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This paper presents a unified mixed-integer programming framework for training sparse and interpretable neural networks. We develop exact formulations for both fully connected and convolutional architectures by modeling nonlinearities such…

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Matrix recovery from sparse observations is an extensively studied topic emerging in various applications, such as recommendation system and signal processing, which includes the matrix completion and compressed sensing models as special…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-13 Ziyuan Chen , Ying Yang , Fang Yao

Compressive sensing (CS) exploits sparsity to recover sparse or compressible signals from dimensionality reducing, non-adaptive sensing mechanisms. Sparsity is also used to enhance interpretability in machine learning and statistics…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-21 Anastasios Kyrillidis , Luca Baldassarre , Marwa El-Halabi , Quoc Tran-Dinh , Volkan Cevher

In this paper, we consider the optimization problem of minimizing a continuously differentiable function subject to both convex constraints and sparsity constraints. By exploiting a mixed-integer reformulation from the literature, we define…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-28 M. Lapucci , T. Levato , F. Rinaldi , M. Sciandrone

This paper develops a general theoretical framework to analyze structured sparse recovery problems using the notation of dual certificate. Although certain aspects of the dual certificate idea have already been used in some previous work,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2012-04-05 Cun-Hui Zhang , Tong Zhang

Standard quadratic optimization problems (StQPs) provide a versatile modelling tool in various applications. In this paper, we consider StQPs with a hard sparsity constraint, referred to as sparse StQPs. We focus on various tractable convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-09 Immanuel Bomze , Bo Peng , Yuzhou Qiu , E. Alper Yıldırım

This note considers the unstructured sparse recovery problems in a general form. Examples include rational approximation, spectral function estimation, Fourier inversion, Laplace inversion, and sparse deconvolution. The main challenges are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-11 Lexing Ying

This note considers the multidimensional unstructured sparse recovery problems. Examples include Fourier inversion and sparse deconvolution. The eigenmatrix is a data-driven construction with desired approximate eigenvalues and eigenvectors…

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Chance-constrained programming is a widely used framework for decision-making under uncertainty, yet its mixed-integer reformulations involve nonconvex mixing sets with a knapsack constraint, leading to weak relaxations and computational…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-22 Danial Davarnia , Hamed Rahimian

Over the past decades, many individual nonconvex methods have been proposed to achieve better sparse recovery performance in various scenarios. However, how to construct a valid nonconvex regularization function remains open in practice. In…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-02-16 Zhiyong Zhou

Tremendous efforts have been made to study the theoretical and algorithmic aspects of sparse recovery and low-rank matrix recovery. This paper fills a theoretical gap in matrix recovery: the optimal sample complexity for stable recovery…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-27 Yanjun Li , Kiryung Lee , Yoram Bresler

Tremendous efforts have been made to study the theoretical and algorithmic aspects of sparse recovery and low-rank matrix recovery. This paper fills a theoretical gap in matrix recovery: the optimal sample complexity for stable recovery…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-03 Yanjun Li , Kiryung Lee , Yoram Bresler

Deep neural networks employ specialized architectures for vision, sequential and language tasks, yet this proliferation obscures their underlying commonalities. We introduce a unified matrix-order framework that casts convolutional,…

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In many applications we seek to recover signals from linear measurements far fewer than the ambient dimension, given the signals have exploitable structures such as sparse vectors or low rank matrices. In this paper we work in a general…

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Based on a new atomic norm, we propose a new convex formulation for sparse matrix factorization problems in which the number of nonzero elements of the factors is assumed fixed and known. The formulation counts sparse PCA with multiple…

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Concave regularization methods provide natural procedures for sparse recovery. However, they are difficult to analyze in the high dimensional setting. Only recently a few sparse recovery results have been established for some specific local…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2012-02-14 Cun-Hui Zhang , Tong Zhang

Compressed sensing provided a data-acquisition paradigm for sparse signals. Remarkably, it has been shown that practical algorithms provide robust recovery from noisy linear measurements acquired at a near optimal sampling rate. In many…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-03 Kiryung Lee , Yanjun Li , Kyong Hwan Jin , Jong Chul Ye

We discuss a general notion of "sparsity structure" and associated recoveries of a sparse signal from its linear image of reduced dimension possibly corrupted with noise. Our approach allows for unified treatment of (a) the "usual sparsity"…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-26 Anatoli Juditsky , Fatma Kilinc Karzan , Arkadi Nemirovski

A key problem in statistics and machine learning is the determination of network structure from data. We consider the case where the structure of the graph to be reconstructed is known to be scale-free. We show that in such cases it is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-07-11 Aaron J. Defazio , Tiberio S. Caetano

Flexible sparsity regularization means stably approximating sparse solutions of operator equations by using coefficient-dependent penalizations. We propose and analyse a general nonconvex approach in this respect, from both theoretical and…

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