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The convex envelopes of the direct discrete measures, for the sparsity of vectors or for the low-rankness of matrices, have been utilized extensively as practical penalties in order to compute a globally optimal solution of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-22 Jiro Abe , Masao Yamagishi , Isao Yamada

Low-rank matrix models have been universally useful for numerous applications, from classical system identification to more modern matrix completion in signal processing and statistics. The nuclear norm has been employed as a convex…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-03-06 Kiryung Lee , Rakshith Sharma Srinivasa , Marius Junge , Justin Romberg

In this paper, we propose a successive convex approximation framework for sparse optimization where the nonsmooth regularization function in the objective function is nonconvex and it can be written as the difference of two convex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-26 Yang Yang , Marius Pesavento , Symeon Chatzinotas , Björn Ottersten

We introduce a new paradigm for solving regularized variational problems. These are typically formulated to address ill-posed inverse problems encountered in signal and image processing. The objective function is traditionally defined by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-22 Jean-Christophe Pesquet , Audrey Repetti , Matthieu Terris , Yves Wiaux

Robust tensor recovery plays an instrumental role in robustifying tensor decompositions for multilinear data analysis against outliers, gross corruptions and missing values and has a diverse array of applications. In this paper, we study…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-08-26 Donald Goldfarb , Zhiwei Qin

This paper presents a stochastic block-coordinate proximal Newton method for minimizing the sum of a blockwise Lipschitz-continuously differentiable function and a separable nonsmooth convex function. At each iteration, the method randomly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-25 Hong Zhu , Xun Qian

We develop a novel theoretical framework for understating OT schemes respecting a class structure. For this purpose, we propose a convex OT program with a sum-of-norms regularization term, which provably recovers the underlying class…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Arman Rahbar , Ashkan Panahi , Morteza Haghir Chehreghani , Devdatt Dubhashi , Hamid Krim

An algorithm for solving smooth nonconvex optimization problems is proposed that, in the worst-case, takes $\mathcal{O}(\epsilon^{-3/2})$ iterations to drive the norm of the gradient of the objective function below a prescribed positive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-16 Frank E. Curtis , Daniel P. Robinson , Mohammadreza Samadi

In the context of sparse recovery, it is known that most of existing regularizers such as $\ell_1$ suffer from some bias incurred by some leading entries (in magnitude) of the associated vector. To neutralize this bias, we propose a class…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-11-24 Zhaosong Lu , Xiaorui Li

The robust low-rank tensor completion problem addresses the challenge of recovering corrupted high-dimensional tensor data with missing entries, outliers, and sparse noise commonly found in real-world applications. Existing methodologies…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-16 Biswarup Karmakar , Ratikanta Behera

We consider the problem of recovering elements of a low-dimensional model from under-determined linear measurements. To perform recovery, we consider the minimization of a convex regularizer subject to a data fit constraint. Given a model,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-22 Yann Traonmilin , Rémi Gribonval , Samuel Vaiter

In this paper, we investigate the matrix estimation problem in the multi-response regression model with measurement errors. A nonconvex error-corrected estimator based on a combination of the amended loss function and the nuclear norm…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-09-19 Xin Li , Dongya Wu

Regularization is a central tool for addressing ill-posedness in inverse problems and statistical estimation, with the choice of a suitable penalty often determining the reliability and interpretability of downstream solutions. While recent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Oscar Leong , Eliza O'Reilly , Yong Sheng Soh

This letter proposes to estimate low-rank matrices by formulating a convex optimization problem with non-convex regularization. We employ parameterized non-convex penalty functions to estimate the non-zero singular values more accurately…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-14 Ankit Parekh , Ivan W. Selesnick

In this paper, we propose new methods to efficiently solve convex optimization problems encountered in sparse estimation, which include a new quasi-Newton method that avoids computing the Hessian matrix and improves efficiency, and we prove…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-06 Ryosuke Shimmura , Joe Suzuki

Entropic regularization is quickly emerging as a new standard in optimal transport (OT). It enables to cast the OT computation as a differentiable and unconstrained convex optimization problem, which can be efficiently solved using the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-21 Mathieu Blondel , Vivien Seguy , Antoine Rolet

A popular approach for estimating an unknown signal from noisy, linear measurements is via solving a so called \emph{regularized M-estimator}, which minimizes a weighted combination of a convex loss function and of a convex (typically,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-26 Christos Thrampoulidis , Ehsan Abbasi , Babak Hassibi

Robust Principal Component Analysis (RPCA) and its associated non-convex relaxation methods constitute a significant component of matrix completion problems, wherein matrix factorization strategies effectively reduce dimensionality and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-28 Zhenzhi Qin , Liping Zhang

Matrix completion is a well-studied problem with many machine learning applications. In practice, the problem is often solved by non-convex optimization algorithms. However, the current theoretical analysis for non-convex algorithms relies…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Yu Cheng , Rong Ge

This work introduces a new cubic regularization method for nonconvex unconstrained multiobjective optimization problems. At each iteration of the method, a model associated with the cubic regularization of each component of the objective…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-11 Douglas S. Gonçalves , Max L. N. Gonçalves , Jefferson G. Melo