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We extend the geometrical inverse approximation approach for solving linear least-squares problems. For that we focus on the minimization of $1-\cos(X(A^TA),I)$, where $A$ is a given rectangular coefficient matrix and $X$ is the approximate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-25 Jean-Paul Chehab , Marcos Raydan

The indefinite least squares (ILS) problem is a generalization of the famous linear least squares problem. It minimizes an indefinite quadratic form with respect to a signature matrix. For this problem, we first propose an impressively…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-30 Yanjun Zhang , Hanyu Li

Weighted least squares polynomial approximation uses random samples to determine projections of functions onto spaces of polynomials. It has been shown that, using an optimal distribution of sample locations, the number of samples required…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-10 Abdul-Lateef Haji-Ali , Fabio Nobile , Raúl Tempone , Sören Wolfers

This paper introduces a novel approach for recovering sparse signals using sorted L1/L2 minimization. The proposed method assigns higher weights to indices with smaller absolute values and lower weights to larger values, effectively…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-09 Chao Wang , Ming Yan , Junjie Yu

It is now well understood that (1) it is possible to reconstruct sparse signals exactly from what appear to be highly incomplete sets of linear measurements and (2) that this can be done by constrained L1 minimization. In this paper, we…

Methodology · Statistics 2007-11-13 Emmanuel J. Candes , Michael B. Wakin , Stephen P. Boyd

Nonnegative (linear) least square problems are a fundamental class of problems that is well-studied in statistical learning and for which solvers have been implemented in many of the standard programming languages used within the machine…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-09 Jelena Diakonikolas , Chenghui Li , Swati Padmanabhan , Chaobing Song

In this paper, we propose a global framework that includes a detailed model of the photo-switching and acoustic processes for photo-switching optoacoustic mesoscopy, based on the underlying physics. We efficiently implement two forward…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-29 Yan Liu , Jonathan Chuah , Michael Unser , Jonathan Dong

We consider a problem that recovers a 2-D object and the underlying view angle distribution from its noisy projection tilt series taken at unknown view angles. Traditional approaches rely on the estimation of the view angles of the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-27 Lingda Wang , Zhizhen Zhao

Clinically useful proton Computed Tomography images will rely on algorithms to find the three-dimensional proton stopping power distribution that optimally fits the measured proton data. We present a least squares iterative method with many…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-05-12 Don F. DeJongh , Ethan A. DeJongh

Rational approximation appears in many contexts throughout science and engineering, playing a central role in linear systems theory, special function approximation, and many others. There are many existing methods for solving the rational…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-12-03 Jeffrey M. Hokanson , Caleb C. Magruder

Estimating the values of unknown parameters from corrupted measured data faces a lot of challenges in ill-posed problems. In such problems, many fundamental estimation methods fail to provide a meaningful stabilized solution. In this work,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-11 Mohamed Suliman , Tarig Ballal , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri

The autocovariance least squares (ALS) method is a computationally efficient approach for estimating noise covariances in Kalman filters without requiring specific noise models. However, conventional ALS and its variants rely on the classic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Jiahong Li , Fang Deng

This paper introduces a nonconvex approach for sparse signal recovery, proposing a novel model termed the $\tau_2$-model, which utilizes the squared $\ell_1/\ell_2$ norms for this purpose. Our model offers an advancement over the $\ell_0$…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-02 Jianqing Jia , Ashley Prater-Bennette , Lixin Shen , Erin E. Tripp

We address the Least Quantile of Squares (LQS) (and in particular the Least Median of Squares) regression problem using modern optimization methods. We propose a Mixed Integer Optimization (MIO) formulation of the LQS problem which allows…

Computation · Statistics 2014-11-20 Dimitris Bertsimas , Rahul Mazumder

The method of ``Total Least Squares'' is proposed as a more natural way (than ordinary least squares) to approximate the data if both the matrix and and the right-hand side are contaminated by ``errors''. In this tutorial note, we give a…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2025-10-20 P. P. N. de Groen

In this paper we are concerned with numerical methods for nonhomogeneous Helmholtz equations in inhomogeneous media. We design a least squares method for discretization of the considered Helmholtz equations. In this method, an auxiliary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-17 Qiya Hu , Rongrong Song

We consider the least-squares finite element method (lsfem) for systems of nonlinear ordinary differential equations and establish an optimal error estimate for this method when piecewise linear elements are used. The main assumptions are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-01 Matthias Chung , Justin Krueger , Honghu Liu

Recovering a low-complexity signal from its noisy observations by regularization methods is a cornerstone of inverse problems and compressed sensing. Stable recovery ensures that the original signal can be approximated linearly by optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-30 Tran T. A. Nghia , Huy N. Pham , Nghia V. Vo

We consider adaptive system identification problems with convex constraints and propose a family of regularized Least-Mean-Square (LMS) algorithms. We show that with a properly selected regularization parameter the regularized LMS provably…

Methodology · Statistics 2010-12-24 Yilun Chen , Yuantao Gu , Alfred O. Hero

In this article, we address the solution of advection-dominated flow problems by stabilised methods, by means of least-squares computed stabilised coefficients. As main methodological tool, we introduce a data-driven off-line/on-line…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-29 Tomás Chacón Rebollo , Daniel Franco Coronil