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Joint sparsity has attracted considerable attention in recent years in many fields including sparse signal recovery in compressed sensing (CS), statistics, and machine learning. Traditional convex models suffer from the suboptimal…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2017-06-27 Yaru Fan , Yilun Wang , Tingzhu Huang

We consider (stochastic) subgradient methods for strongly convex but potentially nonsmooth non-Lipschitz optimization. We provide new equivalent dual descriptions (in the style of dual averaging) for the classic subgradient method, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-31 Benjamin Grimmer , Danlin Li

In this work we derive a second-order approach to bilevel optimization, a type of mathematical programming in which the solution to a parameterized optimization problem (the "lower" problem) is itself to be optimized (in the "upper"…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-06 Robert Dyro , Edward Schmerling , Nikos Arechiga , Marco Pavone

We develop a novel primal-dual algorithm to solve a class of nonsmooth and nonlinear compositional convex minimization problems, which covers many existing and brand-new models as special cases. Our approach relies on a combination of a new…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-20 Yuzixuan Zhu , Deyi Liu , Quoc Tran-Dinh

We investigate high-dimensional sparse regression when both the noise and the design matrix exhibit heavy-tailed behavior. Standard algorithms typically fail in this regime, as heavy-tailed covariates distort the empirical risk geometry. We…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-01-12 Kaiyuan Zhou , Xiaoyu Zhang , Wenyang Zhang , Di Wang

Hyperparameter Optimization (HPO) can lift the burden of tuning hyperparameters (HPs) of neural networks. HPO algorithms from the Population Based Training (PBT) family are efficient thanks to dynamically adjusting HPs every few steps of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Alexander Chebykin , Tanja Alderliesten , Peter A. N. Bosman

Structured sparse optimization is an important and challenging problem for analyzing high-dimensional data in a variety of applications such as bioinformatics, medical imaging, social networks, and astronomy. Although a number of structured…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-10-03 Baojian Zhou , Feng Chen

Single-snapshot direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation using sparse linear arrays (SLAs) has gained significant attention in the field of automotive MIMO radars. This is due to the dynamic nature of automotive settings, where multiple…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-18 Yunqiao Hu , Shunqiao Sun

This paper derives a discrete dual problem for a prototypical hybrid high-order method for convex minimization problems. The discrete primal and dual problem satisfy a weak convex duality that leads to a priori error estimates with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-10 Ngoc Tien Tran

In recent studies on sparse modeling, the nonconvex regularization approaches (particularly, $L_{q}$ regularization with $q\in(0,1)$) have been demonstrated to possess capability of gaining much benefit in sparsity-inducing and efficiency.…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2015-06-17 Jinshan Zeng , Shaobo Lin , Yao Wang , Zongben Xu

We develop a highly scalable optimization method called "hierarchical group-thresholding" for solving a multi-task regression model with complex structured sparsity constraints on both input and output spaces. Despite the recent emergence…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2012-08-16 Seunghak Lee , Eric P. Xing

Large scale optimization problems are ubiquitous in machine learning and data analysis and there is a plethora of algorithms for solving such problems. Many of these algorithms employ sub-sampling, as a way to either speed up the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-02-29 Farbod Roosta-Khorasani , Michael W. Mahoney

Moving horizon estimation (MHE) is a widely studied state estimation approach in several practical applications. In the MHE problem, the state estimates are obtained via the solution of an approximated nonlinear optimization problem.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-26 Tianchen Liu , Kushal Chakrabarti , Nikhil Chopra

This paper introduces recovery thresholding hyperinterpolations, a novel class of methods for sparse signal reconstruction in the presence of noise. We develop a framework that integrates thresholding operators--including hard thresholding,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-25 Congpei An , Jiashu Ran

Dynamic sparsity, where the sparsity patterns are unknown until runtime, poses a significant challenge to deep learning. The state-of-the-art sparsity-aware deep learning solutions are restricted to pre-defined, static sparsity patterns due…

In this paper, we develop a randomized algorithm and theory for learning a sparse model from large-scale and high-dimensional data, which is usually formulated as an empirical risk minimization problem with a sparsity-inducing regularizer.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-10-18 Lijun Zhang , Tianbao Yang , Rong Jin , Zhi-Hua Zhou

In the paper, we introduce several accelerate iterative algorithms for solving the multiple-set split common fixed-point problem of quasi-nonexpansive operators in real Hilbert space. Based on primal-dual method, we construct several…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-08 Chenzheng Guo , Jing Zhao

In this paper we propose three iterative greedy algorithms for compressed sensing, called \emph{iterative alternating direction} (IAD), \emph{normalized iterative alternating direction} (NIAD) and \emph{alternating direction pursuit} (ADP),…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-18 Chaobing Song , Shu-Tao Xia

Consider a two-class classification problem where the number of features is much larger than the sample size. The features are masked by Gaussian noise with mean zero and covariance matrix $\Sigma$, where the precision matrix…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-11-21 Yingying Fan , Jiashun Jin , Zhigang Yao

In this paper, we propose an inertial accelerated primal-dual method for the linear equality constrained convex optimization problem. When the objective function has a ``nonsmooth + smooth'' composite structure, we further propose an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-30 Xin He , Rong Hu , Ya-Ping Fang