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Looking for sparsity is nowadays crucial to speed up the training of large-scale neural networks. Projections onto the $\ell_{1,2}$ and $\ell_{1,\infty}$ are among the most efficient techniques to sparsify and reduce the overall cost of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Guillaume Perez , Laurent Condat , Michel Barlaud

Fitting linear regression models can be computationally very expensive in large-scale data analysis tasks if the sample size and the number of variables are very large. Random projections are extensively used as a dimension reduction tool…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-01-20 Gian-Andrea Thanei , Christina Heinze , Nicolai Meinshausen

We study $d$-dimensional unbiased mean estimation in the single-message shuffle model, where each user sends a single privatized message and the analyzer only observes the shuffled multiset of reports. While minimax-optimal mechanisms are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Shun Takagi , Seng Pei Liew

We study the problem of high-dimensional sparse mean estimation in the presence of an $\epsilon$-fraction of adversarial outliers. Prior work obtained sample and computationally efficient algorithms for this task for identity-covariance…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Ilias Diakonikolas , Daniel M. Kane , Sushrut Karmalkar , Ankit Pensia , Thanasis Pittas

Dimensionality reduction is a fundamental task in modern data science. Several projection methods specifically tailored to take into account the non-linearity of the data via local embeddings have been proposed. Such methods are often based…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-01-28 Antonio Di Noia , Federico Ravenda , Antonietta Mira

In this study, we propose a projection estimation method for large-dimensional matrix factor models with cross-sectionally spiked eigenvalues. By projecting the observation matrix onto the row or column factor space, we simplify factor…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-12-04 Long Yu , Yong He , Xin-bing Kong , Xinsheng Zhang

We show how to utilize machine learning approaches to improve sliding window algorithms for approximate frequency estimation problems, under the ``algorithms with predictions'' framework. In this dynamic environment, previous…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Rana Shahout , Ibrahim Sabek , Michael Mitzenmacher

Distributed aggregative optimization underpins many cooperative optimization and multi-agent control systems, where each agent's objective function depends both on its local optimization variable and an aggregate of all agents' optimization…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-30 Ziqin Chen , Yongqiang Wang

This paper focuses on convex constrained optimization problems, where the solution is subject to a convex inequality constraint. In particular, we aim at challenging problems for which both projection into the constrained domain and a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-06-13 Tianbao Yang , Qihang Lin , Lijun Zhang

Random projection has been widely used in data classification. It maps high-dimensional data into a low-dimensional subspace in order to reduce the computational cost in solving the related optimization problem. While previous studies are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-02-24 Lijun Zhang , Mehrdad Mahdavi , Rong Jin , Tianbao Yang , Shenghuo Zhu

We present a distributed optimization algorithm for solving online personalized optimization problems over a network of computing and communicating nodes, each of which linked to a specific user. The local objective functions are assumed to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-15 Ivano Notarnicola , Andrea Simonetto , Francesco Farina , Giuseppe Notarstefano

We consider the problem of privately estimating the mean of vectors distributed across different nodes of an unreliable wireless network, where communications between nodes can fail intermittently. We adopt a semi-decentralized setup,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-07 Rajarshi Saha , Mohamed Seif , Michal Yemini , Andrea J. Goldsmith , H. Vincent Poor

Deep neural networks have shown the ability to extract universal feature representations from data such as images and text that have been useful for a variety of learning tasks. However, the fruits of representation learning have yet to be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Liam Collins , Hamed Hassani , Aryan Mokhtari , Sanjay Shakkottai

This paper considers optimization problems over networks where agents have individual objectives to meet, or individual parameter vectors to estimate, subject to subspace constraints that require the objectives across the network to lie in…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Roula Nassif , Stefan Vlaski , Ali H. Sayed

We consider the task of privately obtaining prediction error guarantees in ordinary least-squares regression problems with Gaussian covariates (with unknown covariance structure). We provide the first sample-optimal polynomial time…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Prashanti Anderson , Ainesh Bakshi , Mahbod Majid , Stefan Tiegel

In this work, we study a novel class of projection-based algorithms for linearly constrained problems (LCPs) which have a lot of applications in statistics, optimization, and machine learning. Conventional primal gradient-based methods for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-06 Xiang Li , Zhihua Zhang

In modern federated learning, one of the main challenges is to account for inherent heterogeneity and the diverse nature of data distributions for different clients. This problem is often addressed by introducing personalization of the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-12-19 Nikita Kotelevskii , Samuel Horváth , Karthik Nandakumar , Martin Takáč , Maxim Panov

In this paper, we propose to study a new geometric optimization problem called "geometric prototype" in Euclidean space. Given a set of patterns, where each pattern is represented by a (weighted or unweighted) point set, the geometric…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-04-26 Hu Ding , Manni Liu

The paper studies a distributed constrained optimization problem, where multiple agents connected in a network collectively minimize the sum of individual objective functions subject to a global constraint being an intersection of the local…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-03-08 Jinlong Lei , Han-Fu Chen , Hai-Tao Fang

This paper considers the problem of decentralized, personalized federated learning. For centralized personalized federated learning, a penalty that measures the deviation from the local model and its average, is often added to the objective…