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Model selection and sparse recovery are two important problems for which many regularization methods have been proposed. We study the properties of regularization methods in both problems under the unified framework of regularized least…

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This paper compares convex and non-convex penalized likelihood methods in high-dimensional statistical modeling, focusing on their strengths and limitations. Convex penalties, like LASSO, offer computational efficiency and strong…

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This article proposes diffusion LMS strategies for distributed estimation over adaptive networks that are able to exploit sparsity in the underlying system model. The approach relies on convex regularization, common in compressive sensing,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-06-05 Paolo Di Lorenzo , Ali H. Sayed

Sliced inverse regression is a popular tool for sufficient dimension reduction, which replaces covariates with a minimal set of their linear combinations without loss of information on the conditional distribution of the response given the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-09-18 Kean Ming Tan , Zhaoran Wang , Tong Zhang , Han Liu , R. Dennis Cook

We propose a method to reconstruct and cluster incomplete high-dimensional data lying in a union of low-dimensional subspaces. Exploring the sparse representation model, we jointly estimate the missing data while imposing the intrinsic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-06 João Carvalho , Manuel Marques , João P. Costeira

Deep neural networks have emerged as powerful tools for learning operators defined over infinite-dimensional function spaces. However, existing theories frequently encounter difficulties related to dimensionality and limited…

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Inferring network structures remains an interesting question for its importance on the understanding and controlling collective dynamics of complex systems. The existing shrinking methods such as Lasso-type estimation can not suitably…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Lei Shi , Jie Hu , Huaiyu Tan , Libin Jin , Wei Zhong , Chen Shen

In high dimensional regression settings, sparsity enforcing penalties have proved useful to regularize the data-fitting term. A recently introduced technique called screening rules propose to ignore some variables in the optimization…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-12-29 Eugene Ndiaye , Olivier Fercoq , Alexandre Gramfort , Joseph Salmon

Sparse feature selection has been demonstrated to be effective in handling high-dimensional data. While promising, most of the existing works use convex methods, which may be suboptimal in terms of the accuracy of feature selection and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-01-22 Shuo Xiang , Xiaotong Shen , Jieping Ye

Sparse learning is ubiquitous in many machine learning tasks. It aims to regularize the goodness-of-fit objective by adding a penalty term to encode structural constraints on the model parameters. In this paper, we develop a flexible sparse…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-10 Yingjie Wang , Mokhtar Z. Alaya , Salim Bouzebda , Xinsheng Liu

Sparse coding and dictionary learning are popular techniques for linear inverse problems such as denoising or inpainting. However in many cases, the measurement process is nonlinear, for example for clipped, quantized or 1-bit measurements.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-08 Lucas Rencker , Francis Bach , Wenwu Wang , Mark D. Plumbley

An important problem in the analysis of high-dimensional omics data is to identify subsets of molecular variables that are associated with a phenotype of interest. This requires addressing the challenges of high dimensionality, strong…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-04-05 Fan Wang , Sylvia Richardson , Steven M. Hill

In this study, we address the problem of high-dimensional binary classification. Our proposed solution involves employing an aggregation technique founded on exponential weights and empirical hinge loss. Through the employment of a suitable…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-10-02 The Tien Mai

For high dimensional sparse linear regression problems, we propose a sequential convex relaxation algorithm (iSCRA-TL1) by solving inexactly a sequence of truncated $\ell_1$-norm regularized minimization problems, in which the working index…

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Predicting clinical variables from whole-brain neuroimages is a high dimensional problem that requires some type of feature selection or extraction. Penalized regression is a popular embedded feature selection method for high dimensional…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-02-27 Joanne C. Beer , Howard J. Aizenstein , Stewart J. Anderson , Robert T. Krafty

Sparse regularization techniques are well-established in machine learning, yet their application in neural networks remains challenging due to the non-differentiability of penalties like the $L_1$ norm, which is incompatible with stochastic…

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The recovery of unknown signals from quadratic measurements finds extensive applications in fields such as phase retrieval, power system state estimation, and unlabeled distance geometry. This paper investigates the finite sample properties…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-15 Jun Fan , Jingyu Yang , Xinyu Zhang , Liqun Wang

This paper deals with the grouped variable selection problem. A widely used strategy is to augment the negative log-likelihood function with a sparsity-promoting penalty. Existing methods include the group Lasso, group SCAD, and group MCP.…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-11-14 Xiaoqian Liu , Aaron J. Molstad , Eric C. Chi

High-dimensional statistical inference deals with models in which the the number of parameters p is comparable to or larger than the sample size n. Since it is usually impossible to obtain consistent procedures unless $p/n\rightarrow0$, a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-03-13 Sahand N. Negahban , Pradeep Ravikumar , Martin J. Wainwright , Bin Yu

High-dimensional datasets are frequently subject to contamination by outliers and heavy-tailed noise, which can severely bias standard regularized estimators like the Lasso. While Maximum Mean Discrepancy (MMD) has recently been introduced…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-02-25 Xiaoning Kang , Lulu Kang