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48 results for adaptive group sparsity

GRASP simplifies Bayesian regression with grouped predictors using an adaptive NBP prior.

problem Regression with grouped predictors and adaptive shrinkage.
method Normal Beta Prime (NBP) prior with tunable hyperparameters for flexible sparsity control.
result Empirical validation of robust and versatile GRASP across various sparsity and signal-to-noise ratios.

AGS-CL selectively updates penalties based on node importance for continual learning.

problem Catastrophic forgetting in continual learning.
method Adaptive Group Sparsity (AGS) with proximal gradient descent.
result Significantly outperforms baselines on various continual learning benchmarks.

In high dimensional settings, sparse structures are crucial for efficiency, either in term of memory, computation or performance. In some contexts, it is natural to handle more refined structures than pure sparsity, such as for instance group sparsity. Sparse-Group Lasso has recently been introduced in the context of l…

2016-02-19abs ↗pdf ↗

Proposes ARSK for robust and sparse clustering.

problem Outliers and high-dimensional noisy variables in K-means clustering.
method Introduces redundant error component and group sparse penalty for robustness, and weights and sparsity control penalty for noisy variables.
result Superior performance in identifying clusters without outliers and informative variables.

Transformers can learn optimal variable selection in group-sparse classification.

problem Understanding how transformers leverage attention to select relevant variables in group-sparse classification.
method Training a one-layer transformer using gradient descent to select variables from one group of input variables.
result A one-layer transformer can correctly leverage the attention mechanism to select variables, disregarding irrelevant ones.

New adaptive learning rate improves FTRL's adaptivity to sparsity, game-dependency, and best-of-both-worlds.

problem Improving adaptivity in sequential decision-making problems.
method Developed a stability-penalty-adaptive (SPA) learning rate for FTRL.
result First BOBW algorithm with sparsity-dependent bound.

New theorem for generalized group sparsity improves consistency and convergence rates.

problem Improving statistical inference in high-dimensional data with element-wise and group-wise sparsity.
method Developed a generalized version of Sparse-Group Lasso and proved a universal theorem for consistency and convergence rates.
result Obtained results on consistency and convergence rates for different forms of double sparsity regularization.

We consider the empirical risk minimization problem for linear supervised learning, with regularization by structured sparsity-inducing norms. These are defined as sums of Euclidean norms on certain subsets of variables, extending the usual 1\ell_1-norm and the group 1\ell_1-norm by allowing the subsets to overlap. T…

2009-04-22abs ↗pdf ↗

Compressive sensing (CS) exploits sparsity to recover sparse or compressible signals from dimensionality reducing, non-adaptive sensing mechanisms. Sparsity is also used to enhance interpretability in machine learning and statistics applications: While the ambient dimension is vast in modern data analysis problems, the…

2015-07-20abs ↗pdf ↗

Flexible Cox model for time-dependent covariates with complex sparsity patterns.

problem Lack of flexibility in enforcing specific sparsity patterns in time-dependent Cox models.
method Proposes a flexible framework for variable selection in time-dependent Cox models, accommodating complex selection rules.
result Achieves accurate estimation with low false alarm rates for complex covariate structures.

SpeqNets improve graph neural networks by scaling and adapting to graph sparsity.

problem Graph neural networks struggle with permutation-equivariant functions and scalability to large graphs.
method Introducing sparsity-aware, permutation-equivariant graph networks with heuristics for graph isomorphism.
result Significantly improved predictive performance and reduced computation times compared to existing methods.

A new filter design improves system identification accuracy.

problem Improving system identification accuracy for various system types.
method Generalized proportionate-type normalized subband adaptive filter (GPtNSAF) using least squares on subband errors with a sparsity penalty.
result GPtNSAF benefits from increasing subbands more than sparsity for quasi-sparse or dispersive systems, and both aspects are complementary for sparse systems.

Attention mechanisms have become ubiquitous in NLP. Recent architectures, notably the Transformer, learn powerful context-aware word representations through layered, multi-headed attention. The multiple heads learn diverse types of word relationships. However, with standard softmax attention, all attention heads are de…

2019-08-30abs ↗pdf ↗

We investigate filter level sparsity that emerges in convolutional neural networks (CNNs) which employ Batch Normalization and ReLU activation, and are trained with adaptive gradient descent techniques and L2 regularization or weight decay. We conduct an extensive experimental study casting our initial findings into hy…

2018-11-29abs ↗pdf ↗

We compress large neural networks for quick adaptation to specific contexts.

problem How to quickly adapt a pretrained large neural network to specific contexts.
method Propose a Bayesian hypernetwork framework to compress the network and encourage sparsity.
result Generated compressed networks are significantly smaller than baseline methods.

