arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 19

Online Generalized Sparse Regression: How Does Overparametrization Help?

The paper introduces an online generalized-sparsity-constrained regression framework that addresses key challenges in online sparse regression, such as dynamic regularization, memory usage, and real-time computation. It proposes an efficient online hard‑thresholding algorithm that performs closed‑form updates using only summary statistics, achieving global convergence at optimal statistical rates when the projection set is overparameterized. Numerical experiments show the method consistently outperforms existing alternatives in online cardinality‑constrained linear regression and low‑rank matrix sensing.

By Shuoguang Yang, Qiang Sun