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Ultrasound computed tomography (USCT) holds great promise for breast cancer screening. Waveform inversion-based image reconstruction methods account for higher order diffraction effects and can produce high-resolution USCT images, but are…

Medical Physics · Physics 2017-08-25 Thomas P. Matthews , Kun Wang , Cuiping Li , Neb Duric , Mark A. Anastasio

The risk of overparameterized models, in particular deep neural networks, is often double-descent shaped as a function of the model size. Recently, it was shown that the risk as a function of the early-stopping time can also be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Fatih Furkan Yilmaz , Reinhard Heckel

Bilevel optimization is a fundamental tool in hierarchical decision-making and has been widely applied to machine learning tasks such as hyperparameter tuning, meta-learning, and continual learning. While significant progress has been made…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-25 Nazanin Abolfazli , Sina Sharifi , Mahyar Fazlyab , Erfan Yazdandoost Hamedani

The problem of reconstructing a two-dimensional (2D) current distribution in a superconductor from a 2D magnetic field measurement is recognized as a first-kind integral equation and resolved using the method of Regularization.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 D. M. Feldmann

This paper addresses the optimization problem of minimizing non-convex continuous functions, which is relevant in the context of high-dimensional machine learning applications characterized by over-parametrization. We analyze a randomized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Jim Zhao , Aurelien Lucchi , Nikita Doikov

The goal of this paper is to settle the study of non-commutative optimal transport problems with convex regularization, in their static and finite-dimensional formulations. We consider both the balanced and unbalanced problem and show in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-06-27 Emanuele Caputo , Augusto Gerolin , Nataliia Monina , Lorenzo Portinale

Deep learning systems are known to exhibit implicit regularization (alt. implicit bias), favoring simple solutions instead of merely minimizing the loss function. In some cases, we can analytically derive the implicit regularization --…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-08 Joseph H. Rudoler , Kevin Tan , Giles Hooker , Konrad P. Kording

Dense depth and surface normal predictors should possess the equivariant property to cropping-and-resizing -- cropping the input image should result in cropping the same output image. However, we find that state-of-the-art depth and normal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Yuanyi Zhong , Anand Bhattad , Yu-Xiong Wang , David Forsyth

In this paper a robust second-order method is developed for the solution of strongly convex l1-regularized problems. The main aim is to make the proposed method as inexpensive as possible, while even difficult problems can be efficiently…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-01-13 Kimon Fountoulakis , Jacek Gondzio

In this paper we propose distributed dual gradient algorithms for linearly constrained separable convex problems and analyze their rate of convergence under different assumptions. Under the strong convexity assumption on the primal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-02-04 Ion Necoara , Valentin Nedelcu

In this paper, we study the iteration complexity of cubic regularization of Newton method for solving composite minimization problems with uniformly convex objective. We introduce the notion of second-order condition number of a certain…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-21 Nikita Doikov , Yurii Nesterov

Adaptive regularization methods pre-multiply a descent direction by a preconditioning matrix. Due to the large number of parameters of machine learning problems, full-matrix preconditioning methods are prohibitively expensive. We show how…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Naman Agarwal , Brian Bullins , Xinyi Chen , Elad Hazan , Karan Singh , Cyril Zhang , Yi Zhang

Entropy regularized Markov decision processes have been widely used in reinforcement learning. This paper is concerned with the primal-dual formulation of the entropy regularized problems. Standard first-order methods suffer from slow…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-13 Haoya Li , Hsiang-fu Yu , Lexing Ying , Inderjit Dhillon

In this paper we consider new regularization methods for linear inverse problems of dynamic type. These methods are based on dynamic programming techniques for linear quadratic optimal control problems. Two different approaches are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-26 S. Kindermann , A. Leitao

In the framework of real Hilbert spaces, we investigate first-order dynamical systems governed by monotone and continuous operators. We demonstrate that when the monotone operator flow is augmented with a Tikhonov regularization term, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-29 Radu Ioan Bot , Dang-Khoa Nguyen

Many statistical estimators for high-dimensional linear regression are M-estimators, formed through minimizing a data-dependent square loss function plus a regularizer. This work considers a new class of estimators implicitly defined…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-02-15 Peng Zhao , Yun Yang , Qiao-Chu He

Converting a parametric curve into the implicit form, which is called implicitization, has always been a popular but challenging problem in geometric modeling and related applications. However, the existing methods mostly suffer from the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Minghao Guo , Yan Gao , Zheng Pan

As the problem of minimizing functionals on the Wasserstein space encompasses many applications in machine learning, different optimization algorithms on $\mathbb{R}^d$ have received their counterpart analog on the Wasserstein space. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-20 Clément Bonet , Théo Uscidda , Adam David , Pierre-Cyril Aubin-Frankowski , Anna Korba

We propose regularization strategies for learning discriminative models that are robust to in-class variations of the input data. We use the Wasserstein-2 geometry to capture semantically meaningful neighborhoods in the space of images, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Alex Tong Lin , Yonatan Dukler , Wuchen Li , Guido Montufar

Convex regularizers are often used for sparse learning. They are easy to optimize, but can lead to inferior prediction performance. The difference of $\ell_1$ and $\ell_2$ ($\ell_{1-2}$) regularizer has been recently proposed as a nonconvex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-21 Quanming Yao , James T. Kwok , Xiawei Guo