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Many high-dimensional data sets suffer from hidden confounding which affects both the predictors and the response of interest. In such situations, standard regression methods or algorithms lead to biased estimates. This paper substantially…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-12-17 Cyrill Scheidegger , Zijian Guo , Peter Bühlmann

Sparse support vector machine (SVM) is a popular classification technique that can simultaneously learn a small set of the most interpretable features and identify the support vectors. It has achieved great successes in many real-world…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-07-19 Weizhong Zhang , Bin Hong , Wei Liu , Jieping Ye , Deng Cai , Xiaofei He , Jie Wang

Many applications like audio and image processing show that sparse representations are a powerful and efficient signal modeling technique. Finding an optimal dictionary that generates at the same time the sparsest representations of data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-12 Paul Irofti , Cristian Rusu , Andrei Pătraşcu

Regression problems are traditionally analyzed via univariate characteristics like the regression function, scale function and marginal density of regression errors. These characteristics are useful and informative whenever the association…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2008-12-18 Sam Efromovich

Adaptive sampling results in dramatic improvements in the recovery of sparse signals in white Gaussian noise. A sequential adaptive sampling-and-refinement procedure called Distilled Sensing (DS) is proposed and analyzed. DS is a form of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2010-05-31 Jarvis Haupt , Rui Castro , Robert Nowak

Principal component analysis (PCA) is one of the most commonly used statistical procedures with a wide range of applications. This paper considers both minimax and adaptive estimation of the principal subspace in the high dimensional…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-01-08 T. Tony Cai , Zongming Ma , Yihong Wu

In the problem of learning mixtures of linear regressions, the goal is to learn a collection of signal vectors from a sequence of (possibly noisy) linear measurements, where each measurement is evaluated on an unknown signal drawn uniformly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Akshay Krishnamurthy , Arya Mazumdar , Andrew McGregor , Soumyabrata Pal

By selecting different filter functions, spectral algorithms can generate various regularization methods to solve statistical inverse problems within the learning-from-samples framework. This paper combines distributed spectral algorithms…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-02-18 Jiading Liu , Lei Shi

Optimal sensor placement is a central challenge in the design, prediction, estimation, and control of high-dimensional systems. High-dimensional states can often leverage a latent low-dimensional representation, and this inherent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-18 Krithika Manohar , Bingni W. Brunton , J. Nathan Kutz , Steven L. Brunton

Precision matrix is of significant importance in a wide range of applications in multivariate analysis. This paper considers adaptive minimax estimation of sparse precision matrices in the high dimensional setting. Optimal rates of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2012-12-13 T. Tony Cai , Weidong Liu , Harrison H. Zhou

Given a linear system in a real or complex domain, linear regression aims to recover the model parameters from a set of observations. Recent studies in compressive sensing have successfully shown that under certain conditions, a linear…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-11-15 Henrik Ohlsson , Allen Y. Yang , Roy Dong , S. Shankar Sastry

Minimax detection of Gaussian stochastic sequences (signals) with unknown covariance matrices is studied. For a fixed false alarm probability (1-st kind error probability), the performance of the minimax detection is being characterized by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-14 M. V. Burnashev

We consider the problem of recovery of an unknown multivariate signal $f$ observed in a $d$-dimensional Gaussian white noise model of intensity $\varepsilon$. We assume that $f$ belongs to a class of smooth functions ${\cal F}^d\subset…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-08-28 Cristina Butucea , Natalia Stepanova

One-bit compressive sensing has extended the scope of sparse recovery by showing that sparse signals can be accurately reconstructed even when their linear measurements are subject to the extreme quantization scenario of binary…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-27 Rich Baraniuk , Simon Foucart , Deanna Needell , Yaniv Plan , Mary Wootters

We show both adaptive and non-adaptive minimax rates of convergence for a family of weighted Laplacian-Eigenmap based nonparametric regression methods, when the true regression function belongs to a Sobolev space and the sampling density is…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-11-02 Zhaoyang Shi , Krishnakumar Balasubramanian , Wolfgang Polonik

We study sparse principal components analysis in high dimensions, where $p$ (the number of variables) can be much larger than $n$ (the number of observations), and analyze the problem of estimating the subspace spanned by the principal…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-01-06 Vincent Q. Vu , Jing Lei

We establish exact asymptotic expressions for the normalized mutual information and minimum mean-square-error (MMSE) of sparse linear regression in the sub-linear sparsity regime. Our result is achieved by a generalization of the adaptive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Lan V. Truong

In this chapter, we discuss recent work on learning sparse approximations to high-dimensional functions on data, where the target functions may be scalar-, vector- or even Hilbert space-valued. Our main objective is to study how the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-08 Ben Adcock , Juan M. Cardenas , Nick Dexter , Sebastian Moraga

Random feature methods have been successful in various machine learning tasks, are easy to compute, and come with theoretical accuracy bounds. They serve as an alternative approach to standard neural networks since they can represent…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-01-21 Abolfazl Hashemi , Hayden Schaeffer , Robert Shi , Ufuk Topcu , Giang Tran , Rachel Ward

In sparse recovery, the unique sparsest solution to an under-determined system of linear equations is of main interest. This scheme is commonly proposed to be applied to signal acquisition. In most cases, the signals are not sparse…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-07-16 Henning Zörlein , Faisal Akram , Martin Bossert