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Learning processes are useful methodologies able to improve knowledge of real phenomena. These are often dependent on hyperparameters, variables set before the training process and regulating the learning procedure. Hyperparameters…

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The symplectic eigenvalue problem for symmetric positive-definite (spd) matrices plays a crucial role in various scientific fields, including quantum mechanics and control theory. This paper introduces a trace-penalty minimization method,…

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We analyze the complexity of single-loop quadratic penalty and augmented Lagrangian algorithms for solving nonconvex optimization problems with functional equality constraints. We consider three cases, in all of which the objective is…

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We propose a simple modification to the iterative hard thresholding (IHT) algorithm, which recovers asymptotically sparser solutions as a function of the condition number. When aiming to minimize a convex function $f(x)$ with condition…

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We consider the estimation of a sparse factor model where the factor loading matrix is assumed sparse. The estimation problem is reformulated as a penalized M-estimation criterion, while the restrictions for identifying the factor loading…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-01-23 Benjamin Poignard , Yoshikazu Terada

The restarted primal-dual hybrid gradient method (rPDHG) has recently emerged as an important tool for solving large-scale linear programs (LPs). For LPs with unique optima, we present an iteration bound of…

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To verify theoretical results it is sometimes important to use a numerical example where the solution has a particular regularity. The paper describes one approach to construct such examples. It is based on the regularity theory for…

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In this note, we show how the penalization method, introduced in order to describe some non-trivial changes of the Wiener measure, can be applied to the study of some simple polymer models such as the pinning model. The bulk of the analysis…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-09-18 Mihai Gradinaru , Samy Tindel

We develop numerical methods for elliptic systems governed by partial segregation constraints, in which three nonnegative components are required to have a vanishing pointwise product throughout the domain. This constraint enforces that at…

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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

Penalty functions or regularization terms that promote structured solutions to optimization problems are of great interest in many fields. Proposed in this work is a nonconvex structured sparsity penalty that promotes one-sparsity within…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-19 Charles Saunders , Vivek K Goyal

We have established a sparse estimation method for the generalized exponential marked Hawkes process by the penalized method to the ordinary method (P-O) estimator. Furthermore, we evaluated the probability of correct variable selection. In…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-04-08 Masatoshi Goda

In this paper we discuss Bayesian nonconvex penalization for sparse learning problems. We explore a nonparametric formulation for latent shrinkage parameters using subordinators which are one-dimensional L\'{e}vy processes. We particularly…

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Complete determination of the polarisation state of light requires at least four distinct projective measurements of the associated Stokes vector. Stability of state reconstruction, however, hinges on the condition number $\kappa$ of the…

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Consider the problem of estimating the entries of an unknown mean matrix or tensor given a single noisy realization. In the matrix case, this problem can be addressed by decomposing the mean matrix into a component that is additive in the…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-02-12 Maryclare Griffin , Peter D. Hoff

The Promise Constraint Satisfaction Problem (PCSP for short) is a generalization of the well-studied Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP). The PCSP has its roots in such classic problems as the Approximate Graph Coloring and the…

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The convergence rates of iterative methods for solving a linear system $\mathbf{A} x = b$ typically depend on the condition number of the matrix $\mathbf{A}$. Preconditioning is a common way of speeding up these methods by reducing that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-04 Arun Jambulapati , Jerry Li , Christopher Musco , Aaron Sidford , Kevin Tian

We show that large-scale typicality of Markov sample paths implies that the likelihood ratio statistic satisfies a law of iterated logarithm uniformly to the same scale. As a consequence, the penalized likelihood Markov order estimator is…

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The last decade witnessed a rise in the importance of supervised learning applications involving {\em big data} and {\em big models}. Big data refers to situations where the amounts of training data available and needed causes difficulties…

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