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We present a new algorithm for boosting generalized additive models for location, scale and shape (GAMLSS) that allows to incorporate stability selection, an increasingly popular way to obtain stable sets of covariates while controlling the…

Computation · Statistics 2017-05-16 Janek Thomas , Andreas Mayr , Bernd Bischl , Matthias Schmid , Adam Smith , Benjamin Hofner

In this paper, we study the implicit bias of gradient descent for sparse regression. We extend results on regression with quadratic parametrization, which amounts to depth-2 diagonal linear networks, to more general depth-N networks, under…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-10-28 Jiangyuan Li , Thanh V. Nguyen , Chinmay Hegde , Raymond K. W. Wong

We provide a sparse version of the bounded degree SOS hierarchy BSOS [7] for polynomial optimization problems. It permits to treat large scale problems which satisfy a structured sparsity pattern. When the sparsity pattern satisfies the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-30 Tillmann Weisser , Jean-Bernard Lasserre , Kim-Chuan Toh

This paper examines a novel gradient boosting framework for regression. We regularize gradient boosted trees by introducing subsampling and employ a modified shrinkage algorithm so that at every boosting stage the estimate is given by an…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-09-16 Yichen Zhou , Giles Hooker

Excessive computational cost for learning large data and streaming data can be alleviated by using stochastic algorithms, such as stochastic gradient descent and its variants. Recent advances improve stochastic algorithms on convergence…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-09-24 Shih-Kang Chao , Guang Cheng

In this paper, we propose a scalable algorithm for spectral embedding. The latter is a standard tool for graph clustering. However, its computational bottleneck is the eigendecomposition of the graph Laplacian matrix, which prevents its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Mireille El Gheche , Giovanni Chierchia , Pascal Frossard

Sparsity-based methods are widely used in machine learning, statistics, and signal processing. There is now a rich class of structured sparsity approaches that expand the modeling power of the sparsity paradigm and incorporate constraints…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-12-22 Aleksander Mądry , Slobodan Mitrović , Ludwig Schmidt

We introduce a dynamic sparse training algorithm based on linearized Bregman iterations / mirror descent that exploits the naturally incurred sparsity by alternating between periods of static and dynamic sparsity pattern updates. The key…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Yannick Lunk , Sebastian J. Scott , Leon Bungert

Numerous studies attempt to mitigate classification bias caused by class imbalance. However, existing studies have yet to explore the collaborative optimization of imbalanced learning and model training. This constraint hinders further…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Chuantao Li , Zhi Li , Jiahao Xu , Jie Li , Sheng Li

As an emerging communication auxiliary technology, reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is expected to play a significant role in the upcoming 6G networks. Due to its total reflection characteristics, it is challenging to implement…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-04 W. Li , Z. Lin , Q. Guo , B. Vucetic

We propose a general method called truncated gradient to induce sparsity in the weights of online learning algorithms with convex loss functions. This method has several essential properties: The degree of sparsity is continuous -- a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2008-07-04 John Langford , Lihong Li , Tong Zhang

Although disentangled representations are often said to be beneficial for downstream tasks, current empirical and theoretical understanding is limited. In this work, we provide evidence that disentangled representations coupled with sparse…

Recent studies in the literature have paid much attention to the sparsity in linear classification tasks. One motivation of imposing sparsity assumption on the linear discriminant direction is to rule out the noninformative features, making…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-01-13 Dong Xia

Latent Gaussian models and boosting are widely used techniques in statistics and machine learning. Tree-boosting shows excellent prediction accuracy on many data sets, but potential drawbacks are that it assumes conditional independence of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Fabio Sigrist

Gradient boosting remains a strong and widely used method for tabular data learning, but its performance often degrades when training labels are noisy. This behavior is largely related to the way boosting algorithms emphasize samples with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Ye Su , Longlong Zhao , Diego Garcia-Gil , Jipeng Guo , Gangchun Zhang , Jinxin Chen , Jinsong Chen

Gradient Boosting (GB) is a popular methodology used to solve prediction problems by minimizing a differentiable loss function, $L$. GB performs very well on tabular machine learning (ML) problems; however, as a pure ML solver it lacks the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Michael T. Horrell

We give a new consistent scoring function for structure learning of Bayesian networks. In contrast to traditional approaches to scorebased structure learning, such as BDeu or MDL, the complexity penalty that we propose is data-dependent and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-09-27 Eliot Brenner , David Sontag

We consider the least-square linear regression problem with regularization by the l1-norm, a problem usually referred to as the Lasso. In this paper, we present a detailed asymptotic analysis of model consistency of the Lasso. For various…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2008-12-18 Francis Bach

For data with high-dimensional covariates but small to moderate sample sizes, the analysis of single datasets often generates unsatisfactory results. The integrative analysis of multiple independent datasets provides an effective way of…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-01-19 Yuan Huang , Qingzhao Zhang , Sanguo Zhang , Jian Huang , Shuangge Ma

In many statistical modeling problems, such as classification and regression, it is common to encounter sparse and blocky coefficients. Sparse fused Lasso is specifically designed to recover these sparse and blocky structured features,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-05-30 Xiaofei Wu , Rongmei Liang , Zhimin Zhang , Zhenyu Cui