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Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-06-17 Thomas Bühler , Syama Sundar Rangapuram , Simon Setzer , Matthias Hein

Much of the existing literature in sparse recovery is concerned with the following question: given a sparsity pattern and a corresponding regularizer, derive conditions on the dictionary under which exact recovery is possible. In this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-24 Mustafa D. Kaba , Mengnan Zhao , Rene Vidal , Daniel P. Robinson , Enrique Mallada

Principal component analysis (PCA) is widely used for dimensionality reduction, with well-documented merits in various applications involving high-dimensional data, including computer vision, preference measurement, and bioinformatics. In…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-10-01 Gonzalo Mateos , Georgios B. Giannakis

We study a class of nonconvex nonsmooth optimization problems in which the objective is a sum of two functions: One function is the average of a large number of differentiable functions, while the other function is proper, lower…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-12 Duy-Nhat Phan , Sedi Bartz , Nilabja Guha , Hung M. Phan

Image reconstruction enhanced by regularizers, e.g., to enforce sparsity, low rank or smoothness priors on images, has many successful applications in vision tasks such as computer photography, biomedical and spectral imaging. It has been…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-21 Samuel Pinilla , Tingting Mu , Neil Bourne , Jeyan Thiyagalingam

In this paper, we utilize stochastic optimization to reduce the space complexity of convex composite optimization with a nuclear norm regularizer, where the variable is a matrix of size $m \times n$. By constructing a low-rank estimate of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-12-08 Lijun Zhang , Tianbao Yang , Rong Jin , Zhi-Hua Zhou

This paper considers robust solutions to a class of nonlinear least squares problems using min-max optimization approach. We give an explicit formula for the value function of the inner maximization problem and show the existence of global…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-03 Xiaojun Chen , Carl Kelley

Traditional sampling theories consider the problem of reconstructing an unknown signal $x$ from a series of samples. A prevalent assumption which often guarantees recovery from the given measurements is that $x$ lies in a known subspace.…

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This paper introduces an abstract framework for randomized subspace correction methods for convex optimization, which unifies and generalizes a broad class of existing algorithms, including domain decomposition, multigrid, and block…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Boou Jiang , Jongho Park , Jinchao Xu

Trace norm regularization is a widely used approach for learning low rank matrices. A standard optimization strategy is based on formulating the problem as one of low rank matrix factorization which, however, leads to a non-convex problem.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Carlo Ciliberto , Dimitris Stamos , Massimiliano Pontil

The sparse linear reconstruction problem is a core problem in signal processing which aims to recover sparse solutions to linear systems. The original problem regularized by the total number of nonzero components (also known as $L_0$…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-19 Yuyuan Ouyang , Kyle Yates

Regularized variants of Principal Components Analysis, especially Sparse PCA and Functional PCA, are among the most useful tools for the analysis of complex high-dimensional data. Many examples of massive data, have both sparse and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-08-21 Genevera I. Allen , Michael Weylandt

Recovering sparse vectors and low-rank matrices from noisy linear measurements has been the focus of much recent research. Various reconstruction algorithms have been studied, including $\ell_1$ and nuclear norm minimization as well as…

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We prove the two theorems of the title, settling two long standing questions in the local theory of singular minimal hypersurfaces. The sharpness of either result is with respect to its hypothesis on the size of the allowable singular sets.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-10-16 Neshan Wickramasekera

We present a minimax optimal solution to the problem of estimating a compact, convex set from finitely many noisy measurements of its support function. The solution is based on appropriate regularizations of the least squares estimator.…

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The de-facto standard approach of promoting sparsity by means of $\ell_1$-regularization becomes ineffective in the presence of simplex constraints, i.e.,~the target is known to have non-negative entries summing up to a given constant. The…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-05-04 Ping Li , Syama Sundar Rangapuram , Martin Slawski

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…

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We investigate how to solve smooth matrix optimization problems with general linear inequality constraints on the eigenvalues of a symmetric matrix. We present solution methods to obtain exact global minima for linear objective functions,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-23 Casey Garner , Gilad Lerman , Shuzhong Zhang

In this short article we present the theory of sparse representations recovery in convex regularized optimization problems introduced in (Carioni and Del Grande, arXiv:2311.08072, 2023). We focus on the scenario where the unknowns belong to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-17 Marcello Carioni , Leonardo Del Grande

We study the performance of a wide class of convex optimization-based estimators for recovering a signal from corrupted one-bit measurements in high-dimensions. Our general result predicts sharply the performance of such estimators in the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-01-27 Hossein Taheri , Ramtin Pedarsani , Christos Thrampoulidis