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This article aims to provide a comprehensive overview of sparse optimization, with a focus on both sparse signal recovery and sparse regularization techniques. We will begin by exploring the foundations of sparse optimization, delving into…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2026-01-13 Jun Lu

The de-facto standard approach of promoting sparsity by means of $\ell_1$-regularization becomes ineffective in the presence of simplex constraints, i.e.,~the target is known to have non-negative entries summing up to a given constant. The…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-05-04 Ping Li , Syama Sundar Rangapuram , Martin Slawski

In high dimensional sparse regression, pivotal estimators are estimators for which the optimal regularization parameter is independent of the noise level. The canonical pivotal estimator is the square-root Lasso, formulated along with its…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-09-04 Mathurin Massias , Quentin Bertrand , Alexandre Gramfort , Joseph Salmon

We present a framework for smooth optimization of explicitly regularized objectives for (structured) sparsity. These non-smooth and possibly non-convex problems typically rely on solvers tailored to specific models and regularizers. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Chris Kolb , Christian L. Müller , Bernd Bischl , David Rügamer

Compared with digital methods, sparse recovery based on spiking neural networks has great advantages like high computational efficiency and low power-consumption. However, current spiking algorithms cannot guarantee more accurate estimates…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-22 Xiang Zhang , Lei Yu , Gang Zheng

Sparse regression models are increasingly prevalent due to their ease of interpretability and superior out-of-sample performance. However, the exact model of sparse regression with an $\ell_0$ constraint restricting the support of the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-10-20 Alper Atamturk , Andres Gomez

We obtain bounds on estimation error rates for regularization procedures of the form \begin{equation*} \hat f \in {\rm argmin}_{f\in F}\left(\frac{1}{N}\sum_{i=1}^N\left(Y_i-f(X_i)\right)^2+\lambda \Psi(f)\right) \end{equation*} when $\Psi$…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-01-04 Guillaume Lecué , Shahar Mendelson

Sparsity promoting regularization is an important technique for signal reconstruction and several other ill-posed problems. Theoretical investigation typically bases on the assumption that the unknown solution has a sparse representation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-11-11 Jens Flemming , Markus Hegland

In this paper, the estimation problem for sparse reduced rank regression (SRRR) model is considered. The SRRR model is widely used for dimension reduction and variable selection with applications in signal processing, econometrics, etc. The…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-03-21 Ziping Zhao , Daniel P. Palomar

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

In sparse linear regression, the SLOPE estimator generalizes LASSO by penalizing different coordinates of the estimate according to their magnitudes. In this paper, we present a precise performance characterization of SLOPE in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Hong Hu , Yue M. Lu

In this paper, we propose a successive convex approximation framework for sparse optimization where the nonsmooth regularization function in the objective function is nonconvex and it can be written as the difference of two convex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-26 Yang Yang , Marius Pesavento , Symeon Chatzinotas , Björn Ottersten

Regularized methods have been widely applied to system identification problems without known model structures. This paper proposes an infinite-dimensional sparse learning algorithm based on atomic norm regularization. Atomic norm…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-20 Mingzhou Yin , Mehmet Tolga Akan , Andrea Iannelli , Roy S. Smith

In this work we propose to fit a sparse logistic regression model by a weakly convex regularized nonconvex optimization problem. The idea is based on the finding that a weakly convex function as an approximation of the $\ell_0$ pseudo norm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Xinyue Shen , Yuantao Gu

This work addresses the recovery and demixing problem of signals that are sparse in some general dictionary. Involved applications include source separation, image inpainting, super-resolution, and restoration of signals corrupted by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-24 Fei Wen , Lasith Adhikari , Ling Pei , Roummel F. Marcia , Peilin Liu , Robert C. Qiu

We study the problem of estimating multiple predictive functions from a dictionary of basis functions in the nonparametric regression setting. Our estimation scheme assumes that each predictive function can be estimated in the form of a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-06-05 Jianhui Chen , Jieping Ye

Prior knowledge on properties of a target model often come as discrete or combinatorial descriptions. This work provides a unified computational framework for defining norms that promote such structures. More specifically, we develop…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-04-11 Amin Jalali , Adel Javanmard , Maryam Fazel

Optimization problems with norm-bounding constraints arise in a variety of applications, including portfolio optimization, machine learning, and feature selection. A common approach to these problems involves relaxing the norm constraint…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-08 Danial Davarnia , Mohammadreza Kiaghadi

Deep neural networks have become very popular in modeling complex nonlinear processes due to their extraordinary ability to fit arbitrary nonlinear functions from data with minimal expert intervention. However, they are almost always…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-01-16 Erlend Torje Berg Lundby , Adil Rasheed , Ivar Johan Halvorsen , Jan Tommy Gravdahl

Flexible sparsity regularization means stably approximating sparse solutions of operator equations by using coefficient-dependent penalizations. We propose and analyse a general nonconvex approach in this respect, from both theoretical and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-12 Daria Ghilli , Dirk A. Lorenz , Elena Resmerita