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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.ME2017★ 7 cited
Inter-Subject Analysis: Inferring Sparse Interactions with Dense Intra-Graphs
Cong Ma, Junwei Lu, Han Liu
We develop a new modeling framework for Inter-Subject Analysis (ISA). The goal of ISA is to explore the dependency structure between different subjects with the intra-subject depen…
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…