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In this paper we develop flexible Krylov methods for efficiently computing regularized solutions to large-scale linear inverse problems with an $\ell_2$ fit-to-data term and an $\ell_p$ penalization term, for $p\geq 1$. First we approximate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-19 Julianne Chung , Silvia Gazzola

$p$-adic linear regression is the problem of finding coefficients $\beta$ that minimise $\sum_i |y_i - x_i^\top\beta|_p$. We prove that computing an optimal solution is NP-hard via a polynomial-time reduction from Max Cut using a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Gregory D. Baker

A matrix algorithm is said to be superfast (that is, runs at sublinear cost) if it involves much fewer scalars and flops than the input matrix has entries. Such algorithms have been extensively studied and widely applied in modern…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-28 Soo Go , Victor Y. Pan

We study minimax rates for high-dimensional linear regression with additive errors under the $\ell_p\ (1\leq p<\infty)$-losses, where the regression parameter is of weak sparsity. Our lower and upper bounds agree up to constant factors,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-11-20 Xin Li , Dongya Wu

Sparse adaptive filtering has gained much attention due to its wide applicability in the field of signal processing. Among the main algorithm families, sparse norm constraint adaptive filters develop rapidly in recent years. However, when…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-09-29 Yong Feng , Fei Chen , Rui Zeng , Jiasong Wu , Huazhong Shu

We study the problem of estimating the covariance matrix of a high-dimensional distribution when a small constant fraction of the samples can be arbitrarily corrupted. Recent work gave the first polynomial time algorithms for this problem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Yu Cheng , Ilias Diakonikolas , Rong Ge , David Woodruff

We provide several algorithms for constrained optimization of a large class of convex problems, including softmax, $\ell_p$ regression, and logistic regression. Central to our approach is the notion of width reduction, a technique which has…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-07 Deeksha Adil , Brian Bullins , Sushant Sachdeva

We give a simple algorithm to efficiently sample the rows of a matrix while preserving the p-norms of its product with vectors. Given an $n$-by-$d$ matrix $\boldsymbol{\mathit{A}}$, we find with high probability and in input sparsity time…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-12-02 Michael B. Cohen , Richard Peng

We present a quantum algorithm for fitting a linear regression model to a given data set using the least squares approach. Different from previous algorithms which yield a quantum state encoding the optimal parameters, our algorithm outputs…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-01 Guoming Wang

A new Lp-norm constraint least mean square (Lp-LMS) algorithm with new strategy of varying p is presented, which is applied to system identification in this letter. The parameter p is iteratively adjusted by the gradient method applied to…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-03-31 Yong Feng , Fei Chen , Jiasong Wu

Recently, the worse-case analysis, probabilistic analysis and empirical justification have been employed to address the fundamental question: When does $\ell_1$-minimization find the sparsest solution to an underdetermined linear system? In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-16 Yunbin Zhao

In many applications including integer-forcing linear multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) receiver design, one needs to solve a successive minima problem (SMP) on an $n$-dimensional lattice to get an optimal integer coefficient matrix…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Jinming Wen , Lanping Li , Xiaohu Tang , Wai Ho Mow

Estimation of the precision matrix (or inverse covariance matrix) is of great importance in statistical data analysis and machine learning. However, as the number of parameters scales quadratically with the dimension $p$, computation…

Computation · Statistics 2022-11-02 Qian LI , Binyan Jiang , Defeng Sun

We analyze an Iteratively Re-weighted Least Squares (IRLS) algorithm for promoting l1-minimization in sparse and compressible vector recovery. We prove its convergence and we estimate its local rate. We show how the algorithm can be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2008-07-04 Ingrid Daubechies , Ronald DeVore , Massimo Fornasier , C. Sinan Gunturk

Positive linear programs (LP), also known as packing and covering linear programs, are an important class of problems that bridges computer science, operations research, and optimization. Despite the consistent efforts on this problem, all…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Zeyuan Allen-Zhu , Lorenzo Orecchia

In this note we provide and analyze a simple method that given an $n \times d$ matrix, outputs approximate $\ell_p$-Lewis weights, a natural measure of the importance of the rows with respect to the $\ell_p$ norm, for $p \geq 2$. More…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Simon Apers , Sander Gribling , Aaron Sidford

Given a real-valued weighted function $f$ on a finite dag, the $L_p$ isotonic regression of $f$, $p \in [0,\infty]$, is unique except when $p \in [0,1] \cup \{\infty\}$. We are interested in determining a ``best'' isotonic regression for $p…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Quentin F. Stout

We study an iterative matrix conditioning algorithm due to Osborne (1960). The goal of the algorithm is to convert a square matrix into a balanced matrix where every row and corresponding column have the same norm. The original algorithm…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-06-28 Rafail Ostrovsky , Yuval Rabani , Arman Yousefi

This paper proposes an efficient algorithm (HOLRR) to handle regression tasks where the outputs have a tensor structure. We formulate the regression problem as the minimization of a least square criterion under a multilinear rank…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-02-23 Guillaume Rabusseau , Hachem Kadri

A common challenge in real-time operations is deciding whether to re-solve an optimization problem or continue using an existing solution. While modern data platforms may collect information at high frequencies, many real-time operations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Rui Ai , Hugo De Oliveira Barbalho , Sirui Li , Alexei Robsky , David Simchi-Levi , Ishai Menache