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We introduce "AnnealSGD", a regularized stochastic gradient descent algorithm motivated by an analysis of the energy landscape of a particular class of deep networks with sparse random weights. The loss function of such networks can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-04-25 Pratik Chaudhari , Stefano Soatto

This work addresses the problem of graph learning from data following a Gaussian Graphical Model (GGM) with a time-varying mean. Graphical Lasso (GL), the standard method for estimating sparse precision matrices, assumes that the observed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Samuel Rey , Ernesto Curbelo , Luca Martino , Fernando Llorente , Antonio G. Marques

We study the convergence of a variant of distributed gradient descent (DGD) on a distributed low-rank matrix approximation problem wherein some optimization variables are used for consensus (as in classical DGD) and some optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-27 Zhihui Zhu , Qiuwei Li , Xinshuo Yang , Gongguo Tang , Michael B. Wakin

In this paper, we propose a distributed algorithm, called Directed-Distributed Gradient Descent (D-DGD), to solve multi-agent optimization problems over directed graphs. Existing algorithms mostly deal with similar problems under the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-02-02 Chenguang Xi , Qiong Wu , Usman A. Khan

We propose an approach to construction of robust non-Euclidean iterative algorithms for convex composite stochastic optimization based on truncation of stochastic gradients. For such algorithms, we establish sub-Gaussian confidence bounds…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-07-08 Anatoli Juditsky , Alexander Nazin , Arkadi Nemirovsky , Alexandre Tsybakov

We introduce MADGRAD, a novel optimization method in the family of AdaGrad adaptive gradient methods. MADGRAD shows excellent performance on deep learning optimization problems from multiple fields, including classification and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Aaron Defazio , Samy Jelassi

In recent years, network models have gained prominence for their ability to capture complex associations. In statistical omics, networks can be used to model and study the functional relationships between genes, proteins, and other types of…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-06-21 Camilla Lingjærde , Sylvia Richardson

Graph autoencoders (Graph-AEs) learn representations of given graphs by aiming to accurately reconstruct them. A notable application of Graph-AEs is graph-level anomaly detection (GLAD), whose objective is to identify graphs with anomalous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Sunwoo Kim , Soo Yong Lee , Fanchen Bu , Shinhwan Kang , Kyungho Kim , Jaemin Yoo , Kijung Shin

We propose estimating Gaussian graphical models (GGMs) that are fair with respect to sensitive nodal attributes. Many real-world models exhibit unfair discriminatory behavior due to biases in data. Such discrimination is known to be…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-06-17 Madeline Navarro , Samuel Rey , Andrei Buciulea , Antonio G. Marques , Santiago Segarra

High-dimensional linear regression is a fundamental tool in modern statistics, particularly when the number of predictors exceeds the sample size. The classical Lasso, which relies on the squared loss, performs well under Gaussian noise…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-06-10 The Tien Mai

Generalized linear models (GLMs) form one of the most popular classes of models in statistics. The gamma variant is used, for instance, in actuarial science for the modelling of claim amounts in insurance. A flaw of GLMs is that they are…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-02-12 Philippe Gagnon , Yuxi Wang

For some special data in reality, such as the genetic data, adjacent genes may have the similar function. Thus ensuring the smoothness between adjacent genes is highly necessary. But, in this case, the standard lasso penalty just doesn't…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-09-29 Xin Xin , Boyi Xie , Yunhai Xiao

The superiority of graph contrastive learning (GCL) has prompted its application to anomaly detection tasks for more powerful risk warning systems. Unfortunately, existing GCL-based models tend to excessively prioritize overall detection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Yiming Xu , Zhen Peng , Bin Shi , Xu Hua , Bo Dong , Song Wang , Chen Chen

We introduce a general framework for nonlinear stochastic gradient descent (SGD) for the scenarios when gradient noise exhibits heavy tails. The proposed framework subsumes several popular nonlinearity choices, like clipped, normalized,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-07 Dusan Jakovetic , Dragana Bajovic , Anit Kumar Sahu , Soummya Kar , Nemanja Milosevic , Dusan Stamenkovic

Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) is one of the most widely used techniques for online optimization in machine learning. In this work, we accelerate SGD by adaptively learning how to sample the most useful training examples at each time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-16 Guillaume Bouchard , Théo Trouillon , Julien Perez , Adrien Gaidon

The objective of this research is to enhance performance of Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) algorithm in text classification. In our research, we proposed using SGD learning with Grid-Search approach to fine-tuning hyper-parameters in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Shadi Diab

Outlier detection in high-dimensional data is a challenging yet important task, as it has applications in, e.g., fraud detection and quality control. State-of-the-art density-based algorithms perform well because they 1) take the local…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-11-02 Bas van Stein , Matthijs van Leeuwen , Thomas Bäck

Anomaly detection is crucial in industrial applications for identifying rare and unseen patterns to ensure system reliability. Traditional models, trained on a single class of normal data, struggle with real-world distributions where normal…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-01-07 Jungi Lee , Jungkwon Kim , Chi Zhang , Sangmin Kim , Kwangsun Yoo , Seok-Joo Byun

Clinical diagnosis is a highly specialized discipline requiring both domain expertise and strict adherence to rigorous guidelines. While current AI-driven medical research predominantly focuses on knowledge graphs or natural text…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Haolin Li , Tianjie Dai , Zhe Chen , Siyuan Du , Jiangchao Yao , Ya Zhang , Yanfeng Wang

With the rapid growth of graph-structured data in critical domains, unsupervised graph-level anomaly detection (UGAD) has become a pivotal task. UGAD seeks to identify entire graphs that deviate from normal behavioral patterns. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Qingfeng Chen , Haojin Zeng , Jingyi Jie , Shichao Zhang , Debo Cheng