SUMMARY We propose a new method for estimation in linear models. The 'lasso' minimizes the residual sum of squares subject to the sum of the absolute value of the coefficients being less than a constant. Because of the nature of this constraint it tends to produce some coefficients that are exactly 0 and hence gives interpretable models. Our simulation studies suggest that the lasso enjoys some of the favourable properties of both subset selection and ridge regression. It produces interpretable models like subset selection and exhibits the stability of ridge regression. There is also an interesting relationship with recent work in adaptive function estimation by Donoho and Johnstone. The lasso idea is quite general and can be applied in a variety of statistical models: extensions to generalized regression models and tree-based models are briefly described.

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Regression Shrinkage and Selection via the Lasso

We present a new technique called “t-SNE” that visualizes high-dimensional data by giving each datapoint a location in a two or three-dimensional map. The technique is a variation of Stochastic Neighbor Embedding (Hinton and Roweis, 2002) that is much easier to optimize, and produces significantly better visualizations by reducing the tendency to crowd points together in the center of the map. t-SNE is better than existing techniques at creating a single map that reveals structure at many different scales. This is particularly important for high-dimensional data that lie on several different, but related, low-dimensional manifolds, such as images of objects from multiple classes seen from multiple viewpoints. For visualizing the structure of very large datasets, we show how t-SNE can use random walks on neighborhood graphs to allow the implicit structure of all of the data to influence the way in which a subset of the data is displayed. We illustrate the performance of t-SNE on a wide variety of datasets and compare it with many other non-parametric visualization techniques, including Sammon mapping, Isomap, and Locally Linear Embedding. The visualizations produced by t-SNE are significantly better than those produced by the other techniques on almost all of the datasets.

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Visualizing Data using t-SNE

다중혈관 관상동맥 환자에서 y-문합을 이용하여 양쪽 내흉동맥만을 사용한 우회술의 조기 성적

Suppose x is an unknown vector in Ropfm (a digital image or signal); we plan to measure n general linear functionals of x and then reconstruct. If x is known to be compressible by transform coding with a known transform, and we reconstruct via the nonlinear procedure defined here, the number of measurements n can be dramatically smaller than the size m. Thus, certain natural classes of images with m pixels need only n=O(m1/4log5/2(m)) nonadaptive nonpixel samples for faithful recovery, as opposed to the usual m pixel samples. More specifically, suppose x has a sparse representation in some orthonormal basis (e.g., wavelet, Fourier) or tight frame (e.g., curvelet, Gabor)-so the coefficients belong to an lscrp ball for 0<ples1. The N most important coefficients in that expansion allow reconstruction with lscr2 error O(N1/2-1p/). It is possible to design n=O(Nlog(m)) nonadaptive measurements allowing reconstruction with accuracy comparable to that attainable with direct knowledge of the N most important coefficients. Moreover, a good approximation to those N important coefficients is extracted from the n measurements by solving a linear program-Basis Pursuit in signal processing. The nonadaptive measurements have the character of "random" linear combinations of basis/frame elements. Our results use the notions of optimal recovery, of n-widths, and information-based complexity. We estimate the Gel'fand n-widths of lscrp balls in high-dimensional Euclidean space in the case 0<ples1, and give a criterion identifying near- optimal subspaces for Gel'fand n-widths. We show that "most" subspaces are near-optimal, and show that convex optimization (Basis Pursuit) is a near-optimal way to extract information derived from these near-optimal subspaces

Compressed sensing

Introduction to a Transient World. Fourier Kingdom. Discrete Revolution. Time Meets Frequency. Frames. Wavelet Zoom. Wavelet Bases. Wavelet Packet and Local Cosine Bases. An Approximation Tour. Estimations are Approximations. Transform Coding. Appendix A: Mathematical Complements. Appendix B: Software Toolboxes.

http://ahvazdownload.persiangig.com/document/article/39.pdf

A wavelet tour of signal processing

Finding the sparsest solution to underdetermined systems of linear equations y = Φx is NP-hard in general. We show here that for systems with “typical”/“random” Φ, a good approximation to the sparsest solution is obtained by applying a fixed number of standard operations from linear algebra. Our proposal, Stagewise Orthogonal Matching Pursuit (StOMP), successively transforms the signal into a negligible residual. Starting with initial residual r0 = y, at the s -th stage it forms the “matched filter” ΦTrs-1, identifies all coordinates with amplitudes exceeding a specially chosen threshold, solves a least-squares problem using the selected coordinates, and subtracts the least-squares fit, producing a new residual. After a fixed number of stages (e.g., 10), it stops. In contrast to Orthogonal Matching Pursuit (OMP), many coefficients can enter the model at each stage in StOMP while only one enters per stage in OMP; and StOMP takes a fixed number of stages (e.g., 10), while OMP can take many (e.g., n). We give both theoretical and empirical support for the large-system effectiveness of StOMP. We give numerical examples showing that StOMP rapidly and reliably finds sparse solutions in compressed sensing, decoding of error-correcting codes, and overcomplete representation.

