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Sparsity inducing regularization is an important part for learning over-complete visual representations. Despite the popularity of $\ell_1$ regularization, in this paper, we investigate the usage of non-convex regularizations in this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-09 Jianqiao Wangni , Dahua Lin

We study the problem of estimation and testing in logistic regression with class-conditional noise in the observed labels, which has an important implication in the Positive-Unlabeled (PU) learning setting. With the key observation that the…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-08-14 Hyebin Song , Ran Dai , Garvesh Raskutti , Rina Foygel Barber

This paper investigates the problem of signal estimation from undersampled noisy sub-Gaussian measurements under the assumption of a cosparse model. Based on generalized notions of sparsity, we derive novel recovery guarantees for the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Martin Genzel , Gitta Kutyniok , Maximilian März

Nonconvex sparse models have received significant attention in high-dimensional machine learning. In this paper, we study a new model consisting of a general convex or nonconvex objectives and a variety of continuous nonconvex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-26 Digvijay Boob , Qi Deng , Guanghui Lan , Yilin Wang

We know that compressive sensing can establish stable sparse recovery results from highly undersampled data under a restricted isometry property condition. In reality, however, numerous problems are coherent, and vast majority conventional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-25 Yanyun Ding , Haibin Zhang , Peili Li , Yunhai Xiao

The constrained $\ell_p^p/\ell_q^p$ ratio model is scale invariant and is therefore attractive for sparse signal recovery. However, its nonconvex, nonsmooth, and fractional structure makes a unified theoretical and algorithmic analysis…

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This paper presents a regularization technique incorporating a non-convex and non-smooth term, $\ell_{1}^{2}-\eta\ell_{2}^{2}$, with parameters $0<\eta\leq 1$ designed to address ill-posed linear problems that yield sparse solutions. We…

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Non-convex constraints have recently proven a valuable tool in many optimisation problems. In particular sparsity constraints have had a significant impact on sampling theory, where they are used in Compressed Sensing and allow structured…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-05-09 Thomas Blumensath

We propose a unified fractional regularization framework for sparse signal recovery based on the $\ell_1/\ell_p^q$ model. This model generalizes several widely used sparsity-promoting regularizers and provides additional flexibility through…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Yinhao Zhao , Haoyu He , Chuanqi Ma , Hao Wang

In this paper we address the recovery conditions of weighted $\ell_p$ minimization for signal reconstruction from compressed sensing measurements when partial support information is available. We show that weighted $\ell_p$ minimization…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-11-18 Navid Ghadermarzy , Hassan Mansour , Ozgur Yilmaz

Learning governing equations allows for deeper understanding of the structure and dynamics of data. We present a random sampling method for learning structured dynamical systems from under-sampled and possibly noisy state-space…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-14 Hayden Schaeffer , Giang Tran , Rachel Ward , Linan Zhang

Sparse recovery is among the most well-studied problems in learning theory and high-dimensional statistics. In this work, we investigate the statistical and computational landscapes of sparse recovery with $\ell_\infty$ error guarantees.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-19 Ziyun Chen , Jerry Li , Kevin Tian , Yusong Zhu

In this paper, we consider a well-known sparse optimization problem that aims to find a sparse solution of a possibly noisy underdetermined system of linear equations. Mathematically, it can be modeled in a unified manner by minimizing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-01 Lei Yang , Xiaojun Chen , Shuhuang Xiang

Non-convex optimization plays a key role in a growing number of machine learning applications. This motivates the identification of specialized structure that enables sharper theoretical analysis. One such identified structure is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-06 Qiang Fu , Dongchu Xu , Ashia Wilson

This work considers recovery of signals that are sparse over two bases. For instance, a signal might be sparse in both time and frequency, or a matrix can be low rank and sparse simultaneously. To facilitate recovery, we consider minimizing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-02-17 Samet Oymak , Babak Hassibi

Compressed Sensing refers to extracting a low-dimensional structured signal of interest from its incomplete random linear observations. A line of recent work has studied that, with the extra prior information about the signal, one can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-19 Sajad Daei , Farzan Haddadi

We consider the compressed sensing problem, where the object $x_0 \in \bR^N$ is to be recovered from incomplete measurements $y = Ax_0 + z$; here the sensing matrix $A$ is an $n \times N$ random matrix with iid Gaussian entries and $n < N$.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-03-25 David Donoho , Iain Johnstone , Arian Maleki , Andrea Montanari

Scaled sparse linear regression jointly estimates the regression coefficients and noise level in a linear model. It chooses an equilibrium with a sparse regression method by iteratively estimating the noise level via the mean residual…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2012-06-22 Tingni Sun , Cun-Hui Zhang

The problem of finding the sparsest vector (direction) in a low dimensional subspace can be considered as a homogeneous variant of the sparse recovery problem, which finds applications in robust subspace recovery, dictionary learning,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Qing Qu , Zhihui Zhu , Xiao Li , Manolis C. Tsakiris , John Wright , René Vidal

Compressed sensing aims at reconstructing sparse signals from significantly reduced number of samples, and a popular reconstruction approach is $\ell_1$-norm minimization. In this correspondence, a method called orthonormal expansion is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-30 Zai Yang , Cishen Zhang , Jun Deng , Wenmiao Lu