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The problem of computing minimally sparse solutions of under-determined linear systems is $NP$ hard in general. Subsets with extra properties, may allow efficient algorithms, most notably problems with the restricted isometry property (RIP)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-07 G. Welper

Recent research indicates that many convex optimization problems with random constraints exhibit a phase transition as the number of constraints increases. For example, this phenomenon emerges in the $\ell_1$ minimization method for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-29 Dennis Amelunxen , Martin Lotz , Michael B. McCoy , Joel A. Tropp

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable proficiency in language comprehension and generation; however, their widespread adoption is constrained by substantial bandwidth and computational demands. While pruning and low-rank…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Zeliang Zong , Kai Zhang , Zheyang Li , Wenming Tan , Ye Ren , Yiyan Zhai , Jilin Hu

Growing evidence indicates that only a sparse subset from a pool of sensory neurons is active for the encoding of visual stimuli at any instant in time. Traditionally, to replicate such biological sparsity, generative models have been using…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2023-01-26 Ilias Rentzeperis , Luca Calatroni , Laurent Perrinet , Dario Prandi

Sparsity and rank functions are important ways of regularizing under-determined linear systems. Optimization of the resulting formulations is made difficult since both these penalties are non-convex and discontinuous. The most common remedy…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-01 Carl Olsson , Marcus Carlsson , Daniele Gerosa

This paper presents a novel hybrid algorithm for minimizing the sum of a continuously differentiable loss function and a nonsmooth, possibly nonconvex, sparse regularization function. The proposed method alternates between solving a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Hao Wang , Xiangyu Yang , Yichen Zhu

Solving under-determined systems of linear equations with sparse solutions attracted enormous amount of attention in recent years, above all, due to work of \cite{CRT,CanRomTao06,DonohoPol}. In \cite{CRT,CanRomTao06,DonohoPol} it was…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-04-02 Mihailo Stojnic

In this paper we consider solving \emph{noisy} under-determined systems of linear equations with sparse solutions. A noiseless equivalent attracted enormous attention in recent years, above all, due to work of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-04-01 Mihailo Stojnic

In our companion work \cite{Stojnicl1RegPosasymldp} we revisited random under-determined linear systems with sparse solutions. The main emphasis was on the performance analysis of the $\ell_1$ heuristic in the so-called asymptotic regime,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-12-20 Mihailo Stojnic

We first propose a novel criterion that guarantees that an $s$-sparse signal is the local minimizer of the $\ell_1/\ell_2$ objective; our criterion is interpretable and useful in practice. We also give the first uniform recovery condition…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-29 Yiming Xu , Akil Narayan , Hoang Tran , Clayton G. Webster

We present estimators for a well studied statistical estimation problem: the estimation for the linear regression model with soft sparsity constraints ($\ell_q$ constraint with $0<q\leq1$) in the high-dimensional setting. We first present a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-11-11 Li Zhang

In $\ell^1$-regularization, which is an important tool in signal and image processing, one usually is concerned with signals and images having a sparse representation in some suitable basis, e.g. in a wavelet basis. Many results on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-28 Jens Flemming , Bernd Hofmann , Ivan Veselic

It is well known that $\ell_1$ minimization can be used to recover sufficiently sparse unknown signals from compressed linear measurements. In fact, exact thresholds on the sparsity, as a function of the ratio between the system dimensions,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-11-08 M. Amin Khajehnejad , Weiyu Xu , A. Salman Avestimehr , Babak Hassibi

We study sparse solutions of optimal control problems governed by PDEs with uncertain coefficients. We propose two formulations, one where the solution is a deterministic control optimizing the mean objective, and a formulation aiming at…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-20 Chen Li , Georg Stadler

We study the theoretical limits of the $\ell_0$ (quasi) norm based optimization algorithms when employed for solving classical compressed sensing or sparse regression problems. Considering standard contexts with deterministic signals and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-10-11 Mihailo Stojnic

This work proposes a research problem of finding sparse solution of undetermined Linear system with some applications. Two approaches how to solve the compressive sensing problem: using l_1 approach , the l_q approach with 0 < q < 1.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-02-24 Maddullah Almerdasy

Consider the use of $\ell_{1}/\ell_{\infty}$-regularized regression for joint estimation of a $\pdim \times \numreg$ matrix of regression coefficients. We analyze the high-dimensional scaling of $\ell_1/\ell_\infty$-regularized quadratic…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2009-05-12 S. Negahban , M. J. Wainwright

Sparse logistic regression, as an effective tool of classification, has been developed tremendously in recent two decades, from its origination the $\ell_1$-regularized version to the sparsity constrained models. This paper is carried out…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-23 Rui Wang , Naihua Xiu , Shenglong Zhou

Sparse subspace clustering methods, such as Sparse Subspace Clustering (SSC) \cite{ElhamifarV13} and $\ell^{1}$-graph \cite{YanW09,ChengYYFH10}, are effective in partitioning the data that lie in a union of subspaces. Most of those methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-11-19 Yingzhen Yang , Jiashi Feng , Jianchao Yang , Thomas S. Huang

This paper considers sparsity in linear regression under the restriction that the regression weights sum to one. We propose an approach that combines $\ell_0$- and $\ell_1$-regularization. We compute its solution by adapting a recent…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-07-11 Nick Koning , Paul Bekker