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This paper presents a numerical framework for the low-rank approximation of the solution to three-dimensional parabolic problems. The key contribution of this work is the tensorization process based on a tensor-train reformulation of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-15 Gianmarco Manzini , Tommaso Sorgente

In this paper we propose a second--order method for solving \emph{linear composite sparse optimization problems} consisting of minimizing the sum of a differentiable (possibly nonconvex function) and a nondifferentiable convex term. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-15 Pedro Merino , Juan Carlos De Los Reyes

We study sparse solutions of optimal control problems governed by PDEs with uncertain coefficients. We propose two formulations, one where the solution is a deterministic control optimizing the mean objective, and a formulation aiming at…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-20 Chen Li , Georg Stadler

The convergence of many numerical optimization techniques is highly dependent on the initial guess given to the solver. To address this issue, we propose a novel approach that utilizes tensor methods to initialize existing optimization…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Suhan Shetty , Teguh Lembono , Tobias Loew , Sylvain Calinon

A new exact projective penalty method is proposed for the equivalent reduction of constrained optimization problems to nonsmooth unconstrained ones. In the method, the original objective function is extended to infeasible points by summing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-05 Vladimir Norkin

We study the problem of estimating high-dimensional regression models regularized by a structured sparsity-inducing penalty that encodes prior structural information on either the input or output variables. We consider two widely adopted…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2012-07-02 Xi Chen , Qihang Lin , Seyoung Kim , Jaime G. Carbonell , Eric P. Xing

Training neural networks is a challenging non-convex optimization problem, and backpropagation or gradient descent can get stuck in spurious local optima. We propose a novel algorithm based on tensor decomposition for guaranteed training of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-01-13 Majid Janzamin , Hanie Sedghi , Anima Anandkumar

We propose a new methodology for parameterized constrained robust optimization, an important class of optimization problems under uncertainty, based on learning with a self-supervised penalty-based loss function. Whereas supervised learning…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-10 Wyame Benslimane , Paul Grigas

Many real-world problems, such as those with fairness constraints, involve complex expectation constraints and large datasets, necessitating the design of efficient stochastic methods to solve them. Most existing research focuses on cases…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-11 Wei Liu , Yangyang Xu

Recovering nonlinearly degraded signal in the presence of noise is a challenging problem. In this work, this problem is tackled by minimizing the sum of a non convex least-squares fit criterion and a penalty term. We assume that the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-27 Marc Castella , Jean-Christophe Pesquet , Arthur Marmin

We present a stochastic optimization method that uses a fourth-order regularized model to find local minima of smooth and potentially non-convex objective functions with a finite-sum structure. This algorithm uses sub-sampled derivatives…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-18 Aurelien Lucchi , Jonas Kohler

A sequential quadratic programming method is designed for solving general smooth nonlinear stochastic optimization problems subject to expectation equality constraints. We consider the setting where the objective and constraint function…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Haoming Shen , Yang Zeng , Baoyu Zhou

We present a new approach to solve the sparse approximation or best subset selection problem, namely find a $k$-sparse vector ${\bf x}\in\mathbb{R}^d$ that minimizes the $\ell_2$ residual $\lVert A{\bf x}-{\bf y} \rVert_2$. We consider a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Tal Amir , Ronen Basri , Boaz Nadler

We consider the general nonlinear optimization problem where the objective function has an additional term defined by the $ \ell_0 $-quasi-norm in order to promote sparsity of a solution. This problem is highly difficult due to its…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-27 Christian Kanzow , Felix Weiß

We propose a general formulation of nonconvex and nonsmooth sparse optimization problems with convex set constraint, which can take into account most existing types of nonconvex sparsity-inducing terms, bringing strong applicability to a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Hao Wang , Fan Zhang , Yuanming Shi , Yaohua Hu

We consider the projected gradient algorithm for the nonconvex best subset selection problem that minimizes a given empirical loss function under an $\ell_0$-norm constraint. Through decomposing the feasible set of the given sparsity…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-13 Jan Harold Alcantara , Ching-pei Lee

We present an approach for penalized tensor decomposition (PTD) that estimates smoothly varying latent factors in multi-way data. This generalizes existing work on sparse tensor decomposition and penalized matrix decompositions, in a manner…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-05-16 Oscar Hernan Madrid Padilla , James G. Scott

In this manuscript, we introduce the tensor-train reduced basis method, a novel projection-based reduced-order model designed for the efficient solution of parameterized partial differential equations. While reduced-order models are widely…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-06 Nicholas Mueller , Yiran Zhao , Santiago Badia , Tiangang Cui

We present PFNN, a penalty-free neural network method, to efficiently solve a class of second-order boundary-value problems on complex geometries. To reduce the smoothness requirement, the original problem is reformulated to a weak form so…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-03 Hailong Sheng , Chao Yang

This paper is concerned with the approximation of high-dimensional functions in a statistical learning setting, by empirical risk minimization over model classes of functions in tree-based tensor format. These are particular classes of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-01-15 Erwan Grelier , Anthony Nouy , Mathilde Chevreuil