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In this paper, we investigate optimization problems with nonnegative and orthogonal constraints, where any feasible matrix of size $n \times p$ exhibits a sparsity pattern such that each row accommodates at most one nonzero entry. Our…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-06 Lei Wang , Xin Liu , Xiaojun Chen

The recovery of sparse data is at the core of many applications in machine learning and signal processing. While such problems can be tackled using $\ell_1$-regularization as in the LASSO estimator and in the Basis Pursuit approach,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-15 Christian Kümmerle , Claudio Mayrink Verdun , Dominik Stöger

For solving a wide class of nonconvex and nonsmooth problems, we propose a proximal linearized iteratively reweighted least squares (PL-IRLS) algorithm. We first approximate the original problem by smoothing methods, and second write the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-02 Hui Zhang , Tao Sun , Lizhi Cheng

In this paper we propose a variant of the linear least squares model allowing practitioners to partition the input features into groups of variables that they require to contribute similarly to the final result. The output allows…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Roberto Esposito , Mattia Cerrato , Marco Locatelli

Constrained non-convex optimization is fundamentally challenging, as global solutions are generally intractable and constraint qualifications may not hold. However, in many applications, including safe policy optimization in control and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-14 Ilyas Fatkhullin , Niao He , Guanghui Lan , Florian Wolf

Separable nonlinear least squares (SNLS)problem is a special class of nonlinear least squares (NLS)problems, whose objective function is a mixture of linear and nonlinear functions. It has many applications in many different areas,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Wajeb Gharibi , Omar Saeed Al-Mushayt

In this paper, we consider a class of nonlinear regression problems without the assumption of being independent and identically distributed. We propose a correspondent mini-max problem for nonlinear regression and give a numerical…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-04-16 Qing Xu , Xiaohua Xuan

We provide the first global model recovery results for the IRLS (iteratively reweighted least squares) heuristic for robust regression problems. IRLS is known to offer excellent performance, despite bad initializations and data corruption,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Bhaskar Mukhoty , Govind Gopakumar , Prateek Jain , Purushottam Kar

Nonlinear least-squares problems are a special class of unconstrained optimization problems in which their gradient and Hessian have special structures. In this paper, we exploit these structures and proposed a matrix-free algorithm with a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-06 Aliyu Muhammed Awwal , Poom Kumam , Hassan Mohammad

A cumbersome operation in numerical analysis and linear algebra, optimization, machine learning and engineering algorithms; is inverting large full-rank matrices which appears in various processes and applications. This has both numerical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-24 Neophytos Charalambides , Mert Pilanci , Alfred O. Hero

We have recently presented a method to solve an overdetermined linear system of equations with multiple right hand side vectors, where the unknown matrix is to be symmetric and positive definite. The coefficient and the right hand side…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-09-19 Negin Bagherpour , Nezam Mahdavi-Amiri

The idea of unfolding iterative algorithms as deep neural networks has been widely applied in solving sparse coding problems, providing both solid theoretical analysis in convergence rate and superior empirical performance. However, for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Yuhai Song , Zhong Cao , Kailun Wu , Ziang Yan , Changshui Zhang

We propose a new prediction method for multivariate linear regression problems where the number of features is less than the sample size but the number of outcomes is extremely large. Many popular procedures, such as penalized regression…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-04-20 Yihe Wang , Sihai Dave Zhao

We propose to address the common problem of linear estimation in linear statistical models by using a model selection approach via penalization. Depending then on the framework in which the linear statistical model is considered namely the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2009-09-11 Ikhlef Bechar

An algorithm is proposed, analyzed, and tested experimentally for solving stochastic optimization problems in which the decision variables are constrained to satisfy equations defined by deterministic, smooth, and nonlinear functions. It is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-09 Frank E. Curtis , Daniel P. Robinson , Baoyu Zhou

Linear regression in $\ell_p$-norm is a canonical optimization problem that arises in several applications, including sparse recovery, semi-supervised learning, and signal processing. Generic convex optimization algorithms for solving…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-13 Deeksha Adil , Richard Peng , Sushant Sachdeva

Robust subspace estimation is fundamental to many machine learning and data analysis tasks. Iteratively Reweighted Least Squares (IRLS) is an elegant and empirically effective approach to this problem, yet its theoretical properties remain…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-11 Gilad Lerman , Kang Li , Tyler Maunu , Teng Zhang

In applications, a substantial number of problems can be formulated as non-linear least squares problems over smooth varieties. Unlike the usual least squares problem over a Euclidean space, the non-linear least squares problem over a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-11 Shenglong Hu , Ke Ye

Iteratively Re-weighted Least Squares (IRLS) is a method for solving minimization problems involving non-quadratic cost functions, perhaps non-convex and non-smooth, which however can be described as the infimum over a family of quadratic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-02-24 Massimo Fornasier , Steffen Peter , Holger Rauhut , Stephan Worm

In this paper, we study the nonnegative matrix factorization problem under the separability assumption (that is, there exists a cone spanned by a small subset of the columns of the input nonnegative data matrix containing all columns),…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-04-07 Nicolas Gillis , Stephen A. Vavasis