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A differential equations approach to $l_1$-minimization with applications to array imaging

Numerical Analysis 2015-06-04 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP Optimization and Control

Abstract

We present an ordinary differential equations approach to the analysis of algorithms for constructing l1l_1 minimizing solutions to underdetermined linear systems of full rank. It involves a relaxed minimization problem whose minimum is independent of the relaxation parameter. An advantage of using the ordinary differential equations is that energy methods can be used to prove convergence. The connection to the discrete algorithms is provided by the Crandall-Liggett theory of monotone nonlinear semigroups. We illustrate the effectiveness of the discrete optimization algorithm in some sparse array imaging problems.

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@article{arxiv.1203.2309,
  title  = {A differential equations approach to $l_1$-minimization with applications to array imaging},
  author = {Miguel Moscoso and Alexei Novikov and George Papanicolaou and Lenya Ryzhik},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1203.2309},
  year   = {2015}
}
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