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We study sparse signal recovery from noisy linear observations using nonconvex log-sum regularization. The log-sum penalty reduces the shrinkage bias of $\ell_1$ regularization and more closely approximates the $\ell_0$ regularization, but…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Keisuke Morita , Masayuki Ohzeki

We discuss a general notion of "sparsity structure" and associated recoveries of a sparse signal from its linear image of reduced dimension possibly corrupted with noise. Our approach allows for unified treatment of (a) the "usual sparsity"…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-26 Anatoli Juditsky , Fatma Kilinc Karzan , Arkadi Nemirovski

Sparse learning is an important topic in many areas such as machine learning, statistical estimation, signal processing, etc. Recently, there emerges a growing interest on structured sparse learning. In this paper we focus on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-10 Shubao Zhang , Hui Qian , Zhihua Zhang

Variational sparsity regularization based on $\ell^1$-norms and other nonlinear functionals has gained enormous attention recently, both with respect to its applications and its mathematical analysis. A focus in regularization theory has…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-11 Martin Burger , Jens Flemming , Bernd Hofmann

As one of the most plausible convex optimization methods for sparse data reconstruction, $\ell_1$-minimization plays a fundamental role in the development of sparse optimization theory. The stability of this method has been addressed in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-09 Yun-Bin Zhao , Houyuan Jiang , Zhi-Quan Luo

We consider the problem of estimating the support of a vector $\beta^* \in \mathbb{R}^{p}$ based on observations contaminated by noise. A significant body of work has studied behavior of $\ell_1$-relaxations when applied to measurement…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2008-05-21 Dapo Omidiran , Martin J. Wainwright

Weighted $\ell_1$-minimization has been studied as a technique for the reconstruction of a sparse signal from compressively sampled measurements when prior information about the signal, in the form of a support estimate, is available. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-09 Deanna Needell , Rayan Saab , Tina Woolf

The problem of estimating a sparse signal from low dimensional noisy observations arises in many applications, including super resolution, signal deconvolution, and radar imaging. In this paper, we consider a sparse signal model with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Youye Xie , Michael B. Wakin , Gongguo Tang

This paper provides novel results for the recovery of signals from undersampled measurements based on analysis $\ell_1$-minimization, when the analysis operator is given by a frame. We both provide so-called uniform and nonuniform recovery…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-11-04 Holger Rauhut , Maryia Kabanava

Sparse estimation methods are aimed at using or obtaining parsimonious representations of data or models. While naturally cast as a combinatorial optimization problem, variable or feature selection admits a convex relaxation through the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-04-23 Francis Bach , Rodolphe Jenatton , Julien Mairal , Guillaume Obozinski

Compressed sensing deals with the reconstruction of sparse signals using a small number of linear measurements. One of the main challenges in compressed sensing is to find the support of a sparse signal. In the literature, several bounds on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-11-26 Ali Hormati , Amin Karbasi , Soheil Mohajer , Martin Vetterli

It is well known that $\ell_1$ minimization can be used to recover sufficiently sparse unknown signals from compressed linear measurements. In fact, exact thresholds on the sparsity, as a function of the ratio between the system dimensions,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-11-08 M. Amin Khajehnejad , Weiyu Xu , A. Salman Avestimehr , Babak Hassibi

In this paper, we analyse the recovery properties of nonconvex regularized $M$-estimators, under the assumption that the true parameter is of soft sparsity. In the statistical aspect, we establish the recovery bound for any stationary point…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-11-20 Xin Li , Dongya Wu , Chong Li , Jinhua Wang , Jen-Chih Yao

In this paper we introduce a nonuniform sparsity model and analyze the performance of an optimized weighted $\ell_1$ minimization over that sparsity model. In particular, we focus on a model where the entries of the unknown vector fall into…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-09-21 M. Amin Khajehnejad , Weiyu Xu , A. Salman Avestimehr , Babak Hassibi

Recovering a low-complexity signal from its noisy observations by regularization methods is a cornerstone of inverse problems and compressed sensing. Stable recovery ensures that the original signal can be approximated linearly by optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-30 Tran T. A. Nghia , Huy N. Pham , Nghia V. Vo

This paper presents a novel hybrid algorithm for minimizing the sum of a continuously differentiable loss function and a nonsmooth, possibly nonconvex, sparse regularization function. The proposed method alternates between solving a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Hao Wang , Xiangyu Yang , Yichen Zhu

This paper introduces a nonconvex approach for sparse signal recovery, proposing a novel model termed the $\tau_2$-model, which utilizes the squared $\ell_1/\ell_2$ norms for this purpose. Our model offers an advancement over the $\ell_0$…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-02 Jianqing Jia , Ashley Prater-Bennette , Lixin Shen , Erin E. Tripp

In the context of compressed sensing, the nonconvex $\ell_q$ minimization with $0<q<1$ has been studied in recent years. In this paper, by generalizing the sharp bound for $\ell_1$ minimization of Cai and Zhang, we show that the condition…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-17 Chao-Bing Song , Shu-Tao Xia

Regularization plays an important role in solving ill-posed problems by adding extra information about the desired solution, such as sparsity. Many regularization terms usually involve some vector norm, e.g., $L_1$ and $L_2$ norms. In this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-10 Weihong Guo , Yifei Lou , Jing Qin , Ming Yan

In this paper, we introduce a weighted $\ell_2/\ell_1$ minimization to recover block sparse signals with arbitrary prior support information. When partial prior support information is available, a sufficient condition based on the high…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-30 Wengu Chen , Huanmin Ge