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Sparsity finds applications in areas as diverse as statistics, machine learning, and signal processing. Computations over sparse structures are less complex compared to their dense counterparts, and their storage consumes less space. This…
Tensor completion is a natural higher-order generalization of matrix completion where the goal is to recover a low-rank tensor from sparse observations of its entries. Existing algorithms are either heuristic without provable guarantees,…
We consider optimization problems containing nonconvex quadratic functions for which semidefinite programming (SDP) relaxations often yield strong bounds. We investigate linear inequalities that outer approximate the positive semidefinite…
In this paper, we study the polynomial optimization problem of multi-forms over the intersection of the multi-spheres and the nonnegative orthants. This class of problems is NP-hard in general, and includes the problem of finding the best…
Recent results in compressed sensing show that, under certain conditions, the sparsest solution to an underdetermined set of linear equations can be recovered by solving a linear program. These results either rely on computing sparse…
Tensor completion is a technique of filling missing elements of the incomplete data tensors. It being actively studied based on the convex optimization scheme such as nuclear-norm minimization. When given data tensors include some noises,…
Consider the regularized sparse minimization problem, which involves empirical sums of loss functions for $n$ data points (each of dimension $d$) and a nonconvex sparsity penalty. We prove that finding an…
We consider the NP-hard problem of minimizing a convex quadratic function over the integer lattice ${\bf Z}^n$. We present a simple semidefinite programming (SDP) relaxation for obtaining a nontrivial lower bound on the optimal value of the…
The constrained $\ell_0$ regularization plays an important role in sparse reconstruction. A widely used approach for solving this problem is the penalty method, of which the least square penalty problem is a special case. However, the…
Correspondence problems are often modelled as quadratic optimization problems over permutations. Common scalable methods for approximating solutions of these NP-hard problems are the spectral relaxation for non-convex energies and the…
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 $L_0$…
Basis pursuit is the problem of finding a vector with smallest $\ell_1$-norm among the solutions of a given linear system of equations. It is a well-known convex relaxation of the sparse affine feasibility problem, where sparse solutions to…
Low rank tensor learning, such as tensor completion and multilinear multitask learning, has received much attention in recent years. In this paper, we propose higher order matching pursuit for low rank tensor learning problems with a convex…
Sparse representation learning has recently gained a great success in signal and image processing, thanks to recent advances in dictionary learning. To this end, the $\ell_0$-norm is often used to control the sparsity level. Nevertheless,…
We focus on finding sparse and least-$\ell_1$-norm solutions for unconstrained nonlinear optimal control problems. Such optimization problems are non-convex and non-smooth, nevertheless recent versions of Newton method for under-determined…
Tensor completion is a challenging problem with various applications. Many related models based on the low-rank prior of the tensor have been proposed. However, the low-rank prior may not be enough to recover the original tensor from the…
We are interested in finding a solution to the tensor complementarity problem with a strong M-tensor, which we call the M-tensor complementarity problem. We propose a lower dimensional linear equation approach to solve that problem. At each…
This paper studies the hierarchy of sparse matrix Moment-SOS relaxations for solving sparse polynomial optimization problems with matrix constraints. First, we prove a sufficient and necessary condition for the sparse hierarchy to be tight.…
Hypergraph matching is a fundamental problem in computer vision. Mathematically speaking, it maximizes a polynomial objective function, subject to assignment constraints. In this paper, we reformulate the hypergraph matching problem as a…