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Recovering a sparse signal from outlier-contaminated measurements is a fundamental challenge in many applications. While existing algorithms predominantly address scenarios with bounded noise or assume known signal sparsity, few methods…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Jiao Xu , Peng Li , Bing Zheng

Non-convex constraints have recently proven a valuable tool in many optimisation problems. In particular sparsity constraints have had a significant impact on sampling theory, where they are used in Compressed Sensing and allow structured…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-05-09 Thomas Blumensath

We propose randomized subspace gradient methods for high-dimensional constrained optimization. While there have been similarly purposed studies on unconstrained optimization problems, there have been few on constrained optimization problems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-10 Ryota Nozawa , Pierre-Louis Poirion , Akiko Takeda

We consider a popular family of constrained optimization problems arising in machine learning that involve optimizing a non-decomposable evaluation metric with a certain thresholded form, while constraining another metric of interest.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Abhishek Kumar , Harikrishna Narasimhan , Andrew Cotter

Under mild assumptions stochastic gradient methods asymptotically achieve an optimal rate of convergence if the arithmetic mean of all iterates is returned as an approximate optimal solution. However, in the absence of stochastic noise, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-06 Melinda Hagedorn , Florian Jarre

Regularization of ill-posed linear inverse problems via $\ell_1$ penalization has been proposed for cases where the solution is known to be (almost) sparse. One way to obtain the minimizer of such an $\ell_1$ penalized functional is via an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-01-01 I. Daubechies , M. Fornasier , I. Loris

We consider the projected gradient algorithm for the nonconvex best subset selection problem that minimizes a given empirical loss function under an $\ell_0$-norm constraint. Through decomposing the feasible set of the given sparsity…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-13 Jan Harold Alcantara , Ching-pei Lee

The problem of the distributed recovery of jointly sparse signals has attracted much attention recently. Let us assume that the nodes of a network observe different sparse signals with common support; starting from linear, compressed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-15 Sophie M. Fosson , Javier Matamoros , Carles Anton-Haro , Enrico Magli

The optimal $k$-thresholding (OT) and optimal $k$-thresholding pursuit (OTP) are newly introduced frameworks of thresholding techniques for compressed sensing and signal approximation. Such frameworks motivate the practical and efficient…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-22 Yun-Bin Zhao , Zhi-Quan Luo

We study the proximal gradient descent (PGD) method for $\ell^{0}$ sparse approximation problem as well as its accelerated optimization with randomized algorithms in this paper. We first offer theoretical analysis of PGD showing the bounded…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-09-06 Yingzhen Yang , Jiashi Feng , Nebojsa Jojic , Jianchao Yang , Thomas S. Huang

This paper investigates a category of constrained fractional optimization problems that emerge in various practical applications. The objective function for this category is characterized by the ratio of a numerator and denominator, both…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Yizun Lin , Jian-Feng Cai , Zhao-Rong Lai , Cheng Li

This work introduces a new method to efficiently solve optimization problems constrained by partial differential equations (PDEs) with uncertain coefficients. The method leverages two sources of inexactness that trade accuracy for speed:…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-20 Matthew J. Zahr , Kevin T. Carlberg , Drew P. Kouri

Iterative Hard Thresholding (IHT) is a class of projected gradient descent methods for optimizing sparsity-constrained minimization models, with the best known efficiency and scalability in practice. As far as we know, the existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-22 Bo Liu , Xiao-Tong Yuan , Lezi Wang , Qingshan Liu , Dimitris N. Metaxas

This paper investigates the privacy-preserving distributed optimization problem, aiming to protect agents' private information from potential attackers during the optimization process. Gradient tracking, an advanced technique for improving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Furan Xie , Bing Liu , Li Chai

Minimizing a convex function of a measure with a sparsity-inducing penalty is a typical problem arising, e.g., in sparse spikes deconvolution or two-layer neural networks training. We show that this problem can be solved by discretizing the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-04 Lenaic Chizat

Sparse recovery and subset selection are fundamental problems in varied communities, including signal processing, statistics and machine learning. Herein, we focus on an important greedy algorithm for these problems: Backward Stepwise…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-08 Sebatian Ament , Carla Gomes

We consider large scale distributed optimization over a set of edge devices connected to a central server, where the limited communication bandwidth between the server and edge devices imposes a significant bottleneck for the optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-28 Yujie Tang , Vikram Ramanathan , Junshan Zhang , Na Li

Many model selection algorithms rely on sparse dictionary learning to provide interpretable and physics-based governing equations. The optimization algorithms typically use a hard thresholding process to enforce sparse activations in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-30 Derek W. Jollie , Scott G. McCalla

The use of M-estimators in generalized linear regression models in high dimensional settings requires risk minimization with hard $L_0$ constraints. Of the known methods, the class of projected gradient descent (also known as iterative hard…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-10-22 Prateek Jain , Ambuj Tewari , Purushottam Kar

This paper provides a unified treatment to the recovery of structured signals living in a star-shaped set from general quantized measurements $\mathcal{Q}(\mathbf{A}\mathbf{x}-\mathbf{\tau})$, where $\mathbf{A}$ is a sensing matrix,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Junren Chen , Ming Yuan