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This article aims to provide a comprehensive overview of sparse optimization, with a focus on both sparse signal recovery and sparse regularization techniques. We will begin by exploring the foundations of sparse optimization, delving into…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2026-01-13 Jun Lu

We develop a novel framework for sparse multiscale kernel approximation of large scattered data problems based on a samplet representation. Samplets form a multiresolution analysis of localized discrete signed measures and enable…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Sara Avesani , Gaia Fumagalli , Michael Multerer , Chiara Segala

Many causal systems such as biological processes in cells can only be observed indirectly via measurements, such as gene expression. Causal representation learning -- the task of correctly mapping low-level observations to latent causal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Elliot Layne , Jason Hartford , Sébastien Lachapelle , Mathieu Blanchette , Dhanya Sridhar

Sparse linear regression (SLR) is a well-studied problem in statistics where one is given a design matrix $X\in\mathbb{R}^{m\times n}$ and a response vector $y=X\theta^*+w$ for a $k$-sparse vector $\theta^*$ (that is, $\|\theta^*\|_0\leq…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Aparna Gupte , Neekon Vafa , Vinod Vaikuntanathan

Compressed sensing has a wide range of applications that include error correction, imaging, radar and many more. Given a sparse signal in a high dimensional space, one wishes to reconstruct that signal accurately and efficiently from a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-05-28 Deanna Needell

The effectiveness of using model sparsity as a priori information when solving linear inverse problems is studied. We investigate the reconstruction quality of such a method in the non-idealized case and compute some typical recovery errors…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-07-19 Ignace Loris , Caroline Verhoeven

The theory of Compressed Sensing, the emerging sampling paradigm 'that goes against the common wisdom', asserts that 'one can recover signals in Rn from far fewer samples or measurements, if the signal has a sparse representation in some…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-11-01 Ankit Kundu , Pradosh K. Roy

We consider the problem of learning the underlying graph of a sparse Ising model with $p$ nodes from $n$ i.i.d. samples. The most recent and best performing approaches combine an empirical loss (the logistic regression loss or the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-09-17 Antoine Dedieu , Miguel Lázaro-Gredilla , Dileep George

Sparse manifold learning algorithms combine techniques in manifold learning and sparse optimization to learn features that could be utilized for downstream tasks. The standard setting of compressive sensing can not be immediately applied to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-05 Abiy Tasissa , Pranay Tankala , Demba Ba

The goal of model compression is to reduce the size of a large neural network while retaining a comparable performance. As a result, computation and memory costs in resource-limited applications may be significantly reduced by dropping…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-11-10 Wenjing Yang , Ganghua Wang , Jie Ding , Yuhong Yang

Learning with noisy labels is an important and challenging task for training accurate deep neural networks. Some commonly-used loss functions, such as Cross Entropy (CE), suffer from severe overfitting to noisy labels. Robust loss functions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Xiong Zhou , Xianming Liu , Chenyang Wang , Deming Zhai , Junjun Jiang , Xiangyang Ji

The sparse linear reconstruction problem is a core problem in signal processing which aims to recover sparse solutions to linear systems. The original problem regularized by the total number of nonzero components (also known as $L_0$…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-19 Yuyuan Ouyang , Kyle Yates

We present methods to serialize and deserialize tree ensembles that optimize inference latency when models are not already loaded into memory. This arises whenever models are larger than memory, but also systematically when models are…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Meghana Madhyastha , Kunal Lillaney , James Browne , Joshua Vogelstein , Randal Burns

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are reported to be overparametrized. The search for optimal (minimal) and sufficient architecture is an NP-hard problem as the hyperparameter space for possible network configurations is vast. Here, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Tin Barisin , Illia Horenko

The minimum spanning tree (MST) construction is a classical problem in Distributed Computing for creating a globally minimized structure distributedly. Self-stabilization is versatile technique for forward recovery that permits to handle…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-25 Lélia Blin , Maria Gradinariu Potop-Butucaru , Stephane Rovedakis , Sébastien Tixeuil

We consider the problem of learning a sparse graph under the Laplacian constrained Gaussian graphical models. This problem can be formulated as a penalized maximum likelihood estimation of the Laplacian constrained precision matrix. Like in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Jiaxi Ying , José Vinícius de M. Cardoso , Daniel P. Palomar

Conventional algorithms for sparse signal recovery and sparse representation rely on $l_1$-norm regularized variational methods. However, when applied to the reconstruction of $\textit{sparse images}$, i.e., images where only a few pixels…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-09 Sohil Shah , Tom Goldstein , Christoph Studer

This paper investigates the theoretical guarantees of L1-analysis regularization when solving linear inverse problems. Most of previous works in the literature have mainly focused on the sparse synthesis prior where the sparsity is measured…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-10-03 Samuel Vaiter , Gabriel Peyré , Charles Dossal , Jalal Fadili

We propose and analyze an online algorithm for reconstructing a sequence of signals from a limited number of linear measurements. The signals are assumed sparse, with unknown support, and evolve over time according to a generic nonlinear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-12 Joao F. C. Mota , Nikos Deligiannis , Aswin C. Sankaranarayanan , Volkan Cevher , Miguel R. D. Rodrigues

In genomic analysis, biomarker discovery, image recognition, and other systems involving machine learning, input variables can often be organized into different groups by their source or semantic category. Eliminating some groups of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Beibin Li , Nicholas Nuechterlein , Erin Barney , Caitlin Hudac , Pamela Ventola , Linda Shapiro , Frederick Shic