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Regularization is a core component of modern inverse problems, as it helps establish the well-posedness of the solution of interest. Popular regularization approaches include variational regularization and iterative regularization. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-08 Jie Gao , Cesare Molinari , Silvia Villa , Jingwei Liang

The performance of optimization methods is often tied to the spectrum of the objective Hessian. Yet, conventional assumptions, such as smoothness, do often not enable us to make finely-grained convergence statements -- particularly not for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-08 Nikita Doikov , Sebastian U. Stich , Martin Jaggi

A number of regularization methods for discrete inverse problems consist in considering weighted versions of the usual least square solution. However, these so-called filter methods are generally restricted to monotonic transformations,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2011-05-05 Paul Rochet

We consider variants of trust-region and cubic regularization methods for non-convex optimization, in which the Hessian matrix is approximated. Under mild conditions on the inexact Hessian, and using approximate solution of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-15 Peng Xu , Fred Roosta , Michael W. Mahoney

We propose an extremely versatile approach to address a large family of matrix nearness problems, possibly with additional linear constraints. Our method is based on splitting a matrix nearness problem into two nested optimization problems,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-14 Miryam Gnazzo , Vanni Noferini , Lauri Nyman , Federico Poloni

We present a new approach to convexification of the Tikhonov regularization using a continuation method strategy. We embed the original minimization problem into a one-parameter family of minimization problems. Both the penalty term and the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-15 Valdemar Melicher , Vladimir Vrabel

Joint sparsity regularization in multi-task learning has attracted much attention in recent years. The traditional convex formulation employs the group Lasso relaxation to achieve joint sparsity across tasks. Although this approach leads to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-09-27 Krishnakumar Balasubramanian , Kai Yu , Tong Zhang

In deep neural networks, the spectral norm of the Jacobian of a layer bounds the factor by which the norm of a signal changes during forward/backward propagation. Spectral norm regularizations have been shown to improve generalization,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Sahil Singla , Soheil Feizi

Bilevel optimization is widely applied in many machine learning tasks such as hyper-parameter learning, meta learning and reinforcement learning. Although many algorithms recently have been developed to solve the bilevel optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-26 Feihu Huang

The numerical solution of linear discrete ill-posed problems typically requires regularization, i.e., replacement of the available ill-conditioned problem by a nearby better conditioned one. The most popular regularization methods for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-02-11 Silvia Noschese , Lothar Reichel

Newton's method is the most widespread high-order method, demanding the gradient and the Hessian of the objective function. However, one of the main disadvantages of Newtons method is its lack of global convergence and high iteration cost.…

In this paper we propose a quantum algorithm to determine the Tikhonov regularization parameter and solve the ill-conditioned linear equations, for example, arising from the finite element discretization of linear or nonlinear inverse…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-27 Changpeng Shao , Hua Xiang

This paper provides new theoretical connections between multi-time Hamilton-Jacobi partial differential equations and variational image decomposition models in imaging sciences. We show that the minimal values of these optimization problems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-27 Jérôme Darbon , Tingwei Meng

This paper proposes a unified framework for the investigation of constrained learning theory in reflexive Banach spaces of features via regularized empirical risk minimization. The focus is placed on Tikhonov-like regularization with…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-10-20 Patrick L. Combettes , Saverio Salzo , Silvia Villa

This paper proposes a universal algorithm for convex minimization problems of the composite form $g_0(x)+h(g_1(x),\dots, g_m(x)) + u(x)$. We allow each $g_j$ to independently range from being nonsmooth Lipschitz to smooth, from convex to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-15 Aaron Zoll , Benjamin Grimmer

We develop a new parallel algorithm for minimizing Lipschitz, convex functions with a stochastic subgradient oracle. The total number of queries made and the query depth, i.e., the number of parallel rounds of queries, match the prior…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-12 Arun Jambulapati , Aaron Sidford , Kevin Tian

In the context of linear inverse problems, we propose and study a general iterative regularization method allowing to consider large classes of regularizers and data-fit terms. The algorithm we propose is based on a primal-dual diagonal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-08-04 Guillaume Garrigos , Lorenzo Rosasco , Silvia Villa

An adaptive regularization algorithm for unconstrained nonconvex optimization is presented in which the objective function is never evaluated, but only derivatives are used. This algorithm belongs to the class of adaptive regularization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-05 S. Gratton , S. Jerad , Ph. L. Toint

This paper introduces a graph Laplacian regularization in the hyperspectral unmixing formulation. The proposed regularization relies upon the construction of a graph representation of the hyperspectral image. Each node in the graph…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-10-15 Rita Ammanouil , André Ferrari , Cédric Richard

In this paper, we generalize (accelerated) Newton's method with cubic regularization under inexact second-order information for (strongly) convex optimization problems. Under mild assumptions, we provide global rate of convergence of these…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-10-17 Saeed Ghadimi , Han Liu , Tong Zhang