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Compressed sensing seeks to invert an underdetermined linear system by exploiting additional knowledge of the true solution. Over the last decade, several instances of compressed sensing have been studied for various applications, and for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-08-20 Jameson Cahill , Dustin G. Mixon

Robust design of autonomous systems under uncertainty is an important yet challenging problem. This work proposes a robust controller that consists of a state estimator and a tube based predictive control law. The class of linear systems…

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The availability of deep hedging has opened new horizons for solving hedging problems under a large variety of realistic market conditions. At the same time, any model - be it a traditional stochastic model or a market generator - is at…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2025-02-07 Yannick Limmer , Blanka Horvath

The uncertainties in material and other properties of structures are usually spatially correlated. We introduce an efficient technique for representing and processing spatially correlated random fields in robust topology optimisation of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-27 Ismael Ben-Yelun , Ahmet Oguzhan Yuksel , Fehmi Cirak

In robust optimization, the general aim is to find a solution that performs well over a set of possible parameter outcomes, the so-called uncertainty set. In this paper, we assume that the uncertainty size is not fixed, and instead aim at…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-06-24 André Chassein , Marc Goerigk

Regularization has become a primary tool for developing reliable estimators of the covariance matrix in high-dimensional settings. To curb the curse of dimensionality, numerous methods assume that the population covariance (or inverse…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-02-19 Jacob Bien

This paper addresses the problem of optimally controlling nonlinear systems with norm-bounded disturbances and parametric uncertainties while robustly satisfying constraints. The proposed approach jointly optimizes a nominal nonlinear…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-14 Antoine P. Leeman , Jerome Sieber , Samir Bennani , Melanie N. Zeilinger

We study a generalized framework for structured sparsity. It extends the well-known methods of Lasso and Group Lasso by incorporating additional constraints on the variables as part of a convex optimization problem. This framework provides…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2011-06-28 Andreas Argyriou , Luca Baldassarre , Jean Morales , Massimiliano Pontil

We propose an adaptive regularization scheme in a variational framework where a convex composite energy functional is optimized. We consider a number of imaging problems including denoising, segmentation and motion estimation, which are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-01 Byung-Woo Hong , Ja-Keoung Koo , Hendrik Dirks , Martin Burger

We present TRex, a flexible and robust Tomographic Reconstruction framework using proximal algorithms. We provide an overview and perform an experimental comparison between the famous iterative reconstruction methods in terms of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-06-14 Mohamed Aly , Guangming Zang , Wolfgang Heidrich , Peter Wonka

Regression by composition provides a flexible framework for constructing conditional distributions through sequential group actions. However, when multiple flows act on the same distribution, the model becomes non-identifiable, leading to…

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We propose a unified class of calibration weighting methods based on weighted generalized entropy to handle missing at random (MAR) data with improved stability and efficiency. The proposed generalized entropy calibration (GEC) formulates…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-11-07 Yonghyun Kwon , Jae Kwang Kim , Yumou Qiu

Robust methods, though ubiquitous in practice, are yet to be fully understood in the context of regularized estimation and high dimensions. Even simple questions become challenging very quickly. For example, classical statistical theory…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-11-10 Jing Zhou , Gerda Claeskens , Jelena Bradic

Generalization is one of the fundamental issues in machine learning. However, traditional techniques like uniform convergence may be unable to explain generalization under overparameterization. As alternative approaches, techniques based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Jiaye Teng , Jianhao Ma , Yang Yuan

We propose, analyze, and test new robust iterative solvers for systems of linear algebraic equations arising from the space-time finite element discretization of reduced optimality systems defining the approximate solution of hyperbolic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-08 Ulrich Langer , Richard Löscher , Olaf Steinbach , Huidong Yang

A common problem in the optimization of structures is the handling of uncertainties in the parameters. If the parameters appear in the constraints, the uncertainties can lead to an infinite number of constraints. Usually the constraints…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-05-01 Daniel P. Mohr , Ina Stein , Thomas Matzies , Christina A. Knapek

The non-convexity and intractability of distributionally robust chance constraints make them challenging to cope with. From a data-driven perspective, we propose formulating it as a robust optimization problem to ensure that the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-23 Zhiping Chen , Wentao Ma , Bingbing Ji

Conformal prediction provides finite-sample, distribution-free coverage under exchangeability, but standard constructions may lack robustness in the presence of outliers or heavy tails. We propose a robust conformal method based on a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Alejandro Cholaquidis , Emilien Joly , Leonardo Moreno

Robust stability and stochastic stability have separately seen intense study in control theory for many decades. In this work we establish relations between these properties for discrete-time systems and employ them for robust control…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-04-20 Benjamin Gravell , Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani , Tyler Summers