---for any spectral estimator…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-06-11 Emmanuel J. Candes , Carlos A. Sing-Long , Joshua D. Trzasko

The $\chi^2$ principle and the unbiased predictive risk estimator are used to determine optimal regularization parameters in the context of 3D focusing gravity inversion with the minimum support stabilizer. At each iteration of the focusing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-16 Saeed Vatankhah , Vahid E. Ardestani , Rosemary A. Renaut

Inspired by ideas taken from the machine learning literature, new regularization techniques have been recently introduced in linear system identification. In particular, all the adopted estimators solve a regularized least squares problem,…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-07-03 Gianluigi Pillonetto , Tianshi Chen , Alessandro Chiuso , Giuseppe De Nicolao , Lennart Ljung

This paper derives a new class of adaptive regularization parameter choice strategies that can be effectively and efficiently applied when regularizing large-scale linear inverse problems by combining standard Tikhonov regularization and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-15 Silvia Gazzola , Malena Sabate Landman

We exploit the similarities between Tikhonov regularization and Bayesian hierarchical models to propose a regularization scheme that acts like a distributed Tikhonov regularization where the amount of regularization varies from component to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-10 Daniela Calvetti , Erkki Somersalo

Many applications in science and engineering require the solution of large linear discrete ill-posed problems that are obtained by the discretization of a Fredholm integral equation of the first kind in several space-dimensions. The matrix…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-19 Laura Dykes , Guangxin Huang , Silvia Noschese , Lothar Reichel

A main drawback of classical Tikhonov regularization is that often the parameters required to apply theoretical results, e.g., the smoothness of the sought-after solution and the noise level, are unknown in practice. In this paper we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-01 Daniel Gerth , Ronny Ramlau

We study the Tikhonov regularization for ill-posed non-linear operator equations in Hilbert scales. Our focus is on the interplay between the smoothness-promoting properties of the penalty and the smoothness inherent in the solution. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-17 Bernd Hofmann , Peter Mathé

Selecting regularization parameters in penalized high-dimensional graphical models in a principled, data-driven, and computationally efficient manner continues to be one of the key challenges in high-dimensional statistics. We present…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-10-19 Christian L. Müller , Richard Bonneau , Zachary Kurtz

In this work, we propose a high-order regularization method to solve the ill-conditioned problems in robot localization. Numerical solutions to robot localization problems are often unstable when the problems are ill-conditioned. A typical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Xinghua Liu , Ming Cao

We investigate the use of Tikhonov regularization with the minimum support stabilizer for underdetermined 2-D inversion of gravity data. This stabilizer produces models with non-smooth properties which is useful for identifying geologic…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Saeed Vatankhah , Vahid E Ardestani , Rosemary A Renaut

The objective of this work is to quantify the reconstruction error in sparse inverse problems with measures and stochastic noise, motivated by optimal sensor placement. To be useful in this context, the error quantities must be explicit in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-19 Phuoc-Truong Huynh , Konstantin Pieper , Daniel Walter