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The Stackelberg prediction game (SPG) is popular in characterizing strategic interactions between a learner and an attacker. As an important special case, the SPG with least squares loss (SPG-LS) has recently received much research…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-08 Jiali Wang , Wen Huang , Rujun Jiang , Xudong Li , Alex L. Wang

The least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (Lasso) is a popular method for high-dimensional statistics. However, it is known that the Lasso often has estimation bias and prediction error. To address such disadvantages, many…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-29 Guo Liu

Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) exhibits strong algorithmic regularization effects in practice, which has been hypothesized to play an important role in the generalization of modern machine learning approaches. In this work, we seek to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Difan Zou , Jingfeng Wu , Vladimir Braverman , Quanquan Gu , Dean P. Foster , Sham M. Kakade

Logistic regression is a standard method in multivariate analysis for binary outcome data in epidemiological and clinical studies; however, the resultant odds-ratio estimates fail to provide directly interpretable effect measures. The…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-11-26 Takahiro Kitano , Hisashi Noma

The partial least squares algorithm for dependent data realisations is considered. Consequences of ignoring the dependence for the algorithm performance are studied both theoretically and in simulations. It is shown that ignoring certain…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-03-07 Marco Singer , Tatyana Krivobokova , Bert L. de Groot , Axel Munk

The indefinite least squares (ILS) problem is a generalization of the famous linear least squares problem. It minimizes an indefinite quadratic form with respect to a signature matrix. For this problem, we first propose an impressively…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-30 Yanjun Zhang , Hanyu Li

To conduct regression analysis for data contaminated with outliers, many approaches have been proposed for simultaneous outlier detection and robust regression, so is the approach proposed in this manuscript. This new approach is called…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-03-25 Xiaoli Gao , Yixin Fang

This paper investigates the optimality analysis of the recursive least-squares (RLS) algorithm for autoregressive systems with exogenous inputs (ARX systems). A key challenge in analyzing is managing the potential unboundedness of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-27 Xingrui Liu , Jieming Ke , Yanlong Zhao

Selective prediction [Dru13, QV19] models the scenario where a forecaster freely decides on the prediction window that their forecast spans. Many data statistics can be predicted to a non-trivial error rate without any distributional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Licheng Liu , Mingda Qiao

In this paper we formulate and solve a robust least squares problem for a system of linear equations subject to quantization error in the data matrix. Ordinary least squares fails to consider uncertainty in the operator, modeling all noise…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-09 Richard Clancy , Stephen Becker

The purpose of model selection algorithms such as All Subsets, Forward Selection and Backward Elimination is to choose a linear model on the basis of the same set of data to which the model will be applied. Typically we have available a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2007-06-13 Bradley Efron , Trevor Hastie , Iain Johnstone , Robert Tibshirani

We study a seemingly unexpected and relatively less understood overfitting aspect of a fundamental tool in sparse linear modeling - best subset selection, which minimizes the residual sum of squares subject to a constraint on the number of…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-01-11 Rahul Mazumder , Peter Radchenko , Antoine Dedieu

In sparse linear regression, the SLOPE estimator generalizes LASSO by penalizing different coordinates of the estimate according to their magnitudes. In this paper, we present a precise performance characterization of SLOPE in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Hong Hu , Yue M. Lu

This paper is concerned with a partially linear semiparametric regression model containing an unknown regression coefficient, an unknown nonparametric function, and an unobservable Gaussian distributed random error. We focus on the case of…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-01-06 Peili Li , Yunhai Xiao , Meixia Yang , Hanbing Zhu

Motivation: The high dimensionality of genomic data calls for the development of specific classification methodologies, especially to prevent over-optimistic predictions. This challenge can be tackled by compression and variable selection,…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-04-10 G. Durif , L. Modolo , J. Michaelsson , J. E. Mold , S. Lambert-Lacroix , F. Picard

We consider the least angle regression and forward stagewise algorithms for solving penalized least squares regression problems. In Efron, Hastie, Johnstone & Tibshirani (2004) it is proved that the least angle regression algorithm, with a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Trevor Hastie , Jonathan Taylor , Robert Tibshirani , Guenther Walther

Variable selection in linear models plays a pivotal role in modern statistics. Hard-thresholding methods such as $l_0$ regularization are theoretically ideal but computationally infeasible. In this paper, we propose a new approach, called…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-03-20 Kun Yang

The Lenstra-Lenstra-Lovasz (LLL) reduction has wide applications in digital communications. It can greatly improve the speed of the sphere decoding (SD) algorithms for solving an integer least squares (ILS) problem and the performance of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-04-09 Xiaohu Xie , Xiao-Wen Chang , Mazen Al Borno

We introduce the implicitly constrained least squares (ICLS) classifier, a novel semi-supervised version of the least squares classifier. This classifier minimizes the squared loss on the labeled data among the set of parameters implied by…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-01-31 Jesse H. Krijthe , Marco Loog

Ordinary least-squares (OLS) estimators for a linear model are very sensitive to unusual values in the design space or outliers among y values. Even one single atypical value may have a large effect on the parameter estimates. This article…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-04-28 Chun Yu , Weixin Yao , Xue Bai