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We study network loss tomography based on observing average loss rates over a set of paths forming a tree -- a severely underdetermined linear problem for the unknown link loss probabilities. We examine in detail the role of sparsity as a…
We consider the problem of recovering a partially sparse solution of an underdetermined system of linear equations by minimizing the $\ell_1$-norm of the part of the solution vector which is known to be sparse. Such a problem is closely…
The elastic net penalty is frequently employed in high-dimensional statistics for parameter regression and variable selection. It is particularly beneficial compared to lasso when the number of predictors greatly surpasses the number of…
Sparse data models, where data is assumed to be well represented as a linear combination of a few elements from a dictionary, have gained considerable attention in recent years, and their use has led to state-of-the-art results in many…
We first propose a novel criterion that guarantees that an $s$-sparse signal is the local minimizer of the $\ell_1/\ell_2$ objective; our criterion is interpretable and useful in practice. We also give the first uniform recovery condition…
Sparse neural networks are highly desirable in deep learning in reducing its complexity. The goal of this paper is to study how choices of regularization parameters influence the sparsity level of learned neural networks. We first derive…
We provide fast algorithms for overconstrained $\ell_p$ regression and related problems: for an $n\times d$ input matrix $A$ and vector $b\in\mathbb{R}^n$, in $O(nd\log n)$ time we reduce the problem $\min_{x\in\mathbb{R}^d} \|Ax-b\|_p$ to…
The constrained $\ell_p^p/\ell_q^p$ ratio model is scale invariant and is therefore attractive for sparse signal recovery. However, its nonconvex, nonsmooth, and fractional structure makes a unified theoretical and algorithmic analysis…
Over the past years, there are increasing interests in recovering the signals from undersampling data where such signals are sparse under some orthogonal dictionary or tight framework, which is referred to be sparse synthetic model. More…
Sparsity-constrained optimization has wide applicability in machine learning, statistics, and signal processing problems such as feature selection and compressive Sensing. A vast body of work has studied the sparsity-constrained…
In this paper we theoretically study exact recovery of sparse vectors from compressed measurements by minimizing a general nonconvex function that can be decomposed into the sum of single variable functions belonging to a class of smooth…
The sparse linear reconstruction problem is a core problem in signal processing which aims to recover sparse solutions to linear systems. The original problem regularized by the total number of nonzero components (also known as $L_0$…
Given real numbers whose sum is an integer, we study the problem of finding integers which match these real numbers as closely as possible, in the sense of L^p norm, while preserving the sum. We describe the structure of solutions for this…
There have been many attempts to identify high-dimensional network features via multivariate approaches. Specifically, when the number of voxels or nodes, denoted as p, are substantially larger than the number of images, denoted as n, it…
Minimizing a convex function of a measure with a sparsity-inducing penalty is a typical problem arising, e.g., in sparse spikes deconvolution or two-layer neural networks training. We show that this problem can be solved by discretizing the…
Lasso, or $\ell^1$ regularized least squares, has been explored extensively for its remarkable sparsity properties. It is shown in this paper that the solution to Lasso, in addition to its sparsity, has robustness properties: it is the…
Recent studies of under-determined linear systems of equations with sparse solutions showed a great practical and theoretical efficiency of a particular technique called $\ell_1$-optimization. Seminal works \cite{CRT,DOnoho06CS} rigorously…
Two approximation algorithms are proposed for $\ell_1$-regularized sparse rank-1 approximation to higher-order tensors. The algorithms are based on multilinear relaxation and sparsification, which are easily implemented and well scalable.…
We consider the problem of learning the underlying graph of a sparse Ising model with $p$ nodes from $n$ i.i.d. samples. The most recent and best performing approaches combine an empirical loss (the logistic regression loss or the…
We consider a linear inverse problem whose solution is expressed as a sum of two components: one smooth and the other sparse. This problem is addressed by minimizing an objective function with a least squares data-fidelity term and a…