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The current paper presents a novel machinery for studying non-asymptotic minimax estimation of high-dimensional matrices, which yields tight minimax rates for a large collection of loss functions in a variety of problems. Based on the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-06-18 Zongming Ma , Yihong Wu

Covariance estimation for high-dimensional datasets is a fundamental problem in modern day statistics with numerous applications. In these high dimensional datasets, the number of variables p is typically larger than the sample size n. A…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-10-11 Kshitij Khare , Sang Oh , Syed Rahman , Bala Rajaratnam

Estimation of a high dimensional precision matrix is a critical problem to many areas of statistics including Gaussian graphical models and inference on high dimensional data. Working under the structural assumption of sparsity, we propose…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-12-17 Adam B Kashlak

We study the estimation of the covariance matrix $\Sigma$ of a $p$-dimensional normal random vector based on $n$ independent observations corrupted by additive noise. Only a general nonparametric assumption is imposed on the distribution of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-03-28 Denis Belomestny , Mathias Trabs , Alexandre B. Tsybakov

Sparse covariance matrices play crucial roles by encoding the interdependencies between variables in numerous fields such as genetics and neuroscience. Despite substantial studies on sparse covariance matrices, existing methods face several…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-03 Rakheon Kim , Irina Gaynanova

The computational complexity of simultaneous inference methods in high-dimensional linear regression models quickly increases with the number variables. This paper proposes a computationally efficient method based on the Moore-Penrose…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-02-02 Tom Boot , Didier Nibbering

A key challenge in machine learning is to explain how learning dynamics select among the many solutions that achieve identical loss values in overparameterized models - a phenomenon known as implicit bias. Controlling this bias provides a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Nicola Aladrah , Emanuele Ballarin , Matteo Biagetti , Alessio Ansuini , Alberto d'Onofrio , Fabio Anselmi

Gaussian graphical models are of great interest in statistical learning. Because the conditional independencies between different nodes correspond to zero entries in the inverse covariance matrix of the Gaussian distribution, one can learn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2010-11-02 Katya Scheinberg , Shiqian Ma , Donald Goldfarb

We improve upon the two-stage sparse vector autoregression (sVAR) method in Davis et al. (2016) by proposing an alternative two-stage modified sVAR method which relies on time series graphical lasso to estimate sparse inverse spectral…

Computation · Statistics 2021-07-06 Aramayis Dallakyan , Rakheon Kim , Mohsen Pourahmadi

Repeated measurements are common in many fields, where random variables are observed repeatedly across different subjects. Such data have an underlying hierarchical structure, and it is of interest to learn covariance/correlation at…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-06-13 Sunpeng Duan , Guo Yu , Juntao Duan , Yuedong Wang

Spectral embedding based on the Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) is a widely used "preprocessing" step in many learning tasks, typically leading to dimensionality reduction by projecting onto a number of dominant singular vectors and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-09-29 Dinesh Ramasamy , Upamanyu Madhow

Estimating and storing the covariance (or correlation) matrix of high-dimensional data is computationally challenging because both memory and computational requirements scale quadratically with the dimension. Fortunately, high-dimensional…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Zhenwei Dai , Aditya Desai , Reinhard Heckel , Anshumali Shrivastava

We propose a pointwise inference algorithm for high-dimensional linear models with time-varying coefficients. The method is based on a novel combination of the nonparametric kernel smoothing technique and a Lasso bias-corrected ridge…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-03-17 Xiaohui Chen , Yifeng He

Matrix sketching, aimed at approximating a matrix $\boldsymbol{A} \in \mathbb{R}^{N\times d}$ consisting of vector streams of length $N$ with a smaller sketching matrix $\boldsymbol{B} \in \mathbb{R}^{\ell\times d}, \ell \ll N$, has…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Hanyan Yin , Dongxie Wen , Jiajun Li , Zhewei Wei , Xiao Zhang , Zengfeng Huang , Feifei Li

Overparametrization often helps improve the generalization performance. This paper presents a dual view of overparametrization suggesting that downsampling may also help generalize. Focusing on the proportional regime $m\asymp n \asymp p$,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-10-17 Xin Chen , Yicheng Zeng , Siyue Yang , Qiang Sun

We introduce sparse random projection, an important dimension-reduction tool from machine learning, for the estimation of discrete-choice models with high-dimensional choice sets. Initially, high-dimensional data are compressed into a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-04-21 Khai X. Chiong , Matthew Shum

We propose a new estimator for the high-dimensional linear regression model with observation error in the design where the number of coefficients is potentially larger than the sample size. The main novelty of our procedure is that the…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-09-09 Alexandre Belloni , Abhishek Kaul , Mathieu Rosenbaum

We propose a novel randomized framework for the estimation problem of large-scale linear statistical models, namely Sequential Least-Squares Estimators with Fast Randomized Sketching (SLSE-FRS), which integrates Sketch-and-Solve and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-09-09 Guan-Yu Chen , Xi Yang

We study beyond worst-case dimensionality reduction for $s$-sparse vectors. Our work is divided into two parts, each focusing on a different facet of beyond worst-case analysis: We first consider average-case guarantees. A folklore upper…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Sandeep Silwal , David P. Woodruff , Qiuyi Zhang

We consider the estimation and inference of graphical models that characterize the dependency structure of high-dimensional tensor-valued data. To facilitate the estimation of the precision matrix corresponding to each way of the tensor, we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-02-27 Xiang Lyu , Will Wei Sun , Zhaoran Wang , Han Liu , Jian Yang , Guang Cheng