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For the problem of high-dimensional sparse linear regression, it is known that an $\ell_0$-based estimator can achieve a $1/n$ "fast" rate on the prediction error without any conditions on the design matrix, whereas in absence of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-12-01 Yuchen Zhang , Martin J. Wainwright , Michael I. Jordan

$\ell_1$ mean filtering is a conventional, optimization-based method to estimate the positions of jumps in a piecewise constant signal perturbed by additive noise. In this method, the $\ell_1$ norm penalizes sparsity of the first-order…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Mohammadreza Malek-Mohammadi , Cristian R. Rojas , Bo Wahlberg

Sparse estimation methods are aimed at using or obtaining parsimonious representations of data or models. They were first dedicated to linear variable selection but numerous extensions have now emerged such as structured sparsity or kernel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2011-11-24 Francis Bach , Rodolphe Jenatton , Julien Mairal , Guillaume Obozinski

We consider the problem of robustifying high-dimensional structured estimation. Robust techniques are key in real-world applications which often involve outliers and data corruption. We focus on trimmed versions of structurally regularized…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-08-22 Eunho Yang , Aurelie Lozano , Aleksandr Aravkin

We consider the problem of learning a sparse graph under the Laplacian constrained Gaussian graphical models. This problem can be formulated as a penalized maximum likelihood estimation of the Laplacian constrained precision matrix. Like in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Jiaxi Ying , José Vinícius de M. Cardoso , Daniel P. Palomar

In high-dimensional model selection problems, penalized simple least-square approaches have been extensively used. This paper addresses the question of both robustness and efficiency of penalized model selection methods, and proposes a…

Methodology · Statistics 2011-07-06 Jelena Bradic , Jianqing Fan , Weiwei Wang

We propose a new estimator for the high-dimensional linear regression model with observation error in the design where the number of coefficients is potentially larger than the sample size. The main novelty of our procedure is that the…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-09-09 Alexandre Belloni , Abhishek Kaul , Mathieu Rosenbaum

In this work we consider numerical efficiency and convergence rates for solvers of non-convex multi-penalty formulations when reconstructing sparse signals from noisy linear measurements. We extend an existing approach, based on reduction…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-15 Zeljko Kereta , Johannes Maly , Valeriya Naumova

In this article, we introduce a minimization model via a non-convex transformed $\ell_p$ (TLp) penalty function with two parameters $a\in(0,\infty)$ and $p\in(0,1]$, where the case $p=1$ is known and was established by S. Zhang and J. Xin.…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-15 Ziwei Li , Wengu Chen , Huanmin Ge , Dachun Yang

This paper develops a convex approach for sparse one-dimensional deconvolution that improves upon L1-norm regularization, the standard convex approach. We propose a sparsity-inducing non-separable non-convex bivariate penalty function for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-04-19 Ivan W. Selesnick , Iker Bayram

Feature selection in learning to rank has recently emerged as a crucial issue. Whereas several preprocessing approaches have been proposed, only a few works have been focused on integrating the feature selection into the learning process.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-07-03 Léa Laporte , Rémi Flamary , Stephane Canu , Sébastien Déjean , Josiane Mothe

We investigate implicit regularization schemes for gradient descent methods applied to unpenalized least squares regression to solve the problem of reconstructing a sparse signal from an underdetermined system of linear measurements under…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-09-12 Tomas Vaškevičius , Varun Kanade , Patrick Rebeschini

Recent studies of under-determined linear systems of equations with sparse solutions showed a great practical and theoretical efficiency of a particular technique called $\ell_1$-optimization. Seminal works \cite{CRT,DOnoho06CS} rigorously…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-06-18 Mihailo Stojnic

We study the problem of learning a sparse linear regression vector under additional conditions on the structure of its sparsity pattern. This problem is relevant in machine learning, statistics and signal processing. It is well known that a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-03-17 Charles A. Micchelli , Jean M. Morales , Massimiliano Pontil

One-bit measurements widely exist in the real world, and they can be used to recover sparse signals. This task is known as the problem of learning halfspaces in learning theory and one-bit compressive sensing (1bit-CS) in signal processing.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-08 Xiaolin Huang , Ming Yan

We propose a sparse regression method based on the non-concave penalized density power divergence loss function which is robust against infinitesimal contamination in very high dimensionality. Present methods of sparse and robust regression…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-05-18 Abhik Ghosh , Subhabrata Majumdar

It is well known that $\ell_1$ minimization can be used to recover sufficiently sparse unknown signals from compressed linear measurements. In fact, exact thresholds on the sparsity, as a function of the ratio between the system dimensions,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-04-06 M. Amin Khajehnejad , Weiyu Xu , Salman Avestimehr , Babak Hassibi

Variable selection is a fundamental task in statistical data analysis. Sparsity-inducing regularization methods are a popular class of methods that simultaneously perform variable selection and model estimation. The central problem is a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-16 Hongbo Dong , Kun Chen , Jeff Linderoth

We consider nonlinear mixed effects models including high-dimensional covariates to model individual parameters variability. The objective is to identify relevant covariates among a large set under sparsity assumption and to estimate model…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-08-06 Antoine Caillebotte , Estelle Kuhn , Sarah Lemler

We consider a general class of constrained optimization problems with an additional $\ell_0$- sparsity term in the objective function. Based on a recent reformulation of this difficult $\ell_0$-term, we consider a nonsmooth penalty approach…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-04 Christian Kanzow , Felix Weiß