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We proposed a new penalized method in this paper to solve sparse Poisson Regression problems. Being different from $\ell_1$ penalized log-likelihood estimation, our new method can be viewed as penalized weighted score function method. We…

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We propose a novel algorithm for efficiently computing a sparse directed adjacency matrix from a group of time series following a causal graph process. Our solution is scalable for both dense and sparse graphs and automatically selects the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-11-19 Théophile Griveau-Billion , Ben Calderhead

We propose an $L_{2}$-based penalization algorithm for functional linear regression models, where the coefficient function is shrunk towards a data-driven shape template $\gamma$, which is constrained to belong to a class of piecewise…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-11-03 Edoardo Belli , Simone Vantini

This work introduces a new method to efficiently solve optimization problems constrained by partial differential equations (PDEs) with uncertain coefficients. The method leverages two sources of inexactness that trade accuracy for speed:…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-20 Matthew J. Zahr , Kevin T. Carlberg , Drew P. Kouri

One common approach for dose optimization is a two-stage design, which initially conducts dose escalation to identify the maximum tolerated dose (MTD), followed by a randomization stage where patients are assigned to two or more doses to…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-11-11 Yixuan Zhao , Rachael Liu , Jianchang Lin , Ying Yuan

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

This paper considers the design of tunable decision schemes capable of rejecting with high probability mismatched signals embedded in Gaussian interference with unknown covariance matrix. To this end, a sparse recovery technique is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-29 Sudan Han , Luca Pallotta , Xiaotao Huang , Gaetano Giunta , Danilo Orlando

In a survival analysis context we suggest a new method to estimate the piecewise constant hazard rate model. The method provides an automatic procedure to find the number and location of cut points and to estimate the hazard on each cut…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-12-07 O Bouaziz , G Nuel

This paper addresses the scalar regression problem through a novel solution to exactly optimize the Huber loss in a general semi-supervised setting, which combines multi-view learning and manifold regularization. We propose a principled…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-06-28 Jacopo Cavazza , Vittorio Murino

In many domains of empirical sciences, discovering the causal structure within variables remains an indispensable task. Recently, to tackle with unoriented edges or latent assumptions violation suffered by conventional methods, researchers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Shixuan Liu , Yanghe Feng , Keyu Wu , Guangquan Cheng , Jincai Huang , Zhong Liu

We develop and analyze stochastic optimization algorithms for problems in which the expected loss is strongly convex, and the optimum is (approximately) sparse. Previous approaches are able to exploit only one of these two structures,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2012-07-19 Alekh Agarwal , Sahand Negahban , Martin J. Wainwright

Recent theoretical studies proved that deep neural network (DNN) estimators obtained by minimizing empirical risk with a certain sparsity constraint can attain optimal convergence rates for regression and classification problems. However,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-08-10 Ilsang Ohn , Yongdai Kim

The main contribution of the paper is a new approach to subspace clustering that is significantly more computationally efficient and scalable than existing state-of-the-art methods. The central idea is to modify the regression technique in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-07-11 Urvashi Oswal , Robert Nowak

In high dimensional regression, feature clustering by their effects on outcomes is often as important as feature selection. For that purpose, clustered Lasso and octagonal shrinkage and clustering algorithm for regression (OSCAR) are used…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-06-17 Atsumori Takahashi , Shunichi Nomura

Risk scores are simple classification models that let users make quick risk predictions by adding and subtracting a few small numbers. These models are widely used in medicine and criminal justice, but are difficult to learn from data…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-10-21 Berk Ustun , Cynthia Rudin

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

The crossed random effects model is widely used, finding applications in various fields such as longitudinal studies, e-commerce, and recommender systems, among others. However, these models encounter scalability challenges, as the…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-10-21 Disha Ghandwani , Swarnadip Ghosh , Trevor Hastie , Art B. Owen

We address the challenge of correlated predictors in high-dimensional GLMs, where regression coefficients range from sparse to dense, by proposing a data-driven random projection method. This is particularly relevant for applications where…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-12-30 Roman Parzer , Peter Filzmoser , Laura Vana-Gür

In sequential decision-making scenarios i.e., mobile health recommendation systems revenue management contextual multi-armed bandit algorithms have garnered attention for their performance. But most of the existing algorithms are built on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Mubarrat Chowdhury , Elkhan Ismayilzada , Khalequzzaman Sayem , Gi-Soo Kim

This paper presents Sparse Partitioning, a Bayesian method for identifying predictors that either individually or in combination with others affect a response variable. The method is designed for regression problems involving binary or…

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