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In this paper, we explore the merits of various algorithms for polynomial optimization problems, focusing on alternatives to sum of squares programming. While we refer to advantages and disadvantages of Quantifier Elimination, Reformulation…

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This work considers polynomial optimization problems where the objective admits a low-rank canonical polyadic tensor decomposition. We introduce LRPOP (low-rank polynomial optimization), a new hierarchy of semidefinite programming…

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We provide a sparse version of the bounded degree SOS hierarchy BSOS [7] for polynomial optimization problems. It permits to treat large scale problems which satisfy a structured sparsity pattern. When the sparsity pattern satisfies the…

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We address the problem of defining a group sparse formulation for Principal Components Analysis (PCA) - or its equivalent formulations as Low Rank approximation or Dictionary Learning problems - which achieves a compromise between…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-01-15 Marie Chavent , Guy Chavent

In this paper, we consider the optimization problem of minimizing a continuously differentiable function subject to both convex constraints and sparsity constraints. By exploiting a mixed-integer reformulation from the literature, we define…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-28 M. Lapucci , T. Levato , F. Rinaldi , M. Sciandrone

PDDSparse is a new hybrid parallelisation scheme for solving large-scale elliptic boundary value problems on supercomputers, which can be described as a Feynman-Kac formula for domain decomposition. At its core lies a stochastic linear,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-08 Francisco Bernal , Jorge Morón-Vidal

This paper investigates the idea of designing data-driven partial estimators for nonlinear systems showing parametric uncertainties using sparse multivariate polynomial relationships. A general framework is first presented and then…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-04 Mazen Alamir

It has by now become a standard approach to use the theory of sparse (or toric) elimination, based on the Newton polytope of a polynomial, in order to reveal and exploit the structure of algebraic systems. This talk surveys compact…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-10-16 Ioannis Emiris

Recent results in compressed sensing show that, under certain conditions, the sparsest solution to an underdetermined set of linear equations can be recovered by solving a linear program. These results either rely on computing sparse…

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This paper considers the sparse eigenvalue problem, which is to extract dominant (largest) sparse eigenvectors with at most $k$ non-zero components. We propose a simple yet effective solution called truncated power method that can…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2011-12-13 Xiao-Tong Yuan , Tong Zhang

This paper studies how to solve semi-infinite polynomial programming (SIPP) problems by semidefinite relaxation method. We first introduce two SDP relaxation methods for solving polynomial optimization problems with finitely many…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-06-11 Li Wang , Feng Guo

The problem of finding the sparsest vector (direction) in a low dimensional subspace can be considered as a homogeneous variant of the sparse recovery problem, which finds applications in robust subspace recovery, dictionary learning,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Qing Qu , Zhihui Zhu , Xiao Li , Manolis C. Tsakiris , John Wright , René Vidal

We investigate a generalized framework to estimate a latent low-rank plus sparse tensor, where the low-rank tensor often captures the multi-way principal components and the sparse tensor accounts for potential model mis-specifications or…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-04-15 Jian-Feng Cai , Jingyang Li , Dong Xia

Low-rank tensors are an established framework for high-dimensional least-squares problems. We propose to extend this framework by including the concept of block-sparsity. In the context of polynomial regression each sparsity pattern…

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We analyze rates of uniform convergence for a class of high-order semi-Lagrangian schemes for first-order, time-dependent partial differential equations on embedded submanifolds of $\mathbb{R}^d$ (including advection equations on surfaces)…

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Given a sample covariance matrix, we solve a maximum likelihood problem penalized by the number of nonzero coefficients in the inverse covariance matrix. Our objective is to find a sparse representation of the sample data and to highlight…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-06-13 Alexandre d'Aspremont , Onureena Banerjee , Laurent El Ghaoui

This work proposes and analyzes a compressed sensing approach to polynomial approximation of complex-valued functions in high dimensions. Of particular interest is the setting where the target function is smooth, characterized by a rapidly…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-22 Abdellah Chkifa , Nick Dexter , Hoang Tran , Clayton G. Webster

Nonnegative least squares problems with multiple right-hand sides (MNNLS) arise in models that rely on additive linear combinations. In particular, they are at the core of most nonnegative matrix factorization algorithms and have many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Nicolas Nadisic , Jeremy E Cohen , Arnaud Vandaele , Nicolas Gillis

Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) has become a ubiquitous tool for data analysis. An important variant is the sparse NMF problem which arises when we explicitly require the learnt features to be sparse. A natural measure of sparsity is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-03-20 Vamsi K. Potluru , Sergey M. Plis , Jonathan Le Roux , Barak A. Pearlmutter , Vince D. Calhoun , Thomas P. Hayes

In sparse optimization, enforcing hard constraints using the $\ell_0$ pseudo-norm offers advantages like controlled sparsity compared to convex relaxations. However, many real-world applications demand not only sparsity constraints but also…

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