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Sparse optimization receives increasing attention in many applications such as compressed sensing, variable selection in regression problems, and recently neural network compression in machine learning. For example, the problem of…

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A linear program with linear complementarity constraints (LPCC) requires the minimization of a linear objective over a set of linear constraints together with additional linear complementarity constraints. This class has emerged as a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-09 Bin Yu , John E. Mitchell , Jong-Shi Pang

We analyze the bit complexity of efficient algorithms for fundamental optimization problems, such as linear regression, $p$-norm regression, and linear programming (LP). State-of-the-art algorithms are iterative, and in terms of the number…

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The convolutional sparse model has recently gained increasing attention in the signal and image processing communities, and several methods have been proposed for solving the pursuit problem emerging from it -- in particular its convex…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-23 Vardan Papyan , Jeremias Sulam , Michael Elad

We study the sparse phase retrieval problem, which seeks to recover a sparse signal from a limited set of magnitude-only measurements. In contrast to prevalent sparse phase retrieval algorithms that primarily use first-order methods, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Jian-Feng Cai , Yu Long , Ruixue Wen , Jiaxi Ying

Signal processing is rich in inherently continuous and often nonlinear applications, such as spectral estimation, optical imaging, and super-resolution microscopy, in which sparsity plays a key role in obtaining state-of-the-art results.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-23 Luiz F. O. Chamon , Yonina C. Eldar , Alejandro Ribeiro

Basis pursuit is the problem of finding a vector with smallest $\ell_1$-norm among the solutions of a given linear system of equations. It is a well-known convex relaxation of the sparse affine feasibility problem, where sparse solutions to…

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It was recently established that for convex optimization problems with sparse optimal solutions (be it entry-wise sparsity or matrix rank-wise sparsity) it is possible to design first-order methods with linear convergence rates that depend…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-20 Dan Garber

For the linear inverse problem with sparsity constraints, the $l_0$ regularized problem is NP-hard, and existing approaches either utilize greedy algorithms to find almost-optimal solutions or to approximate the $l_0$ regularization with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Qinghua Tao , Xiangming Xi , Jun Xu , Johan A. K. Suykens

Quadratically constrained quadratic programs (QCQPs) are an expressive family of optimization problems that occur naturally in many applications. It is often of interest to seek out sparse solutions, where many of the entries of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-03 Kevin Shu

We consider linear inverse problems where the solution is assumed to have a sparse expansion on an arbitrary pre-assigned orthonormal basis. We prove that replacing the usual quadratic regularizing penalties by weighted l^p-penalties on the…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Ingrid Daubechies , Michel Defrise , Christine De Mol

Positive linear programs (LP), also known as packing and covering linear programs, are an important class of problems that bridges computer science, operations research, and optimization. Despite the consistent efforts on this problem, all…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Zeyuan Allen-Zhu , Lorenzo Orecchia

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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-12 William de Vazelhes , Xiao-Tong Yuan , Bin Gu

The non-negative solution to an underdetermined linear system can be uniquely recovered sometimes, even without imposing any additional sparsity constraints. In this paper, we derive conditions under which a unique non-negative solution for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-09-24 Karthikeyan Natesan Ramamurthy , Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan , Andreas Spanias

A sparse linear programming (SLP) problem is a linear programming problem equipped with a sparsity (or cardinality) constraint, which is nonconvex and discontinuous theoretically and generally NP-hard computationally due to the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-05 Chen Zhao , Ziyan Luo , Weiyue Li , Houduo Qi , Naihua Xiu

Understanding efficiency in high dimensional linear models is a longstanding problem of interest. Classical work with smaller dimensional problems dating back to Huber and Bickel has illustrated the benefits of efficient loss functions.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-08-16 Jelena Bradic

In this work, the author presents a novel method for finding descent directions shared by two or more differentiable functions defined on the same unconstrained domain space. Then, the author illustrates an alternative Multiple-Gradient…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-08 Francesco Della Santa

This paper develops alternative hyperparameters for specifying sparse Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs). These hyperparameters allow for varying sparsity within the trainable weight matrices of the model while improving overall performance.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Quincy Hershey , Randy Paffenroth

The cosparse analysis model has been introduced recently as an interesting alternative to the standard sparse synthesis approach. A prominent question brought up by this new construction is the analysis pursuit problem -- the need to find a…

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