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Mixed dictionaries generated by cosine and B-spline functions are considered. It is shown that, by highly nonlinear approaches such as Orthogonal Matching Pursuit, the discrete version of the proposed dictionaries yields a significant gain…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-09-08 James Bowley , Laura Rebollo-Neira

We propose a new method for reconstruction of sparse signals with and without noisy perturbations, termed the subspace pursuit algorithm. The algorithm has two important characteristics: low computational complexity, comparable to that of…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2009-01-08 Wei Dai , Olgica Milenkovic

Ensembles of independently trained neural networks are a state-of-the-art approach to estimate predictive uncertainty in Deep Learning, and can be interpreted as an approximation of the posterior distribution via a mixture of delta…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Aleksei Tiulpin , Matthew B. Blaschko

Kernel methods are versatile tools for function approximation and surrogate modeling. In particular, greedy techniques offer computational efficiency and reliability through inherent sparsity and provable convergence. Inspired by the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-09 Marian Klink , Tobias Ehring , Robin Herkert , Robin Lautenschlager , Dominik Göddeke , Bernard Haasdonk

Approximations to Gaussian processes based on inducing variables, combined with variational inference techniques, enable state-of-the-art sparse approaches to infer GPs at scale through mini batch-based learning. In this work, we address…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-07-21 Gia-Lac Tran , Dimitrios Milios , Pietro Michiardi , Maurizio Filippone

In sparse optimization, enforcing hard constraints using the $\ell_0$ pseudo-norm offers advantages like controlled sparsity compared to convex relaxations. However, many real-world applications demand not only sparsity constraints but also…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-12 William de Vazelhes , Xiao-Tong Yuan , Bin Gu

The paper focuses on the sparse approximation of signals using overcomplete representations, such that it preserves the (prior) structure of multi-dimensional signals. The underlying optimization problem is tackled using a multi-dimensional…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-11 Yoann Isaac , Quentin Barthélemy , Jamal Atif , Cédric Gouy-Pailler , Michèle Sebag

Recently, considerable research efforts have been devoted to the design of methods to learn from data overcomplete dictionaries for sparse coding. However, learned dictionaries require the solution of an optimization problem for coding new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2010-11-17 Curzio Basso , Matteo Santoro , Alessandro Verri , Silvia Villa

A new concept is introduced for the adaptive finite element discretization of partial differential equations that have a sparsely representable solution. Motivated by recent work on compressed sensing, a recursive mesh refinement procedure…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-02-26 Sadegh Jokar , Volker Mehrmann , Marc Pfetsch , Harry Yserentant

Sparse regression and variable selection for large-scale data have been rapidly developed in the past decades. This work focuses on sparse ridge regression, which enforces the sparsity by use of the L0 norm. We first prove that the…

Computation · Statistics 2020-06-30 Weijun Xie , Xinwei Deng

We consider the problem of finding sparse solutions to a system of underdetermined nonlinear system of equations. The methods are based on a Gauss-Newton approach with line search where the search direction is found by solving a linearized…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-10-12 Mårten Gulliksson , Anna Oleynik

We show that a very simple modification of the Pure Greedy Algorithm for approximating functions by sparse sums from a dictionary in a Hilbert or more generally a Banach space has optimal convergence rates on the class of convex…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-15 Guergana Petrova

Sparse tensor best rank-1 approximation (BR1Approx), which is a sparsity generalization of the dense tensor BR1Approx, and is a higher-order extension of the sparse matrix BR1Approx, is one of the most important problems in sparse tensor…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-15 Xianpeng Mao , Yuning Yang

Greedy algorithm are in widespread use for sparse recovery because of its efficiency. But some evident flaws exists in most popular greedy algorithms, such as CoSaMP, which includes unreasonable demands on prior knowledge of target signal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-08-18 Hao Zhang , Gang Li , Huadong Meng

Compressive Sensing (CS) stipulates that a sparse signal can be recovered from a small number of linear measurements, and that this recovery can be performed efficiently in polynomial time. The framework of model-based compressive sensing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-22 Chinmay Hegde , Piotr Indyk , Ludwig Schmidt

In this paper, we propose an algorithm for the construction of low-rank approximations of the inverse of an operator given in low-rank tensor format. The construction relies on an updated greedy algorithm for the minimization of a suitable…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-11 Loic Giraldi , Anthony Nouy , Gregory Legrain

Greedy first-order methods, such as coordinate descent with Gauss-Southwell rule or matching pursuit, have become popular in optimization due to their natural tendency to propose sparse solutions and their refined convergence guarantees. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-06 Céline Moucer , Adrien Taylor , Francis Bach

Compressed sensing aims to undersample certain high-dimensional signals, yet accurately reconstruct them by exploiting signal characteristics. Accurate reconstruction is possible when the object to be recovered is sufficiently sparse in a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-13 David L. Donoho , Arian Maleki , Andrea Montanari

We briefly discuss the greedy method and a couple of its more efficient variants for approximately maximizing monotone submodular functions.

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Alen Alexanderian

Information processing techniques based on sparseness have been actively studied in several disciplines. Among them, a mathematical framework to approximately express a given dataset by a combination of a small number of basis vectors of an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-04 Tomoyuki Obuchi , Yoshiyuki Kabashima