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To address the common problem of high dimensionality in tensor regressions, we introduce a generalized tensor random projection method that embeds high-dimensional tensor-valued covariates into low-dimensional subspaces with minimal loss of…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-10-03 Roberto Casarin , Radu Craiu , Qing Wang

Modern network data analysis often involves analyzing network structures alongside covariate features to gain deeper insights into underlying patterns. However, traditional covariate-assisted statistical network models may not adequately…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-05-07 Peng Zhao , Yabo Niu

In this paper, we propose a general framework for designing sensing matrix $\boldsymbol{A} \in \mathbb{R}^{d\times p}$, for estimation of sparse covariance matrix from compressed measurements of the form $\boldsymbol{y} =…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Muralikrishnna G. Sethuraman , Hang Zhang , Faramarz Fekri

This paper studies the quantization of heavy-tailed data in some fundamental statistical estimation problems, where the underlying distributions have bounded moments of some order. We propose to truncate and properly dither the data prior…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-07-27 Junren Chen , Michael K. Ng , Di Wang

Covariance matrices are important tools for obtaining reliable parameter constraints. Advancements in cosmological surveys lead to larger data vectors and, consequently, increasingly complex covariance matrices, whose number of elements…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-31 Tassia Ferreira , Valerio Marra

Estimating a covariance matrix is central to high-dimensional data analysis. Empirical analyses of high-dimensional biomedical data, including genomics, proteomics, microbiome, and neuroimaging, among others, consistently reveal strong…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-12-05 Yifan Yang , Chixiang Chen , Shuo Chen

Federated learning has become a popular tool in the big data era nowadays. It trains a centralized model based on data from different clients while keeping data decentralized. In this paper, we propose a federated sparse sliced inverse…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-01-24 Wenquan Cui , Yue Zhao , Jianjun Xu , Haoyang Cheng

The factor modeling for high-dimensional time series is powerful in discovering latent common components for dimension reduction and information extraction. Most available estimation methods can be divided into two categories: the…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-26 Xinghao Qiao , Zihan Wang , Qiwei Yao , Bo Zhang

Covariance matrices are among the most difficult pieces of end-to-end cosmological analyses. In principle, for two-point functions, each component involves a four-point function, and the resulting covariance often has hundreds of thousands…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-20 Tassia Ferreira , Tianqing Zhang , Nianyi Chen , Scott Dodelson

Estimation of the mean vector and covariance matrix is of central importance in the analysis of multivariate data. In the framework of generalized linear models, usually the variances are certain functions of the means with the normal…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-01-25 Anupam Kundu , Mohsen Pourahmadi

Covariance and histogram image descriptors provide an effective way to capture information about images. Both excel when used in combination with special purpose distance metrics. For covariance descriptors these metrics measure the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-05-26 Matt J. Kusner , Nicholas I. Kolkin , Stephen Tyree , Kilian Q. Weinberger

We consider reduced-rank modeling of the white noise covariance matrix in a large dimensional vector autoregressive (VAR) model. We first propose the reduced-rank covariance estimator under the setting where independent observations are…

Applications · Statistics 2014-12-09 Richard A. Davis , Pengfei Zang , Tian Zheng

In high-dimensions, many variable selection methods, such as the lasso, are often limited by excessive variability and rank deficiency of the sample covariance matrix. Covariance sparsity is a natural phenomenon in high-dimensional…

Methodology · Statistics 2010-06-08 X. Jessie Jeng And Z. John Daye

In this paper we consider the problem of recovering a high dimensional data matrix from a set of incomplete and noisy linear measurements. We introduce a new model that can efficiently restrict the degrees of freedom of the problem and is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-11-22 Mohammad Golbabaee , Pierre Vandergheynst

The dependency structure of multivariate data can be analyzed using the covariance matrix $\Sigma$. In many fields the precision matrix $\Sigma^{-1}$ is even more informative. As the sample covariance estimator is singular in…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-06-04 Viktoria Öllerer , Christophe Croux

This paper deals with the problem of estimating the covariance matrix of a series of independent multivariate observations, in the case where the dimension of each observation is of the same order as the number of observations. Although…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-03 Jianfeng Yao , Abla Kammoun , Jamal Najim

We propose a general framework for nonasymptotic covariance matrix estimation making use of concentration inequality-based confidence sets. We specify this framework for the estimation of large sparse covariance matrices through…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-12-17 Adam B Kashlak , Linglong Kong

In this paper, we investigate the impact of compression on stochastic gradient algorithms for machine learning, a technique widely used in distributed and federated learning. We underline differences in terms of convergence rates between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Constantin Philippenko , Aymeric Dieuleveut

This paper aims at achieving a simultaneously sparse and low-rank estimator from the semidefinite population covariance matrices. We first benefit from a convex optimization which develops $l_1$-norm penalty to encourage the sparsity and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-08-08 Shenglong Zhou , Naihua Xiu , Ziyan Luo , Lingchen Kong

We consider the problem of estimation of a covariance matrix for Gaussian data in a high dimensional setting. Existing approaches include maximum likelihood estimation under a pre-specified sparsity pattern, l_1-penalized loglikelihood…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-10-04 Luca Cibinel , Alberto Roverato , Veronica Vinciotti