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Regularization is an essential element of virtually all kernel methods for nonparametric regression problems. A critical factor in the effectiveness of a given kernel method is the type of regularization that is employed. This article…
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Solving linear systems is often the computational bottleneck in real-life problems. Iterative solvers are the only option due to the complexity of direct algorithms or because the system matrix is not explicitly known. Here, we develop a…
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We consider regression problems with binary weights. Such optimization problems are ubiquitous in quantized learning models and digital communication systems. A natural approach is to optimize the corresponding Lagrangian using variants of…
Robust principal component analysis is an important representative method in data analysis. It is usually viewed as an optimization problem involving the rank and $\ell_0$-norm of matrices. In this paper, we study the rank and $\ell_0$…
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