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In many application areas we are faced with the following question: Can we recover a sparse vector $x_o \in \mathbb{R}^N$ from its undersampled set of noisy observations $y \in \mathbb{R}^n$, $y=A x_o+w$. The last decade has witnessed a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-14 Le Zheng , Arian Maleki , Haolei Weng , Xiaodong Wang , Teng Long

The constrained $\ell_p^p/\ell_q^p$ ratio model is scale invariant and is therefore attractive for sparse signal recovery. However, its nonconvex, nonsmooth, and fractional structure makes a unified theoretical and algorithmic analysis…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Lang Yu , Nan-jing Huang

Given a matrix $A\in \mathbb{R}^{n\times d}$ and a vector $b\in \mathbb{R}^n$, we consider the regression problem with $\ell_\infty$ guarantees: finding a vector $x'\in \mathbb{R}^d$ such that $ \|x'-x^*\|_\infty \leq…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Zhao Song , Mingquan Ye , Junze Yin , Lichen Zhang

In this paper we provide new randomized algorithms with improved runtimes for solving linear programs with two-sided constraints. In the special case of the minimum cost flow problem on $n$-vertex $m$-edge graphs with integer…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Jan van den Brand , Yin Tat Lee , Yang P. Liu , Thatchaphol Saranurak , Aaron Sidford , Zhao Song , Di Wang

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

Iteratively reweighted $\ell_1$ algorithm is a popular algorithm for solving a large class of optimization problems whose objective is the sum of a Lipschitz differentiable loss function and a possibly nonconvex sparsity inducing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-21 Peiran Yu , Ting Kei Pong

In time series analysis, when fitting an autoregressive model, one must solve a Toeplitz ordinary least squares problem numerous times to find an appropriate model, which can severely affect computational times with large data sets. Two…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-12-28 Ali Eshragh , Oliver Di Pietro , Michael A. Saunders

Least squares kernel based methods have been widely used in regression problems due to the simple implementation and good generalization performance. Among them, least squares support vector regression (LS-SVR) and extreme learning machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-03 Hongwei Dong , Liming Yang

In numerical linear algebra, considerable effort has been devoted to obtaining faster algorithms for linear systems whose underlying matrices exhibit structural properties. A prominent success story is the method of generalized nested…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Sally Dong , Gramoz Goranci , Lawrence Li , Sushant Sachdeva , Guanghao Ye

Iteratively reweighted least square (IRLS) is a popular approach to solve sparsity-enforcing regression problems in machine learning. State of the art approaches are more efficient but typically rely on specific coordinate pruning schemes.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-10-03 Clarice Poon , Gabriel Peyré

An approximate sparse recovery system in ell_1 norm formally consists of parameters N, k, epsilon an m-by-N measurement matrix, Phi, and a decoding algorithm, D. Given a vector, x, where x_k denotes the optimal k-term approximation to x,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-07-15 Ely Porat , Martin J. Strauss

In this paper we study the $\ell_p$-analysis optimization ($0<p\leq1$) problem for cosparse signal recovery. We establish a bound for recovery error via the restricted $p$-isometry property over any subspace. We further prove that the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Shubao Zhang , Hui Qian , Xiaojin Gong , Jianying Zhou

The Johnson-Lindenstrauss (JL) lemma is a fundamental result in dimensionality reduction, ensuring that any finite set $X \subseteq \mathbb{R}^d$ can be embedded into a lower-dimensional space $\mathbb{R}^k$ while approximately preserving…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-30 Rafael Chiclana , Mark Iwen

Regression is a cornerstone of statistics and machine learning, with applications spanning science, engineering, and economics. While quantum algorithms for regression have attracted considerable attention, most existing work has focused on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-30 Chenghua Liu , Zhengfeng Ji

The $\ell_p$ subspace approximation problem is an NP-hard low rank approximation problem that generalizes the median hyperplane ($p = 1$), principal component analysis ($p = 2$), and center hyperplane problems ($p = \infty$). A popular…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-04 David P. Woodruff , Taisuke Yasuda

In numerous substitution models for the $\l_{0}$-norm minimization problem $(P_{0})$, the $\l_{p}$-norm minimization $(P_{p})$ with $0<p<1$ have been considered as the most natural choice. However, the non-convex optimization problem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-04-27 Angang Cui , Jigen Peng , Haiyang Li

Given a matrix $\mathbf{A}\in\mathbb{R}^{n\times d}$ and a vector $b \in\mathbb{R}^{d}$, we show how to compute an $\epsilon$-approximate solution to the regression problem $ \min_{x\in\mathbb{R}^{d}}\frac{1}{2} \|\mathbf{A} x - b\|_{2}^{2}…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-23 Naman Agarwal , Sham Kakade , Rahul Kidambi , Yin Tat Lee , Praneeth Netrapalli , Aaron Sidford

We propose a new fast algorithm for solving one of the standard approaches to ill-posed linear inverse problems (IPLIP), where a (possibly non-smooth) regularizer is minimized under the constraint that the solution explains the observations…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-10-10 Manya V. Afonso , José M. Bioucas-Dias , Mário A. T. Figueiredo

In this work, we propose an optimization framework for estimating a sparse robust one-dimensional subspace. Our objective is to minimize both the representation error and the penalty, in terms of the l1-norm criterion. Given that the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-03-07 Xiao Ling , Paul Brooks

Sparse representation learning has recently gained a great success in signal and image processing, thanks to recent advances in dictionary learning. To this end, the $\ell_0$-norm is often used to control the sparsity level. Nevertheless,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-19 Yuan Liu , Stéphane Canu , Paul Honeine , Su Ruan