Sparse Solution of Underdetermined Systems of Linear Equations by Stagewise Orthogonal Matching Pursuit

We attempt to recover an unknown function from noisy, sampled data. Using orthonormal bases of compactly supported wavelets, we develop a nonlinear method which works in the wavelet domain by simple nonlinear shrinkage of the empirical wavelet coefficients. The shrinkage can be tuned to be nearly minimax over any member of a wide range of Triebel- and Besov-type smoothness constraints and asymptotically mini-max over Besov bodies with $p \leq q$. Linear estimates cannot achieve even the minimax rates over Triebel and Besov classes with $p<2$, so the method can significantly outperform every linear method (e.g., kernel, smoothing spline, sieve in a minimax sense). Variants of our method based on simple threshold nonlinear estimators are nearly minimax. Our method possesses the interpretation of spatial adaptivity; it reconstructs using a kernel which may vary in shape and bandwidth from point to point, depending on the data. Least favorable distributions for certain of the Triebel and Besov scales generate objects with sparse wavelet transforms. Many real objects have similarly sparse transforms, which suggests that these minimax results are relevant for practical problems. Sequels to this paper, which was first drafted in November 1990, discuss practical implementation, spatial adaptation properties, universal near minimaxity and applications to inverse problems.

https://projecteuclid.org/download/pdf_1/euclid.aos/1024691081

Minimax estimation via wavelet shrinkage

We consider inexact linear equations y ≈ Φx where y is a given vector in R n , Φ is a given n x m matrix, and we wish to find x 0,∈ as sparse as possible while obeying ∥y - Φx 0,∈ ∥ 2 ≤ ∈. In general, this requires combinatorial optimization and so is considered intractable. On the other hand, the l 1 -minimization problem min ∥x∥ 1 subject to ∥y - Φx∥ 2 ≤ e is convex and is considered tractable. We show that for most Φ, if the optimally sparse approximation x 0,∈ is sufficiently sparse, then the solution x 1,∈ of the l 1 -minimization problem is a good approximation to x 0,∈ . We suppose that the columns of Φ are normalized to the unit l 2 -norm, and we place uniform measure on such Φ. We study the underdetermined case where m ∼ τn and τ > 1, and prove the existence of p = p(r) > 0 and C = C(p, τ) so that for large n and for all Φ's except a negligible fraction, the following approximate sparse solution property of Φ holds: for every y having an approximation ∥y - Φx 0 ∥ 2 ≤ ∈ by a coefficient vector x 0 e R m with fewer than ρ · n nonzeros, ∥x 1,∈ - x 0 ∥ 2 ≤ C ≤ ∈. This has two implications. First, for most Φ, whenever the combinatorial optimization result x 0,∈ would be very sparse, x 1,∈ is a good approximation to x 0,∈ . Second, suppose we are given noisy data obeying y = Φx 0 + z where the unknown x 0 is known to be sparse and the noise ∥z∥ 2 ≤ ∈. For most Φ, noise-tolerant l 1 -minimization will stably recover x 0 from y in the presence of noise z. We also study the barely determined case m = n and reach parallel conclusions by slightly different arguments. Proof techniques include the use of almost-spherical sections in Banach space theory and concentration of measure for eigenvalues of random matrices.

For most large underdetermined systems of equations, the minimal 1-norm near-solution approximates the sparsest near-solution

The separation of image content into semantic parts plays a vital role in applications such as compression, enhancement, restoration, and more. In recent years, several pioneering works suggested such a separation be based on variational formulation and others using independent component analysis and sparsity. This paper presents a novel method for separating images into texture and piecewise smooth (cartoon) parts, exploiting both the variational and the sparsity mechanisms. The method combines the basis pursuit denoising (BPDN) algorithm and the total-variation (TV) regularization scheme. The basic idea presented in this paper is the use of two appropriate dictionaries, one for the representation of textures and the other for the natural scene parts assumed to be piecewise smooth. Both dictionaries are chosen such that they lead to sparse representations over one type of image-content (either texture or piecewise smooth). The use of the BPDN with the two amalgamed dictionaries leads to the desired separation, along with noise removal as a by-product. As the need to choose proper dictionaries is generally hard, a TV regularization is employed to better direct the separation process and reduce ringing artifacts. We present a highly efficient numerical scheme to solve the combined optimization problem posed by our model and to show several experimental results that validate the algorithm's performance.

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Image decomposition via the combination of sparse representations and a variational approach

The uncertainty principle can easily be generalized to cases where the “sets of concentration” are not intervals. Such generalizations are presented for continuous and discrete-time functions, and for several measures of “concentration” (e.g., $L_2 $ and $L_1 $ measures). The generalizations explain interesting phenomena in signal recovery problems where there is an interplay of missing data, sparsity, and bandlimiting.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/info/2101993

David L. Donoho

Papers

Sparse Solution of Underdetermined Systems of Linear Equations by Stagewise Orthogonal Matching Pursuit

Minimax estimation via wavelet shrinkage

For most large underdetermined systems of equations, the minimal 1-norm near-solution approximates the sparsest near-solution

Image decomposition via the combination of sparse representations and a variational approach

Uncertainty principles and signal recovery