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Even though the statistical theory of linear inverse problems is a well-studied topic, certain relevant cases remain open. Among these is the estimation of functions of bounded variation ($BV$), meaning $L^1$ functions on a $d$-dimensional…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-05-22 Miguel del Álamo , Axel Munk

Shrinkage can effectively improve the condition number and accuracy of covariance matrix estimation, especially for low-sample-support applications with the number of training samples smaller than the dimensionality. This paper investigates…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-22 Jun Tong , Rui Hu , Jiangtao Xi , Zhitao Xiao , Qinghua Guo , Yanguang Yu

We prove local boundedness, Harnack's inequality and local regularity for weak solutions of quasilinear degenerate elliptic equations in divergence form with Rough coefficients. Degeneracy is encoded by a non-negative, symmetric, measurable…

Loss functions with non-isolated minima have emerged in several machine learning problems, creating a gap between theory and practice. In this paper, we formulate a new type of local convexity condition that is suitable to describe the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Taehee Ko , Xiantao Li

In this paper, we analyze the behavior of various non-parametric local regression estimators, i.e. estimators that are based on local averaging, for estimating a Lipschitz regression function at a fixed point, or in sup-norm. We first prove…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-11 Jérémy Bettinger , François Portier , Adrien Saumard

Extending the results of Bellec, Lecu\'e and Tsybakov to the setting of sparse high-dimensional linear regression with unknown variance, we show that two estimators, the Square-Root Lasso and the Square-Root Slope can achieve the optimal…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-12-12 Alexis Derumigny

We prove a local law in the bulk of the spectrum for random Gram matrices $XX^*$, a generalization of sample covariance matrices, where $X$ is a large matrix with independent, centered entries with arbitrary variances. The limiting…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-03-13 Johannes Alt , László Erdős , Torben Krüger

We prove some variational analysis of regularity and weak convergence of nonlocal variational principle.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-04-12 Rene Chipot

Recently, a Levenberg-Marquardt method with Singular Scaling matrix, called LMMSS, was proposed and successfully applied in parameter estimation in heat conduction problems, where the choice of suitable singular scaling matrix resulted in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-03 Rafaela Filippozzi , Everton Boos , Douglas Soares Gonçalves , Fermin Bazan

Models like LASSO and ridge regression are extensively used in practice due to their interpretability, ease of use, and strong theoretical guarantees. Cross-validation (CV) is widely used for hyperparameter tuning in these models, but do…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-11-03 William T. Stephenson , Zachary Frangella , Madeleine Udell , Tamara Broderick

In this paper, we examine the convergence of mirror descent in a class of stochastic optimization problems that are not necessarily convex (or even quasi-convex), and which we call variationally coherent. Since the standard technique of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-07-17 Zhengyuan Zhou , Panayotis Mertikopoulos , Nicholas Bambos , Stephen Boyd , Peter Glynn

This paper considers the regularized estimation of covariance matrices (CM) of high-dimensional (compound) Gaussian data for minimum variance distortionless response (MVDR) beamforming. Linear shrinkage is applied to improve the accuracy…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-06 Lei Xie , Zishu He , Jun Tong , Jun Li , Jiangtao Xi

Consider a data matrix $Y = [\mathbf{y}_1, \cdots, \mathbf{y}_N]$ of size $M \times N$, where the columns are independent observations from a random vector $\mathbf{y}$ with zero mean and population covariance $\Sigma$. Let $\mathbf{u}_i$…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-07-23 Zeqin Lin , Guangming Pan

The Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm is one of the most popular algorithms for finding the solution of nonlinear least squares problems. Across different modified variations of the basic procedure, the algorithm enjoys global convergence, a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-08 E. Bergou , Y. Diouane , V. Kungurtsev

A new Levenberg--Marquardt (LM) method for solving nonlinear least squares problems with convex constraints is described. Various versions of the LM method have been proposed, their main differences being in the choice of a damping…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-16 Naoki Marumo , Takayuki Okuno , Akiko Takeda

This paper discusses a connection between scalar convex conservation laws and Pontryagin's minimum principle. For flux functions for which an associated optimal control problem can be found, a minimum value solution of the conservation law…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-02-13 Wei Kang , Lucas C. Wilcox

We establish an $\varepsilon$-regularity result for the derivative of a map of bounded variation that minimizes a strongly quasiconvex variational integral of linear growth, and, as a consequence, the partial regularity of such BV…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-01-30 Franz Gmeineder , Jan Kristensen

The aim of this paper is to develop some tools in order to obtain the weak consistency of (in other words, analogues of the Lax-Wendroff theorem for) finite volume schemes for balance laws in the multi-dimensional case and under minimal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-23 Thierry Gallouët , R. Herbin , J. -C Latché

We propose an adaptive accelerated smoothing technique for a nonsmooth convex optimization problem where the smoothing update rule is coupled with the momentum parameter. We also extend the setting to the case where the objective function…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Reza Rahimi Baghbadorani , Sergio Grammatico , Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani

We address covariance estimation in the sense of minimum mean-squared error (MMSE) for Gaussian samples. Specifically, we consider shrinkage methods which are suitable for high dimensional problems with a small number of samples (large p…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-05-13 Yilun Chen , Ami Wiesel , Yonina C. Eldar , Alfred O. Hero