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Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-07 Christian Kümmerle , Claudio Mayrink Verdun

Non-linear least squares solvers are used across a broad range of offline and real-time model fitting problems. Most improvements of the basic Gauss-Newton algorithm tackle convergence guarantees or leverage the sparsity of the underlying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Huu Le , Christopher Zach , Edward Rosten , Oliver J. Woodford

In this paper, we revisit the class of iterative shrinkage-thresholding algorithms (ISTA) for solving the linear inverse problem with sparse representation, which arises in signal and image processing. It is shown in the numerical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-18 Bowen Li , Bin Shi , Ya-xiang Yuan

A few iterations of alternating least squares with a random starting point provably suffice to produce nearly optimal spectral- and Frobenius-norm accuracies of low-rank approximations to a matrix; iterating to convergence is unnecessary.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-06-02 Arthur Szlam , Andrew Tulloch , Mark Tygert

Given a linear regression setting, Iterative Least Trimmed Squares (ILTS) involves alternating between (a) selecting the subset of samples with lowest current loss, and (b) re-fitting the linear model only on that subset. Both steps are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-13 Yanyao Shen , Sujay Sanghavi

Our work presents a new iterative scheme to approximate the fixed points of nonexpansive mapping. The proposed algorithm is constructed to enhance convergence efficiency while preserving theoretical robustness. Under appropriate assumptions…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-12 Nida Izhar Mallick , Izhar Uddin

Robust subspace estimation is fundamental to many machine learning and data analysis tasks. Iteratively Reweighted Least Squares (IRLS) is an elegant and empirically effective approach to this problem, yet its theoretical properties remain…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-11 Gilad Lerman , Kang Li , Tyler Maunu , Teng Zhang

We introduce fast algorithms for solving $\ell_{p}$ regression problems using the iteratively reweighted least squares (IRLS) method. Our approach achieves state-of-the-art iteration complexity, outperforming the IRLS algorithm by…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Alina Ene , Ta Duy Nguyen , Adrian Vladu

We show that adaptive least-squares finite element methods driven by the canonical least-squares functional converge under weak conditions on PDE operator, mesh-refinement, and marking strategy. Contrary to prior works, our plain…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-07 Thomas Führer , Dirk Praetorius

Linear regression in $\ell_p$-norm is a canonical optimization problem that arises in several applications, including sparse recovery, semi-supervised learning, and signal processing. Generic convex optimization algorithms for solving…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-13 Deeksha Adil , Richard Peng , Sushant Sachdeva

This work presents a general framework for solving the low rank and/or sparse matrix minimization problems, which may involve multiple non-smooth terms. The Iteratively Reweighted Least Squares (IRLS) method is a fast solver, which smooths…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-06-18 Canyi Lu , Zhouchen Lin , Shuicheng Yan

The a posteriori error estimator using the least-squares functional can be used for adaptive mesh refinement and error control even if the numerical approximations are not obtained from the corresponding least-squares method. This suggests…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-19 Ziyan Li , Shun Zhang

Iterative methods have led to better understanding and solving problems such as missing sampling, deconvolution, inverse systems, impulsive and Salt and Pepper noise removal problems. However, the challenges such as the speed of convergence…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-23 Mahdi Shamsi , Mahmoud Ghandi , Farokh Marvasti

We propose a new iteratively reweighted least squares (IRLS) algorithm for the recovery of a matrix $X \in \mathbb{C}^{d_1\times d_2}$ of rank $r \ll\min(d_1,d_2)$ from incomplete linear observations, solving a sequence of low complexity…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-28 Christian Kümmerle , Juliane Sigl

This paper presents novel adaptive reduced-rank filtering algorithms based on joint iterative optimization of adaptive filters. The novel scheme consists of a joint iterative optimization of a bank of full-rank adaptive filters that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-04-30 Rodrigo C. de Lamare , Raimundo Sampaio-Neto

Wave equation techniques have been an integral part of geophysical imaging workflows to investigate the Earth's subsurface. Least-squares reverse time migration (LSRTM) is a linearized inversion problem that iteratively minimizes a misfit…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-12-11 Janaki Vamaraju , Jeremy Vila , Mauricio Araya-Polo , Debanjan Datta , Mohamed Sidahmed , Mrinal Sen

Motivated by the recent successes of neural networks that have the ability to fit the data perfectly and generalize well, we study the noiseless model in the fundamental least-squares setup. We assume that an optimum predictor fits…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Aditya Varre , Loucas Pillaud-Vivien , Nicolas Flammarion

A numerical method is developed to solve linear semi-infinite programming problem (LSIP) in which the iterates produced by the algorithm are feasible for the original problem. This is achieved by constructing a sequence of standard linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-26 Shuxiong Wang

We consider the problem of efficiently solving large-scale linear least squares problems that have one or more linear constraints that must be satisfied exactly. Whilst some classical approaches are theoretically well founded, they can face…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-24 Jennifer Scott , Miroslav Tuma

The geometric iterative method (GIM) is widely used in data interpolation/fitting, but its slow convergence affects the computational efficiency. Recently, much work was done to guarantee the acceleration of GIM in the literature. In this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-04-11 Chengzhi Liu , Yue Qiu , Li Zhang