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This work addresses the robust reconstruction problem of a sparse signal from compressed measurements. We propose a robust formulation for sparse reconstruction which employs the $\ell_1$-norm as the loss function for the residual error and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-30 Fei Wen , Yuan Yang , Ling Pei , Wenxian Yu , Peilin Liu

Nonconvex methods have emerged as a dominant approach for low-rank matrix estimation, a problem that arises widely in machine learning and AI for learning and representing high-dimensional data. Existing analyses for these methods often…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-08 Chengyu Cui , Gongjun Xu

Increasing spatial image resolution is an often required, yet challenging task in image acquisition. Recently, it has been shown that it is possible to obtain a high resolution image by covering a low resolution sensor with a non-regular…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-11 Markus Jonscher , Jürgen Seiler , Thomas Richter , André Kaup

Regularisation theory in Banach spaces, and non--norm-squared regularisation even in finite dimensions, generally relies upon Bregman divergences to replace norm convergence. This is comparable to the extension of first-order optimisation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-19 Tuomo Valkonen

This investigation seeks to establish the practicality of numerical frame approximations. Specifically, it develops a new method to approximate the inverse frame operator and analyzes its convergence properties. It is established that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-03-30 Guohui Song , Anne Gelb

Theoretical guarantees for the robust solution of inverse problems have important implications for applications. To achieve both guarantees and high reconstruction quality, we propose learning a pixel-based ridge regularizer with a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-07 Sebastian Neumayer , Fabian Altekrüger

Inverse optimization refers to the inference of unknown parameters of an optimization problem based on knowledge of its optimal solutions. This paper considers inverse optimization in the setting where measurements of the optimal solutions…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-12-27 Anil Aswani , Zuo-Jun Max Shen , Auyon Siddiq

We use convex relaxation techniques to provide a sequence of solutions to the matrix completion problem. Using the nuclear norm as a regularizer, we provide simple and very efficient algorithms for minimizing the reconstruction error…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2009-06-12 Rahul Mazumder , Trevor Hastie , Rob Tibshirani

Non-convex optimization is ubiquitous in modern machine learning. Researchers devise non-convex objective functions and optimize them using off-the-shelf optimizers such as stochastic gradient descent and its variants, which leverage the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Tengyu Ma

Real-world image restoration deals with the recovery of images suffering from an unknown degradation. This task is typically addressed while being given only degraded images, without their corresponding ground-truth versions. In this hard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Sean Man , Guy Ohayon , Ron Raphaeli , Michael Elad

In many applications of tomography, the acquired projections are either limited in number or contain a significant amount of noise. In these cases, standard reconstruction methods tend to produce artifacts that can make further analysis…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-04-11 D. M. Pelt , K. J. Batenburg

Although 3D Gaussian Splatting has been widely studied because of its realistic and efficient novel-view synthesis, it is still challenging to extract a high-quality surface from the point-based representation. Previous works improve the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Hanlin Chen , Fangyin Wei , Chen Li , Tianxin Huang , Yunsong Wang , Gim Hee Lee

Many high-dimensional optimisation problems exhibit rich geometric structures in their set of minimisers, often forming smooth manifolds due to over-parametrisation or symmetries. When this structure is known, at least locally, it can be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-27 Evan Markou , Thalaiyasingam Ajanthan , Stephen Gould

We address a class of integer optimization programs with a total variation-like regularizer and convex, separable constraints on a graph. Our approach makes use of the Graver basis, an optimality certificate for integer programs, which we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-22 Dominic Yang , Sven Leyffer , Miles Bakenhus

We develop an approach to risk minimization and stochastic optimization that provides a convex surrogate for variance, allowing near-optimal and computationally efficient trading between approximation and estimation error. Our approach…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-12-15 John Duchi , Hongseok Namkoong

In this article, we propose a novel regularization method for a class of nonlinear inverse problems that is inspired by an application in quantitative magnetic resonance imaging (qMRI). The latter is a special instance of a general…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-16 Guozhi Dong , Michael Hintermüller , Clemens Sirotenko

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

Many inverse problems and signal processing problems involve low-rank regularizers based on the nuclear norm. Commonly, proximal gradient methods (PGM) are adopted to solve this type of non-smooth problems as they can offer fast and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-25 Rodrigo A. Lobos , Javier Salazar Cavazos , Raj Rao Nadakuditi , Jeffrey A. Fessler

In this paper, we consider the problem of unsupervised video object segmentation via background subtraction. Specifically, we pose the nonsemantic extraction of a video's moving objects as a nonconvex optimization problem via a sum of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Brendon G. Anderson , Somayeh Sojoudi

Deep Neural Networks have achieved remarkable success relying on the developing high computation capability of GPUs and large-scale datasets with increasing network depth and width in image recognition, object detection and many other…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-08 E Zhenqian , Gao Weiguo