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This work deals with a regularization method enforcing solution sparsity of linear ill-posed problems by appropriate discretization in the image space. Namely, we formulate the so called least error method in an $\ell^1$ setting and perform…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-03 Kristian Bredies , Barbara Kaltenbacher , Elena Resmerita

We use convex relaxation techniques to provide a sequence of solutions to the matrix completion problem. Using the nuclear norm as a regularizer, we provide simple and very efficient algorithms for minimizing the reconstruction error…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2009-06-12 Rahul Mazumder , Trevor Hastie , Rob Tibshirani

Considering the question: how non-linear may a non-linear operator be in order to extend the linear regularization theory, we introduce the class of dilinear mappings, which covers linear, bilinear, and quadratic operators between Banach…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-19 Robert Beinert , Kristian Bredies

Different notions on regularity of sets and of collection of sets play an important role in the analysis of the convergence of projection algorithms in nonconvex scenarios. While some projection algorithms can be applied to feasibility…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-24 Rubén Campoy

Regularization is a powerful technique for extracting useful information from noisy data. Typically, it is implemented by adding some sort of norm constraint to an objective function and then exactly optimizing the modified objective…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-04-28 Michael W. Mahoney , Lorenzo Orecchia

Modern statistical applications often involve minimizing an objective function that may be nonsmooth and/or nonconvex. This paper focuses on a broad Bregman-surrogate algorithm framework including the local linear approximation, mirror…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-20 Yiyuan She , Zhifeng Wang , Jiuwu Jin

Modern deep neural network (DNN) trainings utilize various training techniques, e.g., nonlinear activation functions, batch normalization, skip-connections, etc. Despite their effectiveness, it is still mysterious how they help accelerate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Cheng Chen , Junjie Yang , Yi Zhou

Path regularization has shown to be a very effective regularization to train neural networks, leading to a better generalization property than common regularizations i.e. weight decay, etc. We propose a first near-complete (as will be made…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Hao Yu

In this paper, we propose a multilevel stochastic framework for the solution of nonconvex unconstrained optimization problems. The proposed approach uses random regularized first-order models that exploit an available hierarchical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-27 Filippo Marini , Margherita Porcelli , Elisa Riccietti

Batch Normalization (BN) is a commonly used technique to accelerate and stabilize training of deep neural networks. Despite its empirical success, a full theoretical understanding of BN is yet to be developed. In this work, we analyze BN…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Tolga Ergen , Arda Sahiner , Batu Ozturkler , John Pauly , Morteza Mardani , Mert Pilanci

We study a regularized variant of the Bayesian Persuasion problem, where the receiver's decision process includes a divergence-based penalty that accounts for deviations from perfect rationality. This modification smooths the underlying…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-03 Romain Duboscq , Frédéric de Gournay

The successful training of deep neural networks requires addressing challenges such as overfitting, numerical instabilities leading to divergence, and increasing variance in the residual stream. A common solution is to apply regularization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Jörg K. H. Franke , Urs Spiegelhalter , Marianna Nezhurina , Jenia Jitsev , Frank Hutter , Michael Hefenbrock

We generalize the heuristic parameter choice rule of Hanke-Raus for quadratic regularization to general variational regularization for solving linear as well as nonlinear ill-posed inverse problems in Banach spaces. Under source conditions…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-03 Qinian Jin

Typically, the sequence of points generated by an optimization algorithm may have multiple limit points. Under convexity assumptions, however, (sub)gradient methods are known to generate a convergent sequence of points. In this paper, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-16 Andrea Cristofari

We investigate regularized algorithms combining with projection for least-squares regression problem over a Hilbert space, covering nonparametric regression over a reproducing kernel Hilbert space. We prove convergence results with respect…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-10-09 Junhong Lin , Volkan Cevher

We consider the minimization of non-convex functions that typically arise in machine learning. Specifically, we focus our attention on a variant of trust region methods known as cubic regularization. This approach is particularly attractive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-07-04 Jonas Moritz Kohler , Aurelien Lucchi

Normalization methods such as batch [Ioffe and Szegedy, 2015], weight [Salimansand Kingma, 2016], instance [Ulyanov et al., 2016], and layer normalization [Baet al., 2016] have been widely used in modern machine learning. Here, we study the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Xiaoxia Wu , Edgar Dobriban , Tongzheng Ren , Shanshan Wu , Zhiyuan Li , Suriya Gunasekar , Rachel Ward , Qiang Liu

We develop regularisation theory for dynamic inverse problems, solved using online methods with an infinite time horizon. Using concepts of subregularity to treat nonsmooth regularisers, we prove that time-averaged reconstruction errors…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Jyrki Jauhiainen , Yassine Nabou , Tuomo Valkonen

This paper presents a detailed theoretical analysis of the three stochastic approximation proximal gradient algorithms proposed in our companion paper [49] to set regularization parameters by marginal maximum likelihood estimation. We prove…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-08-14 Valentin De Bortoli , Alain Durmus , Ana F. Vidal , Marcelo Pereyra

Variational regularisation is the primary method for solving inverse problems, and recently there has been considerable work leveraging deeply learned regularisation for enhanced performance. However, few results exist addressing the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-18 Zakhar Shumaylov , Jeremy Budd , Subhadip Mukherjee , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb