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We study the high-dimensional linear regression problem with categorical predictors that have many levels. We propose a new estimation approach, which performs model compression via two mechanisms by simultaneously encouraging (a)…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-30 Kayhan Behdin , Riade Benbaki , Peter Radchenko , Rahul Mazumder

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…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2011-08-31 Doug Speed , Simon Tavaré

Factor analysis is a widely used technique for dimension reduction in high-dimensional data. However, a key challenge in factor models lies in the interpretability of the latent factors. One intuitive way to interpret these factors is…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-10-08 Xin Wang , Xialu Liu

Tensor decompositions, which represent an $N$-order tensor using approximately $N$ factors of much smaller dimensions, can significantly reduce the number of parameters. This is particularly beneficial for high-order tensors, as the number…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Zhen Qin , Michael B. Wakin , Zhihui Zhu

Pseudospectral analysis is fundamental for quantifying the sensitivity and transient behavior of nonnormal matrices, yet its computational cost scales cubically with dimension, rendering it prohibitive for large-scale systems. While…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Vladimir R. Kostic , Dragana Lj. Cvetkovic , Ljiljana Cvetkovic

Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) is commonly used for optimization in large-scale machine learning problems. Langford et al. (2009) introduce a sparse online learning method to induce sparsity via truncated gradient. With high-dimensional…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-05-10 Yuting Ma , Tian Zheng

Factor analysis for high-dimensional data is a canonical problem in statistics and has a wide range of applications. However, there is currently no factor model tailored to effectively analyze high-dimensional count responses with…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-08-21 Wei Liu , Qingzhi Zhong

An important problem in the analysis of high-dimensional omics data is to identify subsets of molecular variables that are associated with a phenotype of interest. This requires addressing the challenges of high dimensionality, strong…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-04-05 Fan Wang , Sylvia Richardson , Steven M. Hill

We devise a one-shot approach to distributed sparse regression in the high-dimensional setting. The key idea is to average "debiased" or "desparsified" lasso estimators. We show the approach converges at the same rate as the lasso as long…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-08-12 Jason D. Lee , Yuekai Sun , Qiang Liu , Jonathan E. Taylor

Tensors are becoming prevalent in modern applications such as medical imaging and digital marketing. In this paper, we propose a sparse tensor additive regression (STAR) that models a scalar response as a flexible nonparametric function of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-03-08 Botao Hao , Boxiang Wang , Pengyuan Wang , Jingfei Zhang , Jian Yang , Will Wei Sun

This paper proposes a general adaptive procedure for budget-limited predictor design in high dimensions called two-stage Sampling, Prediction and Adaptive Regression via Correlation Screening (SPARCS). SPARCS can be applied to high…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-11-18 Hamed Firouzi , Alfred Hero , Bala Rajaratnam

This paper is concerned with the problem of low rank plus sparse matrix decomposition for big data. Conventional algorithms for matrix decomposition use the entire data to extract the low-rank and sparse components, and are based on…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2017-03-17 Mostafa Rahmani , George Atia

Higher-order tensors have received increased attention across science and engineering. While most tensor decomposition methods are developed for a single tensor observation, scientific studies often collect side information, in the form of…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-10-29 Jiaxin Hu , Chanwoo Lee , Miaoyan Wang

In high-dimensions, many variable selection methods, such as the lasso, are often limited by excessive variability and rank deficiency of the sample covariance matrix. Covariance sparsity is a natural phenomenon in high-dimensional…

Methodology · Statistics 2010-06-08 X. Jessie Jeng And Z. John Daye

By drawing on ideas from optimisation theory, artificial neural networks (ANN), graph embeddings and sparse representations, I develop a novel technique, termed SENNS (Sparse Extraction Neural NetworkS), aimed at addressing the feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-12-23 Abdulrahman Oladipupo Ibraheem

Factor Analysis is a popular method for modeling dependence in multivariate data. However, determining the number of factors and obtaining a sparse orientation of the loadings are still major challenges. In this paper, we propose a…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-07-27 Henrique Bolfarine , Carlos M. Carvalho , Hedibert F. Lopes , Jared S. Murray

In this paper, the estimation problem for sparse reduced rank regression (SRRR) model is considered. The SRRR model is widely used for dimension reduction and variable selection with applications in signal processing, econometrics, etc. The…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-03-21 Ziping Zhao , Daniel P. Palomar

Convex clustering, a convex relaxation of k-means clustering and hierarchical clustering, has drawn recent attentions since it nicely addresses the instability issue of traditional nonconvex clustering methods. Although its computational…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-01-01 Binhuan Wang , Yilong Zhang , Will Wei Sun , Yixin Fang

Compressed sensing aims to undersample certain high-dimensional signals, yet accurately reconstruct them by exploiting signal characteristics. Accurate reconstruction is possible when the object to be recovered is sufficiently sparse in a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-13 David L. Donoho , Arian Maleki , Andrea Montanari

The problem of subgroups is ubiquitous in scientific research (ex. disease heterogeneity, spatial distributions in ecology...), and piecewise regression is one way to deal with this phenomenon. Morse-Smale regression offers a way to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-08-22 Colleen M. Farrelly