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48 results for penalty method

Regularization methods are often employed in deep learning neural networks (DNNs) to prevent overfitting. For penalty based DNN regularization methods, convex penalties are typically considered because of their optimization guarantees. Recent theoretical work have shown that nonconvex penalties that satisfy certain reg…

2019-09-11abs ↗pdf ↗

New approach avoids excess empirical risk in domain generalization.

problem Learning models that generalize to unseen distributions from diverse data sets.
method Minimizes penalty under constraint of optimal empirical risk, leveraging rate-distortion theory.
result Significant improvements in domain generalization performance across multiple methods.

Proximal policy optimization(PPO) has been proposed as a first-order optimization method for reinforcement learning. We should notice that an exterior penalty method is used in it. Often, the minimizers of the exterior penalty functions approach feasibility only in the limits as the penalty parameter grows increasingly…

2018-12-16abs ↗pdf ↗

Improved penalty-based methods for bilevel optimization with reduced complexity.

problem Suboptimal complexity in solving bilevel optimization problems with large penalty terms.
method Novel penalty reformulation that decouples upper and lower-level variables, enabling larger step sizes and reduced iteration complexity.
result PBGD-Free algorithm that avoids inner loops for coupled constraint BLO problems, with reduced iteration complexity.

A fast method estimates group-adaptive elastic net penalties using co-data.

problem Computational inefficiency in estimating group-adaptive elastic net penalties.
method Derive low-dimensional representation of Taylor approximation for marginal likelihood and its derivative for group-adaptive ridge penalties; approximate elastic net marginal likelihood by ridge; transform ridge penalties to elastic net penalties.
result Significantly decreases computation time and outperforms other methods.

We consider a class of constrained optimization problems with a possibly nonconvex non-Lipschitz objective and a convex feasible set being the intersection of a polyhedron and a possibly degenerate ellipsoid. Such problems have a wide range of applications in data science, where the objective is used for inducing spars…

2014-09-09abs ↗pdf ↗

Two new methods improve block-sparse signal recovery from noisy data.

problem Recovering block-sparse signals with unknown partitions.
method LogLOP-l2/l1 and AdaLOP-l2/l1 methods using log-sum penalty and MCP.
result Our methods outperform existing techniques in estimation accuracy.

Deep Penalty Method solves high-dimensional optimal stopping problems using deep learning.

problem High-dimensional optimal stopping problems in American option pricing.
method Inspired by penalty method for PDEs, approximates penalized PDE with Deep BSDE framework.
result Error bound of DPM is O(1λ)+O(λh)+O(h)O(\frac{1}{\lambda}) + O(\lambda h) + O(\sqrt{h}).

In the multiple changepoint setting, various search methods have been proposed which involve optimising either a constrained or penalised cost function over possible numbers and locations of changepoints using dynamic programming. Such methods are typically computationally intensive. Recent work in the penalised optimi…

2014-12-11abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper develops algorithms for sparse linear regression with generalized elastic net penalty.

problem Sparse linear regression with robust penalty for high-dimensional data.
method Iterative Reweighted Framework based on ADMM and PMM with SNN.
result Efficient algorithms provide superior performance in both simulated and real data.

Accelerated gradient method tackles nonconvex penalties in sparse learning.

problem Optimizing nonconvex penalties in sparse statistical learning.
method Generalized Nesterov's accelerated gradient method with hyperparameter optimization.
result Convergence can be made considerably faster with optimal hyperparameters.

A new method tackles nonconvex optimization with penalties and proximal terms.

problem Nonconvex optimization problems with equality and inequality constraints.
method Inexact proximal augmented Lagrangian method (P-ALM) with adaptive penalty and proximal parameters.
result Effective convergence properties and numerical superiority over traditional methods.

We demonstrate the existence of universal adversarial perturbations, which can fool a family of audio classification architectures, for both targeted and untargeted attack scenarios. We propose two methods for finding such perturbations. The first method is based on an iterative, greedy approach that is well-known in c…

2019-08-08abs ↗pdf ↗

Two important goals of high-dimensional modeling are prediction and variable selection. In this article, we consider regularization with combined L1L_1 and concave penalties, and study the sampling properties of the global optimum of the suggested method in ultra-high dimensional settings. The L1L_1-penalty provides th…

2016-05-11abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper proposes efficient algorithms for designing SLOPE penalty sequences.

problem Designing SLOPE penalty sequences is computationally expensive.
method Developed two efficient algorithms: PGD and CD for Gaussian and general data matrices respectively.
result Demonstrated improved mean squared error performance of SLOPE with designed penalties.

