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We study a practical algorithm for sparse principal component analysis (PCA) of incomplete and noisy data. Our algorithm is based on the semidefinite program (SDP) relaxation of the non-convex $l_1$-regularized PCA problem. We provide…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-09-16 Hanbyul Lee , Qifan Song , Jean Honorio

Quantized neural network training optimizes a discrete, non-differentiable objective. The straight-through estimator (STE) enables backpropagation through surrogate gradients and is widely used. While previous studies have primarily focused…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-14 Yuma Ichikawa , Shuhei Kashiwamura , Ayaka Sakata

Sparse recovery is widely applied in many fields, since many signals or vectors can be sparsely represented under some frames or dictionaries. Most of fast algorithms at present are based on solving $l^0$ or $l^1$ minimization problems and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-06 Chong-Jun Li , Yi-Jun Zhong

Sparse recovery and subset selection are fundamental problems in varied communities, including signal processing, statistics and machine learning. Herein, we focus on an important greedy algorithm for these problems: Backward Stepwise…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-08 Sebatian Ament , Carla Gomes

We consider the problem of exact support recovery of sparse signals via noisy measurements. The main focus is the sufficient and necessary conditions on the number of measurements for support recovery to be reliable. By drawing an analogy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-03-04 Yuzhe Jin , Young-Han Kim , Bhaskar D. Rao

The recovery of sparsest overcomplete representation has recently attracted intensive research activities owe to its important potential in the many applied fields such as signal processing, medical imaging, communication, and so on. This…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-09-29 Lianlin Li

Neural network models are widely used in solving many challenging problems, such as computer vision, personalized recommendation, and natural language processing. Those models are very computationally intensive and reach the hardware limit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Fei Sun , Minghai Qin , Tianyun Zhang , Liu Liu , Yen-Kuang Chen , Yuan Xie

Sparse Ising problems can be found in application areas such as logistics, condensed matter physics and training of deep Boltzmann networks, but can be very difficult to tackle with high efficiency and accuracy. This report presents new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Kenneth M. Zick

Over the past years, there are increasing interests in recovering the signals from undersampling data where such signals are sparse under some orthogonal dictionary or tight framework, which is referred to be sparse synthetic model. More…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-02-10 Lianlin Li

The iterations of many sparse estimation algorithms are comprised of a fixed linear filter cascaded with a thresholding nonlinearity, which collectively resemble a typical neural network layer. Consequently, a lengthy sequence of algorithm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-05-11 Bo Xin , Yizhou Wang , Wen Gao , David Wipf

Designing computational experiments involving $\ell_1$ minimization with linear constraints in a finite-dimensional, real-valued space for receiving a sparse solution with a precise number $k$ of nonzero entries is, in general, difficult.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-09-11 Christian Kruschel , Dirk A. Lorenz

In this paper, we propose a novel sparse signal recovery algorithm called Trainable ISTA (TISTA). The proposed algorithm consists of two estimation units such as a linear estimation unit and a minimum mean squared error (MMSE)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-22 Daisuke Ito , Satoshi Takabe , Tadashi Wadayama

Spectrum sensing is an important process in cognitive radio. A number of sensing techniques that have been proposed suffer from high processing time, hardware cost and computational complexity. To address these problems, compressive sensing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-01-31 Youness Arjoune , Naima Kaabouch , Hassan El Ghazi , Ahmed Tamtaoui

Space-time adaptive processing (STAP) is an effective tool for detecting a moving target in spaceborne or airborne radar systems. Statistical-based STAP methods generally need sufficient statistically independent and identically distributed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-08-26 Ke Sun , Hao Zhang , Gang Li , Huadong Meng , Xiqin Wang

Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) have recently become central tools for interpretability, leveraging dictionary learning principles to extract sparse, interpretable features from neural representations whose underlying structure is typically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Valérie Costa , Thomas Fel , Ekdeep Singh Lubana , Bahareh Tolooshams , Demba Ba

In this paper, we consider deep neural networks for solving inverse problems that are robust to forward model mis-specifications. Specifically, we treat sensing problems with model mismatch where one wishes to recover a sparse…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Wei Pu , Chao Zhou , Yonina C. Eldar , Miguel R. D. Rodrigues

In sparse optimization, enforcing hard constraints using the $\ell_0$ pseudo-norm offers advantages like controlled sparsity compared to convex relaxations. However, many real-world applications demand not only sparsity constraints but also…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-12 William de Vazelhes , Xiao-Tong Yuan , Bin Gu

In this manuscript, we analyze the sparse signal recovery (compressive sensing) problem from the perspective of convex optimization by stochastic proximal gradient descent. This view allows us to significantly simplify the recovery analysis…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-04-19 Rong Jin , Tianbao Yang , Shenghuo Zhu

In this report, a novel efficient algorithm for recovery of jointly sparse signals (sparse matrix) from multiple incomplete measurements has been presented, in particular, the NESTA-based MMV optimization method. In a nutshell, the jointly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-05-21 Lianlin Li , Fang Li

In sparse recovery, the unique sparsest solution to an under-determined system of linear equations is of main interest. This scheme is commonly proposed to be applied to signal acquisition. In most cases, the signals are not sparse…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-07-16 Henning Zörlein , Faisal Akram , Martin Bossert