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We propose new methods for multivariate linear regression when the regression coefficient matrix is sparse and the error covariance matrix is dense. We assume that the error covariance matrix has equicorrelation across the response…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-08-13 Daeyoung Ham , Bradley S. Price , Adam J. Rothman

In this paper we derive an online estimator for sparse parameter vectors which, unlike the LASSO approach, does not require the tuning of any hyperparameters. The algorithm is based on a covariance matching approach and is equivalent to a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-06-04 Dave Zachariah , Petre Stoica

This paper is concerned with high-dimensional error-in-variables regression that aims at identifying a small number of important interpretable factors for corrupted data from many applications where measurement errors or missing data can…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-22 Ting Tao , Shaohua Pan , Shujun Bi

We formulate the sparse classification problem of $n$ samples with $p$ features as a binary convex optimization problem and propose a cutting-plane algorithm to solve it exactly. For sparse logistic regression and sparse SVM, our algorithm…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-08 Dimitris Bertsimas , Jean Pauphilet , Bart Van Parys

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

In high-dimensional statistics, variable selection recovers the latent sparse patterns from all possible covariate combinations. This paper proposes a novel optimization method to solve the exact L0-regularized regression problem, which is…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-06-02 Mingzhang Yin , Nhat Ho , Bowei Yan , Xiaoning Qian , Mingyuan Zhou

Sparse linear regression methods such as Lasso require a tuning parameter that depends on the noise variance, which is typically unknown and difficult to estimate in practice. In the presence of heavy-tailed noise or adversarial outliers,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-17 Takeyuki Sasai , Hironori Fujisawa

In the area of sparse recovery, numerous researches hint that non-convex penalties might induce better sparsity than convex ones, but up until now those corresponding non-convex algorithms lack convergence guarantees from the initial…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-29 Laming Chen , Yuantao Gu

Cellwise outliers are widespread in data and traditional robust methods may fail when applied to datasets under such contamination. We propose a variable selection procedure, that uses a pairwise robust estimator to obtain an initial…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-09-06 Peng Su , Garth Tarr , Samuel Muller

Given a sample covariance matrix, we solve a maximum likelihood problem penalized by the number of nonzero coefficients in the inverse covariance matrix. Our objective is to find a sparse representation of the sample data and to highlight…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-06-13 Alexandre d'Aspremont , Onureena Banerjee , Laurent El Ghaoui

Subsampling methods have been recently proposed to speed up least squares estimation in large scale settings. However, these algorithms are typically not robust to outliers or corruptions in the observed covariates. The concept of influence…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-06-20 Brian McWilliams , Gabriel Krummenacher , Mario Lucic , Joachim M. Buhmann

Discovering the partial differential equations underlying spatio-temporal datasets from very limited and highly noisy observations is of paramount interest in many scientific fields. However, it remains an open question to know when model…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-10-06 Georges Tod , Gert-Jan Both , Remy Kusters

Many problems in signal processing require finding sparse solutions to under-determined, or ill-conditioned, linear systems of equations. When dealing with real-world data, the presence of outliers and impulsive noise must also be accounted…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-05-08 Jasin Machkour , Michael Muma , Bastian Alt , Abdelhak M. Zoubir

This note studies a method for the efficient estimation of a finite number of unknown parameters from linear equations, which are perturbed by Gaussian noise. In case the unknown parameters have only few nonzero entries, the proposed…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-05-27 Liang Dai , Kristiaan Pelckmans

The central problem we address in this work is estimation of the parameter support set S, the set of indices corresponding to nonzero parameters, in the context of a sparse parametric likelihood model for discrete multivariate time series.…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-03-07 Trevor D. Ruiz , Sharmodeep Bhattacharyya , Sarah C. Emerson

Using the $\ell_1$-norm to regularize the estimation of the parameter vector of a linear model leads to an unstable estimator when covariates are highly correlated. In this paper, we introduce a new penalty function which takes into account…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2011-09-14 Edouard Grave , Guillaume Obozinski , Francis Bach

We study sparse linear regression over a network of agents, modeled as an undirected graph (with no centralized node). The estimation problem is formulated as the minimization of the sum of the local LASSO loss functions plus a quadratic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-23 Yao Ji , Gesualdo Scutari , Ying Sun , Harsha Honnappa

The standard quantile regression model assumes a linear relationship at the quantile of interest and that all variables are observed. We relax these assumptions by considering a partial linear model while allowing for missing linear…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-06-07 Ben Sherwood

A reciprocal LASSO (rLASSO) regularization employs a decreasing penalty function as opposed to conventional penalization approaches that use increasing penalties on the coefficients, leading to stronger parsimony and superior model…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-09-17 Himel Mallick , Rahim Alhamzawi , Erina Paul , Vladimir Svetnik

This paper studies the problem of multivariate linear regression where a portion of the observations is grossly corrupted or is missing, and the magnitudes and locations of such occurrences are unknown in priori. To deal with this problem,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-01-12 Xiaowei Zhang , Chi Xu , Yu Zhang , Tingshao Zhu , Li Cheng