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The Lasso is a computationally efficient regression regularization procedure that can produce sparse estimators when the number of predictors (p) is large. Oracle inequalities provide probability loss bounds for the Lasso estimator at a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-07-21 Cheryl J. Flynn , Clifford M. Hurvich , Jeffrey S. Simonoff

Motivation: Model selection is a ubiquitous challenge in statistics. For penalized models, model selection typically entails tuning hyperparameters to maximize a measure of fit or minimize out-of-sample prediction error. However, these…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-05-29 Priyam Das , Sarah Robinson , Christine B. Peterson

Asg is a Python package that solves penalized linear regression and quantile regression models for simultaneous variable selection and prediction, for both high and low dimensional frameworks. It makes very easy to set up and solve…

Computation · Statistics 2021-11-02 Álvaro Méndez Civieta , M. Carmen Aguilera-Morillo , Rosa E. Lillo

Sparse regression and classification estimators that respect group structures have application to an assortment of statistical and machine learning problems, from multitask learning to sparse additive modeling to hierarchical selection.…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-03-11 Ryan Thompson , Farshid Vahid

The Graphical Lasso (GLasso) algorithm is fast and widely used for estimating sparse precision matrices (Friedman et al., 2008). Its central role in the literature of high-dimensional covariance estimation rivals that of Lasso regression…

Computation · Statistics 2024-03-20 Aramayis Dallakyan , Mohsen Pourahmadi

Microbiome data analyses require statistical tools that can simultaneously decode microbes' reactions to the environment and interactions among microbes. We introduce CARlasso, the first user-friendly open-source and publicly available R…

Applications · Statistics 2021-07-30 Yunyi Shen , Claudia Solis-Lemus

We introduce and study the Group Square-Root Lasso (GSRL) method for estimation in high dimensional sparse regression models with group structure. The new estimator minimizes the square root of the residual sum of squares plus a penalty…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-08-01 Florentina Bunea , Johannes Lederer , Yiyuan She

We describe a new library named picasso, which implements a unified framework of pathwise coordinate optimization for a variety of sparse learning problems (e.g., sparse linear regression, sparse logistic regression, sparse Poisson…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-06-30 Jason Ge , Xingguo Li , Haoming Jiang , Han Liu , Tong Zhang , Mengdi Wang , Tuo Zhao

High-dimensional regression often suffers from heavy-tailed noise and outliers, which can severely undermine the reliability of least-squares based methods. To improve robustness, we adopt a non-smooth Wilcoxon score based rank objective…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-01-29 Meixia Lin , Meijiao Shi , Yunhai Xiao , Qian Zhang

This paper considers a high-dimensional linear regression problem where there are complex correlation structures among predictors. We propose a graph-constrained regularization procedure, named Sparse Laplacian Shrinkage with the Graphical…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-04-10 Yuehan Yang , Siwei Xia , Hu Yang

We develop tools for selective inference in the setting of group sparsity, including the construction of confidence intervals and p-values for testing selected groups of variables. Our main technical result gives the precise distribution of…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-07-28 Fan Yang , Rina Foygel Barber , Prateek Jain , John Lafferty

Sparse linear models are one of several core tools for interpretable machine learning, a field of emerging importance as predictive models permeate decision-making in many domains. Unfortunately, sparse linear models are far less flexible…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-01-03 Ryan Thompson , Amir Dezfouli , Robert Kohn

Sparse Group LASSO (SGL) is a regularized model for high-dimensional linear regression problems with grouped covariates. SGL applies $l_1$ and $l_2$ penalties on the individual predictors and group predictors, respectively, to guarantee…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-02-23 Kan Chen , Zhiqi Bu , Shiyun Xu

We study a norm for structured sparsity which leads to sparse linear predictors whose supports are unions of prede ned overlapping groups of variables. We call the obtained formulation latent group Lasso, since it is based on applying the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2011-10-05 Guillaume Obozinski , Laurent Jacob , Jean-Philippe Vert

Sparse linear regression is a vast field and there are many different algorithms available to build models. Two new papers published in Statistical Science study the comparative performance of several sparse regression methodologies,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-10 Owais Sarwar , Benjamin Sauk , Nikolaos V. Sahinidis

We introduce a recursive adaptive group lasso algorithm for real-time penalized least squares prediction that produces a time sequence of optimal sparse predictor coefficient vectors. At each time index the proposed algorithm computes an…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-05-27 Yilun Chen , Alfred O. Hero

In this paper, we consider the Group Lasso estimator of the covariance matrix of a stochastic process corrupted by an additive noise. We propose to estimate the covariance matrix in a high-dimensional setting under the assumption that the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2011-10-26 Jérémie Bigot , Rolando Biscay , Jean-Michel Loubes , Lilian Muniz Alvarez

The R package, Libra, stands for the LInearized BRegman Al- gorithm in high dimensional statistics. The Linearized Bregman Algorithm is a simple iterative procedure to generate sparse regularization paths of model estimation, which are…

Applications · Statistics 2016-04-21 Jiechao Xiong , Feng Ruan , Yuan Yao

Scaled sparse linear regression jointly estimates the regression coefficients and noise level in a linear model. It chooses an equilibrium with a sparse regression method by iteratively estimating the noise level via the mean residual…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2012-06-22 Tingni Sun , Cun-Hui Zhang

The Lasso is one of the most important approaches for parameter estimation and variable selection in high dimensional linear regression. At the heart of its success is the attractive rate of convergence result even when $p$, the dimension…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-08-09 Junlong Zhao , Chenlei Leng