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The constrained $\ell_0$ regularization plays an important role in sparse reconstruction. A widely used approach for solving this problem is the penalty method, of which the least square penalty problem is a special case. However, the…

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We present a generic Branch-and-Bound procedure designed to solve L0-penalized optimization problems. Existing approaches primarily focus on quadratic losses and construct relaxations using "Big-M" constraints and/or L2-norm penalties. In…

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In high-dimensional and/or non-parametric regression problems, regularization (or penalization) is used to control model complexity and induce desired structure. Each penalty has a weight parameter that indicates how strongly the structure…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-03-30 Jean Feng , Noah Simon

This paper is concerned with a novel regularisation technique for solving linear ill-posed operator equations in Hilbert spaces from data that is corrupted by white noise. We combine convex penalty functionals with extreme-value statistics…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2012-04-03 Klaus Frick , Philipp Marnitz , Axel Munk

In this paper we are concerned with a two-penalty boundary obstacle problem of interest in thermics, fluid dynamics and electricity. Specifically, we prove existence, uniqueness and optimal regularity of the solutions, and we establish…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-08-17 Donatella Danielli , Rohit Jain

Our recent study (Lin and Ohtsuka, 2024) proposed a new penalty method for solving mathematical programming with complementarity constraints (MPCC). This method first reformulates MPCC as a parameterized nonlinear programming called gap…

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We prove the existence and $C^{1,\alpha}$ regularity of solutions to nonlocal fully nonlinear elliptic double obstacle problems. We also obtain boundary regularity for these problems. The obstacles are assumed to be Lipschitz…

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We propose a local regularization of elliptic optimal control problems which involves the nonconvex $L^q$ fractional penalizations in the cost function. The proposed \emph{Huber type} regularization allows us to formulate the PDE…

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We develop two new proximal alternating penalty algorithms to solve a wide range class of constrained convex optimization problems. Our approach mainly relies on a novel combination of the classical quadratic penalty, alternating…

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Two important goals of high-dimensional modeling are prediction and variable selection. In this article, we consider regularization with combined $L_1$ and concave penalties, and study the sampling properties of the global optimum of the…

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We propose a general framework of iteratively reweighted l1 methods for solving lp regularization problems. We prove that after some iteration k, the iterates generated by the proposed methods have the same support and sign as the limit…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-03 Hao Wang , Hao Zeng , Jiashan Wang

Mathematical programs with complementarity constraints are notoriously difficult to solve due to their nonconvexity and lack of constraint qualifications in every feasible point. This work focuses on the subclass of quadratic programs with…

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In this paper, motivated by a problem arising in random homogenization theory, we initiate the study of uniform estimates for the fractional penalized obstacle problem, $ \Delta^{s}u^{\epsilon} = \beta_{\epsilon} (u^{\epsilon})$. In…

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We present a numerical method for the minimization of constrained optimization problems where the objective is augmented with large quadratic penalties of inconsistent equality constraints. Such objectives arise from quadratic integral…

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In this paper, we consider nonconvex optimization problems with nonlinear equality constraints. We assume that the objective function and the functional constraints are locally smooth. To solve this problem, we introduce a linearized…

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This thesis presents new mathematical algorithms for the numerical solution of a mathematical problem class called \emph{dynamic optimization problems}. These are mathematical optimization problems, i.e., problems in which numbers are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-22 Martin Peter Neuenhofen

We propose and analyze a general framework for space-time finite element methods that is based on least-squares finite element methods for solving a first-order reformulation of the thick parabolic obstacle problem. Discretizations based on…

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