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We propose an implicit iterative algorithm for an exact penalty method arising from inequality constrained optimization problems. A rapidly convergent fixed point method is developed for a regularized penalty functional. The applicability…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-10-05 Kazufumi Ito , Tomoya Takeuchi

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

We consider the extragradient method to minimize the sum of two functions, the first one being smooth and the second being convex. Under the Kurdyka-Lojasiewicz assumption, we prove that the sequence produced by the extragradient method…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-12-14 Trong Phong Nguyen , Edouard Pauwels , Emile Richard , Bruce W. Suter

In this paper, an inexact proximal-point penalty method is studied for constrained optimization problems, where the objective function is non-convex, and the constraint functions can also be non-convex. The proposed method approximately…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-02 Qihang Lin , Runchao Ma , Yangyang Xu

This paper treats the problem of minimizing a general continuously differentiable function subject to sparsity constraints. We present and analyze several different optimality criteria which are based on the notions of stationarity and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-03-22 Amir Beck , Yonina C. Eldar

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

In this paper we consider sparse approximation problems, that is, general $l_0$ minimization problems with the $l_0$-"norm" of a vector being a part of constraints or objective function. In particular, we first study the first-order…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-05-31 Zhaosong Lu , Yong Zhang

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

This paper deals with the solving of variational inequality problem where the constrained set is given as the intersection of a number of fixed-point sets. To this end, we present an extrapolated sequential constraint method. At each…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-30 Mootta Prangprakhon , Nimit Nimana

We consider a convex optimization problem with many linear inequality constraints. To deal with a large number of constraints, we provide a penalty reformulation of the problem, where the penalty is a variant of the one-sided Huber loss…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-03 Angelia Nedich , Tatiana Tatarenko

Penalty methods are a well known class of algorithms for constrained optimization. They transform a constrained problem into a sequence of unconstrained \emph{penalized} problems in the hope that approximate solutions of the latter converge…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-01 Youssef Diouane , Maxence Gollier , Dominique Orban

We consider a class of constrained optimization problems with a possibly nonconvex non-Lipschitz objective and a convex feasible set being the intersection of a polyhedron and a possibly degenerate ellipsoid. Such problems have a wide range…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-04-08 Xiaojun Chen , Zhaosong Lu , Ting Kei Pong

Sparse optimization receives increasing attention in many applications such as compressed sensing, variable selection in regression problems, and recently neural network compression in machine learning. For example, the problem of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-29 Saeed Damadi , Jinglai Shen

Compressed sensing is a technique to sample compressible signals below the Nyquist rate, whilst still allowing near optimal reconstruction of the signal. In this paper we present a theoretical analysis of the iterative hard thresholding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-05-06 Thomas Blumensath , Mike E. Davies

This paper is devoted to studying the stationary solutions of a general constrained optimization problem through its associated unconstrained penalized problems. We aim to answer the question, "what do the stationary solutions of a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-28 Ashkan Mohammadi

We study inexact fixed-point proximity algorithms for solving a class of sparse regularization problems involving the $\ell_0$ norm. Specifically, the $\ell_0$ model has an objective function that is the sum of a convex fidelity term and a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-30 Ronglong Fang , Yuesheng Xu , Mingsong Yan

Sparse reconstruction approaches using the re-weighted l1-penalty have been shown, both empirically and theoretically, to provide a significant improvement in recovering sparse signals in comparison to the l1-relaxation. However, numerical…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-12-06 Dmitry Malioutov , Aleksandr Aravkin

We consider linear inverse problems where the solution is assumed to have a sparse expansion on an arbitrary pre-assigned orthonormal basis. We prove that replacing the usual quadratic regularizing penalties by weighted l^p-penalties on the…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Ingrid Daubechies , Michel Defrise , Christine De Mol

The simulations indicate that the existing hard thresholding technique independent of the residual function may cause a dramatic increase or numerical oscillation of the residual. This inherit drawback of the hard thresholding renders the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Yun-Bin Zhao

Recently, in a series of papers [32,38,39,41], the ratio of $\ell_1$ and $\ell_2$ norms was proposed as a sparsity inducing function for noiseless compressed sensing. In this paper, we further study properties of such model in the noiseless…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-12 Liaoyuan Zeng , Peiran Yu , Ting Kei Pong