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We consider algorithms and recovery guarantees for the analysis sparse model in which the signal is sparse with respect to a highly coherent frame. We consider the use of a monotone version of the fast iterative shrinkage- thresholding…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-06-17 Zhao Tan , Yonina C. Eldar , Amir Beck , Arye Nehorai

This paper considers the problem of reconstructing sparse or compressible signals from one-bit quantized measurements. We study a new method that uses a log-sum penalty function, also referred to as the Gaussian entropy, for sparse signal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-10-17 Jun Fang , Yanning Shen , Hongbin Li

In this paper, we aim at the problem of tensor data completion. Tensor-train decomposition is adopted because of its powerful representation ability and linear scalability to tensor order. We propose an algorithm named Sparse Tensor-train…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2018-03-23 Longhao Yuan , Qibin Zhao , Jianting Cao

We consider the problem of recovering off-the-grid spikes from linear measurements. The state of the art Over-Parametrized Continuous Orthogonal Matching Pursuit (OP-COMP) with Projected Gradient Descent (PGD) successfully recovers those…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-20 Pierre-Jean Bénard , Yann Traonmilin , Jean François Aujol

In high dimensional settings, sparse structures are crucial for efficiency, both in term of memory, computation and performance. It is customary to consider $\ell_1$ penalty to enforce sparsity in such scenarios. Sparsity enforcing methods,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-22 Eugene Ndiaye , Olivier Fercoq , Alexandre Gramfort , Vincent Leclère , Joseph Salmon

This paper focuses on the sparse subspace clustering problem, and develops an online algorithmic solution to cluster data points on-the-fly, without revisiting the whole dataset. The strategy involves an online solution of a sparse…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-16 Liam Madden , Stephen Becker , Emiliano Dall'Anese

In hybrid Model Predictive Control (MPC), a Mixed-Integer Quadratic Program (MIQP) is solved at each sampling time to compute the optimal control action. Although these optimizations are generally very demanding, in MPC we expect…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-01 Tobia Marcucci , Russ Tedrake

Given a sample covariance matrix, we solve a maximum likelihood problem penalized by the number of nonzero coefficients in the inverse covariance matrix. Our objective is to find a sparse representation of the sample data and to highlight…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-06-13 Alexandre d'Aspremont , Onureena Banerjee , Laurent El Ghaoui

Sparse recovery is widely applied in many fields, since many signals or vectors can be sparsely represented under some frames or dictionaries. Most of fast algorithms at present are based on solving $l^0$ or $l^1$ minimization problems and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-06 Chong-Jun Li , Yi-Jun Zhong

Leverage score sampling is crucial to the design of randomized algorithms for large-scale matrix problems, while the computation of leverage scores is a bottleneck of many applications. In this paper, we propose a quantum algorithm to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-19 Changpeng Shao

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

We present a novel technique for constructing differentiable order-type operations, including soft ranking, soft top-k selection, and soft permutations. Our approach leverages an efficient closed-form formula for the inverse of the function…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Łukasz Struski , Michał B. Bednarczyk , Igor T. Podolak , Jacek Tabor

Exact recovery of a sparse solution for an underdetermined system of linear equations implies full search among all possible subsets of the dictionary, which is computationally intractable, while l1 minimization will do the job when a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-12-22 Mohsen Joneidi , Mahdi Barzegar Khalilsarai , Alireza Zaeemzadeh , Nazanin Rahnavard

Spike sorting is a class of algorithms used in neuroscience to attribute the time occurences of particular electric signals, called action potential or spike, to neurons. We rephrase this problem as a particular optimization problem : Lasso…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-04-12 Laurent Dragoni , Rémi Flamary , Karim Lounici , Patricia Reynaud-Bouret

Sparse estimation methods are aimed at using or obtaining parsimonious representations of data or models. They were first dedicated to linear variable selection but numerous extensions have now emerged such as structured sparsity or kernel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2011-11-24 Francis Bach , Rodolphe Jenatton , Julien Mairal , Guillaume Obozinski

The "fast iterative shrinkage-thresholding algorithm", a.k.a. FISTA, is one of the most well-known first-order optimisation scheme in the literature, as it achieves the worst-case $O(1/k^2)$ optimal convergence rate in terms of objective…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-21 Jingwei Liang , Tao Luo , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

In this paper we first study a smooth optimization approach for solving a class of nonsmooth strictly concave maximization problems whose objective functions admit smooth convex minimization reformulations. In particular, we apply…

Methodology · Statistics 2009-04-07 Zhaosong Lu

A large number of computational and scientific methods commonly require decomposing a sparse matrix into triangular factors as LU decomposition. A common problem faced during this decomposition is that even though the given matrix may be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Arpan Dasgupta , Pawan Kumar

We consider sparsity-based techniques for the approximation of high-dimensional functions from random pointwise evaluations. To date, almost all the works published in this field contain some a priori assumptions about the error corrupting…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-10 Ben Adcock , Anyi Bao , Simone Brugiapaglia