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The iteratively reweighted least squares method (IRLS) is a popular technique used in practice for solving regression problems. Various versions of this method have been proposed, but their theoretical analyses failed to capture the good…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-07-11 Alina Ene , Adrian Vladu

Many recent problems in signal processing and machine learning such as compressed sensing, image restoration, matrix/tensor recovery, and non-negative matrix factorization can be cast as constrained optimization. Projected gradient descent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-07 Trung Vu , Raviv Raich

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

Sparse linear regression, which entails finding a sparse solution to an underdetermined system of linear equations, can formally be expressed as an $l_0$-constrained least-squares problem. The Orthogonal Least-Squares (OLS) algorithm…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-08-01 Abolfazl Hashemi , Haris Vikalo

Compressed sensing (CS) demonstrates that a sparse, or compressible signal can be acquired using a low rate acquisition process below the Nyquist rate, which projects the signal onto a small set of vectors incoherent with the sparsity…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-02-25 Yuli Sun , Jinxu Tao

We study the problem of estimating high-dimensional regression models regularized by a structured sparsity-inducing penalty that encodes prior structural information on either the input or output variables. We consider two widely adopted…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2012-07-02 Xi Chen , Qihang Lin , Seyoung Kim , Jaime G. Carbonell , Eric P. Xing

This work deals with a regularization method enforcing solution sparsity of linear ill-posed problems by appropriate discretization in the image space. Namely, we formulate the so called least error method in an $\ell^1$ setting and perform…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-03 Kristian Bredies , Barbara Kaltenbacher , Elena Resmerita

Successive quadratic approximations, or second-order proximal methods, are useful for minimizing functions that are a sum of a smooth part and a convex, possibly nonsmooth part that promotes regularization. Most analyses of iteration…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-25 Ching-pei Lee , Stephen J. Wright

The non-convex $\alpha\|\cdot\|_{\ell_1}-\beta\| \cdot\|_{\ell_2}$ $(\alpha\ge\beta\geq0)$ regularization has attracted attention in the field of sparse recovery. One way to obtain a minimizer of this regularization is the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-30 Liang Ding , Weimin Han

In this paper, a proximal augmented Lagrangian homotopy (PAL-Hom) method for solving convex quadratic programming problems is proposed. This method takes the proximal augmented Lagrangian method as the outer iteration. To solve the proximal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-22 Guoqiang Wang , Bo Yu

$L_1$ regularization is used for finding sparse solutions to an underdetermined linear system. As sparse signals are widely expected in remote sensing, this type of regularization scheme and its extensions have been widely employed in many…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-05-07 Yilei Shi , Xiao Xiang Zhu , Wotao Yin , Richard Bamler

We propose a novel study of the stochastic proximal gradient method for minimizing the sum of two convex functions, one of which is smooth. Under suitable assumptions and without requiring any boundedness or control of the variance of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-16 Javier I. Madariaga

Iteratively Re-weighted Least Squares (IRLS) is a method for solving minimization problems involving non-quadratic cost functions, perhaps non-convex and non-smooth, which however can be described as the infimum over a family of quadratic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-02-24 Massimo Fornasier , Steffen Peter , Holger Rauhut , Stephan Worm

We study randomized sketching methods for approximately solving least-squares problem with a general convex constraint. The quality of a least-squares approximation can be assessed in different ways: either in terms of the value of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-11-04 Mert Pilanci , Martin J. Wainwright

In many real-world problems, recovering sparse signals from underdetermined linear systems remains a fundamental challenge. Although $\ell_1$ norm minimization is widely used, it suffers from estimation bias that prevents it from reaching…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Keisuke Morita , Federico Ricci-Tersenghi , Masayuki Ohzeki

Iterative Hard Thresholding (IHT) is a class of projected gradient descent methods for optimizing sparsity-constrained minimization models, with the best known efficiency and scalability in practice. As far as we know, the existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-22 Bo Liu , Xiao-Tong Yuan , Lezi Wang , Qingshan Liu , Dimitris N. Metaxas

This paper presents an algorithm tailored for the efficient recovery of sparse probability measures incorporating $\ell_0$-sparse regularization within the probability simplex constraint. Employing the Bregman proximal gradient method, our…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-26 Jianting Pan , Ming Yan

In this study, we propose the lopsided HSS (LHSS) iteration method for solving a class of complex symmetric indefinite systems of linear equations. This method employs an alternating iterative scheme, where each iteration entails solving…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-27 Yusong Zhang , Zeng-Qi Wang

We know that compressive sensing can establish stable sparse recovery results from highly undersampled data under a restricted isometry property condition. In reality, however, numerous problems are coherent, and vast majority conventional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-25 Yanyun Ding , Haibin Zhang , Peili Li , Yunhai Xiao

Sparse learning is a very important tool for mining useful information and patterns from high dimensional data. Non-convex non-smooth regularized learning problems play essential roles in sparse learning, and have drawn extensive attentions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Guannan Liang , Qianqian Tong , Jiahao Ding , Miao Pan , Jinbo Bi