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Sparse signal recovery from under-determined systems presents significant challenges when using conventional L_0 and L_1 penalties, primarily due to computational complexity and estimation bias. This paper introduces a truncated Huber…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-08 Li Yang , Serena Morigi , Michael K. Ng , You-wei Wen

We introduce a novel optimization algorithm for image recovery under learned sparse and low-rank constraints, which we parameterize as weighted extensions of the $\ell_p^p$-vector and $\mathcal S_p^p$ Schatten-matrix quasi-norms for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Stamatios Lefkimmiatis , Iaroslav Koshelev

We consider a convex optimization problem with many linear inequality constraints. To deal with a large number of constraints, we provide a penalty reformulation of the problem, where the penalty is a variant of the one-sided Huber loss…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-03 Angelia Nedich , Tatiana Tatarenko

In this paper, we consider a class of nonconvex problems with linear constraints appearing frequently in the area of image processing. We solve this problem by the penalty method and propose the iteratively reweighted alternating…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-13 Tao Sun , Dongsheng Li , Hao Jiang , Zhe Quan

This paper proposes a new approach for solving ill-posed nonlinear inverse problems. For ease of explanation of the proposed approach, we use the example of lung electrical impedance tomography (EIT), which is known to be a nonlinear and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-08-01 Jin Keun Seo , Kang Cheol Kim , Ariungerel Jargal , Kyounghun Lee , Bastian Harrach

Inverse problems arise in a wide spectrum of applications in fields ranging from engineering to scientific computation. Connected with the rise of interest in inverse problems is the development and analysis of regularization methods, such…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-12 Abinash Nayak

In this paper we introduce a nonuniform sparsity model and analyze the performance of an optimized weighted $\ell_1$ minimization over that sparsity model. In particular, we focus on a model where the entries of the unknown vector fall into…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-09-21 M. Amin Khajehnejad , Weiyu Xu , A. Salman Avestimehr , Babak Hassibi

We study high-dimensional estimators with the trimmed $\ell_1$ penalty, which leaves the $h$ largest parameter entries penalty-free. While optimization techniques for this nonconvex penalty have been studied, the statistical properties have…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-05-14 Jihun Yun , Peng Zheng , Eunho Yang , Aurelie Lozano , Aleksandr Aravkin

Statistical inverse learning aims at recovering an unknown function $f$ from randomly scattered and possibly noisy point evaluations of another function $g$, connected to $f$ via an ill-posed mathematical model. In this paper we blend…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-01-22 Tapio Helin

This paper is concerned with a novel regularisation technique for solving linear ill-posed operator equations in Hilbert spaces from data that is corrupted by white noise. We combine convex penalty functionals with extreme-value statistics…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2012-04-03 Klaus Frick , Philipp Marnitz , Axel Munk

We propose a new learning-based approach to solve ill-posed inverse problems in imaging. We address the case where ground truth training samples are rare and the problem is severely ill-posed - both because of the underlying physics and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-07 Sidharth Gupta , Konik Kothari , Maarten V. de Hoop , Ivan Dokmanić

This paper studies regularized least square recovery of signals whose samples' prior distributions are nonidentical, e.g., signals with time-variant sparsity. For this model, Bayesian framework suggests to regularize the least squares term…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Ali Bereyhi , Mohammad Ali Sedaghat , Ralf R. Müller

This short note proves the $\ell_2-\ell_1$ instance optimality of a $\ell_1/\ell_1$ solver, i.e a variant of \emph{basis pursuit denoising} with a $\ell_1$ fidelity constraint, when applied to the estimation of sparse (or compressible)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-03-22 Laurent Jacques

Recently, there has been focus on penalized log-likelihood covariance estimation for sparse inverse covariance (precision) matrices. The penalty is responsible for inducing sparsity, and a very common choice is the convex $l_1$ norm.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-07-19 Goran Marjanovic , Alfred O. Hero

We study the properties of sparse reconstruction of transformed $\ell_1$ (TL1) minimization and present improved theoretical results about the recoverability and the accuracy of this reconstruction from undersampled measurements. We then…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-31 Ling Guo , Jing Li , Yongle Liu

Variational regularization of ill-posed inverse problems is based on minimizing the sum of a data fidelity term and a regularization term. The balance between them is tuned using a positive regularization parameter, whose automatic choice…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-12 Markus Juvonen , Bjørn Jensen , Ilmari Pohjola , Yiqiu Dong , Samuli Siltanen

Inverse reinforcement learning aims to infer the reward function that explains expert behavior observed through trajectories of state--action pairs. A long-standing difficulty in classical IRL is the non-uniqueness of the recovered reward:…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-09 Denis Belomestny , Alexey Naumov , Sergey Samsonov

Iterative regularization exploits the implicit bias of an optimization algorithm to regularize ill-posed problems. Constructing algorithms with such built-in regularization mechanisms is a classic challenge in inverse problems but also in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-02 Cesare Molinari , Mathurin Massias , Lorenzo Rosasco , Silvia Villa

In this paper we look at a well known linear inverse problem that is one of the mathematical cornerstones of the compressed sensing field. In seminal works \cite{CRT,DOnoho06CS} $\ell_1$ optimization and its success when used for recovering…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-17 Mihailo Stojnic

We tackle the problem of building adaptive estimation procedures for ill-posed inverse problems. For general regularization methods depending on tuning parameters, we construct a penalized method that selects the optimal smoothing sequence…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2008-07-31 Jean-Michel Loubes , Carenne Ludeña