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Dynamic Sasvi: Strong Safe Screening for Norm-Regularized Least Squares
Hiroaki Yamada · Makoto Yamada

Wed Dec 08 12:30 AM -- 02:00 AM (PST) @

A recently introduced technique, called safe screening,'' for a sparse optimization problem allows us to identify irrelevant variables in the early stages of optimization. In this paper, we first propose a flexible framework for safe screening based on the Fenchel--Rockafellar duality and then derive a strong safe screening rule for norm-regularized least squares using the proposed framework. We refer to the proposed screening rule for norm-regularized least squares asdynamic Sasvi'' because it can be interpreted as a generalization of Sasvi. Unlike the original Sasvi, it does not require the exact solution of a more strongly regularized problem; hence, it works safely in practice. We show that our screening rule always eliminates more features compared with the existing state-of-the-art methods.

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Hiroaki Yamada (Kyoto University)
Makoto Yamada (Kyoto University / RIKEN AIP)

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