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Non-convex relaxation methods have been widely used in tensor recovery problems, and compared with convex relaxation methods, can achieve better recovery results. In this paper, a new non-convex function, Minimax Logarithmic Concave Penalty…
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A new reweighted l1-norm penalized least mean square (LMS) algorithm for sparse channel estimation is proposed and studied in this paper. Since standard LMS algorithm does not take into account the sparsity information about the channel…