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Tuning parameters are parameters involved in an estimating procedure for the purpose of reducing the risk of some other estimator. Examples include the degree of penalization in penalized regression and likelihood problems, as well as the…

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We consider the problem of estimating the slope function in a functional regression with a scalar response and a functional covariate. This central problem of functional data analysis is well known to be ill-posed, thus requiring a…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-10-05 Anirvan Chakraborty , Victor M. Panaretos

Blind inverse problems arise in many experimental settings where both the signal of interest and the forward operator are (partially) unknown. In this context, methods developed for the non-blind case cannot be adapted in a straightforward…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Nathan Buskulic , Luca Calatroni , Lorenzo Rosasco , Silvia Villa

In constrained stochastic optimization, one naturally expects that imposing a stricter feasible set does not increase the statistical risk of an estimator defined by projection onto that set. In this paper, we show that this intuition can…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-23 Omar Al-Ghattas

A challenging problem in estimating high-dimensional graphical models is to choose the regularization parameter in a data-dependent way. The standard techniques include $K$-fold cross-validation ($K$-CV), Akaike information criterion (AIC),…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2010-06-18 Han Liu , Kathryn Roeder , Larry Wasserman

Inverse problems arise in a wide spectrum of applications in fields ranging from engineering to scientific computation. Connected with the rise of interest in inverse problems is the development and analysis of regularization methods, such…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-12 Abinash Nayak

In this paper, we clarify the relations between the existing sets of regularity conditions for convergence rates of nonparametric indirect regression (NPIR) and nonparametric instrumental variables (NPIV) regression models. We establish…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2007-09-14 Xiaohong Chen , Markus Reiss

Selecting the best regularization parameter in inverse problems is a classical and yet challenging problem. Recently, data-driven approaches have become popular to tackle this challenge. These approaches are appealing since they do require…

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In recent decades, statisticians have been increasingly encountering spatial data that exhibit non-Gaussian behaviors such as asymmetry and heavy-tailedness. As a result, the assumptions of symmetry and fixed tail weight in Gaussian…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-12-03 Kesen Wang , Marc G. Genton

Sliced Inverse Regression (SIR) is an effective method for dimension reduction in high-dimensional regression problems. The original method, however, requires the inversion of the predictors covariance matrix. In case of collinearity…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2011-04-01 C. Bernard-Michel , L. Gardes , S. Girard

We consider the problem of estimating covariance and precision matrices, and their associated discriminant coefficients, from normal data when the rank of the covariance matrix is strictly smaller than its dimension and the available sample…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-09-09 Didier Chételat , Martin T. Wells

This paper explores the incorporation of Tikhonov regularization into the least squares approximation scheme using trigonometric polynomials on the unit circle. This approach encompasses interpolation and hyperinterpolation as specific…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-26 Congpei An , Mou Cai

Analysis of non-asymptotic estimation error and structured statistical recovery based on norm regularized regression, such as Lasso, needs to consider four aspects: the norm, the loss function, the design matrix, and the noise model. This…

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We introduce an adaptive regularization approach. In contrast to conventional Tikhonov regularization, which specifies a fixed regularization operator, we estimate it simultaneously with parameters. From a Bayesian perspective we estimate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2009-06-19 Andriy Myronenko , Xubo Song

In the literature on singular perturbation (Lavrentiev regularization) for the stable approximate solution of operator equations with monotone operators in the Hilbert space the phenomena of conditional stability and local well-posedness…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-23 Radu Ioan Bot , Bernd Hofmann

Tikhonov regularization with square-norm penalty for linear forward operators has been studied extensively in the literature. However, the results on convergence theory are based on technical proofs and difficult to interpret. It is also…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-07 Daniel Gerth

In this work we consider the stable numerical solution of large-scale ill-posed nonlinear least squares problems with nonzero residual. We propose a non-stationary Tikhonov method with inexact step computation, specially designed for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-03 Stefania Bellavia , Marco Donatelli , Elisa Riccietti

The Seemingly Unrelated Regressions (SUR) model is a wide used estimation procedure in econometrics, insurance and finance, where very often, the regression model contains more than one equation. Unknown parameters, regression coefficients…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-07-05 Giovanni Saraceno , Fatemah Alqallaf , Claudio Agostinelli

Neural networks have emerged as effective tools for solving ill-posed inverse problems. In many scientific applications, however, observational training data are insufficient, and learned inverse operators must instead be trained on…

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