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Variable selection is fundamental to high-dimensional statistical modeling. Many variable selection techniques may be implemented by maximum penalized likelihood using various penalty functions. Optimizing the penalized likelihood function…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2007-06-13 David R. Hunter , Runze Li

Due to its linear complexity, naive Bayes classification remains an attractive supervised learning method, especially in very large-scale settings. We propose a sparse version of naive Bayes, which can be used for feature selection. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Armin Askari , Alexandre d'Aspremont , Laurent El Ghaoui

We study the problem of multi-class classification under system-level constraints expressible as linear functionals over randomized classifiers. We propose a post-processing approach that adjusts a given base classifier to satisfy general…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-17 Evgenii Chzhen , Mohamed Hebiri , Gayane Taturyan

Within the statistical and machine learning literature, regularization techniques are often used to construct sparse (predictive) models. Most regularization strategies only work for data where all predictors are treated identically, such…

Computation · Statistics 2020-12-16 Sander Devriendt , Katrien Antonio , Tom Reynkens , Roel Verbelen

For the problem of multi-class linear classification and feature selection, we propose approximate message passing approaches to sparse multinomial logistic regression (MLR). First, we propose two algorithms based on the Hybrid Generalized…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-21 Evan Byrne , Philip Schniter

We propose a penalized likelihood method that simultaneously fits the multinomial logistic regression model and combines subsets of the response categories. The penalty is non differentiable when pairs of columns in the optimization…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-05-11 Bradley S. Price , Charles J. Geyer , Adam J. Rothman

The model interpretation is essential in many application scenarios and to build a classification model with a ease of model interpretation may provide useful information for further studies and improvement. It is common to encounter with a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-01-07 Wan-Ping Nicole Chen , Yuan-chin Ivan Chang

Sparse covariates are frequent in classification and regression problems and in these settings the task of variable selection is usually of interest. As it is well known, sparse statistical models correspond to situations where there are…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-02-14 Ana M. Bianco , Graciela Boente , Gonzalo Chebi

Motivation: The high dimensionality of genomic data calls for the development of specific classification methodologies, especially to prevent over-optimistic predictions. This challenge can be tackled by compression and variable selection,…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-04-10 G. Durif , L. Modolo , J. Michaelsson , J. E. Mold , S. Lambert-Lacroix , F. Picard

The objective of the paper is to study accuracy of multi-class classification in high-dimensional setting, where the number of classes is also large ("large $L$, large $p$, small $n$" model). While this problem arises in many practical…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-07-18 Felix Abramovich , Marianna Pensky

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

Sparse modelling or model selection with categorical data is challenging even for a moderate number of variables, because one parameter is roughly needed to encode one category or level. The Group Lasso is a well known efficient algorithm…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-11-14 Szymon Nowakowski , Piotr Pokarowski , Wojciech Rejchel , Agnieszka Sołtys

Logistic regression is a widely used statistical model to describe the relationship between a binary response variable and predictor variables in data sets. It is often used in machine learning to identify important predictor variables.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-30 Jérôme Darbon , Gabriel P. Langlois

As technology advanced, collecting data via automatic collection devices become popular, thus we commonly face data sets with lengthy variables, especially when these data sets are collected without specific research goals beforehand. It…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-05-10 Wan-Ping Nicole Chen , Yuan-chin Ivan Chang

Mixtures of matrix Gaussian distributions provide a probabilistic framework for clustering continuous matrix-variate data, which are becoming increasingly prevalent in various fields. Despite its widespread adoption and successful…

Computation · Statistics 2023-07-21 Andrea Cappozzo , Alessandro Casa , Michael Fop

We consider a problem of clustering a sequence of multinomial observations by way of a model selection criterion. We propose a form of a penalty term for the model selection procedure. Our approach subsumes both the conventional AIC and BIC…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-08-17 Nam H. Lee , Runze Tang , Carey E. Priebe , Michael Rosen

We consider high-dimensional regression with a count response modeled by Poisson or negative binomial generalized linear model (GLM). We propose a penalized maximum likelihood estimator with a properly chosen complexity penalty and…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-09-16 Or Zilberman , Felix Abramovich

We consider the problem of sparse estimation in a factor analysis model. A traditional estimation procedure in use is the following two-step approach: the model is estimated by maximum likelihood method and then a rotation technique is…

Methodology · Statistics 2013-03-18 Kei Hirose , Michio Yamamoto

Interpretable classifiers have recently witnessed an increase in attention from the data mining community because they are inherently easier to understand and explain than their more complex counterparts. Examples of interpretable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Hugo M. Proença , Matthijs van Leeuwen

In this work we consider a problem of multi-label classification, where each instance is associated with some binary vector. Our focus is to find a classifier which minimizes false negative discoveries under constraints. Depending on the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-03-29 Evgenii Chzhen