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This work addresses the robust reconstruction problem of a sparse signal from compressed measurements. We propose a robust formulation for sparse reconstruction which employs the $\ell_1$-norm as the loss function for the residual error and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-30 Fei Wen , Yuan Yang , Ling Pei , Wenxian Yu , Peilin Liu

We propose a new class of nonconvex penalty functions, based on data depth functions, for multitask sparse penalized regression. These penalties quantify the relative position of rows of the coefficient matrix from a fixed distribution…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-05-08 Subhabrata Majumdar , Snigdhansu Chatterjee

In the past decade, sparse and low-rank recovery have drawn much attention in many areas such as signal/image processing, statistics, bioinformatics and machine learning. To achieve sparsity and/or low-rankness inducing, the $\ell_1$ norm…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-07 Fei Wen , Lei Chu , Peilin Liu , Robert C. Qiu

Inspired by several real-life applications in audio processing and medical image analysis, where the quantity of interest is generated by several sources to be accurately modeled and separated, as well as by recent advances in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-09-21 Markus Grasmair , Valeriya Naumova

For many algorithms, parameter tuning remains a challenging and critical task, which becomes tedious and infeasible in a multi-parameter setting. Multi-penalty regularization, successfully used for solving undetermined sparse regression of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-10-12 Markus Grasmair , Timo Klock , Valeriya Naumova

We consider the problem of non-parametric regression with a potentially large number of covariates. We propose a convex, penalized estimation framework that is particularly well-suited for high-dimensional sparse additive models. The…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-06-19 Asad Haris , Ali Shojaie , Noah Simon

We propose a convex formulation of the fused lasso signal approximation problem consisting of non-convex penalty functions. The fused lasso signal model aims to estimate a sparse piecewise constant signal from a noisy observation.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-12-08 Ankit Parekh , Ivan W. Selesnick

One-bit measurements widely exist in the real world, and they can be used to recover sparse signals. This task is known as the problem of learning halfspaces in learning theory and one-bit compressive sensing (1bit-CS) in signal processing.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-08 Xiaolin Huang , Ming Yan

Sparsity and rank functions are important ways of regularizing under-determined linear systems. Optimization of the resulting formulations is made difficult since both these penalties are non-convex and discontinuous. The most common remedy…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-01 Carl Olsson , Marcus Carlsson , Daniele Gerosa

In this paper, we analyse the recovery properties of nonconvex regularized $M$-estimators, under the assumption that the true parameter is of soft sparsity. In the statistical aspect, we establish the recovery bound for any stationary point…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-11-20 Xin Li , Dongya Wu , Chong Li , Jinhua Wang , Jen-Chih Yao

We consider the problem of sparse estimation in a factor analysis model. A traditional estimation procedure in use is the following two-step approach: the model is estimated by maximum likelihood method and then a rotation technique is…

Methodology · Statistics 2013-03-18 Kei Hirose , Michio Yamamoto

Sparse signal recovery from under-determined systems presents significant challenges when using conventional L_0 and L_1 penalties, primarily due to computational complexity and estimation bias. This paper introduces a truncated Huber…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-08 Li Yang , Serena Morigi , Michael K. Ng , You-wei Wen

Variable selection is a fundamental task in statistical data analysis. Sparsity-inducing regularization methods are a popular class of methods that simultaneously perform variable selection and model estimation. The central problem is a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-16 Hongbo Dong , Kun Chen , Jeff Linderoth

Penalty functions or regularization terms that promote structured solutions to optimization problems are of great interest in many fields. Proposed in this work is a nonconvex structured sparsity penalty that promotes one-sparsity within…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-19 Charles Saunders , Vivek K Goyal

In this paper, we consider the problem of recovering a sparse signal based on penalized least squares formulations. We develop a novel algorithm of primal-dual active set type for a class of nonconvex sparsity-promoting penalties, including…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-28 Jian Huang , Yuling Jiao , Bangti Jin , Jin Liu , Xiliang Lu , Can Yang

In this paper we study nonconvex penalization using Bernstein functions. Since the Bernstein function is concave and nonsmooth at the origin, it can induce a class of nonconvex functions for high-dimensional sparse estimation problems. We…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-12-18 Zhihua Zhang

Concave regularization methods provide natural procedures for sparse recovery. However, they are difficult to analyze in the high dimensional setting. Only recently a few sparse recovery results have been established for some specific local…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2012-02-14 Cun-Hui Zhang , Tong Zhang

Novel sparse reconstruction algorithms are proposed for beamspace channel estimation in massive multiple-input multiple-output systems. The proposed algorithms minimize a least-squares objective having a nonconvex regularizer. This…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Pengxia Wu , Julian Cheng

In [1], the distributed linear-quadratic problem with fixed communication topology (DFT-LQ) and the sparse feedback LQ problem (SF-LQ) are formulated into a nonsmooth and nonconvex optimization problem with affine constraints. Moreover, a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-14 Lechen Feng , Xun Li , Yuan-Hua Ni

In this paper we consider the computation of approximate solutions for inverse problems in Hilbert spaces. In order to capture the special feature of solutions, non-smooth convex functions are introduced as penalty terms. By exploiting the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-18 Qinian Jin , Xiliang Lu