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As datasets grow larger, they are often distributed across multiple machines that compute in parallel and communicate with a central machine through short messages. In this paper, we focus on sparse regression and propose a new procedure…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-03-14 Sifan Liu , Snigdha Panigrahi

Growth curve models are popular tools for studying the development of a response variable within subjects over time. Heterogeneity between subjects is common in such models, and researchers are typically interested in explaining or…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-10-07 Marjolein Fokkema , Achim Zeileis

We study spike-and-slab priors for generalized linear models with possible grouped sparsity. The main result is an oracle Bernstein--von Mises theorem for the fractional posterior under supportwise likelihood assumptions. The proof develops…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Hanqing Li , Xuewen Lu

The likelihood for the parameters of a generalized linear mixed model involves an integral which may be of very high dimension. Because of this intractability, many approximations to the likelihood have been proposed, but all can fail when…

Computation · Statistics 2014-09-01 Helen Ogden

We study the problem of learning high dimensional regression models regularized by a structured-sparsity-inducing penalty that encodes prior structural information on either input or output sides. We consider two widely adopted types of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-02-20 Xi Chen , Qihang Lin , Seyoung Kim , Jaime G. Carbonell , Eric P. Xing

The first Bayesian results for the sparse normal means problem were proven for spike-and-slab priors. However, these priors are less convenient from a computational point of view. In the meanwhile, a large number of continuous shrinkage…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-08-16 Stéphanie van der Pas , Jean-Bernard Salomond , Johannes Schmidt-Hieber

In additive models with many nonparametric components, a number of regularized estimators have been proposed and proven to attain various error bounds under different combinations of sparsity and fixed smoothness conditions. Some of these…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-11-16 Yisha Yao , Cun-Hui Zhang

Due to the significant computational challenge of training large-scale graph neural networks (GNNs), various sparse learning techniques have been exploited to reduce memory and storage costs. Examples include \textit{graph sparsification}…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Shuai Zhang , Meng Wang , Pin-Yu Chen , Sijia Liu , Songtao Lu , Miao Liu

Currently several Bayesian approaches are available to estimate large sparse precision matrices, including Bayesian graphical Lasso (Wang, 2012), Bayesian structure learning (Banerjee and Ghosal, 2015), and graphical horseshoe (Li et al.,…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-04-27 Ruoyang Zhang , Yisha Yao , Malay Ghosh

The Minimum Description Length (MDL) principle states that the optimal model for a given data set is that which compresses it best. Due to practial limitations the model can be restricted to a class such as linear regression models, which…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-03-13 Florin Popescu , Daniel Renz

High-dimensional biomedical studies require models that are simultaneously accurate, sparse, and interpretable, yet exact best subset selection for generalized linear models is computationally intractable. We develop a scalable method that…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-24 Anant Mathur , Benoit Liquet , Samuel Muller , Sarat Moka

In many practical and numerical inverse problems, the exact data log-likelihood is not fully accessible, motivating the use of surrogate models. We study heteroscedastic nonparametric nonlinear regression problems with Gaussian errors and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Fanny Seizilles , Maximilian Siebel

Sliced inverse regression is a popular tool for sufficient dimension reduction, which replaces covariates with a minimal set of their linear combinations without loss of information on the conditional distribution of the response given the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-09-18 Kean Ming Tan , Zhaoran Wang , Tong Zhang , Han Liu , R. Dennis Cook

Advances in compressive sensing provided reconstruction algorithms of sparse signals from linear measurements with optimal sample complexity, but natural extensions of this methodology to nonlinear inverse problems have been met with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Paul Hand , Oscar Leong , Vladislav Voroninski

In this work, we propose a (linearized) Alternating Direction Method-of-Multipliers (ADMM) algorithm for minimizing a convex function subject to a nonconvex constraint. We focus on the special case where such constraint arises from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Fabian Latorre Gómez , Armin Eftekhari , Volkan Cevher

We propose the Gaussian Gated Linear Network (G-GLN), an extension to the recently proposed GLN family of deep neural networks. Instead of using backpropagation to learn features, GLNs have a distributed and local credit assignment…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-22 David Budden , Adam Marblestone , Eren Sezener , Tor Lattimore , Greg Wayne , Joel Veness

The Gaussian Process Latent Variable Model (GP-LVM) is a non-linear probabilistic method of embedding a high dimensional dataset in terms low dimensional `latent' variables. In this paper we illustrate that maximum a posteriori (MAP)…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-07-02 James Barrett , Anthony C. C. Coolen

Complex, multivariable systems are often analyzed by grouping their constituent units into components, sometimes referred to as latent features, which afford physical or biological interpretation. However, a priori many different types of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-05-01 Philipp Fleig , Ilya Nemenman

We consider the problem of learning a Gaussian variational approximation to the posterior distribution for a high-dimensional parameter, where we impose sparsity in the precision matrix to reflect appropriate conditional independence…

Computation · Statistics 2019-04-23 Linda S. L. Tan , David J. Nott

Penalized regression methods, such as $L_1$ regularization, are routinely used in high-dimensional applications, and there is a rich literature on optimality properties under sparsity assumptions. In the Bayesian paradigm, sparsity is…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-01-22 Anirban Bhattacharya , Debdeep Pati , Natesh S. Pillai , David B. Dunson