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Variable selection is a fundamental task in statistical data analysis. Sparsity-inducing regularization methods are a popular class of methods that simultaneously perform variable selection and model estimation. The central problem is a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-16 Hongbo Dong , Kun Chen , Jeff Linderoth

Many inverse problems can be described by a PDE model with unknown parameters that need to be calibrated based on measurements related to its solution. This can be seen as a constrained minimization problem where one wishes to minimize the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-09-06 Nick Schenkels , Wim Vanroose

Traditional mathematical programming solvers require long computational times to solve constrained minimization problems of complex and large-scale physical systems. Therefore, these problems are often transformed into unconstrained ones,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-06 Ksenija Stepanovic , Wendelin Böhmer , Mathijs de Weerdt

In this paper, we consider a class of nonconvex problems with linear constraints appearing frequently in the area of image processing. We solve this problem by the penalty method and propose the iteratively reweighted alternating…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-13 Tao Sun , Dongsheng Li , Hao Jiang , Zhe Quan

We study optimal design problems involving variational inequalities with unilateral conditions in the domain and pointwise boundary observation. We use regularizing and penalization tehniques in the setting of the Hamiltonian approach to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Cornel Marius Murea , Dan Tiba

We address the issue of recovering the structure of large sparse directed acyclic graphs from noisy observations of the system. We propose a novel procedure based on a specific formulation of the l1-norm regularized maximum likelihood,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-10-09 Magali Champion , Victor Picheny , Matthieu Vignes

This study develops a framework for a class of constant modulus (CM) optimization problems, which covers binary constraints, discrete phase constraints, semi-orthogonal matrix constraints, non-negative semi-orthogonal matrix constraints,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-12 Junbin Liu , Ya Liu , Wing-Kin Ma , Mingjie Shao , Anthony Man-Cho So

In this paper we investigate an adaptive discretization strategy for ill-posed linear prob- lems combined with a regularization from a class of semiiterative methods. We show that such a discretization approach in combination with a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-07-22 Wolfgang Erb , Evgeniya V. Semenova

We present a focused introduction to exact penalty methods for nonlinear programs and mathematical programs with equilibrium constraints (MPECs), emphasizing their connection to modern error bound theory. The goal is twofold. First, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-04 Louis Shuo Wang

Transforming into an exact penalty function model with convex compact constraints yields efficient infeasible approaches for optimization problems with orthogonality constraints. For smooth and $\ell_{2,1}$-norm regularized cases, these…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-06 Nachuan Xiao , Xin Liu , Ya-xiang Yuan

In [1], the distributed linear-quadratic problem with fixed communication topology (DFT-LQ) and the sparse feedback LQ problem (SF-LQ) are formulated into a nonsmooth and nonconvex optimization problem with affine constraints. Moreover, a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-14 Lechen Feng , Xun Li , Yuan-Hua Ni

In this paper we consider general l0-norm minimization problems, that is, the problems with l0-norm appearing in either objective function or constraint. In particular, we first reformulate the l0-norm constrained problem as an equivalent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-05-14 Zhaosong Lu , Yong Zhang

We consider the obstacle problem with two irregular reflecting barriers for the Cauchy-Dirichlet problem for semilinear parabolic equations with measure data. We prove the existence and uniqueness of renormalized solutions of the problem…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-07-24 Tomasz Klimsiak , Andrzej Rozkosz

Penalty functions or regularization terms that promote structured solutions to optimization problems are of great interest in many fields. Proposed in this work is a nonconvex structured sparsity penalty that promotes one-sparsity within…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-19 Charles Saunders , Vivek K Goyal

Pathwise coordinate descent algorithms have been used to compute entire solution paths for lasso and other penalized regression problems quickly with great success. They improve upon cold start algorithms by solving the problems that make…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-08-15 Maryclare Griffin

In this paper we utilise new methods of Calculus of Variations in $L^\infty$ to provide a regularisation strategy to the ill-posed inverse problem of identifying the source of a non-homogeneous linear elliptic equation, satisfying Dirichlet…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-01-17 Nikos Katzourakis

In high-dimensional model selection problems, penalized simple least-square approaches have been extensively used. This paper addresses the question of both robustness and efficiency of penalized model selection methods, and proposes a…

Methodology · Statistics 2011-07-06 Jelena Bradic , Jianqing Fan , Weiwei Wang

This paper focuses on stochastic optimal control problems with constraints in law, which are rewritten as optimization (minimization) of probability measures problem on the canonical space. We introduce a penalized version of this type of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-18 Thibaut Bourdais , Nadia Oudjane , Francesco Russo

This paper is devoted to the theoretical and numerical investigation of an augmented Lagrangian method for the solution of optimization problems with geometric constraints. Specifically, we study situations where parts of the constraints…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-20 Xiaoxi Jia , Christian Kanzow , Patrick Mehlitz , Gerd Wachsmuth

We study a discretization technique for the parabolic fractional obstacle problem in bounded domains. The fractional Laplacian is realized as the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map for a nonuniformly elliptic equation posed on a semi-infinite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-07-09 Enrique Otarola , Abner J. Salgado