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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…

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In view of the KS-tensor complementarity problem, the sparse solution of this problem is studied. Due to the nonconvexity and noncontinuity of the l_0-norm, it is a NP hard problem to find the sparse solution of the KS-tensor…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-29 Jingjing Sun , Shouqiang Du , Yuanyuan Chen , Yimin Wei

Sparsity-constrained optimization is an important and challenging problem that has wide applicability in data mining, machine learning, and statistics. In this paper, we focus on sparsity-constrained optimization in cases where the cost…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-12-19 Feng Chen , Baojian Zhou

Quadratically constrained quadratic programming (QCQP) has long been recognized as a computationally challenging problem, particularly in large-scale or high-dimensional settings where solving it directly becomes intractable. The complexity…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-09 Shuai Li , Shenglong Zhou , Ziyan Luo

For statistical modeling wherein the data regime is unfavorable in terms of dimensionality relative to the sample size, finding hidden sparsity in the ground truth can be critical in formulating an accurate statistical model. The so-called…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-04 Matteo Bergamaschi , Andrea Cristofari , Vyacheslav Kungurtsev , Francesco Rinaldi

Given a redundant dictionary $\Phi$, represented by an $M \times N$ matrix ($\Phi \in \mathbb{R}^{M \times N}$) and a target signal $y \in \mathbb{R}^M$, the \emph{sparse approximation problem} asks to find an approximate representation of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-11-29 Ali Civril

Sparse signal recovery or compressed sensing can be formulated as certain sparse optimization problems. The classic optimization theory indicates that the Newton-like method often has a numerical advantage over the gradient method for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-03 Nan Meng , Yun-Bin Zhao

Consider the regularized sparse minimization problem, which involves empirical sums of loss functions for $n$ data points (each of dimension $d$) and a nonconvex sparsity penalty. We prove that finding an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-06-20 Yichen Chen , Dongdong Ge , Mengdi Wang , Zizhuo Wang , Yinyu Ye , Hao Yin

Sparse logistic regression, as an effective tool of classification, has been developed tremendously in recent two decades, from its origination the $\ell_1$-regularized version to the sparsity constrained models. This paper is carried out…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-23 Rui Wang , Naihua Xiu , Shenglong Zhou

In this work, we deal with the problem of computing a comprehensive front of efficient solutions in multi-objective portfolio optimization problems in presence of sparsity constraints. We start the discussion pointing out some weaknesses of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Arturo Annunziata , Matteo Lapucci , Pieluigi Mansueto , Davide Pucci

Representing signals with sparse vectors has a wide range of applications that range from image and video coding to shape representation and health monitoring. In many applications with real-time requirements, or that deal with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-09 Armando Bellante , Stefano Zanero

High-dimensional data has become ubiquitous across the sciences but presents computational and statistical challenges. A common approach to addressing these challenges is through sparsity. In this paper, we introduce a new concept of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Ali Mohades , Johannes Lederer

We present a new interior-point potential-reduction algorithm for solving monotone linear complementarity problems (LCPs) that have a particular special structure: their matrix $M\in{\mathbb R}^{n\times n}$ can be decomposed as $M=\Phi U +…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-01-01 Geoffrey J. Gordon

Nonnegative sparse signal recovery has been extensively studied due to its broad applications. Recent work has integrated rectified linear unit (ReLU) techniques to enhance existing recovery algorithms. We merge Newton-type thresholding…

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We propose a stochastic variance reduced optimization algorithm for solving sparse learning problems with cardinality constraints. Sufficient conditions are provided, under which the proposed algorithm enjoys strong linear convergence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-27 Xingguo Li , Raman Arora , Han Liu , Jarvis Haupt , Tuo Zhao

We present a novel algorithm that allows us to gain detailed insight into the effects of sparsity in linear and nonlinear optimization, which is of great importance in many scientific areas such as image and signal processing, medical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-23 Katharina Bieker , Bennet Gebken , Sebastian Peitz

Hypergraph matching is a fundamental problem in computer vision. Mathematically speaking, it maximizes a polynomial objective function, subject to assignment constraints. In this paper, we reformulate the hypergraph matching problem as a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-15 Chunfeng Cui , Qingna Li , Liqun Qi , Hong Yan

Successfully navigating a complex environment to obtain a desired outcome is a difficult task, that up to recently was believed to be capable only by humans. This perception has been broken down over time, especially with the introduction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Joshua Hare

The goal of Sparse Convex Optimization is to optimize a convex function $f$ under a sparsity constraint $s\leq s^*\gamma$, where $s^*$ is the target number of non-zero entries in a feasible solution (sparsity) and $\gamma\geq 1$ is an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Kyriakos Axiotis , Maxim Sviridenko

We consider the problem of robust matrix completion, which aims to recover a low rank matrix $L_*$ and a sparse matrix $S_*$ from incomplete observations of their sum $M=L_*+S_*\in\mathbb{R}^{m\times n}$. Algorithmically, the robust matrix…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-03-25 Yunfeng Cai , Ping Li