We develop a 2D travel time tomography method which regularizes the inversion by modeling groups of slowness pixels from discrete slowness maps, called patches, as sparse linear combinations of atoms from a dictionary. We propose to use dictionary learning during the inversion to adapt dictionaries to specific slowness…

2017-12-16abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper proposes a new sparse group k-max regularization for sparsity constraints.

problem Linear inverse problems with sparsity constraints are NP-hard.
method Sparse group k-max regularization, iterative soft thresholding algorithm.
result Approximates l0 norm more closely and enhances group-wise and in-group sparsity.

Sparsity learning with known grouping structure has received considerable attention due to wide modern applications in high-dimensional data analysis. Although advantages of using group information have been well-studied by shrinkage-based approaches, benefits of group sparsity have not been well-documented for greedy-…

2017-07-10abs ↗pdf ↗

Study finds exact limits for sparse regression with fewer observations than usual.

problem Understanding sparse linear regression with sublinear sparsity.
method Adaptive interpolation method and modified AMP algorithm.
result Exact asymptotic expressions for mutual information and MMSE in sublinear sparsity.

New methods generalize nonlinear ICA beyond structural sparsity.

problem Identify true latent sources from nonlinear mixtures without structural sparsity assumptions.
method Propose identifiability results for undercomplete, partial sparsity, and flexible grouping structures.
result Prove identifiability in general settings of undercompleteness, partial sparsity, and flexible grouping structures.

This paper develops a theory for group Lasso using a concept called strong group sparsity. Our result shows that group Lasso is superior to standard Lasso for strongly group-sparse signals. This provides a convincing theoretical justification for using group sparse regularization when the underlying group structure is …

2009-01-20abs ↗pdf ↗

Group-based sparsity models are proven instrumental in linear regression problems for recovering signals from much fewer measurements than standard compressive sensing. The main promise of these models is the recovery of "interpretable" signals through the identification of their constituent groups. In this paper, we e…

2013-03-13abs ↗pdf ↗

We consider the problem of sparse variable selection in nonparametric additive models, with the prior knowledge of the structure among the covariates to encourage those variables within a group to be selected jointly. Previous works either study the group sparsity in the parametric setting (e.g., group lasso), or addre…

2012-06-18abs ↗pdf ↗

Improved iterative hard thresholding for faster, sparser solutions.

problem Finding sparser solutions without sacrificing runtime.
method Adaptive regularization framework applied to iterative hard thresholding.
result Returns solutions with sparsity O(sκ)O(sκ), improving over existing methods.

We propose a new sparsity-smoothness penalty for high-dimensional generalized additive models. The combination of sparsity and smoothness is crucial for mathematical theory as well as performance for finite-sample data. We present a computationally efficient algorithm, with provable numerical convergence properties, fo…

2008-06-25abs ↗pdf ↗

Sparse mapping has been a key methodology in many high-dimensional scientific problems. When multiple tasks share the set of relevant features, learning them jointly in a group drastically improves the quality of relevant feature selection. However, in practice this technique is used limitedly since such grouping infor…

2017-05-13abs ↗pdf ↗

Framework for inferring latent structure from sparse, imperfectly detected bipartite networks.

problem Recovering latent structure from sparse, imperfectly detected bipartite networks in ecology.
method Structured sparse nonnegative low-rank factorization with detection probability estimation and ADMM-based algorithm.
result Improved recovery of latent factors and structure compared to existing methods.

Structured sparsity has recently emerged in statistics, machine learning and signal processing as a promising paradigm for learning in high-dimensional settings. All existing methods for learning under the assumption of structured sparsity rely on prior knowledge on how to weight (or how to penalize) individual subsets…

2015-03-10abs ↗pdf ↗

New algorithm tackles high-dimensional contextual bandits without sparsity.

problem High-dimensional linear contextual bandit problem with large feature space.
method Proposes explore-then-commit (EtC) and adaptive explore-then-commit (AEtC) algorithms.
result Derives optimal rate for ETC algorithm and shows adaptive AEtC achieves it.