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This paper investigates a general class of problems in which a lower bounded smooth convex function incorporating $\ell_{0}$ and $\ell_{2,0}$ regularization is minimized over a box constraint. Although such problems arise frequently in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-26 Yuge Ye , Qingna Li

Sparse representations of images are useful in many computer vision applications. Sparse coding with an $l_1$ penalty and a learned linear dictionary requires regularization of the dictionary to prevent a collapse in the $l_1$ norms of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Katrina Evtimova , Yann LeCun

Regularization is a common tool in variational inverse problems to impose assumptions on the parameters of the problem. One such assumption is sparsity, which is commonly promoted using lasso and total variation-like regularization.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-02-15 Jasper Marijn Everink , Yiqiu Dong , Martin Skovgaard Andersen

We proposed a new penalized method in this paper to solve sparse Poisson Regression problems. Being different from $\ell_1$ penalized log-likelihood estimation, our new method can be viewed as penalized weighted score function method. We…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-03-14 Jinzhu Jia , Fang Xie , Lihu Xu

The SparseStep algorithm is presented for the estimation of a sparse parameter vector in the linear regression problem. The algorithm works by adding an approximation of the exact counting norm as a constraint on the model parameters and…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-01-25 Gerrit J. J. van den Burg , Patrick J. F. Groenen , Andreas Alfons

The linear functional strategy for the regularization of inverse problems is considered. For selecting the regularization parameter therein, we propose the heuristic quasi-optimality principle and some modifications including the smoothness…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-23 Stefan Kindermann , Sergiy Pereverzyev , Andrey Pilipenko

Sparse regularization plays a central role in solving inverse problems arising from incomplete or corrupted measurements. Different regularizers correspond to different prior assumptions about the structure of the unknown signal, and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-16 Kanghun Lee , Hyungjoon Soh , Junghyo Jo

For statistical modeling wherein the data regime is unfavorable in terms of dimensionality relative to the sample size, finding hidden sparsity in the ground truth can be critical in formulating an accurate statistical model. The so-called…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-04 Matteo Bergamaschi , Andrea Cristofari , Vyacheslav Kungurtsev , Francesco Rinaldi

This paper presents a regularization technique incorporating a non-convex and non-smooth term, $\ell_{1}^{2}-\eta\ell_{2}^{2}$, with parameters $0<\eta\leq 1$ designed to address ill-posed linear problems that yield sparse solutions. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-16 Long Li , Liang Ding

This work studies the problem of sparse signal recovery with automatic grouping of variables. To this end, we investigate sorted nonsmooth penalties as a regularization approach for generalized linear models. We focus on a family of sorted…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-19 Anne Gagneux , Mathurin Massias , Emmanuel Soubies

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

This paper studies $\ell_1$ regularization with high-dimensional features for support vector machines with a built-in reject option (meaning that the decision of classifying an observation can be withheld at a cost lower than that of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2012-01-06 Marten Wegkamp , Ming Yuan

We generalize the heuristic parameter choice rule of Hanke-Raus for quadratic regularization to general variational regularization for solving linear as well as nonlinear ill-posed inverse problems in Banach spaces. Under source conditions…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-03 Qinian Jin

We consider the problem of sparse estimation in a factor analysis model. A traditional estimation procedure in use is the following two-step approach: the model is estimated by maximum likelihood method and then a rotation technique is…

Methodology · Statistics 2013-03-18 Kei Hirose , Michio Yamamoto

This article delves into the study of the theory of regularized learning in Banach spaces for linear-functional data. It encompasses discussions on representer theorems, pseudo-approximation theorems, and convergence theorems. Regularized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Qi Ye

The sparse optimization problems arise in many areas of science and engineering, such as compressed sensing, image processing, statistical and machine learning. The $\ell_{0}$-minimization problem is one of such optimization problems, which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-23 Jialiang Xu , Yun-Bin Zhao

In this work, we consider a constrained convex problem with linear inequalities and provide an inexact penalty re-formulation of the problem. The novelty is in the choice of the penalty functions, which are smooth and can induce a non-zero…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-04 Tatiana Tatarenko , Angelia Nedich

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

Machine learning models suffer from overfitting, which is caused by a lack of labeled data. To tackle this problem, we proposed a framework of regularization methods, called density-fixing, that can be used commonly for supervised and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Masanari Kimura , Ryohei Izawa

In this paper, we develop a randomized algorithm and theory for learning a sparse model from large-scale and high-dimensional data, which is usually formulated as an empirical risk minimization problem with a sparsity-inducing regularizer.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-10-18 Lijun Zhang , Tianbao Yang , Rong Jin , Zhi-Hua Zhou