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The concepts of sparsity, and regularised estimation, have proven useful in many high-dimensional statistical applications. Dynamic factor models (DFMs) provide a parsimonious approach to modelling high-dimensional time series, however, it…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-03-22 Luke Mosley , Tak-Shing T. Chan , Alex Gibberd

We consider the unconstrained optimization problem whose objective function is composed of a smooth and a non-smooth conponents where the smooth component is the expectation a random function. This type of problem arises in some interesting…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-07-01 Qihang Lin , Xi Chen , Javier Pena

This paper considers a large class of problems where we seek to recover a low rank matrix and/or sparse vector from some set of measurements. While methods based on convex relaxations suffer from a (possibly large) estimator bias, and other…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-09-28 April Sagan , John E. Mitchell

In this paper, we review state-of-the-art methods for feature selection in statistics with an application-oriented eye. Indeed, sparsity is a valuable property and the profusion of research on the topic might have provided little guidance…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-11-08 Dimitris Bertsimas , Jean Pauphilet , Bart Van Parys

Accurate signal recovery or image reconstruction from indirect and possibly undersampled data is a topic of considerable interest; for example, the literature in the recent field of compressed sensing is already quite immense. Inspired by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-04-15 Stephen Becker , Jerome Bobin , Emmanuel Candes

The automated discovery of constitutive models from data has recently emerged as a promising alternative to the traditional model calibration paradigm. In this work, we present a fully automated framework for constitutive model discovery…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Jorge-Humberto Urrea-Quintero , David Anton , Laura De Lorenzis , Henning Wessels

In order to solve the minimization of a nonsmooth convex function, we design an inertial second-order dynamic algorithm, which is obtained by approximating the nonsmooth function by a class of smooth functions. By studying the asymptotic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-20 Xin Qu , Wei Bian

We study the Sparse Plus Low-Rank decomposition problem (SLR), which is the problem of decomposing a corrupted data matrix into a sparse matrix of perturbations plus a low-rank matrix containing the ground truth. SLR is a fundamental…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-11-15 Dimitris Bertsimas , Ryan Cory-Wright , Nicholas A. G. Johnson

This paper concerns the minimization of the composition of a nonsmooth convex function and a $\mathcal{C}^{1,1}$ mapping $F$ over a $\mathcal{C}^2$-smooth embedded closed submanifold $\mathcal{M}$. For this class of nonconvex and nonsmooth…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Hao He , Ruyu Liu , Yitian Qian , Shaohua Pan

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 investigate implicit regularization schemes for gradient descent methods applied to unpenalized least squares regression to solve the problem of reconstructing a sparse signal from an underdetermined system of linear measurements under…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-09-12 Tomas Vaškevičius , Varun Kanade , Patrick Rebeschini

This paper addresses the problem of sparsity penalized least squares for applications in sparse signal processing, e.g. sparse deconvolution. This paper aims to induce sparsity more strongly than L1 norm regularization, while avoiding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-06-15 Ivan W. Selesnick , Ilker Bayram

X-ray tomography is a reliable tool for determining the inner structure of 3D object with penetrating X-rays. However, traditional reconstruction methods such as FDK require dense angular sampling in the data acquisition phase leading to…

We study the non-smooth optimization problems in machine learning, where both the loss function and the regularizer are non-smooth functions. Previous studies on efficient empirical loss minimization assume either a smooth loss function or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-07-29 Tianbao Yang , Mehrdad Mahdavi , Rong Jin , Shenghuo Zhu

This paper investigates the theoretical guarantees of L1-analysis regularization when solving linear inverse problems. Most of previous works in the literature have mainly focused on the sparse synthesis prior where the sparsity is measured…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-10-03 Samuel Vaiter , Gabriel Peyré , Charles Dossal , Jalal Fadili

Performance of regularized least-squares estimation in noisy compressed sensing is analyzed in the limit when the dimensions of the measurement matrix grow large. The sensing matrix is considered to be from a class of random ensembles that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-08 Mikko Vehkapera , Yoshiyuki Kabashima , Saikat Chatterjee

We study minimization of a structured objective function, being the sum of a smooth function and a composition of a weakly convex function with a linear operator. Applications include image reconstruction problems with regularizers that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-01 Axel Böhm , Stephen J. Wright

Feature selection is an important data pre-processing in data mining and machine learning, which can reduce feature size without deteriorating model's performance. Recently, sparse regression based feature selection methods have received…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Zhenzhen Sun , Yuanlong Yu

Much of the existing theory on first-order non-smooth optimization is built on a restrictive assumption that the gradients of the objective function are uniformly bounded. We introduce a much more realistic class of generalized Lipschitz…

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