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We present a sparse analogue to stochastic gradient descent that is guaranteed to perform well under similar conditions to the lasso. In the linear regression setup with irrepresentable noise features, our algorithm recovers the support set…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-12-16 Jacob Steinhardt , Stefan Wager , Percy Liang

Many popular statistical models, such as factor and random effects models, give arise a certain type of covariance structures that is a summation of low rank and sparse matrices. This paper introduces a penalized approximation framework to…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-03-19 Xi Luo

Sparse modeling is a powerful framework for data analysis and processing. Traditionally, encoding in this framework is done by solving an l_1-regularized linear regression problem, usually called Lasso. In this work we first combine the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-03-02 Pablo Sprechmann , Ignacio Ramirez , Guillermo Sapiro , Yonina C. Eldar

This paper studies the problem of accurately recovering a sparse vector $\beta^{\star}$ from highly corrupted linear measurements $y = X \beta^{\star} + e^{\star} + w$ where $e^{\star}$ is a sparse error vector whose nonzero entries may be…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-03-19 Nam H. Nguyen , Trac D. Tran

The support recovery problem consists of determining a sparse subset of a set of variables that is relevant in generating a set of observations, and arises in a diverse range of settings such as compressive sensing, and subset selection in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-31 Jonathan Scarlett , Volkan Cevher

It is now well understood that (1) it is possible to reconstruct sparse signals exactly from what appear to be highly incomplete sets of linear measurements and (2) that this can be done by constrained L1 minimization. In this paper, we…

Methodology · Statistics 2007-11-13 Emmanuel J. Candes , Michael B. Wakin , Stephen P. Boyd

This paper considers the design of tunable decision schemes capable of rejecting with high probability mismatched signals embedded in Gaussian interference with unknown covariance matrix. To this end, a sparse recovery technique is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-29 Sudan Han , Luca Pallotta , Xiaotao Huang , Gaetano Giunta , Danilo Orlando

This paper proposes a sparse regression strategy for discovery of ordinary differential equations from incomplete and noisy data. Inference is performed over both equation parameters and state variables using a statistically motivated…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-02-18 Teddy Meissner , Karl Glasner

In high dimensional settings, sparse structures are crucial for efficiency, both in term of memory, computation and performance. It is customary to consider $\ell_1$ penalty to enforce sparsity in such scenarios. Sparsity enforcing methods,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-22 Eugene Ndiaye , Olivier Fercoq , Alexandre Gramfort , Vincent Leclère , Joseph Salmon

We present a novel probabilistic framework for the recovery of discrete signals with missing data, extending classical Fourier-based methods. While prior results, such as those of Donoho and Stark; see also Logan's method, guarantee exact…

Reconstructing complex networks from measurable data is a fundamental problem for understanding and controlling collective dynamics of complex networked systems. However, a significant challenge arises when we attempt to decode structural…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-11-20 Xiao Han , Zhesi Shen , Wen-Xu Wang , Zengru Di

Network reconstruction is important to the understanding and control of collective dynamics in complex systems. Most real networks exhibit sparsely connected properties, and the connection parameter is a signal (0 or 1). Well-known…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-09-03 Lei Shi , Jie Hu , Libin Jin , Chen Shen , Huaiyu Tan , Dalei Yu

We consider the following signal recovery problem: given a measurement matrix $\Phi\in \mathbb{R}^{n\times p}$ and a noisy observation vector $c\in \mathbb{R}^{n}$ constructed from $c = \Phi\theta^* + \epsilon$ where $\epsilon\in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-07-23 Ji Liu , Lei Yuan , Jieping Ye

Decision trees are widely used for their low computational cost, good predictive performance, and ability to assess the importance of features. Though often used in practice for feature selection, the theoretical guarantees of these methods…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-03-09 Kiarash Banihashem , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Max Springer

We present a detailed analysis of the unconstrained $\ell_1$-weighted LASSO method for recovery of sparse data from its observation by randomly generated matrices, satisfying the Restricted Isometry Property (RIP) with constant $\delta<1$,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Simon Foucart , Eitan Tadmor , Ming Zhong

In many practical applications such as direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation and line spectral estimation, the sparsifying dictionary is usually characterized by a set of unknown parameters in a continuous domain. To apply the conventional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-18 Jun Fang , Jing Li , Yanning Shen , Hongbin Li , Shaoqian Li

Sparse regression is frequently employed in diverse scientific settings as a feature selection method. A pervasive aspect of scientific data that hampers both feature selection and estimation is the presence of strong correlations between…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-03-25 Ankit Kumar , Sharmodeep Bhattacharyya , Kristofer Bouchard

We consider estimation of a deterministic unknown parameter vector in a linear model with non-Gaussian noise. In the Gaussian case, dimensionality reduction via a linear matched filter provides a simple low dimensional sufficient statistic…

Applications · Statistics 2013-11-05 Jakob Vovnoboy , Ami Wiesel

We present a novel binary convex reformulation of the sparse regression problem that constitutes a new duality perspective. We devise a new cutting plane method and provide evidence that it can solve to provable optimality the sparse…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-09-29 Dimitris Bertsimas , Bart Van Parys

We consider the problem of sparse signal recovery from noisy measurements. Many of frequently used recovery methods rely on some sort of tuning depending on either noise or signal parameters. If no estimates for either of them are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Hendrik Bernd Petersen , Peter Jung