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In this paper we study the obstacle problems for the fractional Lapalcian of order $s\in(0,1)$ in a bounded domain $\Omega\subset\mathbb R^n$, under mild assumptions on the data.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-11-24 Roberta Musina , Alexander I. Nazarov , Konijeti Sreenadh

The need for fast sparse optimization is emerging, e.g., to deal with large-dimensional data-driven problems and to track time-varying systems. In the framework of linear sparse optimization, the iterative shrinkage-thresholding algorithm…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-22 Vito Cerone , Sophie M. Fosson , Diego Regruto

An algorithm for unconstrained non-convex optimization is described, which does not evaluate the objective function and in which minimization is carried out, at each iteration, within a randomly selected subspace. It is shown that this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-31 S. Bellavia , S. Gratton , B. Morini , Ph. L. Toint

This article aims to provide a comprehensive overview of sparse optimization, with a focus on both sparse signal recovery and sparse regularization techniques. We will begin by exploring the foundations of sparse optimization, delving into…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2026-01-13 Jun Lu

We consider a distributed optimal control problem subject to a parabolic evolution equation as constraint. The control will be considered in the energy norm of the anisotropic Sobolev space $[H_{0;,0}^{1,1/2}(Q)]^\ast$, such that the state…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-14 Richard Löscher , Michael Reichelt , Olaf Steinbach

We study sparse approximation by greedy algorithms. Our contribution is two-fold. First, we prove exact recovery with high probability of random $K$-sparse signals within $\lceil K(1+\e)\rceil$ iterations of the Orthogonal Matching Pursuit…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-04-03 Eugene Livshitz , Vladimir Temlyakov

For a given domain $\Omega \subset \Bbb{R}^n$, we consider the variational problem of minimizing the $L^1$-norm of the gradient on $\Omega$ of a function $u$ with prescribed continuous boundary values and satisfying a continuous lower…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 William P. Ziemer , Kevin Zumbrun

We describe an implicit sparsity-inducing mechanism based on minimization over a family of kernels: \begin{equation*} \min_{\beta, f}~\widehat{\mathbb{E}}[L(Y, f(\beta^{1/q} \odot X)] + \lambda_n \|f\|_{\mathcal{H}_q}^2~~\text{subject…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-10-13 Michael I. Jordan , Keli Liu , Feng Ruan

We propose an efficient algorithm for finding first-order Nash equilibria in min-max problems of the form $\min_{x \in X}\max_{y\in Y} F(x,y)$, where the objective function is smooth in both variables and concave with respect to $y$; the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-04 Dmitrii M. Ostrovskii , Andrew Lowy , Meisam Razaviyayn

This paper studies the regularity of weak solutions to a class of parabolic perturbed fractional $1$-Laplace equations. Our analysis combines finite difference quotients, energy estimates, and iterative arguments, with a key step being the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Dingding Li , Chao Zhang

We prove an optimal order error bound in the discrete $H^2(\Omega)$ norm for finite difference approximations of the first boundary-value problem for the biharmonic equation in $n$ space dimensions, with $n \in \{2,\dots,7\}$, whose…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-04-04 Stefan Müller , Florian Schweiger , Endre Süli

One of the biggest open problems in computational algebra is the design of efficient algorithms for Gr{\"o}bner basis computations that take into account the sparsity of the input polynomials. We can perform such computations in the case of…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2018-06-22 Matías Bender , Jean-Charles Faugère , Elias Tsigaridas

This paper considers the minimization of a continuously differentiable function over a cardinality constraint. We focus on smooth and relatively smooth functions. These smoothness criteria result in new descent lemmas. Based on the new…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-26 Fatih Selim Aktas , Mustafa Celebi Pinar

This paper addresses identification of sparse linear and noise-driven continuous-time state-space systems, i.e., the right-hand sides in the dynamical equations depend only on a subset of the states. The key assumption in this study, is…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-04-18 Zuogong Yue , Johan Thunberg , Lennart Ljung , Jorge Goncalves

To improve convergence results obtained using a framework for unsymmetric meshless methods due to Schaback (Preprint G\"ottingen 2006), we extend, in two directions, the Sobolev bound due to Arcang\'eli et al. (Numer Math 107, 181-211,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-05-14 Andrew Corrigan , John Wallin , Thomas Wanner

The subspace selection problem seeks a subspace that maximizes an objective function under some constraint. This problem includes several important machine learning problems such as the principal component analysis and sparse dictionary…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-22 So Nakashima , Takanori Maehara

This paper deals with Tikhonov regularization for linear and nonlinear ill-posed operator equations with wavelet Besov norm penalties. We focus on $B^0_{p,1}$ penalty terms which yield estimators that are sparse with respect to a wavelet…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-09-04 Thorsten Hohage , Philip Miller

We introduce a class of first-order methods for smooth constrained optimization that are based on an analogy to non-smooth dynamical systems. Two distinctive features of our approach are that (i) projections or optimizations over the entire…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-15 Michael Muehlebach , Michael I. Jordan

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…

Saddle-point problems have recently gained increased attention from the machine learning community, mainly due to applications in training Generative Adversarial Networks using stochastic gradients. At the same time, in some applications…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-07 Abdurakhmon Sadiev , Aleksandr Beznosikov , Pavel Dvurechensky , Alexander Gasnikov