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…
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We study the problem of estimating high-dimensional regression models regularized by a structured sparsity-inducing penalty that encodes prior structural information on either the input or output variables. We consider two widely adopted types of penalties of this kind as motivating examples: (1) the general overlappin…
New sparse penalty improves biclustering for gene expression data.
We study the problem of learning high dimensional regression models regularized by a structured-sparsity-inducing penalty that encodes prior structural information on either input or output sides. We consider two widely adopted types of such penalties as our motivating examples: 1) overlapping group lasso penalty, base…
New approach avoids excess empirical risk in domain generalization.
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…
Improved penalty-based methods for bilevel optimization with reduced complexity.
A fast method estimates group-adaptive elastic net penalties using co-data.
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…
Two new methods improve block-sparse signal recovery from noisy data.
Deep Penalty Method solves high-dimensional optimal stopping problems using deep learning.
In high-dimensional and/or non-parametric regression problems, regularization (or penalization) is used to control model complexity and induce desired structure. Each penalty has a weight parameter that indicates how strongly the structure corresponding to that penalty should be enforced. Typically the parameters are c…
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…
Paper develops algorithms for sparse linear regression with generalized elastic net penalty.
Accelerated gradient method tackles nonconvex penalties in sparse learning.
Paper solves convertible bond valuation using finite elements with penalty method.
New method solves complex bilevel optimization problems.
A new method tackles nonconvex optimization with penalties and proximal terms.
The use of machine-learning in neuroimaging offers new perspectives in early diagnosis and prognosis of brain diseases. Although such multivariate methods can capture complex relationships in the data, traditional approaches provide irregular (l2 penalty) or scattered (l1 penalty) predictive pattern with a very limited…
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…
New method reduces bias in sparse Bayesian learning.
In this paper, we present a novel penalty approach for the numerical solution of continuously controlled HJB equations and HJB obstacle problems. Our results include estimates of the penalisation error for a class of penalty terms, and we show that variations of Newton's method can be used to obtain globally convergent…
Two important goals of high-dimensional modeling are prediction and variable selection. In this article, we consider regularization with combined and concave penalties, and study the sampling properties of the global optimum of the suggested method in ultra-high dimensional settings. The -penalty provides th…
Paper proposes efficient algorithms for designing SLOPE penalty sequences.
Safe screening improves generalized CGM's feature selection stability.
A new method reduces bias in adaptive Lasso estimates.
Paper estimates differences in multi-attribute Gaussian graphical models using non-convex penalties.
Proposes spred for solving penalty with SGD.
Unified analysis of multi-attribute graph learning with non-convex penalties.
In this paper we consider sparse approximation problems, that is, general minimization problems with the -"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…
Improved online penalty selection for time series models.
New single-loop algorithm tackles weakly convex constraints in stochastic optimization.
Proposes using MLP for predicting optimal penalty in changepoint detection.
Paper tackles bilevel optimization problems using penalty methods.
Paper proposes a method to improve circular coordinate representation for detecting changes in high-dimensional datasets.
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…
Lipschitz continuity recently becomes popular in generative adversarial networks (GANs). It was observed that the Lipschitz regularized discriminator leads to improved training stability and sample quality. The mainstream implementations of Lipschitz continuity include gradient penalty and spectral normalization. In th…
This work addresses the issue of large covariance matrix estimation in high-dimensional statistical analysis. Recently, improved iterative algorithms with positive-definite guarantee have been developed. However, these algorithms cannot be directly extended to use a nonconvex penalty for sparsity inducing. Generally, a…
New method approximates sampling from smooth potential distributions using a vanishing penalty.
SP-SPCA improves sparse PCA by adaptively adjusting variable penalties, enhancing interpretability and stability.
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…
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…
A new method speeds up overlapping group lasso computations.
Kernel-based mean-field games use MMD penalties for interaction and target costs.
In this paper, we propose a framework for automatic classification of patients from multimodal genetic and brain imaging data by optimally combining them. Additive models with unadapted penalties (such as the classical group lasso penalty or -multiple kernel learning) treat all modalities in the same manner and ca…
A new penalty-free method optimizes portfolios without quantum annealing penalties.
A new algorithm speeds up sparse-penalized quantile regression solving non-convex penalties.
A new -means method HT -means uses penalty for sparsity.