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Sparse signal recovery based on nonconvex and nonsmooth optimization problems has significant applications and demonstrates superior performance in signal processing and machine learning. This work deals with a scale-invariant…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-29 Lang Yu , Nanjing Huang

In a recent article series, the authors have promoted convex optimization algorithms for radio-interferometric imaging in the framework of compressed sensing, which leverages sparsity regularization priors for the associated inverse problem…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-01 Rafael E. Carrillo , Jason D. McEwen , Yves Wiaux

The problem of finding sparse solutions to underdetermined systems of linear equations arises in several applications (e.g. signal and image processing, compressive sensing, statistical inference). A standard tool for dealing with sparse…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-03 Marianna De Santis , Stefano Lucidi , Francesco Rinaldi

Motivated by the observation that a given signal $\boldsymbol{x}$ admits sparse representations in multiple dictionaries $\boldsymbol{\Psi}_d$ but with varying levels of sparsity across dictionaries, we propose two new algorithms for the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-29 Rizwan Ahmad , Philip Schniter

Accurate signal recovery or image reconstruction from indirect and possibly undersampled data is a topic of considerable interest; for example, the literature in the recent field of compressed sensing is already quite immense. Inspired by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-04-15 Stephen Becker , Jerome Bobin , Emmanuel Candes

Images acquired with a telescope are blurred and corrupted by noise. The blurring is usually modeled by a convolution with the Point Spread Function and the noise by Additive Gaussian Noise. Recovering the observed image is an ill-posed…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-03 Fadi Nammour , Morgan A. Schmitz , Fred Maurice Ngolè Mboula , Jean-Luc Starck , Julien N. Girard

We study the problem of recovering the underlining sparse signals from clean or noisy phaseless measurements. Due to the sparse prior of signals, we adopt an L0regularized variational model to ensure only a small number of nonzero elements…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-12-09 Yuping Duan , Chunlin Wu , Zhi-Feng Pang , Huibin Chang

Ill-posed linear inverse problems (ILIP), such as restoration and reconstruction, are a core topic of signal/image processing. A standard approach to deal with ILIP uses a constrained optimization problem, where a regularization function is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-15 Manya V. Afonso , Jose M. Bioucas-Dias , Mario A. T. Figueiredo

The recovery of unknown signals from quadratic measurements finds extensive applications in fields such as phase retrieval, power system state estimation, and unlabeled distance geometry. This paper investigates the finite sample properties…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-15 Jun Fan , Jingyu Yang , Xinyu Zhang , Liqun Wang

Model selection and sparse recovery are two important problems for which many regularization methods have been proposed. We study the properties of regularization methods in both problems under the unified framework of regularized least…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2009-09-03 Jinchi Lv , Yingying Fan

We propose two nonconvex regularization methods, LogLOP-l2/l1 and AdaLOP-l2/l1, for recovering block-sparse signals with unknown block partitions. These methods address the underestimation bias of existing convex approaches by extending…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Takanobu Furuhashi , Hiroki Kuroda , Masahiro Yukawa , Qibin Zhao , Hidekata Hontani , Tatsuya Yokota

Sparse modeling is one of the efficient techniques for imaging that allows recovering lost information. In this paper, we present a novel iterative phase-retrieval algorithm using a sparse representation of the object amplitude and phase.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2011-08-17 Artem Migukin , Vladimir Katkovnik , Jaakko Astola

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

This article aims to provide a comprehensive overview of sparse optimization, with a focus on both sparse signal recovery and sparse regularization techniques. We will begin by exploring the foundations of sparse optimization, delving into…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2026-01-13 Jun Lu

We propose an image deconvolution algorithm when the data is contaminated by Poisson noise. The image to restore is assumed to be sparsely represented in a dictionary of waveforms such as the wavelet or curvelet transform. Our key…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2008-03-25 François-Xavier Dupé , Jalal Fadili , Jean Luc Starck

We investigate conditions for the unique recoverability of sparse integer-valued signals from a small number of linear measurements. Both the objective of minimizing the number of nonzero components, the so-called $\ell_0$-norm, as well as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Jan-Hendrik Lange , Marc E. Pfetsch , Bianca M. Seib , Andreas M. Tillmann

Compared with digital methods, sparse recovery based on spiking neural networks has great advantages like high computational efficiency and low power-consumption. However, current spiking algorithms cannot guarantee more accurate estimates…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-22 Xiang Zhang , Lei Yu , Gang Zheng

Block-sparse regularization is already well-known in active thermal imaging and is used for multiple measurement based inverse problems. The main bottleneck of this method is the choice of regularization parameters which differs for each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Samim Ahmadi , Jan Christian Hauffen , Linh Kästner , Peter Jung , Giuseppe Caire , Mathias Ziegler

Sparsity and rank functions are important ways of regularizing under-determined linear systems. Optimization of the resulting formulations is made difficult since both these penalties are non-convex and discontinuous. The most common remedy…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-01 Carl Olsson , Marcus Carlsson , Daniele Gerosa

In this paper, we consider a squared $L_1/L_2$ regularized model for sparse signal recovery from noisy measurements. We first establish the existence of optimal solutions to the model under mild conditions. Next, we propose a proximal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-10 Na Zhang , Hong Chen , Qia Li , Junpeng Zhou