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Learning from data in the presence of outliers is a fundamental problem in statistics. In this work, we study robust statistics in the presence of overwhelming outliers for the fundamental problem of subspace recovery. Given a dataset where…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Prasad Raghavendra , Morris Yau

Existing fast algorithms for bilateral and nonlocal means filtering mostly work with grayscale images. They cannot easily be extended to high-dimensional data such as color and hyperspectral images, patch-based data, flow-fields, etc. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-07 Pravin Nair , Kunal. N. Chaudhury

Minimization of the $L_\infty$ norm, which can be viewed as approximately solving the non-convex least median estimation problem, is a powerful method for outlier removal and hence robust regression. However, current techniques for solving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-04-05 Fumin Shen , Chunhua Shen , Rhys Hill , Anton van den Hengel , Zhenmin Tang

We propose a method to reconstruct and cluster incomplete high-dimensional data lying in a union of low-dimensional subspaces. Exploring the sparse representation model, we jointly estimate the missing data while imposing the intrinsic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-06 João Carvalho , Manuel Marques , João P. Costeira

We study the problem of robust subspace recovery (RSR) in the presence of adversarial outliers. That is, we seek a subspace that contains a large portion of a dataset when some fraction of the data points are arbitrarily corrupted. We first…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Tyler Maunu , Gilad Lerman

This paper presents a novel algorithm integrating global and robust optimization methods to solve continuous non-convex quadratic problems under convex uncertainty sets. The proposed Robust spatial branch-and-bound (RsBB) algorithm combines…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Asimina Marousi , Vassilis M. Charitopoulos

Large-scale unconstrained optimization is a fundamental and important class of, yet not well-solved problems in numerical optimization. The main challenge in designing an algorithm is to require a few storage locations or very inexpensive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-24 Zheng Li , Shi Shu , Jian-Ping Zhang

In real-world applications, it is important for machine learning algorithms to be robust against data outliers or corruptions. In this paper, we focus on improving the robustness of a large class of learning algorithms that are formulated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Quanming Yao , Hangsi Yang , En-Liang Hu , James Kwok

Robust tensor recovery plays an instrumental role in robustifying tensor decompositions for multilinear data analysis against outliers, gross corruptions and missing values and has a diverse array of applications. In this paper, we study…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-08-26 Donald Goldfarb , Zhiwei Qin

We propose a new randomized optimization method for high-dimensional problems which can be seen as a generalization of coordinate descent to random subspaces. We show that an adaptive sampling strategy for the random subspace significantly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-19 Jonathan Lacotte , Mert Pilanci , Marco Pavone

This work analyzes the subspace-constrained Tyler's estimator (STE), a method designed to recover a low-dimensional subspace from a dataset that may be heavily corrupted by outliers. The STE has previously been shown to be competitive for…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-09 Gilad Lerman , Teng Zhang

We design a non-convex second-order optimization algorithm that is guaranteed to return an approximate local minimum in time which scales linearly in the underlying dimension and the number of training examples. The time complexity of our…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-04-26 Naman Agarwal , Zeyuan Allen-Zhu , Brian Bullins , Elad Hazan , Tengyu Ma

In this work, we address the following matrix recovery problem: suppose we are given a set of data points containing two parts, one part consists of samples drawn from a union of multiple subspaces and the other part consists of outliers.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-01 Guangcan Liu , Huan Xu , Shuicheng Yan

This paper proposes a mechanism to fine-tune convex approximations of probabilistic reachable sets (PRS) of uncertain dynamic systems. We consider the case of unbounded uncertainties, for which it may be impossible to find a bounded…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Pengcheng Wu , Sonia Martinez , Jun Chen

Subspace clustering refers to the task of finding a multi-subspace representation that best fits a collection of points taken from a high-dimensional space. This paper introduces an algorithm inspired by sparse subspace clustering (SSC) [In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-05-26 Mahdi Soltanolkotabi , Ehsan Elhamifar , Emmanuel J. Candès

Background subtraction is the primary task of the majority of video inspection systems. The most important part of the background subtraction which is common among different algorithms is background modeling. In this regard, our paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-06 Behnaz Rezaei , Sarah Ostadabbas

Subspace clustering is the unsupervised grouping of points lying near a union of low-dimensional linear subspaces. Algorithms based directly on geometric properties of such data tend to either provide poor empirical performance, lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-08 John Lipor , David Hong , Yan Shuo Tan , Laura Balzano

A problem of great interest in optimization is to minimize a sum of two closed, proper, and convex functions where one is smooth and the other has a computationally inexpensive proximal operator. In this paper we analyze a family of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-01-24 Patrick R. Johnstone , Pierre Moulin

We consider the projected gradient algorithm for the nonconvex best subset selection problem that minimizes a given empirical loss function under an $\ell_0$-norm constraint. Through decomposing the feasible set of the given sparsity…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-13 Jan Harold Alcantara , Ching-pei Lee

As a prevalent distributed learning paradigm, Federated Learning (FL) trains a global model on a massive amount of devices with infrequent communication. This paper investigates a class of composite optimization and statistical recovery…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Yajie Bao , Michael Crawshaw , Shan Luo , Mingrui Liu