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Sparse signal recovery based on nonconvex and nonsmooth optimization problems has significant applications and demonstrates superior performance in signal processing and machine learning. This work deals with a scale-invariant…
The goal of this paper is to find a low-rank approximation for a given tensor. Specifically, we give a computable strategy on calculating the rank of a given tensor, based on approximating the solution to an NP-hard problem. In this paper,…
An algorithmic framework, based on the difference of convex functions algorithm (DCA), is proposed for minimizing a class of concave sparse metrics for compressed sensing problems. The resulting algorithm iterates a sequence of $\ell_1$…
We consider a class of constrained optimization problems with a possibly nonconvex non-Lipschitz objective and a convex feasible set being the intersection of a polyhedron and a possibly degenerate ellipsoid. Such problems have a wide range…
Recent theoretical studies proved that deep neural network (DNN) estimators obtained by minimizing empirical risk with a certain sparsity constraint can attain optimal convergence rates for regression and classification problems. However,…
We introduce a reformulation of regularized low-rank recovery models to take advantage of GPU, multiple CPU, and hybridized architectures. Low-rank recovery often involves nuclear-norm minimization through iterative thresholding of singular…
In this paper we study the $\ell_p$-analysis optimization ($0<p\leq1$) problem for cosparse signal recovery. We establish a bound for recovery error via the restricted $p$-isometry property over any subspace. We further prove that the…
Sparse matrices are favorable objects in machine learning and optimization. When such matrices are used, in place of dense ones, the overall complexity requirements in optimization can be significantly reduced in practice, both in terms of…
This paper studies tensor-based Robust Principal Component Analysis (RPCA) using atomic-norm regularization. Given the superposition of a sparse and a low-rank tensor, we present conditions under which it is possible to exactly recover 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…
In this work we propose and analyze a novel approach for group sparse recovery. It is based on regularized least squares with an $\ell^0(\ell^2)$ penalty, which penalizes the number of nonzero groups. One distinct feature of the approach is…
In many real-world problems, recovering sparse signals from underdetermined linear systems remains a fundamental challenge. Although $\ell_1$ norm minimization is widely used, it suffers from estimation bias that prevents it from reaching…
We propose a general formulation of nonconvex and nonsmooth sparse optimization problems with convex set constraint, which can take into account most existing types of nonconvex sparsity-inducing terms, bringing strong applicability to a…
Sparse alpha-norm regularization has many data-rich applications in Marketing and Economics. Alpha-norm, in contrast to lasso and ridge regularization, jumps to a sparse solution. This feature is attractive for ultra high-dimensional…
Owing to their statistical properties, non-convex sparse regularizers have attracted much interest for estimating a sparse linear model from high dimensional data. Given that the solution is sparse, for accelerating convergence, a working…
Consider reconstructing a signal $x$ by minimizing a weighted sum of a convex differentiable negative log-likelihood (NLL) (data-fidelity) term and a convex regularization term that imposes a convex-set constraint on $x$ and enforces its…
Compressive sensing predicts that sufficiently sparse vectors can be recovered from highly incomplete information. Efficient recovery methods such as $\ell_1$-minimization find the sparsest solution to certain systems of equations. Random…
Support vector machines (SVMs) with sparsity-inducing nonconvex penalties have received considerable attentions for the characteristics of automatic classification and variable selection. However, it is quite challenging to solve the…
In this paper, we propose a new algorithm for recovery of low-rank matrices from compressed linear measurements. The underlying idea of this algorithm is to closely approximate the rank function with a smooth function of singular values,…
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 $L_0$…