arXiv research

Bayesian approach improves network lasso for multi-task learning.

We apply network Lasso to semi-supervised regression problems involving network structured data. This approach lends quite naturally to highly scalable learning algorithms in the form of message passing over an empirical graph which represents the network structure of the data. By using a simple non-parametric regressi…

The "least absolute shrinkage and selection operator" (Lasso) method has been adapted recently for networkstructured datasets. In particular, this network Lasso method allows to learn graph signals from a small number of noisy signal samples by using the total variation of a graph signal for regularization. While effic…

New method proves neural networks can select features consistently.

The network Lasso is a recently proposed convex optimization method for machine learning from massive network structured datasets, i.e., big data over networks. It is a variant of the well-known least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (Lasso), which is underlying many methods in learning and signal processing i…

Diagonal linear networks converge to lasso regularization path during training.

Network Lasso clusters sparse graph clusters efficiently.

Deep neural nets on 1-D data are convex Lasso models with reflection features.

Deep neural networks favor symmetric structures, enabling multilevel symmetries.

New mathematical framework proves the effectiveness of reducing neural network sizes.

We apply the network Lasso to solve binary classification and clustering problems for network-structured data. To this end, we generalize ordinary logistic regression to non-Euclidean data with an intrinsic network structure. The resulting "logistic network Lasso" amounts to solving a non-smooth convex regularized empi…

Adaptive Group Lasso selects important features in neural networks.

We apply the network Lasso to classify partially labeled data points which are characterized by high-dimensional feature vectors. In order to learn an accurate classifier from limited amounts of labeled data, we borrow statistical strength, via an intrinsic network structure, across the dataset. The resulting logistic …

Many applications generate data with an intrinsic network structure such as time series data, image data or social network data. The network Lasso (nLasso) has been proposed recently as a method for joint clustering and optimization of machine learning models for networked data. The nLasso extends the Lasso from sparse…

Complex network reconstruction is a hot topic in many fields. Currently, the most popular data-driven reconstruction framework is based on lasso. However, it is found that, in the presence of noise, lasso loses efficiency for weighted networks. This paper builds a new framework to cope with this problem. The key idea i…

A neural network approach unifies Lasso for variable selection.

A new estimator learns sparse linear models with context-dependent coefficients.

Paper introduces MGLasso for multiscale graph inference in clustering and network analysis.

Improved survival analysis using square root Cox's models and neural networks.

We consider the task of estimating a Gaussian graphical model in the high-dimensional setting. The graphical lasso, which involves maximizing the Gaussian log likelihood subject to an l1 penalty, is a well-studied approach for this task. We begin by introducing a surprising connection between the graphical lasso and hi…

We propose networked exponential families to jointly leverage the information in the topology as well as the attributes (features) of networked data points. Networked exponential families are a flexible probabilistic model for heterogeneous datasets with intrinsic network structure. These models can be learnt efficient…

A new method for joint eQTL mapping and gene network estimation.

In this paper, we consider modelling interaction between a set of variables in the context of time series and high dimension. We suggest two approaches. The first is similar to the neighborhood lasso when the lasso model is replaced by a support vector machine (SVMs). The second is a restricted Bayesian network adapted…

Study improves model estimation and variable selection using GANs with Lasso penalty.

Ride sharing has important implications in terms of environmental, social and individual goals by reducing carbon footprints, fostering social interactions and economizing commuter costs. The ride sharing systems that are commonly available lack adaptive and scalable techniques that can simultaneously learn from the la…

SMART-FAN-Lasso fine-tunes neural networks for high-dimensional nonparametric regression.

Topic modeling is widely studied for the dimension reduction and analysis of documents. However, it is formulated as a difficult optimization problem. Current approximate solutions also suffer from inaccurate model- or data-assumptions. To deal with the above problems, we propose a polynomial-time deep topic model with…

Efficiently infers sparse networks from count data with reduced memory usage.

New theory explains how overparametrized neural networks generalize well without bias-variance trade-off.

The network Lasso (nLasso) has been proposed recently as an efficient learning algorithm for massive networked data sets (big data over networks). It extends the well-known least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (Lasso) from learning sparse (generalized) linear models to network models. Efficient implementatio…

Directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) are commonly used to represent causal relationships among random variables in graphical models. Applications of these models arise in the study of physical, as well as biological systems, where directed edges between nodes represent the influence of components of the system on each other.…

The paper shows how label noise in training can lead to solutions that solve a Lasso program.

Recently, network lasso has drawn many attentions due to its remarkable performance on simultaneous clustering and optimization. However, it usually suffers from the imperfect data (noise, missing values etc), and yields sub-optimal solutions. The reason is that it finds the similar instances according to their feature…

PLS-Lasso integrates dimension reduction into regression for financial index tracking.

The paper examines Adaptive Lasso and Transfer Lasso, highlighting their differences and proposing a new method.

In this paper, we consider the joint task of simultaneously optimizing (i) the weights of a deep neural network, (ii) the number of neurons for each hidden layer, and (iii) the subset of active input features (i.e., feature selection). While these problems are generally dealt with separately, we present a simple regula…

New method aggregates nodes in sparse graphical models.

We examine the effect of the Group Lasso (gLasso) regularizer in selecting the salient nodes of Deep Neural Network (DNN) hidden layers by applying a DNN-HMM hybrid speech recognizer to TED Talks speech data. We test two types of gLasso regularization, one for outgoing weight vectors and another for incoming weight vec…

DFR reduces the computational cost of sparse-group lasso and adaptive sparse-group lasso.

KTVGL models tensor time series data for interpretable dynamic network estimation.

A fast method for Lasso and Logistic Lasso problems.

We leverage recent advances in high-dimensional statistics to derive new L2 estimation upper bounds for Lasso and Group Lasso in high-dimensions. For Lasso, our bounds scale as $(k^*/n) \log(p/k^*)$---$n\times p$ is the size of the design matrix and $k^*$ the dimension of the ground truth $\boldsymbolβ^*$---and match t…

We introduce an application of the group lasso to design of experiments. Note that we are NOT trying to explain experimental design for the group lasso. Conversely, we explain how we can use the idea of the group lasso in experimental design, showing that the problem of constructing an optimal design matrix can be tran…

New method for tuning Graphical Lasso hyperparameters.

LassoFlexNet improves deep learning performance on tabular data.

EBMs become opaque in high dimensions; LASSO sparsifies them.

The thesis tackles structure learning and parameter estimation for PGMs using penalized maximum likelihood methods.

The Bayesian Lasso is constructed in the linear regression framework and applies the Gibbs sampling to estimate the regression parameters. This paper develops a new sparse learning model, named the Bayesian Lasso Sparse (BLS) model, that takes the hierarchical model formulation of the Bayesian Lasso. The main differenc…