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In this paper, we study the problem of robust phase recovery. We investigate a novel approach based on extremely quantized (one-bit) phase-less measurements and a corresponding recovery scheme. The proposed approach has surprising…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-12-10 Youssef Mroueh , Lorenzo Rosasco

We present an accelerated relax-and-round algorithm for concave coverage problems, which generalize the classic maximum coverage problem. Building on the relax-and-round framework of Barman et al. [STACS 2021], we propose two significant…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Matthew Fahrbach , Mehraneh Liaee , Morteza Zadimoghaddam

The paper gives a systematic study of the approximate versions of three greedy-type algorithms that are widely used in convex optimization. By approximate version we mean the one where some of evaluations are made with an error. Importance…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-12-11 Vladimir Temlyakov

MapReduce has become the de facto standard model for designing distributed algorithms to process big data on a cluster. There has been considerable research on designing efficient MapReduce algorithms for clustering, graph optimization, and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Nicholas J. A. Harvey , Christopher Liaw , Paul Liu

In this paper, we revisit the large-scale constrained linear regression problem and propose faster methods based on some recent developments in sketching and optimization. Our algorithms combine (accelerated) mini-batch SGD with a new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-12 Di Wang , Jinhui Xu

For compressed sensing over arbitrarily connected networks, we consider the problem of estimating underlying sparse signals in a distributed manner. We introduce a new signal model that helps to describe inter-signal correlation among…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-29 Dennis Sundman , Saikat Chatterjee , Mikael Skoglund

Sampling is a fundamental topic in graph signal processing, having found applications in estimation, clustering, and video compression. In contrast to traditional signal processing, the irregularity of the signal domain makes selecting a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Luiz F. O. Chamon , Alejandro Ribeiro

Phase retrieval seeks to recover a signal x from the amplitude |Ax| of linear measurements. We cast the phase retrieval problem as a non-convex quadratic program over a complex phase vector and formulate a tractable relaxation (called…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-07-23 Irène Waldspurger , Alexandre d'Aspremont , Stéphane Mallat

This letter studies the problem of minimizing increasing set functions, or equivalently, maximizing decreasing set functions, over the base of a matroid. This setting has received great interest, since it generalizes several applied…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-02 Orcun Karaca , Daniel Tihanyi , Maryam Kamgarpour

In this manuscript, we analyze the sparse signal recovery (compressive sensing) problem from the perspective of convex optimization by stochastic proximal gradient descent. This view allows us to significantly simplify the recovery analysis…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-04-19 Rong Jin , Tianbao Yang , Shenghuo Zhu

Super-resolution theory aims to estimate the discrete components lying in a continuous space that constitute a sparse signal with optimal precision. This work investigates the potential of recent super-resolution techniques for spectral…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-24 M. Ferreira Da Costa , W. Dai

Optimal experimental design (OED) concerns itself with identifying ideal methods of data collection, e.g.~via sensor placement. The \emph{greedy algorithm}, that is, placing one sensor at a time, in an iteratively optimal manner, stands as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-15 Christian Aarset

We propose a fast greedy algorithm to compute sparse representations of signals from continuous dictionaries that are factorizable, i.e., with atoms that can be separated as a product of sub-atoms. Existing algorithms strongly reduce the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-01 Gilles Monnoyer de Galland , Luc Vandendorpe , Laurent Jacques

A $k$-submodular function naturally generalizes submodular functions by taking as input $k$ disjoint subsets, rather than a single subset. Unlike standard submodular maximization, which only requires selecting elements for the solution,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Chenhao Wang

Super-resolution is a fundamental task in imaging, where the goal is to extract fine-grained structure from coarse-grained measurements. Here we are interested in a popular mathematical abstraction of this problem that has been widely…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-30 Ankur Moitra

Kernel based methods provide a way to reconstruct potentially high-dimensional functions from meshfree samples, i.e., sampling points and corresponding target values. A crucial ingredient for this to be successful is the distribution of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-19 Tizian Wenzel , Gabriele Santin , Bernard Haasdonk

Coordinate descent with random coordinate selection is the current state of the art for many large scale optimization problems. However, greedy selection of the steepest coordinate on smooth problems can yield convergence rates independent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-17 Sai Praneeth Karimireddy , Anastasia Koloskova , Sebastian U. Stich , Martin Jaggi

Greedy algorithms are widely used for problems in machine learning such as feature selection and set function optimization. Unfortunately, for large datasets, the running time of even greedy algorithms can be quite high. This is because for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-03-09 Rajiv Khanna , Ethan Elenberg , Alexandros G. Dimakis , Sahand Negahban , Joydeep Ghosh

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

In this paper, we consider a subset selection problem in a spatial field where we seek to find a set of k locations whose observations provide the best estimate of the field value at a finite set of prediction locations. The measurements…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-12 Shamak Dutta , Nils Wilde , Stephen L. Smith