Efficient Group Lasso Regularized Rank Regression with Data-Driven Parameter Determination

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Main Authors: Lin, Meixia, Shi, Meijiao, Xiao, Yunhai, Zhang, Qian
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author Lin, Meixia
Shi, Meijiao
Xiao, Yunhai
Zhang, Qian
author_facet Lin, Meixia
Shi, Meijiao
Xiao, Yunhai
Zhang, Qian
contents High-dimensional regression often suffers from heavy-tailed noise and outliers, which can severely undermine the reliability of least-squares based methods. To improve robustness, we adopt a non-smooth Wilcoxon score based rank objective and incorporate structured group sparsity regularization, a natural generalization of the lasso, yielding a group lasso regularized rank regression method. By extending the tuning-free parameter selection scheme originally developed for the lasso, we introduce a data-driven, simulation-based tuning rule and further establish a finite-sample error bound for the resulting estimator. On the computational side, we develop a proximal augmented Lagrangian method for solving the associated optimization problem, which eliminates the singularity issues encountered in existing methods, thereby enabling efficient semismooth Newton updates for the subproblems. Extensive numerical experiments demonstrate the robustness and effectiveness of our proposed estimator against alternatives, and showcase the scalability of the algorithm across both simulated and real-data settings.
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spellingShingle Efficient Group Lasso Regularized Rank Regression with Data-Driven Parameter Determination
Lin, Meixia
Shi, Meijiao
Xiao, Yunhai
Zhang, Qian
Machine Learning
Optimization and Control
Statistics Theory
High-dimensional regression often suffers from heavy-tailed noise and outliers, which can severely undermine the reliability of least-squares based methods. To improve robustness, we adopt a non-smooth Wilcoxon score based rank objective and incorporate structured group sparsity regularization, a natural generalization of the lasso, yielding a group lasso regularized rank regression method. By extending the tuning-free parameter selection scheme originally developed for the lasso, we introduce a data-driven, simulation-based tuning rule and further establish a finite-sample error bound for the resulting estimator. On the computational side, we develop a proximal augmented Lagrangian method for solving the associated optimization problem, which eliminates the singularity issues encountered in existing methods, thereby enabling efficient semismooth Newton updates for the subproblems. Extensive numerical experiments demonstrate the robustness and effectiveness of our proposed estimator against alternatives, and showcase the scalability of the algorithm across both simulated and real-data settings.
title Efficient Group Lasso Regularized Rank Regression with Data-Driven Parameter Determination
topic Machine Learning
Optimization and Control
Statistics Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11546