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James L Sharpnack

3 accepted papers

2019

Stochastic Shared Embeddings: Data-driven Regularization of Embedding Layers

NeurIPS 2019poster

In deep neural nets, lower level embedding layers account for a large portion of the total number of parameters. Tikhonov regularization, graph-based regularization, and hard parameter sharing are approaches that introduce explicit biases into training in a hope to reduce statistical complexity. Alt…

Cited by 47SourcePDFScholar
2017

A Sharp Error Analysis for the Fused Lasso, with Application to Approximate Changepoint Screening

NeurIPS 2017poster

In the 1-dimensional multiple changepoint detection problem, we derive a new fast error rate for the fused lasso estimator, under the assumption that the mean vector has a sparse number of changepoints. This rate is seen to be suboptimal (compared to the minimax rate) by only a factor of $\log\log{n…

Cited by 77SourcePDFScholar
2017

Higher-Order Total Variation Classes on Grids: Minimax Theory and Trend Filtering Methods

NeurIPS 2017poster

We consider the problem of estimating the values of a function over $n$ nodes of a $d$-dimensional grid graph (having equal side lengths $n^{1/d}$) from noisy observations. The function is assumed to be smooth, but is allowed to exhibit different amounts of smoothness at different regions in the gri…

Cited by 39SourcePDFScholar