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A greedy algorithm is proposed for sparse-sensor selection in reduced-order sensing that contains correlated noise in measurement. The sensor selection is carried out by maximizing the determinant of the Fisher information matrix in a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-28 Keigo Yamada , Yuji Saito , Koki Nankai , Taku Nonomura , Keisuke Asai , Daisuke Tsubakino

We analyse the performance of several iterative algorithms for the quantisation of a probability measure $\mu$, based on the minimisation of a Maximum Mean Discrepancy (MMD). Our analysis includes kernel herding, greedy MMD minimisation and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-04-29 Luc Pronzato

The purpose of this article is to examine the greedy adaptive measurement policy in the context of a linear Guassian measurement model with an optimization criterion based on information gain. In the special case of sequential scalar…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-08-20 Entao Liu , Edwin K. P. Chong , Louis L. Scharf

Greedy algorithms are popular in compressive sensing for their high computational efficiency. But the performance of current greedy algorithms can be degenerated seriously by noise (both multiplicative noise and additive noise). A robust…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-02-10 Yurrit Avonds , Yipeng Liu , Sabine Van Huffel

A novel and detailed convergence analysis is presented for a greedy algorithm that was previously introduced for operator reconstruction problems in the field of quantum mechanics. This algorithm is based on an offline/online decomposition…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-02 S Buchwald , G Ciaramella , Julien Salomon

This paper investigates the approximation of Gaussian random variables in Banach spaces, focusing on the high-probability bounds for the approximation of Gaussian random variables using finitely many observations. We derive non-asymptotic…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-08-28 Daniel Winkle , Ingo Steinwart , Bernard Haasdonk

Greedy Sampling Methods (GSMs) are widely used to construct approximate solutions of Configuration Optimization Problems (COPs), where a loss functional is minimized over finite configurations of points in a compact domain. While effective…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-09 Evie Nielen , Oliver Tse

We study the problem of selecting a subset of k random variables from a large set, in order to obtain the best linear prediction of another variable of interest. This problem can be viewed in the context of both feature selection and sparse…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2011-02-28 Abhimanyu Das , David Kempe

Kernel based methods provide a way to reconstruct potentially high-dimensional functions from meshfree samples, i.e., sampling points and corresponding target values. A crucial ingredient for this to be successful is the distribution of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-19 Tizian Wenzel , Gabriele Santin , Bernard Haasdonk

Data-dependent greedy algorithms in kernel spaces are known to provide fast converging interpolants, while being extremely easy to implement and efficient to run. Despite this experimental evidence, no detailed theory has yet been…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-31 Tizian Wenzel , Gabriele Santin , Bernard Haasdonk

The contextual bandit literature has traditionally focused on algorithms that address the exploration-exploitation tradeoff. In particular, greedy algorithms that exploit current estimates without any exploration may be sub-optimal in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-04-21 Hamsa Bastani , Mohsen Bayati , Khashayar Khosravi

Mixtures of linear mixed models (MLMMs) are useful for clustering grouped data and can be estimated by likelihood maximization through the EM algorithm. The conventional approach to determining a suitable number of components is to compare…

Applications · Statistics 2014-05-26 Siew Li Tan , David J. Nott

This paper establishes optimal convergence rates for estimation of structured covariance operators of Gaussian processes. We study banded operators with kernels that decay rapidly off-the-diagonal and $L^q$-sparse operators with an…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-01 Omar Al-Ghattas , Jiaheng Chen , Daniel Sanz-Alonso , Nathan Waniorek

Greedy algorithms are a fundamental category of algorithms in mathematics and computer science, characterized by their iterative, locally optimal decision-making approach, which aims to find global optima. In this review, we will discuss…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-09 Andrea García

Considering the set cover problem, by modifying the approach that gives a logarithmic approximation guarantee for the greedy algorithm, we obtain an estimation of the greedy algorithm's accuracy for a particular input. We compare the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-02-13 Alexander Prolubnikov

The problem of column subset selection has recently attracted a large body of research, with feature selection serving as one obvious and important application. Among the techniques that have been applied to solve this problem, the greedy…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Jason Altschuler , Aditya Bhaskara , Gang Fu , Vahab Mirrokni , Afshin Rostamizadeh , Morteza Zadimoghaddam

We consider the problem of learning a conditional Gaussian graphical model in the presence of latent variables. Building on recent advances in this field, we suggest a method that decomposes the parameters of a conditional Markov random…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-03-07 Benjamin Frot , Luke Jostins , Gil McVean

We prove some results on the rate of convergence of greedy algorithms, which provide expansions. We consider both the case of Hilbert spaces and the more general case of Banach spaces. The new ingredient of the paper is that we bound the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-04-14 V. N. Temlyakov

Motivated by an application in kidney exchange, we study the following query-commit problem: we are given the set of vertices of a non-bipartite graph G. The set of edges in this graph are not known ahead of time. We can query any pair of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-08-26 Gagan Goel , Pushkar Tripathi

Greedy algorithms have been successfully analyzed and applied in training neural networks for solving variational problems, ensuring guaranteed convergence orders. In this paper, we extend the analysis of the orthogonal greedy algorithm…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-21 Jinchao Xu , Xiaofeng Xu