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This paper primarily focuses on computing the Euclidean projection of a vector onto the $\ell_{p}$ ball in which $p\in(0,1)$. Such a problem emerges as the core building block in statistical machine learning and signal processing tasks…
Using sparse-inducing norms to learn robust models has received increasing attention from many fields for its attractive properties. Projection-based methods have been widely applied to learning tasks constrained by such norms. As a key…
Mixed norms that promote structured sparsity have numerous applications in signal processing and machine learning problems. In this work, we present a new algorithm, based on a Newton root search technique, for computing the projection onto…
The ordered weighted $\ell_1$ (OWL) norm is a newly developed generalization of the Octogonal Shrinkage and Clustering Algorithm for Regression (OSCAR) norm. This norm has desirable statistical properties and can be used to perform…
Projected gradient descent has been proved efficient in many optimization and machine learning problems. The weighted $\ell_1$ ball has been shown effective in sparse system identification and features selection. In this paper we propose…
We provide a simple and efficient algorithm for the projection operator for weighted $\ell_1$-norm regularization subject to a sum constraint, together with an elementary proof. The implementation of the proposed algorithm can be downloaded…
The ordered weighted $\ell_1$ norm (OWL) was recently proposed, with two different motivations: its good statistical properties as a sparsity promoting regularizer; the fact that it generalizes the so-called {\it octagonal shrinkage and…
The Euclidean projection onto a convex set is an important problem that arises in numerous constrained optimization tasks. Unfortunately, in many cases, computing projections is computationally demanding. In this work, we focus on…
We derive an explicit formula, as well as an efficient procedure, for constructing a generalized Jacobian for the projector of a given square matrix onto the Birkhoff polytope, i.e., the set of doubly stochastic matrices. To guarantee the…
We establish simultaneous approximation properties of weighted first-order Sobolev orthogonal projectors onto spaces of polynomials of bounded total degree in the Euclidean unit ball. The simultaneity is in the sense that we provide bounds…
In this study, we focus on computing the projection onto the $\ell_p$ quasi-norm ball, which is challenging due to the non-convex and non-Lipschitz nature inherent in the $\ell_p$ quasi-norm with $0<p<1$. We propose a novel localized…
The goal of this paper is to study approaches to bridge the gap between first-order and second-order type methods for composite convex programs. Our key observations are: i) Many well-known operator splitting methods, such as…
This paper develops an efficient algorithm for computing the Euclidean projection onto the top-k-sum constraint, a key operation in financial risk management and matrix optimization problems. Existing projection methods rely on sorting and…
The task of projecting onto $\ell_p$ norm balls is ubiquitous in statistics and machine learning, yet the availability of actionable algorithms for doing so is largely limited to the special cases of $p = \left\{ 0, 1,2, \infty \right\}$.…
The \emph{top-$k$-sum} operator computes the sum of the largest $k$ components of a given vector. The Euclidean projection onto the top-$k$-sum sublevel set serves as a crucial subroutine in iterative methods to solve composite…
Solving the distributional worst-case in the distributionally robust optimization problem is equivalent to finding the projection onto the intersection of simplex and singly linear inequality constraint. This projection is a key component…
In this paper, we extend and investigate the properties of the semi-smooth Newton method when applied to a general projection equation in finite dimensional spaces. We first present results concerning Clarke's generalized Jacobian of the…
In this work, we propose an efficient two-metric adaptive projection method for solving the $\ell_1$-norm minimization problem. Our approach is inspired by the two-metric projection method, a simple yet elegant algorithm proposed by…
We consider the problem of finding the best approximation point from a polyhedral set, and its applications, in particular to solving large-scale linear programs. The classical projection problem has many various and many applications. We…
We present a Newton-type method that converges fast from any initialization and for arbitrary convex objectives with Lipschitz Hessians. We achieve this by merging the ideas of cubic regularization with a certain adaptive…