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A function $f : \mathbb{F}_2^n \to \mathbb{R}$ is $s$-sparse if it has at most $s$ non-zero Fourier coefficients. Motivated by applications to fast sparse Fourier transforms over $\mathbb{F}_2^n$, we study efficient algorithms for the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Grigory Yaroslavtsev , Samson Zhou

This paper investigates the approximation properties of deep neural networks with piecewise-polynomial activation functions. We derive the required depth, width, and sparsity of a deep neural network to approximate any H\"{o}lder smooth…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-06 Denis Belomestny , Alexey Naumov , Nikita Puchkin , Sergey Samsonov

In this paper we focus on the linear functionals defining an approximate version of the gradient of a function. These functionals are often used when dealing with optimization problems where the computation of the gradient of the objective…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-21 Marco Boresta , Tommaso Colombo , Alberto De Santis , Stefano Lucidi

Scaled sparse linear regression jointly estimates the regression coefficients and noise level in a linear model. It chooses an equilibrium with a sparse regression method by iteratively estimating the noise level via the mean residual…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2012-06-22 Tingni Sun , Cun-Hui Zhang

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

In high dimensional settings, sparse structures are crucial for efficiency, both in term of memory, computation and performance. It is customary to consider $\ell_1$ penalty to enforce sparsity in such scenarios. Sparsity enforcing methods,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-22 Eugene Ndiaye , Olivier Fercoq , Alexandre Gramfort , Vincent Leclère , Joseph Salmon

In this paper, we propose a method to address the problem of source estimation for Sparse Component Analysis (SCA) in the presence of additive noise. Our method is a generalization of a recently proposed method (SL0), which has the…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2008-11-19 Hamed Firouzi , Masoud Farivar , Massoud Babaie-Zadeh , Christian Jutten

The observations in many applications consist of counts of discrete events, such as photons hitting a dector, which cannot be effectively modeled using an additive bounded or Gaussian noise model, and instead require a Poisson noise model.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-17 Zachary T. Harmany , Roummel F. Marcia , Rebecca M. Willett

In this paper a new result of recovery of sparse vectors from deterministic and noisy measurements by l1 minimization is given. The sparse vector is randomly chosen and follows a generic p-sparse model introduced by Candes and al. The main…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-12-04 Charles Dossal , Rémi Tesson

We consider the problem of approximating a function from $L^2$ by an element of a given $m$-dimensional space $V_m$, associated with some feature map $\boldsymbol{\varphi}$, using evaluations of the function at random points $x_1,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-01 Anthony Nouy , Bertrand Michel

Finding the sparse solution of an underdetermined system of linear equations has many applications, especially, it is used in Compressed Sensing (CS), Sparse Component Analysis (SCA), and sparse decomposition of signals on overcomplete…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-01-29 Hosein Mohimani , Massoud Babaie-Zadeh , Irina Gorodnitsky , Christian Jutten

Randomized matrix sparsification has proven to be a fruitful technique for producing faster algorithms in applications ranging from graph partitioning to semidefinite programming. In the decade or so of research into this technique, the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-11-23 Alex Gittens , Joel A. Tropp

We present estimators for a well studied statistical estimation problem: the estimation for the linear regression model with soft sparsity constraints ($\ell_q$ constraint with $0<q\leq1$) in the high-dimensional setting. We first present a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-11-11 Li Zhang

Sparse representation has been applied successfully in abnormal event detection, in which the baseline is to learn a dictionary accompanied by sparse codes. While much emphasis is put on discriminative dictionary construction, there are no…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-15 Huamin Ren , Hong Pan , Søren Ingvor Olsen , Thomas B. Moeslund

The task of approximating a function of d variables from its evaluations at a given number of points is ubiquitous in numerical analysis and engineering applications. When d is large, this task is challenged by the so-called curse of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-12-21 Albert Cohen , Giovanni Migliorati

Random feature methods have been successful in various machine learning tasks, are easy to compute, and come with theoretical accuracy bounds. They serve as an alternative approach to standard neural networks since they can represent…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-01-21 Abolfazl Hashemi , Hayden Schaeffer , Robert Shi , Ufuk Topcu , Giang Tran , Rachel Ward

Motivated by the orthogonal series density estimation in $L^2([0,1],\mu)$, in this project we consider a new class of functions that we call the approximate sparsity class. This new class is characterized by the rate of decay of the…

Econometrics · Economics 2025-08-14 Lucas Z. Zhang

Conventional algorithms for sparse signal recovery and sparse representation rely on $l_1$-norm regularized variational methods. However, when applied to the reconstruction of $\textit{sparse images}$, i.e., images where only a few pixels…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-09 Sohil Shah , Tom Goldstein , Christoph Studer

We propose a new method for reconstruction of sparse signals with and without noisy perturbations, termed the subspace pursuit algorithm. The algorithm has two important characteristics: low computational complexity, comparable to that of…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2009-01-08 Wei Dai , Olgica Milenkovic

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