Aryeh Kontorovich

We introduce a framework for performing vector-valued regression in finite-dimensional Hilbert spaces. Using Lipschitz smoothness as our regularizer, we leverage Kirszbraun’s extension theorem for off-data prediction. We analyze the statistical and computational aspects of this method—to our knowledge, its first application to supervised learning. We decompose this task into two stages: training (which corresponds operationally to smoothing/regularization) and prediction (which is achieved via Kirszbraun extension). Both are solved algorithmically via a novel multiplicative weight updates (MWU) scheme, which, for our problem formulation, achieves significant runtime speedups over generic interior point methods. Our empirical results indicate a dramatic advantage over standard off-the-shelf solvers in our regression setting.