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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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…