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We consider the unconstrained $L_2$-$L_p$ minimization: find a minimizer of $\|Ax-b\|^2_2+\lambda \|x\|^p_p$ for given $A \in R^{m\times n}$, $b\in R^m$ and parameters $\lambda>0$, $p\in [0,1)$. This problem has been studied extensively in…
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The sparse linear reconstruction problem is a core problem in signal processing which aims to recover sparse solutions to linear systems. The original problem regularized by the total number of nonzero components (also known as $L_0$…
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The null space condition for $\ell_1$ minimization in compressed sensing is a necessary and sufficient condition on the sensing matrices under which a sparse signal can be uniquely recovered from the observation data via $\ell_1$…
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It is now well understood that (1) it is possible to reconstruct sparse signals exactly from what appear to be highly incomplete sets of linear measurements and (2) that this can be done by constrained L1 minimization. In this paper, we…
Recently, the $\l_{p}$-norm regularization minimization problem $(P_{p}^{\lambda})$ has attracted great attention in compressed sensing. However, the $\l_{p}$-norm $\|x\|_{p}^{p}$ in problem $(P_{p}^{\lambda})$ is nonconvex and…
We present a novel algorithm that allows us to gain detailed insight into the effects of sparsity in linear and nonlinear optimization, which is of great importance in many scientific areas such as image and signal processing, medical…
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Recently, there has been focus on penalized log-likelihood covariance estimation for sparse inverse covariance (precision) matrices. The penalty is responsible for inducing sparsity, and a very common choice is the convex $l_1$ norm.…
We study the recovery of functions in various norms, including $L_p$ with $1\le p\le\infty$, based on function evaluations. We obtain worst case error bounds for general classes of functions in terms of the best $L_2$-approximation from a…
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