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We propose a general formulation of nonconvex and nonsmooth sparse optimization problems with convex set constraint, which can take into account most existing types of nonconvex sparsity-inducing terms, bringing strong applicability to a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Hao Wang , Fan Zhang , Yuanming Shi , Yaohua Hu

We introduce a randomly extrapolated primal-dual coordinate descent method that adapts to sparsity of the data matrix and the favorable structures of the objective function. Our method updates only a subset of primal and dual variables with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-14 Ahmet Alacaoglu , Olivier Fercoq , Volkan Cevher

Imaging inverse problems aim to recover high-dimensional signals from undersampled, noisy measurements, a fundamentally ill-posed task with infinite solutions in the null-space of the sensing operator. To resolve this ambiguity, prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Roman Jacome , Romario Gualdrón-Hurtado , Leon Suarez , Henry Arguello

We propose a class of greedy algorithms for weighted sparse recovery by considering new loss function-based generalizations of Orthogonal Matching Pursuit (OMP). Given a (regularized) loss function, the proposed algorithms alternate the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Sina Mohammad-Taheri , Simone Brugiapaglia

This note considers the unstructured sparse recovery problems in a general form. Examples include rational approximation, spectral function estimation, Fourier inversion, Laplace inversion, and sparse deconvolution. The main challenges are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-11 Lexing Ying

We introduce in this document a direct method allowing to solve numerically inverse type problems for linear parabolic equations. We consider the reconstruction of the full solution of the parabolic equation posed in $\Omega\times (0,T)$ -…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-11 Arnaud Munch , Diego Souza

Nonlinear Convex Cone Programming (NCCP) problems are important and have many practical applications. In this paper, we introduces a flexible first-order primal-dual algorithm called the Variant Auxiliary Problem Principle (VAPP) for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-05 Lei Zhao , Daoli Zhu

This paper considers the problem of recovery of a low-rank matrix in the situation when most of its entries are not observed and a fraction of observed entries are corrupted. The observations are noisy realizations of the sum of a low rank…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-07-05 Olga Klopp , Karim Lounici , Alexandre B. Tsybakov

We introduce a method for fast estimation of data-adapted, spatio-temporally dependent regularization parameter-maps for variational image reconstruction, focusing on total variation (TV)-minimization. Our approach is inspired by recent…

We study a new family of inverse problems for recovering representations of corrupted data. We assume access to a pre-trained representation learning network R(x) that operates on clean images, like CLIP. The problem is to recover the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Sriram Ravula , Georgios Smyrnis , Matt Jordan , Alexandros G. Dimakis

This paper is devoted to the study of an inertial accelerated primal-dual algorithm, which is based on a second-order differential system with time scaling, for solving a non-smooth convex optimization problem with linear equality…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-30 Huan Zhang , Xiangkai Sun , Shengjie Li , Kok Lay Teo

First-order methods for minimization and saddle point (min-max) problems are widely used for solving large-scale problems, in particular arising in machine learning. The majority of works obtain favorable complexity guarantees of such…

In this paper, we consider the problem of recovering a sparse signal based on penalized least squares formulations. We develop a novel algorithm of primal-dual active set type for a class of nonconvex sparsity-promoting penalties, including…

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We consider the phase retrieval problem, which involves recovering a rank-one positive semidefinite matrix from rank-one measurements. A recently proposed algorithm based on Bures-Wasserstein gradient descent (BWGD) exhibits superlinear…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-08-01 Tyler Maunu , Gabriel Abreu

In this work, in the context of Linear and Quadratic Programming, we interpret Primal Dual Regularized Interior Point Methods (PDR-IPMs) in the framework of the Proximal Point Method. The resulting Proximal Stabilized IPM (PS-IPM) is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-05 Stefano Cipolla , Jacek Gondzio

In this paper, we propose a general algorithmic framework for first-order methods in optimization in a broad sense, including minimization problems, saddle-point problems, and variational inequalities. This framework allows obtaining many…

We prove new results about the robustness of well-known convex noise-blind optimization formulations for the reconstruction of low-rank matrices from underdetermined linear measurements. Our results are applicable for symmetric rank-one…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Felix Krahmer , Christian Kümmerle , Oleh Melnyk

We studied linear weighted sampling algorithms and their optimality for approximate recovery of functions with mixed smoothness on $\mathbb{R}^d$ from a set of $n$ their sampled values. Functions to be recovered are in weighted Sobolev…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Dinh Dũng

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…

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