Paper estimates differences in multi-attribute Gaussian graphical models using non-convex penalties.

problem Estimating differences in multi-attribute Gaussian graphical models with similar structure.
method Penalized D-trace loss function with non-convex (log-sum and SCAD) penalties, proximal gradient descent methods.
result Theoretical analysis and numerical examples support consistency in support recovery and estimation.

In this paper we consider sparse approximation problems, that is, general l0l_0 minimization problems with the l0l_0-"norm" of a vector being a part of constraints or objective function. In particular, we first study the first-order optimality conditions for these problems. We then propose penalty decomposition (PD) me…

2012-05-10abs ↗pdf ↗

Improved online penalty selection for time series models.

problem Efficiently selecting penalty parameters for lasso in time series models.
method Enhanced autoregressive model with online penalty selection.
result Significantly improved computational performance and forecast accuracy.

New single-loop algorithm tackles weakly convex constraints in stochastic optimization.

problem Optimization with weakly convex constraints in machine learning.
method Single-loop penalty-based stochastic algorithm using hinge-based penalty.
result Achieves state-of-the-art complexity for finding approximate KKT solutions.

Paper tackles bilevel optimization problems using penalty methods.

problem Unconstrained and constrained bilevel optimization problems with nonsmooth lower levels.
method Introduces first-order penalty methods and O(ε4logε1)O(\varepsilon^{-4}\log\varepsilon^{-1}) and O(ε7logε1)O(\varepsilon^{-7}\log\varepsilon^{-1}) operation complexities.
result Establishes operation complexities for finding ε\varepsilon-KKT solutions.

Paper proposes a method to improve circular coordinate representation for detecting changes in high-dimensional datasets.

problem Detecting changes in high-dimensional datasets with preserved topological structures.
method Adapt circular coordinate framework using a generalized penalty function instead of an L2 penalty.
result Circular coordinates with generalized penalty can detect changes in high-dimensional datasets under different sampling schemes.

Nonconvex penalty methods for sparse modeling in linear regression have been a topic of fervent interest in recent years. Herein, we study a family of nonconvex penalty functions that we call the trimmed Lasso and that offers exact control over the desired level of sparsity of estimators. We analyze its structural prop…

2017-08-15abs ↗pdf ↗

New method approximates sampling from smooth potential distributions using a vanishing penalty.

problem Sampling from smooth potential distributions on high-dimensional spaces.
method Penalized Langevin dynamics (PLD) with vanishing penalty.
result Established upper bound on Wasserstein-2 distance for PLD approximation.

SP-SPCA improves sparse PCA by adaptively adjusting variable penalties, enhancing interpretability and stability.

problem Poor interpretability and variable redundancy in PCA for high-dimensional data.
method Introduces a single equilibrium parameter to adaptively adjust variable penalties in the L2 regularization framework.
result Consistently outperforms standard sparse PCA methods in identifying sparse loading patterns and preserving cumulative variance.

In this paper we consider general rank minimization problems with rank appearing in either objective function or constraint. We first establish that a class of special rank minimization problems has closed-form solutions. Using this result, we then propose penalty decomposition methods for general rank minimization pro…

2010-08-31abs ↗pdf ↗

Piecewise Linear-Quadratic (PLQ) penalties are widely used to develop models in statistical inference, signal processing, and machine learning. Common examples of PLQ penalties include least squares, Huber, Vapnik, 1-norm, and their asymmetric generalizations. Properties of these estimators depend on the choice of pena…

2017-06-06abs ↗pdf ↗

A new method speeds up overlapping group lasso computations.

problem Time-consuming optimization of overlapping group lasso on large-scale problems.
method Non-overlapping statistical approximation to overlapping group lasso.
result The proposed penalty is statistically equivalent to overlapping group lasso.

A new algorithm speeds up sparse-penalized quantile regression solving non-convex penalties.

problem Sparse-penalized quantile regression with non-convex penalties.
method Single-loop smoothing ADMM (SIAD) algorithm for faster convergence.
result SIAD method outperforms existing approaches in solving sparse-penalized quantile regression.