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In this paper, we study a fixed-confidence, fixed-tolerance formulation of a class of stochastic bi-level optimization problems, where the upper-level problem selects from a finite set of systems based on a performance metric, and the…

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Bilevel optimization problems comprise an upper level optimization task that contains a lower level optimization task as a constraint. While there is a significant and growing literature devoted to solving bilevel problems with single…

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In biomedical research, to obtain more accurate prediction results from a target study, leveraging information from multiple similar source studies is proved to be useful. However, in many biomedical applications based on real-world data,…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-12-29 Xiaokang Liu , Jie Hu , Naimin Jing , Yang Ning , Cheng Yong Tang , Runze Li , Yong Chen

Classification and probability estimation are fundamental tasks with broad applications across modern machine learning and data science, spanning fields such as biology, medicine, engineering, and computer science. Recent development of…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-25 Liyun Zeng , Hao Helen Zhang

As the state-of-the-art machine learning methods in many fields rely on larger datasets, storing datasets and training models on them become significantly more expensive. This paper proposes a training set synthesis technique for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Bo Zhao , Konda Reddy Mopuri , Hakan Bilen

The (gradient-based) bilevel programming framework is widely used in hyperparameter optimization and has achieved excellent performance empirically. Previous theoretical work mainly focuses on its optimization properties, while leaving the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Fan Bao , Guoqiang Wu , Chongxuan Li , Jun Zhu , Bo Zhang

Solving different types of optimization models (including parameters fitting) for support vector machines on large-scale training data is often an expensive computational task. This paper proposes a multilevel algorithmic framework that…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-10-14 Talayeh Razzaghi , Ilya Safro

Gradient-based optimization has been critical to the success of machine learning, updating a single set of parameters to minimize a single loss. A growing number of applications rely on a generalization of this, where we have a bilevel or…

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Deep neural networks have achieved exceptional results across a range of applications. As the demand for efficient and sparse deep learning models escalates, the significance of model compression, particularly pruning, is increasingly…

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We study the problem of choosing the best subset of p features in linear regression given n observations. This problem naturally contains two objective functions including minimizing the amount of bias and minimizing the number of…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-04-24 Hadi Charkhgard , Ali Eshragh

Biclustering is a class of techniques that simultaneously clusters the rows and columns of a matrix to sort heterogeneous data into homogeneous blocks. Although many algorithms have been proposed to find biclusters, existing methods suffer…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-02-11 Michelle N. Ngo , Dustin S. Pluta , Alexander N. Ngo , Babak Shahbaba

We show that discrete synaptic weights can be efficiently used for learning in large scale neural systems, and lead to unanticipated computational performance. We focus on the representative case of learning random patterns with binary…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-09-21 Carlo Baldassi , Alessandro Ingrosso , Carlo Lucibello , Luca Saglietti , Riccardo Zecchina

This work addresses the uniform parallel machine scheduling problem within an optimistic bilevel optimization framework. The leader seeks to minimize the weighted number of tardy jobs, while the follower aims to minimize the total…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Quentin Schau , Federico Della Croce , Olivier Ploton , Vincent t'Kindt

Bilevel optimization is a powerful tool for many machine learning problems, such as hyperparameter optimization and meta-learning. Estimating hypergradients (also known as implicit gradients) is crucial for developing gradient-based methods…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-06 Youran Dong , Junfeng Yang , Wei Yao , Jin Zhang

Bilevel optimization formulates hierarchical decision-making processes that arise in many real-world applications such as in pricing, network design, and infrastructure defense planning. In this paper, we consider a class of bilevel…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-20 Geunyeong Byeon , Pascal Van Hentenryck

Efficient and scalable non-parametric or semi-parametric regression analysis and density estimation are of crucial importance to the fields of statistics and machine learning. However, available methods are limited in their ability to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Zeyu Ding , Katja Ickstadt , Nadja Klein , Alexander Munteanu , Simon Omlor

Continual Learning (CL) methods usually learn from all available data. However, this is not the case in human cognition which efficiently focuses on key experiences while disregarding the redundant information. Similarly, not all data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Elif Ceren Gok Yildirim , Murat Onur Yildirim , Joaquin Vanschoren

Recent research put a big effort in the development of deep learning architectures and optimizers obtaining impressive results in areas ranging from vision to language processing. However little attention has been addressed to the need of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-20 Gabriele Valvano , Andrea Leo , Daniele Della Latta , Nicola Martini , Gianmarco Santini , Dante Chiappino , Emiliano Ricciardi

In modern data center networks, thousands of hosts contend for shared link capacity; the scale of these systems makes centralized scheduling impractical. This article models such scheduling as a bipartite matching problem under…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Moonmoon Mohanty , Gautham Bolar , Preetam Patil , Ayalvadi Ganesh , Jean-Francois Chamberland , Parimal Parag

Coresets are small, weighted summaries of larger datasets, aiming at providing provable error bounds for machine learning (ML) tasks while significantly reducing the communication and computation costs. To achieve a better trade-off between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Hanlin Lu , Changchang Liu , Shiqiang Wang , Ting He , Vijay Narayanan , Kevin S. Chan , Stephen Pasteris