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The problem of reconstructing a sparse signal vector from magnitude-only measurements (a.k.a., compressive phase retrieval), emerges naturally in diverse applications, but it is NP-hard in general. Building on recent advances in nonconvex…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Liang Zhang , Gang Wang , Georgios B. Giannakis , Jie Chen

The Frank-Wolfe (FW) method is a popular approach for solving optimization problems with structured constraints that arise in machine learning applications. In recent years, stochastic versions of FW have gained popularity, motivated by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-17 Aleksandr Beznosikov , David Dobre , Gauthier Gidel

A popular class of algorithms to optimize the dual LP relaxation of the discrete energy minimization problem (a.k.a.\ MAP inference in graphical models or valued constraint satisfaction) are convergent message-passing algorithms, such as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-09-18 Tomas Werner

Conditional density estimation (CDE) is a fundamental task in machine learning that aims to model the full conditional law $\mathbb{P}(\mathbf{y} \mid \mathbf{x})$, beyond mere point prediction (e.g., mean, mode). A core challenge is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Chenglong Song , Mazharul Islam , Lin Wang , Bing Chen , Bo Yang

Recently the away-step Frank-Wolfe algoritm for constrained multiobjective optimization has been shown linear convergence rate over a polytope which is generated by finite points set. In this paper we design a decomposition-invariant…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-10 Zhuoxin Fan , Liping Tang

Estimating dense correspondences between images is a long-standing image under-standing task. Recent works introduce convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to extract high-level feature maps and find correspondences through feature matching.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Hao Huang , Jianchun Chen , Xiang Li , Lingjing Wang , Yi Fang

Pairwise Markov Random Fields (MRFs) or undirected graphical models are parsimonious representations of joint probability distributions. Variables correspond to nodes of a graph, with edges between nodes corresponding to conditional…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-09-18 Eric Janofsky

Regularized regression problems are ubiquitous in statistical modeling, signal processing, and machine learning. Sparse regression in particular has been instrumental in scientific model discovery, including compressed sensing applications,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-11-09 Peng Zheng , Travis Askham , Steven L. Brunton , J. Nathan Kutz , Aleksandr Y. Aravkin

Conditional Gradient algorithms (aka Frank-Wolfe algorithms) form a classical set of methods for constrained smooth convex minimization due to their simplicity, the absence of projection steps, and competitive numerical performance. While…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-20 Thomas Kerdreux , Alexandre d'Aspremont , Sebastian Pokutta

In modern data analysis, one is frequently faced with statistical inference problems involving massive datasets. Processing such large datasets is usually viewed as a substantial computational challenge. However, if data are a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-06-12 Venkat Chandrasekaran , Michael I. Jordan

This paper introduces a sparse projection matrix composed of discrete (digital) periodic lines that create a pseudo-random (p.frac) sampling scheme. Our approach enables random Cartesian sampling whilst employing deterministic and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-09 Marlon Bran Lorenzana , Benjamin Cottier , Matthew Marques , Andrew Kingston , Shekhar S. Chandra

We consider the problem of minimizing a difference of (smooth) convex functions over a compact convex feasible region $P$, i.e., $\min_{x \in P} f(x) - g(x)$, with smooth $f$ and Lipschitz continuous $g$. This computational study builds…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-05 Sebastian Pokutta

Matching and partitioning problems are fundamentals of computer vision applications with examples in multilabel segmentation, stereo estimation and optical-flow computation. These tasks can be posed as non-convex energy minimization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-14 Jonas Geiping , Fjedor Gaede , Hartmut Bauermeister , Michael Moeller

Pixel-level labelling tasks, such as semantic segmentation, play a central role in image understanding. Recent approaches have attempted to harness the capabilities of deep learning techniques for image recognition to tackle pixel-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-15 Shuai Zheng , Sadeep Jayasumana , Bernardino Romera-Paredes , Vibhav Vineet , Zhizhong Su , Dalong Du , Chang Huang , Philip H. S. Torr

Differentiable optimization has received a significant amount of attention due to its foundational role in the domain of machine learning based on neural networks. This paper proposes a differentiable layer, named Differentiable Frank-Wolfe…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Zixuan Liu , Liu Liu , Xueqian Wang , Peilin Zhao

Federated learning (FL) scenarios inherently generate a large communication overhead by frequently transmitting neural network updates between clients and server. To minimize the communication cost, introducing sparsity in conjunction with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Daniel Becking , Heiner Kirchhoffer , Gerhard Tech , Paul Haase , Karsten Müller , Heiko Schwarz , Wojciech Samek

Along with the widespread adoption of high-dimensional data, traditional statistical methods face significant challenges in handling problems with high correlation of variables, heavy-tailed distribution, and coexistence of sparse and dense…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-08-04 Xiaoyang Wei , Yanlin Tang , Xu Guo , Meiling Hao , Yanmei Shi

To optimize efficiently over discrete data and with only few available target observations is a challenge in Bayesian optimization. We propose a continuous relaxation of the objective function and show that inference and optimization can be…

For the general problem of minimizing a convex function over a compact convex domain, we will investigate a simple iterative approximation algorithm based on the method by Frank & Wolfe 1956, that does not need projection steps in order to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-12-30 Martin Jaggi

We present a new Frank-Wolfe (FW) type algorithm that is applicable to minimization problems with a nonsmooth convex objective. We provide convergence bounds and show that the scheme yields so-called coreset results for various Machine…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-08-23 Sathya N. Ravi , Maxwell D. Collins , Vikas Singh