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Models based on approximation capabilities have recently been studied in the context of Optimal Recovery. These models, however, are not compatible with overparametrization, since model- and data-consistent functions could then be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-02 Simon Foucart

We study the problem of estimating a rank one signal matrix from an observed matrix generated by corrupting the signal with additive rotationally invariant noise. We develop a new class of approximate message-passing algorithms for this…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-09 Rishabh Dudeja , Songbin Liu , Junjie Ma

A fundamental problem in statistics and machine learning is to estimate a function $f$ from possibly noisy observations of its point samples. The goal is to design a numerical algorithm to construct an approximation $\hat f$ to $f$ in a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-05-30 Ronald DeVore , Robert D. Nowak , Rahul Parhi , Guergana Petrova , Jonathan W. Siegel

When attempting to recover functions from observational data, one naturally seeks to do so in an optimal manner with respect to some modeling assumption. With a focus put on the worst-case setting, this is the standard goal of Optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-02 Mahmood Ettehad , Simon Foucart

This paper focuses on regularisation methods using models up to the third order to search for up to second-order critical points of a finite-sum minimisation problem. The variant presented belongs to the framework of [3]: it employs random…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-05 Stefania Bellavia , Gianmarco Gurioli , Benedetta Morini , Philippe L. Toint

A novel algorithm for the recovery of low-rank matrices acquired via compressive linear measurements is proposed and analyzed. The algorithm, a variation on the iterative hard thresholding algorithm for low-rank recovery, is designed to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-30 Simon Foucart , Srinivas Subramanian

We introduce \textit{basic inequalities} for first-order iterative optimization algorithms, forming a simple and versatile framework that connects implicit and explicit regularization. While related inequalities appear in the literature, we…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Seunghoon Paik , Kangjie Zhou , Matus Telgarsky , Ryan J. Tibshirani

In this paper, we propose a method for the approximation of the solution of high-dimensional weakly coercive problems formulated in tensor spaces using low-rank approximation formats. The method can be seen as a perturbation of a minimal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-02-13 Marie Billaud-Friess , Anthony Nouy , Olivier Zahm

Noisy matrix completion has attracted significant attention due to its applications in recommendation systems, signal processing and image restoration. Most existing works rely on (weighted) least squares methods under various low-rank…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-12-17 Ziyuan Chen , Fang Yao

In this paper, we propose an inexact block coordinate descent algorithm for large-scale nonsmooth nonconvex optimization problems. At each iteration, a particular block variable is selected and updated by inexactly solving the original…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-12 Yang Yang , Marius Pesavento , Zhi-Quan Luo , Björn Ottersten

We propose a stochastic nonconvex optimization algorithm that achieves almost sure $\tilde{\mathcal{O}}(\epsilon^{-1.5})$ iteration complexity for problems with smooth objective functions and gradients only observable with noise. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-30 Yunsoo Ha , Sara Shashaani , Quoc Tran-dinh

A regularization algorithm allowing random noise in derivatives and inexact function values is proposed for computing approximate local critical points of any order for smooth unconstrained optimization problems. For an objective function…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-07 S. Bellavia , G. Gurioli , B. Morini , Ph. L. Toint

This paper studies the matrix completion problem under arbitrary sampling schemes. We propose a new estimator incorporating both max-norm and nuclear-norm regularization, based on which we can conduct efficient low-rank matrix recovery…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-09-27 Ethan X. Fang , Han Liu , Kim-Chuan Toh , Wen-Xin Zhou

The paper addresses the problem of low-rank trace norm minimization. We propose an algorithm that alternates between fixed-rank optimization and rank-one updates. The fixed-rank optimization is characterized by an efficient factorization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-06-04 B. Mishra , G. Meyer , F. Bach , R. Sepulchre

This paper considers the problem of recovery of a low-rank matrix in the situation when most of its entries are not observed and a fraction of observed entries are corrupted. The observations are noisy realizations of the sum of a low rank…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-07-05 Olga Klopp , Karim Lounici , Alexandre B. Tsybakov

We introduce a general framework to handle structured models (sparse and block-sparse with possibly overlapping blocks). We discuss new methods for their recovery from incomplete observation, corrupted with deterministic and stochastic…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-02-28 Anatoli Juditsky , Fatma Kılınç Karzan , Arkadi Nemirovski , Boris Polyak

Successive quadratic approximations, or second-order proximal methods, are useful for minimizing functions that are a sum of a smooth part and a convex, possibly nonsmooth part that promotes regularization. Most analyses of iteration…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-25 Ching-pei Lee , Stephen J. Wright

The goal of model-based diagnosis is to isolate causes of anomalous system behavior and recommend inexpensive repair actions in response. In general, precomputing optimal repair policies is intractable. To date, investigators addressing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-02-21 Sampath Srinivas , Eric J. Horvitz

In this paper, we consider the problem of identifying a linear map from measurements which are subject to intermittent and arbitarily large errors. This is a fundamental problem in many estimation-related applications such as fault…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-08-09 Laurent Bako , Henrik Ohlsson

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