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In this manuscript a unified framework for conducting inference on complex aggregated data in high dimensional settings is proposed. The data are assumed to be a collection of multiple non-Gaussian realizations with underlying undirected…

Applications · Statistics 2013-10-14 Fang Han , Han Liu , Brian Caffo

Deep learning has powered recent successes of artificial intelligence (AI). However, the deep neural network, as the basic model of deep learning, has suffered from issues such as local traps and miscalibration. In this paper, we provide a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-12-03 Yan Sun , Wenjun Xiong , Faming Liang

We study graphons as a non-parametric generalization of stochastic block models, and show how to obtain compactly represented estimators for sparse networks in this framework. Our algorithms and analysis go beyond previous work in several…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-02-25 Christian Borgs , Jennifer T. Chayes , Henry Cohn , Shirshendu Ganguly

We give a short argument that yields a new lower bound on the number of subsampled rows from a bounded, orthonormal matrix necessary to form a matrix with the restricted isometry property. We show that a matrix formed by uniformly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Jarosław Błasiok , Patrick Lopatto , Kyle Luh , Jake Marcinek , Shravas Rao

Sparse neural networks promise efficiency, yet training them effectively remains a fundamental challenge. Despite advances in pruning methods that create sparse architectures, understanding why some sparse structures are better trainable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Hoang Pham , The-Anh Ta , Tom Jacobs , Rebekka Burkholz , Long Tran-Thanh

Opacity is a notion that describes an eavesdropper's inability to estimate a system's 'secret' states by observing the system's outputs. In this paper, we propose algorithms to compute the minimum sparse perturbation to be added to a system…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-12 Varkey M John , Vaibhav Katewa

We develop two generalizations of contraction theory, namely, semi-contraction and weak-contraction theory. First, using the notion of semi-norm, we propose a geometric framework for semi-contraction theory. We introduce matrix…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-06 Saber Jafarpour , Pedro Cisneros-Velarde , Francesco Bullo

Recently, graph prompt learning has garnered increasing attention in adapting pre-trained GNN models for downstream graph learning tasks. However, existing works generally conduct prompting over all graph elements (e.g., nodes, edges, node…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Bo Jiang , Hao Wu , Beibei Wang , Jin Tang , Bin Luo

We introduce and develop a theory of limits for sequences of sparse graphs based on $L^p$ graphons, which generalizes both the existing $L^\infty$ theory of dense graph limits and its extension by Bollob\'as and Riordan to sparse graphs…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-08-19 Christian Borgs , Jennifer T. Chayes , Henry Cohn , Yufei Zhao

Composite likelihood has shown promise in settings where the number of parameters $p$ is large due to its ability to break down complex models into simpler components, thus enabling inference even when the full likelihood is not tractable.…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-07-21 Claudia Di Caterina , Davide Ferrari

We revisit the asymptotic analysis of probabilistic construction of adjacency matrices of expander graphs proposed in [4]. With better bounds we derived a new reduced sample complexity for the number of nonzeros per column of these…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-17 Bubacarr Bah , Jared Tanner

Generative graph models struggle to scale due to the need to predict the existence or type of edges between all node pairs. To address the resulting quadratic complexity, existing scalable models often impose restrictive assumptions such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Yiming Qin , Clement Vignac , Pascal Frossard

Random feature methods have been successful in various machine learning tasks, are easy to compute, and come with theoretical accuracy bounds. They serve as an alternative approach to standard neural networks since they can represent…

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We consider the high-dimensional sparse linear regression problem of accurately estimating a sparse vector using a small number of linear measurements that are contaminated by noise. It is well known that the standard cadre of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-02-25 Divyanshu Vats , Richard G. Baraniuk

This paper aims to propose and theoretically analyze a new distributed scheme for sparse linear regression and feature selection. The primary goal is to learn the few causal features of a high-dimensional dataset based on noisy observations…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-05 Hanie Barghi , Amir Najafi , Seyed Abolfazl Motahari

In this paper the focus is on subsampling as well as reconstructing the second-order statistics of signals residing on nodes of arbitrary undirected graphs. Second-order stationary graph signals may be obtained by graph filtering zero-mean…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Sundeep Prabhakar Chepuri , Geert Leus

We introduce a pruning algorithm that provably sparsifies the parameters of a trained model in a way that approximately preserves the model's predictive accuracy. Our algorithm uses a small batch of input points to construct a data-informed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Cenk Baykal , Lucas Liebenwein , Igor Gilitschenski , Dan Feldman , Daniela Rus

We derive fundamental sample complexity bounds for recovering sparse and structured signals for linear and nonlinear observation models including sparse regression, group testing, multivariate regression and problems with missing features.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-17 Cem Aksoylar , George Atia , Venkatesh Saligrama

Graphons have traditionally served as limit objects for dense graph sequences, with the cut distance serving as the metric for convergence. However, sparse graph sequences converge to the trivial graphon under the conventional definition of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-12 Xingchao Jian , Feng Ji , Wee Peng Tay

Ensuring that analyses performed on a dataset are representative of the entire population is one of the central problems in statistics. Most classical techniques assume that the dataset is independent of the analyst's query and break down…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Guy Blanc