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In this paper, we propose a double iteratively reweighted algorithm to solve nonconvex and nonsmooth optimization problems, where both the objectives and constraint functions are formulated by concave compositions to promote group-sparse…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Wanqin Nie , Kai Tu , Minglu Ye , Shuqin Sun

Recovering a sparse signal from outlier-contaminated measurements is a fundamental challenge in many applications. While existing algorithms predominantly address scenarios with bounded noise or assume known signal sparsity, few methods…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Jiao Xu , Peng Li , Bing Zheng

Sampling Boltzmann probability distributions plays a key role in machine learning and optimization, motivating the design of hardware accelerators such as Ising machines. While the Ising model can in principle encode arbitrary optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Corentin Delacour , M Mahmudul Hasan Sajeeb , Joao P. Hespanha , Kerem Y. Camsari

This paper suggests two novel ideas to develop new proximal variable-metric methods for solving a class of composite convex optimization problems. The first idea is a new parameterization of the optimality condition which allows us to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-14 Quoc Tran-Dinh , Liang Ling , Kim-Chuan Toh

This paper studies the convergence of the adaptively iterative thresholding (AIT) algorithm for compressed sensing. We first introduce a generalized restricted isometry property (gRIP). Then we prove that the AIT algorithm converges to the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-12-17 Yu Wang , Jinshan Zeng , Zhimin Peng , Xiangyu Chang , Zongben Xu

The core of a good model is in its ability to focus only on important information that reflects the basic patterns and consistencies, thus pulling out a clear, noise-free signal from the dataset. This necessitates using a simplified model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Saeed Damadi , Soroush Zolfaghari , Mahdi Rezaie , Jinglai Shen

In recent years, unfolding iterative algorithms as neural networks has become an empirical success in solving sparse recovery problems. However, its theoretical understanding is still immature, which prevents us from fully utilizing the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Xiaohan Chen , Jialin Liu , Zhangyang Wang , Wotao Yin

We consider the inverse scattering problem for sparse scatterers. An image reconstruction algorithm is proposed that is based on a nonlinear generalization of iterative hard thresholding. The convergence and error of the method was analyzed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-27 Anna C. Gilbert , Howard W. Levinson , John C. Schotland

Iteratively Re-weighted Least Squares (IRLS) is a method for solving minimization problems involving non-quadratic cost functions, perhaps non-convex and non-smooth, which however can be described as the infimum over a family of quadratic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-02-24 Massimo Fornasier , Steffen Peter , Holger Rauhut , Stephan Worm

Hierarchical optimization refers to problems with interdependent decision variables and objectives, such as minimax and bilevel formulations. While various algorithms have been proposed, existing methods and analyses lack adaptivity in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Xiaochuan Gong , Jie Hao , Mingrui Liu

In this paper, we propose the family of Iterative Methods with Adaptive Thresholding (IMAT) for sparsity promoting reconstruction of Delta Modulated (DM) voice signals. We suggest a novel missing sampling approach to delta modulation that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Mahdi Boloursaz Mashhadi , Saber Malekmohammadi , Farokh Marvasti

Low-rank tensor recovery problems have been widely studied in many applications of signal processing and machine learning. Tucker decomposition is known as one of the most popular decompositions in the tensor framework. In recent years,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-17 Rachel Grotheer , Shuang Li , Anna Ma , Deanna Needell , Jing Qin

Stochastic optimisation problems minimise expectations of random cost functions. We use 'optimise then discretise' method to solve stochastic optimisation. In our approach, accurate quadrature methods are required to calculate the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-22 Yuancheng Zhou

High-dimensional linear regression under heavy-tailed noise or outlier corruption is challenging, both computationally and statistically. Convex approaches have been proven statistically optimal but suffer from high computational costs,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-05-11 Yinan Shen , Jingyang Li , Jian-Feng Cai , Dong Xia

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

Optimal transport (OT) defines a powerful framework to compare probability distributions in a geometrically faithful way. However, the practical impact of OT is still limited because of its computational burden. We propose a new class of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-05-30 Genevay Aude , Marco Cuturi , Gabriel Peyré , Francis Bach

In this paper, we show a way to exploit sparsity in the problem data in a primal-dual potential reduction method for solving a class of semidefinite programs. When the problem data is sparse, the dual variable is also sparse, but the primal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Gun Srijuntongsiri , Stephen A. Vavasis

Best subset selection is considered the `gold standard' for many sparse learning problems. A variety of optimization techniques have been proposed to attack this non-convex and NP-hard problem. In this paper, we investigate the dual forms…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-07-06 Shaogang Ren , Guanhua Fang , Ping Li

We conducted an extensive computational experiment, lasting multiple CPU-years, to optimally select parameters for two important classes of algorithms for finding sparse solutions of underdetermined systems of linear equations. We make the…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2015-05-14 Arian Maleki , David L. Donoho

We study the problem of recovery of matrices that are simultaneously low rank and row and/or column sparse. Such matrices appear in recent applications in cognitive neuroscience, imaging, computer vision, macroeconomics, and genetics. We…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-04-11 Ming Yu , Varun Gupta , Mladen Kolar