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The effectiveness of using model sparsity as a priori information when solving linear inverse problems is studied. We investigate the reconstruction quality of such a method in the non-idealized case and compute some typical recovery errors…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-07-19 Ignace Loris , Caroline Verhoeven

Let $X$ be a quasi-projective variety over a number field, admitting (after passage to $\mathbb{C}$) a geometric variation of Hodge structure whose period mapping has zero-dimensional fibers. Then the integral points of $X$ are sparse: the…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2022-08-22 Jordan S. Ellenberg , Brian Lawrence , Akshay Venkatesh

For several decades the dominant techniques for integer linear programming have been branching and cutting planes. Recently, several authors have developed core point methods for solving symmetric integer linear programs (ILPs). An integer…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-07 Naghmeh Shahverdi , Seyyedmahsa Banihashemi , David Bremner

We give an efficient algorithm for finding sparse approximate solutions to linear systems of equations with nonnegative coefficients. Unlike most known results for sparse recovery, we do not require {\em any} assumption on the matrix other…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-01-09 Aditya Bhaskara , Ananda Theertha Suresh , Morteza Zadimoghaddam

Sparse dictionary coding represents signals as linear combinations of a few dictionary atoms. It has been applied to images, time series, graph signals and multi-way spatio-temporal data by jointly employing temporal and spatial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Boya Ma , Abram Magner , Maxwell McNeil , Petko Bogdanov

Linear programming (LP) is an extremely useful tool and has been successfully applied to solve various problems in a wide range of areas, including operations research, engineering, economics, or even more abstract mathematical areas such…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-03-19 Agniva Chowdhury , Palma London , Haim Avron , Petros Drineas

Given an integer mxn matrix A satisfying certain regularity assumptions, we consider the set F(A) of all integer vectors b such that the associated knapsack polytope P(A,b)={x: Ax=b, x>=0} contains an integer point. When m=1 the set F(A) is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-11-24 Iskander Aliev , Martin Henk

We study integer linear programs (ILP) of the form $\min\{c^\top x\ \vert\ Ax=b,l\le x\le u,x\in\mathbb Z^n\}$ and analyze their parameterized complexity with respect to their distance to the generalized matching problem, following the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Alexandra Lassota , Koen Ligthart

Until now, Computer Scientists have concerned themselves with identifying efficient algorithms for solving the general case of some problem -- that is finding one which performs well when the size of the input tends to infinity. In this…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Mircea-Adrian Digulescu

In considering the reliability of numerical programs, it is normal to "limit our study to the semantics dealing with numerical precision" (Martel, 2005). On the other hand, there is a great deal of work on the reliability of programs that…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2014-04-25 James H. Davenport , Russell Bradford , Matthew England , David Wilson

Two-stage stochastic mixed-integer programming (SMIP) problems with general integer variables in the second-stage are generally difficult to solve. This paper develops the theory of integer set reduction for characterizing the subset of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-10-04 Saravanan Venkatachalam , Lewis Ntaimo

High dimensional sparse learning has imposed a great computational challenge to large scale data analysis. In this paper, we are interested in a broad class of sparse learning approaches formulated as linear programs parametrized by a {\em…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Haotian Pang , Robert Vanderbei , Han Liu , Tuo Zhao

A polynomial matrix inequality is a formula asserting that a polynomial matrix is positive semidefinite. Polynomial matrix optimization concerns minimizing the smallest eigenvalue of a symmetric polynomial matrix subject to a tuple of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-06 Jared Miller , Jie Wang , Feng Guo

A common task in inverse problems and imaging is finding a solution that is sparse, in the sense that most of its components vanish. In the framework of compressed sensing, general results guaranteeing exact recovery have been proven. In…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-29 Monica Pragliola , Daniela Calvetti , Erkki Somersalo

Sparse representation has been applied successfully in abnormal event detection, in which the baseline is to learn a dictionary accompanied by sparse codes. While much emphasis is put on discriminative dictionary construction, there are no…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-15 Huamin Ren , Hong Pan , Søren Ingvor Olsen , Thomas B. Moeslund

Given an $n*n$ sparse symmetric matrix with $m$ nonzero entries, performing Gaussian elimination may turn some zeroes into nonzero values. To maintain the matrix sparse, we would like to minimize the number $k$ of these changes, hence…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-06-28 Yixin Cao , R. B. Sandeep

In computational complexity theory, a decision problem is NP-complete when it is both in NP and NP-hard. Although a solution to a NP-complete can be verified quickly, there is no known algorithm to solve it in polynomial time. There exists…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Wenxia Guo , Jin Wang , Majun He , Xiaoqin Ren , Wenhong Tian , Qingxian Wang

In this note we study packing or covering integer programs with at most k constraints, which are also known as k-dimensional knapsack problems. For any integer k > 0 and real epsilon > 0, we observe there is a polynomial-sized LP for the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2011-02-03 David Pritchard

We investigate the feasibility problem for generalized inverse linear programs. Given an LP with affinely parametrized objective function and right-hand side as well as a target set Y, the goal is to decide whether the parameters can be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Christoph Buchheim , Lowig T. Duer

Given a sample covariance matrix, we examine the problem of maximizing the variance explained by a linear combination of the input variables while constraining the number of nonzero coefficients in this combination. This is known as sparse…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-11-10 Alexandre d'Aspremont , Francis Bach , Laurent El Ghaoui