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We study the $\ell_p$ regression problem, which requires finding $\mathbf{x}\in\mathbb R^{d}$ that minimizes $\|\mathbf{A}\mathbf{x}-\mathbf{b}\|_p$ for a matrix $\mathbf{A}\in\mathbb R^{n \times d}$ and response vector…

In recent years, there have been significant advances in efficiently solving $\ell_s$-regression using linear system solvers and $\ell_2$-regression [Adil-Kyng-Peng-Sachdeva, J. ACM'24]. Would efficient smoothed $\ell_p$-norm solvers lead…

The $\ell_p$-norm regression problem is a classic problem in optimization with wide ranging applications in machine learning and theoretical computer science. The goal is to compute $x^{\star} =\arg\min_{Ax=b}\|x\|_p^p$, where $x^{\star}\in…

We give improved algorithms for the $\ell_{p}$-regression problem, $\min_{x} \|x\|_{p}$ such that $A x=b,$ for all $p \in (1,2) \cup (2,\infty).$ Our algorithms obtain a high accuracy solution in $\tilde{O}_{p}(m^{\frac{|p-2|}{2p + |p-2|}})…

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…

Recent works in dimensionality reduction for regression tasks have introduced the notion of sensitivity, an estimate of the importance of a specific datapoint in a dataset, offering provable guarantees on the quality of the approximation…

This paper investigates the optimality conditions for characterizing the local minimizers of the constrained optimization problems involving an $\ell_p$ norm ($0<p<1$) of the variables, which may appear in either the objective or the…

In this paper, we consider the problem of $\ell_{p}$ norm linear regression, which has several applications such as in sparse recovery, data clustering, and semi-supervised learning. The problem, even though convex, does not enjoy a…

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…

We analyze convergence rates of norm-minimization-based outer approximation algorithms for convex vector optimization when the scalarization uses an $\ell_p$ norm with $p \in (1,\infty)$. While the Euclidean case ($p=2$) achieves the…

Oblivious low-distortion subspace embeddings are a crucial building block for numerical linear algebra problems. We show for any real $p, 1 \leq p < \infty$, given a matrix $M \in \mathbb{R}^{n \times d}$ with $n \gg d$, with constant…

We consider the problem of approximating a given matrix by a low-rank matrix so as to minimize the entrywise $\ell_p$-approximation error, for any $p \geq 1$; the case $p = 2$ is the classical SVD problem. We obtain the first provably good…

We study active sampling algorithms for linear regression, which aim to query only a few entries of a target vector $b\in\mathbb R^n$ and output a near minimizer to $\min_{x\in\mathbb R^d} \|Ax-b\|$, for a design matrix $A\in\mathbb R^{n…

A number of recent works have studied algorithms for entrywise $\ell_p$-low rank approximation, namely, algorithms which given an $n \times d$ matrix $A$ (with $n \geq d$), output a rank-$k$ matrix $B$ minimizing…

The $\ell_p$ subspace approximation problem is an NP-hard low rank approximation problem that generalizes the median hyperplane ($p = 1$), principal component analysis ($p = 2$), and center hyperplane problems ($p = \infty$). A popular…

$\ell_1$ regularization has been used for logistic regression to circumvent the overfitting and use the estimated sparse coefficient for feature selection. However, the challenge of such a regularization is that the $\ell_1$ norm is not…

We study approximation of the embedding $\ell_p^m \rightarrow \ell_{\infty}^m$, $1 \leq p \leq 2$, based on randomized adaptive algorithms that use arbitrary linear functionals as information on a problem instance. We show upper bounds for…

We show that a constant factor approximation of the shortest and closest lattice vector problem w.r.t. any $\ell_p$-norm can be computed in time $2^{(0.802 +{\epsilon})\, n}$. This matches the currently fastest constant factor approximation…

In this paper we obtain improved iteration complexities for solving $\ell_p$ regression. We provide methods which given any full-rank $\mathbf{A} \in \mathbb{R}^{n \times d}$ with $n \geq d$, $b \in \mathbb{R}^n$, and $p \geq 2$ solve…

Efficient algorithms for the sparse solution of under-determined linear systems $Ax = b$ are known for matrices $A$ satisfying suitable assumptions like the restricted isometry property (RIP). Without such assumptions little is known and…