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The problem central to sparse recovery and compressive sensing is that of stable sparse recovery: we want a distribution of matrices A in R^{m\times n} such that, for any x \in R^n and with probability at least 2/3 over A, there is an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-12-30 Eric Price , David P. Woodruff

Given a sample covariance matrix, we examine the problem of maximizing the variance explained by a linear combination of the input variables while constraining the number of nonzero coefficients in this combination. This is known as sparse…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-11-10 Alexandre d'Aspremont , Francis Bach , Laurent El Ghaoui

Optimization problems with norm-bounding constraints arise in a variety of applications, including portfolio optimization, machine learning, and feature selection. A common approach to these problems involves relaxing the norm constraint…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-08 Danial Davarnia , Mohammadreza Kiaghadi

Dictionary learning is a popular approach for inferring a hidden basis or dictionary in which data has a sparse representation. Data generated from the dictionary A (an n by m matrix, with m > n in the over-complete setting) is given by Y =…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-09 Pranjal Awasthi , Aravindan Vijayaraghavan

Many modern tools in machine learning and signal processing, such as sparse dictionary learning, principal component analysis (PCA), non-negative matrix factorization (NMF), $K$-means clustering, etc., rely on the factorization of a matrix…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-04-10 Rémi Gribonval , Rodolphe Jenatton , Francis Bach , Martin Kleinsteuber , Matthias Seibert

Estimating linear, mean-square continuous functionals is a pivotal challenge in statistics. In high-dimensional contexts, this estimation is often performed under the assumption of exact model sparsity, meaning that only a small number of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-08-04 Jelena Bradic , Victor Chernozhukov , Whitney K. Newey , Yinchu Zhu

Recovery of the sparsity pattern (or support) of an unknown sparse vector from a small number of noisy linear measurements is an important problem in compressed sensing. In this paper, the high-dimensional setting is considered. It is shown…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-06 Galen Reeves , Michael Gastpar

We discuss a strategy of sparse approximation that is based on the use of an overcomplete basis, and evaluate its performance when a random matrix is used as this basis. A small combination of basis vectors is chosen from a given…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-29 Yoshinori Nakanishi-Ohno , Tomoyuki Obuchi , Masato Okada , Yoshiyuki Kabashima

For the linear inverse problem with sparsity constraints, the $l_0$ regularized problem is NP-hard, and existing approaches either utilize greedy algorithms to find almost-optimal solutions or to approximate the $l_0$ regularization with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Qinghua Tao , Xiangming Xi , Jun Xu , Johan A. K. Suykens

We consider the observations of an unknown $s$-sparse vector ${\boldsymbol \theta}$ corrupted by Gaussian noise with zero mean and unknown covariance matrix ${\boldsymbol \Sigma}$. We propose minimax optimal methods of estimating the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Yuhao Wang , Pengkun Yang , Alexandre B. Tsybakov

We consider the problem of recovering a partially sparse solution of an underdetermined system of linear equations by minimizing the $\ell_1$-norm of the part of the solution vector which is known to be sparse. Such a problem is closely…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-04-11 Afonso S. Bandeira , Katya Scheinberg , Luis Nunes Vicente

Sparse principal component analysis addresses the problem of finding a linear combination of the variables in a given data set with a sparse coefficients vector that maximizes the variability of the data. This model enhances the ability to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-09 Amir Beck , Yakov Vaisbourd

This paper studies high-order evaluation complexity for partially separable convexly-constrained optimization involving non-Lipschitzian group sparsity terms in a nonconvex objective function. We propose a partially separable adaptive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-01 X. Chen , Ph. L. Toint

One of the most basic problems in compressed sensing is solving an under-determined system of linear equations. Although this problem seems rather hard certain $\ell_1$-optimization algorithm appears to be very successful in solving it. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-07-22 Mihailo Stojnic

Many applications in signal processing benefit from the sparsity of signals in a certain transform domain or dictionary. Synthesis sparsifying dictionaries that are directly adapted to data have been popular in applications such as image…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-06-23 Saiprasad Ravishankar , Yoram Bresler

This paper deals with the problem of density estimation. We aim at building an estimate of an unknown density as a linear combination of functions of a dictionary. Inspired by Cand\`es and Tao's approach, we propose an $\ell_1$-minimization…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2009-05-07 Karine Bertin , Erwan Le Pennec , Vincent Rivoirard

This paper provides fundamental limits on the sample complexity of estimating dictionaries for tensor data. The specific focus of this work is on $K$th-order tensor data and the case where the underlying dictionary can be expressed in terms…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Zahra Shakeri , Waheed U. Bajwa , Anand D. Sarwate

In sparse optimization, enforcing hard constraints using the $\ell_0$ pseudo-norm offers advantages like controlled sparsity compared to convex relaxations. However, many real-world applications demand not only sparsity constraints but also…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-12 William de Vazelhes , Xiao-Tong Yuan , Bin Gu

This work investigates the problem of signal recovery from undersampled noisy sub-Gaussian measurements under the assumption of a synthesis-based sparsity model. Solving the $\ell^1$-synthesis basis pursuit allows for a simultaneous…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-16 Maximilian März , Claire Boyer , Jonas Kahn , Pierre Weiss

A dictionary is a database of standard vectors, so that other vectors / signals are expressed as linear combinations of dictionary vectors, and the task of learning a dictionary for a given data is to find a good dictionary so that the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Mohammed Rayyan Sheriff , Debasish Chatterjee