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Within the statistical and machine learning literature, regularization techniques are often used to construct sparse (predictive) models. Most regularization strategies only work for data where all predictors are treated identically, such…

Computation · Statistics 2020-12-16 Sander Devriendt , Katrien Antonio , Tom Reynkens , Roel Verbelen

Standard regularization methods typically favor solutions which are in, or close to, the orthogonal complement of the null space of the forward operator/matrix $\mathsf{A}$. This particular biasedness might not be desirable in applications…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-05 Ole Løseth Elvetun , Bjørn Fredrik Nielsen , Niranjana Sudheer

We study a non-linear statistical inverse learning problem, where we observe the noisy image of a quantity through a non-linear operator at some random design points. We consider the widely used Tikhonov regularization (or method of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-04-09 Abhishake Rastogi , Gilles Blanchard , Peter Mathé

We propose a simple modification to the iterative hard thresholding (IHT) algorithm, which recovers asymptotically sparser solutions as a function of the condition number. When aiming to minimize a convex function $f(x)$ with condition…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-19 Kyriakos Axiotis , Maxim Sviridenko

Many applications in science and engineering require the solution of large linear discrete ill-posed problems that are obtained by the discretization of a Fredholm integral equation of the first kind in several space-dimensions. The matrix…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-19 Laura Dykes , Guangxin Huang , Silvia Noschese , Lothar Reichel

We consider a statistical inverse learning problem, where the task is to estimate a function $f$ based on noisy point evaluations of $Af$, where $A$ is a linear operator. The function $Af$ is evaluated at i.i.d. random design points $u_n$,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-02 Tatiana A. Bubba , Martin Burger , Tapio Helin , Luca Ratti

Conditional stability estimates require additional regularization for obtaining stable approximate solutions if the validity area of such estimates is not completely known. In this context, we consider ill-posed nonlinear inverse problems…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-29 Frank Werner , Bernd Hofmann

We consider linear inverse problems where the solution is assumed to have a sparse expansion on an arbitrary pre-assigned orthonormal basis. We prove that replacing the usual quadratic regularizing penalties by weighted l^p-penalties on the…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Ingrid Daubechies , Michel Defrise , Christine De Mol

Regularization plays an important role in solving ill-posed problems by adding extra information about the desired solution, such as sparsity. Many regularization terms usually involve some vector norm, e.g., $L_1$ and $L_2$ norms. In this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-10 Weihong Guo , Yifei Lou , Jing Qin , Ming Yan

The article addresses the convergence of implicit and semi-implicit, fully discrete approximations of a class of nonlinear parabolic evolution problems. Such schemes are popular in the numerical solution of evolutions defined with the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-22 Sören Bartels , Michael Růžička

In this paper we consider the computation of approximate solutions for inverse problems in Hilbert spaces. In order to capture the special feature of solutions, non-smooth convex functions are introduced as penalty terms. By exploiting the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-18 Qinian Jin , Xiliang Lu

In this work, we consider a class of linear ill-posed problems with operators that map from the sequence space $ \ell_r $ ($r \ge 1$) into a Banach space and in addition satisfy a conditional stability estimate in the scale of sequence…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Robert Plato , Bernd Hofmann

This work is concerned with linear inverse problems where a distributed parameter is known a priori to only take on values from a given discrete set. This property can be promoted in Tikhonov regularization with the aid of a suitable convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-04-19 Christian Clason , Thi Bich Tram Do

In this paper, we consider a well-known sparse optimization problem that aims to find a sparse solution of a possibly noisy underdetermined system of linear equations. Mathematically, it can be modeled in a unified manner by minimizing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-01 Lei Yang , Xiaojun Chen , Shuhuang Xiang

We analyze sparse frame based regularization of inverse problems by means of a diagonal frame decomposition (DFD) for the forward operator, which generalizes the SVD. The DFD allows to define a non-iterative (direct) operator-adapted frame…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-13 Jürgen Frikel , Markus Haltmeier

We present a new approach to solve the sparse approximation or best subset selection problem, namely find a $k$-sparse vector ${\bf x}\in\mathbb{R}^d$ that minimizes the $\ell_2$ residual $\lVert A{\bf x}-{\bf y} \rVert_2$. We consider a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Tal Amir , Ronen Basri , Boaz Nadler

We consider perturbed nonlinear ill-posed equations in Hilbert spaces, with operators that are monotone on a given closed convex subset. A simple stable approach is Lavrentiev regularization, but existence of solutions of the regularized…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-05 Robert Plato , Bernd Hofmann

This paper investigates a general class of problems in which a lower bounded smooth convex function incorporating $\ell_{0}$ and $\ell_{2,0}$ regularization is minimized over a box constraint. Although such problems arise frequently in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-26 Yuge Ye , Qingna Li

Sparse optimization has seen its advances in recent decades. For scenarios where the true sparsity is unknown, regularization turns out to be a promising solution. Two popular non-convex regularizations are the so-called $L_0$ norm and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-08 Shenglong Zhou , Xianchao Xiu , Yingnan Wang , Dingtao Peng

This paper deals with an inertial proximal algorithm that contains a Tikhonov regularization term, in connection to the minimization problem of a convex lower semicontinuous function $f$. We show that for appropriate Tikhonov regularization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-09 Szilárd Csaba László