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The article is devoted to the development of algorithmic methods ensuring efficient complexity bounds for strongly convex-concave saddle point problems in the case when one of the groups of variables is high-dimensional, and the other is…

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In this paper, we propose a new mathematical optimization model for multiclass classification based on arrangements of hyperplanes. Our approach preserves the core support vector machine (SVM) paradigm of maximizing class separation while…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Víctor Blanco , Harshit Kothari , James Luedtke

In this paper, we aim to design the optimal sensor collaboration strategy for the estimation of time-varying parameters, where collaboration refers to the act of sharing measurements with neighboring sensors prior to transmission to a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-23 Sijia Liu , Swarnendu Kar , Makan Fardad , Pramod K. Varshney

Bounds on the log partition function are important in a variety of contexts, including approximate inference, model fitting, decision theory, and large deviations analysis. We introduce a new class of upper bounds on the log partition…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-01-07 Martin Wainwright , Tommi S. Jaakkola , Alan Willsky

We propose a penalized method for the least squares estimator of a multivariate concave regression function. This estimator is formulated as a quadratic programming (QP) problem with $O(n^2)$ constraints, where n is the number of…

Computation · Statistics 2016-08-16 Abolfazl Keshvari

The use of min-max optimization in adversarial training of deep neural network classifiers and training of generative adversarial networks has motivated the study of nonconvex-nonconcave optimization objectives, which frequently arise in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-02 Jelena Diakonikolas , Constantinos Daskalakis , Michael I. Jordan

High-dimensional data classification is a fundamental task in machine learning and imaging science. In this paper, we propose a two-stage multiphase semi-supervised classification method for classifying high-dimensional data and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-22 Xiaohao Cai , Raymond Chan , Xiaoyu Xie , Tieyong Zeng

In this paper we study nonconvex penalization using Bernstein functions. Since the Bernstein function is concave and nonsmooth at the origin, it can induce a class of nonconvex functions for high-dimensional sparse estimation problems. We…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-12-18 Zhihua Zhang

We propose a novel algorithm for solving non-convex, nonlinear equality-constrained finite-sum optimization problems. The proposed algorithm incorporates an additional sampling strategy for sample size update into the well-known framework…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-05 Nataša Krejić , Nataša Krklec Jerinkić , Tijana Ostojić , Nemanja Vučićević

Multiclass classification problems such as image annotation can involve a large number of classes. In this context, confusion between classes can occur, and single label classification may be misleading. We provide in the present paper a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-12-19 Christophe Denis , Mohamed Hebiri

Model compression is a crucial part of deploying neural networks (NNs), especially when the memory and storage of computing devices are limited in many applications. This paper focuses on two model compression techniques: low-rank…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Chenyang Li , Jihoon Chung , Mengnan Du , Haimin Wang , Xianlian Zhou , Bo Shen

Nowadays, several data analysis problems require for complexity reduction, mainly meaning that they target at removing the non-influential covariates from the model and at delivering a sparse model. When categorical covariates are present,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-12-21 Lea Kaufmann , Maria Kateri

A common way to estimate an unknown convex regression function $f_0: \Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^d \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ from a set of $n$ noisy observations is to fit a convex function that minimizes the sum of squared errors. However,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-09-25 Eunji Lim

This paper studies first-order algorithms for solving fully composite optimization problems over convex and compact sets. We leverage the structure of the objective by handling its differentiable and non-differentiable components…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-13 Maria-Luiza Vladarean , Nikita Doikov , Martin Jaggi , Nicolas Flammarion

In this article, we propose a penalized clustering method for large scale data with multiple covariates through a functional data approach. In the proposed method, responses and covariates are linked together through nonparametric…

Methodology · Statistics 2008-01-17 Ping Ma , Wenxuan Zhong

Concerning huge-scale aggregative convex programming of a linear objective subject to the affine constraints of equality and inequality and the quadratic constraints of inequality, convex and aggregatively computable, an algorithm is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Luoyi Tao

We consider strongly convex distributed consensus optimization over connected networks. EFIX, the proposed method, is derived using quadratic penalty approach. In more detail, we use the standard reformulation { transforming the original…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-11 Dusan Jakovetic , Natasa Krejic , Natasa Krklec Jerinkic

We propose a new sparsity-smoothness penalty for high-dimensional generalized additive models. The combination of sparsity and smoothness is crucial for mathematical theory as well as performance for finite-sample data. We present a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2009-11-18 Lukas Meier , Sara van de Geer , Peter Bühlmann

We consider a high-dimensional linear regression problem. Unlike many papers on the topic, we do not require sparsity of the regression coefficients; instead, our main structural assumption is a decay of eigenvalues of the covariance matrix…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-10-01 Igor Silin , Jianqing Fan

Modern graph or network datasets often contain rich structure that goes beyond simple pairwise connections between nodes. This calls for complex representations that can capture, for instance, edges of different types as well as so-called…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Ilya Amburg , Nate Veldt , Austin R. Benson