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This work addresses the robust reconstruction problem of a sparse signal from compressed measurements. We propose a robust formulation for sparse reconstruction which employs the $\ell_1$-norm as the loss function for the residual error and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-30 Fei Wen , Yuan Yang , Ling Pei , Wenxian Yu , Peilin Liu

A robust mean value is often a good alternative to the standard mean value when dealing with data containing many outliers. An efficient method for samples of one-dimensional features and the truncated quadratic error norm is presented and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-02-01 Erik Jonsson , Michael Felsberg

The tracking method based on the extreme learning machine (ELM) is efficient and effective. ELM randomly generates input weights and biases in the hidden layer, and then calculates and computes the output weights by reducing the iterative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Jing Zhang , Huibing Wang , Yonggong Ren

In this paper, we consider a non-convex problem which is the sum of $\ell_0$-norm and a convex smooth function under box constraint. We propose one proximal iterative hard thresholding type method with extrapolation step used for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-03 Xue Zhang , Xiaoqun Zhang

Recent research has studied the role of sparsity in high dimensional regression and signal reconstruction, establishing theoretical limits for recovering sparse models from sparse data. This line of work shows that $\ell_1$-regularized…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2012-01-11 Shuheng Zhou , John Lafferty , Larry Wasserman

Extreme learning machine (ELM) is a network model that arbitrarily initializes the first hidden layer and can be computed speedily. In order to improve the classification performance of ELM, a $\ell_2$ and $\ell_{0.5}$ regularization ELM…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-05 Liangjuan Zhou , Wei Miao

The panel data regression models have gained increasing attention in different areas of research including but not limited to econometrics, environmental sciences, epidemiology, behavioral and social sciences. However, the presence of…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-11-24 Beste Hamiye Beyaztas , Soutir Bandyopadhyay

It is well-known that trimmed sample means are robust against heavy tails and data contamination. This paper analyzes the performance of trimmed means and related methods in two novel contexts. The first one consists of estimating…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-03 Roberto I. Oliveira , Lucas Resende

Subspace tracking is a fundamental problem in signal processing, where the goal is to estimate and track the underlying subspace that spans a sequence of data streams over time. In high-dimensional settings, data samples are often corrupted…

We explore the connection between outlier-robust high-dimensional statistics and non-convex optimization in the presence of sparsity constraints, with a focus on the fundamental tasks of robust sparse mean estimation and robust sparse PCA.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Yu Cheng , Ilias Diakonikolas , Rong Ge , Shivam Gupta , Daniel M. Kane , Mahdi Soltanolkotabi

We consider the reconstruction problem in compressed sensing in which the observations are recorded in a finite number of bits. They may thus contain quantization errors (from being rounded to the nearest representable value) and saturation…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-10-11 Ji Liu , Stephen J. Wright

This paper studies the problem of robust signal detection in Gaussian noise under quadratically convex orthosymmetric (QCO) constraints. We consider a minimax testing framework where the signal belongs to a QCO set and is separated from…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Yikun Li , Matey Neykov

It is now well understood that $\ell_1$ minimization algorithm is able to recover sparse signals from incomplete measurements [2], [1], [3] and sharp recoverable sparsity thresholds have also been obtained for the $\ell_1$ minimization…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-04-07 Weiyu Xu , M. Amin Khajehnejad , Salman Avestimehr , Babak Hassibi

In this paper we study the problem of recovering a low-rank matrix from a number of random linear measurements that are corrupted by outliers taking arbitrary values. We consider a nonsmooth nonconvex formulation of the problem, in which we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-16 Xiao Li , Zhihui Zhu , Anthony Man-Cho So , Rene Vidal

We consider optimal design of PDE-based Bayesian linear inverse problems with infinite-dimensional parameters. We focus on the A-optimal design criterion, defined as the average posterior variance and quantified by the trace of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-02 Elizabeth Herman , Alen Alexanderian , Arvind K. Saibaba

For the problem of high-dimensional sparse linear regression, it is known that an $\ell_0$-based estimator can achieve a $1/n$ "fast" rate on the prediction error without any conditions on the design matrix, whereas in absence of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-12-01 Yuchen Zhang , Martin J. Wainwright , Michael I. Jordan

The estimation of a sparse vector in the linear model is a fundamental problem in signal processing, statistics, and compressive sensing. This paper establishes a lower bound on the mean-squared error, which holds regardless of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-03-04 Emmanuel J. Candès , Mark A. Davenport

We propose a minimum distance estimation method for robust regression in sparse high-dimensional settings. The traditional likelihood-based estimators lack resilience against outliers, a critical issue when dealing with high-dimensional…

Methodology · Statistics 2013-07-12 Aurélie C. Lozano , Nicolai Meinshausen

Robust learning aims to maintain model performance under noise, corruption, and distributional shifts, which are prevalent in modern machine learning applications. This work shows that examples of robust learning problems can be formulated…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Alireza Kabgani , Felipe Lara , Masoud Ahookhosh

Estimating the values of unknown parameters from corrupted measured data faces a lot of challenges in ill-posed problems. In such problems, many fundamental estimation methods fail to provide a meaningful stabilized solution. In this work,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-11 Mohamed Suliman , Tarig Ballal , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri