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cs.LG2017★ 228 cited
Implicit Regularization in Nonconvex Statistical Estimation: Gradient Descent Converges Linearly for Phase Retrieval, Matrix Completion, and Blind Deconvolution
Cong Ma, Kaizheng Wang, Yuejie Chi +1
Recent years have seen a flurry of activities in designing provably efficient nonconvex procedures for solving statistical estimation problems. Due to the highly nonconvex nature o…
stat.ML2017★ 68 cited
Spectral Method and Regularized MLE Are Both Optimal for Top- Ranking
Yuxin Chen, Jianqing Fan, Cong Ma +1
This paper is concerned with the problem of top- ranking from pairwise comparisons. Given a collection of items and a few pairwise comparisons across them, one wishes to ide…
math.ST2017★ 6 cited
The Likelihood Ratio Test in High-Dimensional Logistic Regression Is Asymptotically a Rescaled Chi-Square
Pragya Sur, Yuxin Chen, Emmanuel J. Candès
Logistic regression is used thousands of times a day to fit data, predict future outcomes, and assess the statistical significance of explanatory variables. When used for the purpo…