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Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed learning paradigm that enables multiple clients to collaborate on building a machine learning model without sharing their private data. Although FL is considered privacy-preserved by design, recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Yongcun Song , Ziqi Wang , Enrique Zuazua

We revisit panel regressions with unobserved heterogeneity through the lens of variance-weighted average treatment effects. Building on established results for cross-sectional OLS and one-way fixed effects panels, we show that two-way panel…

Econometrics · Economics 2026-04-21 Artūras Juodis , Martin Weidner

Broadband signal transmission over frequency-selective fading channel often requires accurate channel state information at receiver. One of the most attracting adaptive channel estimation methods is least mean square (LMS) algorithm.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-04-16 Guan Gui , Abolfazl Mehbodniya , Fumiyuki Adachi

The so-called constrained least mean-square algorithm is one of the most commonly used linear-equality-constrained adaptive filtering algorithms. Its main advantages are adaptability and relative simplicity. In order to gain analytical…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-02-26 Reza Arablouei , Kutluyıl Doğançay , Stefan Werner

Weakly supervised learning generally faces challenges in applicability to various scenarios with diverse weak supervision and in scalability due to the complexity of existing algorithms, thereby hindering the practical deployment. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Hao Chen , Jindong Wang , Lei Feng , Xiang Li , Yidong Wang , Xing Xie , Masashi Sugiyama , Rita Singh , Bhiksha Raj

This paper contributes to the literature on treatment effects estimation with machine learning inspired methods by studying the performance of different estimators based on the Lasso. Building on recent work in the field of high-dimensional…

Econometrics · Economics 2018-05-15 Michael Zimmert

We consider the problem of reconstructing rank-one matrices from random linear measurements, a task that appears in a variety of problems in signal processing, statistics, and machine learning. In this paper, we focus on the Alternating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Kiryung Lee , Dominik Stöger

Federated learning (FL) often suffers from performance degradation due to key challenges such as data heterogeneity and communication constraints. To address these limitations, we present a novel FL framework called FedWSQ, which integrates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Seung-Wook Kim , Seongyeol Kim , Jiah Kim , Seowon Ji , Se-Ho Lee

We study estimation of the intercept parameter in an integrated Galton-Watson process, a basic building-block for many count-valued time series models. In this unit root setting, the ordinary least squares estimator is inconsistent, whereas…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-13 Yang Lu

The classical iteratively reweighted least-squares (IRLS) algorithm aims to recover an unknown signal from linear measurements by performing a sequence of weighted least squares problems, where the weights are recursively updated at each…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-06-06 Chiraag Kaushik , Justin Romberg , Vidya Muthukumar

The approximation of tensors has important applications in various disciplines, but it remains an extremely challenging task. It is well known that tensors of higher order can fail to have best low-rank approximations, but with an important…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-19 Mike Espig , Aram Khachatryan

In this paper, we propose a reduced-bias estimator of the EVI for Pareto-type tails (heavy-tailed) distributions. This is derived using the weighted least squares method. It is shown that the estimator is unbiased, consistent and…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-04-12 E. Ocran , R. Minkah , K. Doku-Amponsah

We consider both $\ell _{0}$-penalized and $\ell _{0}$-constrained quantile regression estimators. For the $\ell _{0}$-penalized estimator, we derive an exponential inequality on the tail probability of excess quantile prediction risk and…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-03-30 Le-Yu Chen , Sokbae Lee

The function-on-function linear regression model in which the response and predictors consist of random curves has become a general framework to investigate the relationship between the functional response and functional predictors.…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-11-03 Ufuk Beyaztas , Han Lin Shang

Iteratively reweighted least square (IRLS) is a popular approach to solve sparsity-enforcing regression problems in machine learning. State of the art approaches are more efficient but typically rely on specific coordinate pruning schemes.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-10-03 Clarice Poon , Gabriel Peyré

Model merging aims to build a multi-task learner by combining the parameters of individually fine-tuned models without additional training. While a straightforward approach is to average model parameters across tasks, this often results in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Jiho Choi , Donggyun Kim , Chanhyuk Lee , Seunghoon Hong

Stochastic Alternating Least Squares (SALS) is a method that approximates the canonical decomposition of averages of sampled random tensors. Its simplicity and efficient memory usage make SALS an ideal tool for decomposing tensors in an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-28 Yanzhao Cao , Somak Das , Luke Oeding , Hans-Werner van Wyk

Weighting methods are essential tools for estimating causal effects in observational studies, with the goal of balancing pre-treatment covariates across treatment groups. Traditional approaches pursue this objective indirectly, for example,…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-02-09 Diptanil Santra , Guanhua Chen , Chan Park

Integrating multiple observational studies to make unconfounded causal or descriptive comparisons of group potential outcomes in a large natural population is challenging. Moreover, retrospective cohorts, being convenience samples, are…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-07-19 Subharup Guha , Yi Li

An iteratively reweighted least squares (IRLS) method is proposed for estimating polyserial and polychoric correlation coefficients in this paper. It iteratively calculates the slopes in a series of weighted linear regression models fitting…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-10-21 Peng Zhang , Ben Liu , Jingjing Pan