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The problem of computing minimally sparse solutions of under-determined linear systems is $NP$ hard in general. Subsets with extra properties, may allow efficient algorithms, most notably problems with the restricted isometry property (RIP)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-07 G. Welper

The relaxation systems are an important subclass of the passive systems that arise naturally in applications. We exploit the fact that they have highly structured state-space realisations to derive analytical solutions to some simple…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-17 Richard Pates , Carolina Bergeling , Anders Rantzer

This paper presents an algorithm tailored for the efficient recovery of sparse probability measures incorporating $\ell_0$-sparse regularization within the probability simplex constraint. Employing the Bregman proximal gradient method, our…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-26 Jianting Pan , Ming Yan

We investigate the problem of certifying optimality for sparse generalized linear models (GLMs), where sparsity is enforced through a cardinality constraint. While Branch-and-Bound (BnB) frameworks can certify optimality using perspective…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Jiachang Liu , Andrea Lodi , Soroosh Shafiee

This work deals with a regularization method enforcing solution sparsity of linear ill-posed problems by appropriate discretization in the image space. Namely, we formulate the so called least error method in an $\ell^1$ setting and perform…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-03 Kristian Bredies , Barbara Kaltenbacher , Elena Resmerita

For optimization problems with nonlinear constraints, linearly constrained Lagrangian (LCL) methods sequentially minimize a Lagrangian function subject to linearized constraints. These methods converge rapidly near a solution but may not be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Michael P. Friedlander , Michael A Saunders

Model instability and poor prediction of long-term behavior are common problems when modeling dynamical systems using nonlinear "black-box" techniques. Direct optimization of the long-term predictions, often called simulation error…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-01-25 Mark M. Tobenkin , Ian R. Manchester , Alexandre Megretski

Variational sparsity regularization based on $\ell^1$-norms and other nonlinear functionals has gained enormous attention recently, both with respect to its applications and its mathematical analysis. A focus in regularization theory has…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-11 Martin Burger , Jens Flemming , Bernd Hofmann

Variable selection is a fundamental task in statistical data analysis. Sparsity-inducing regularization methods are a popular class of methods that simultaneously perform variable selection and model estimation. The central problem is a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-16 Hongbo Dong , Kun Chen , Jeff Linderoth

In this paper we analyze a family of general random block coordinate descent methods for the minimization of $\ell_0$ regularized optimization problems, i.e. the objective function is composed of a smooth convex function and the $\ell_0$…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-07-21 Andrei Patrascu , Ion Necoara

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

Finding the sparsest solutions to a tensor complementarity problem is generally NP-hard due to the nonconvexity and noncontinuity of the involved $\ell_0$ norm. In this paper, a special type of tensor complementarity problems with…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2015-05-06 Ziyan Luo , Liqun Qi , Naihua Xiu

In this paper we propose optimisation methods for variational regularisation problems based on discretising the inverse scale space flow with discrete gradient methods. Inverse scale space flow generalises gradient flows by incorporating a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-11 Martin Benning , Erlend S. Riis , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

We consider the problem of learning a sparse graph under the Laplacian constrained Gaussian graphical models. This problem can be formulated as a penalized maximum likelihood estimation of the Laplacian constrained precision matrix. Like in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Jiaxi Ying , José Vinícius de M. Cardoso , Daniel P. Palomar

In exact sparse optimization problems on Rd (also known as sparsity constrained problems), one looks for solution that have few nonzero components. In this paper, we consider problems where sparsity is exactly measured either by the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-14 Jean-Philippe Chancelier , Michel De Lara , Ponts Paristech

We present a new algorithmic framework for grouped variable selection that is based on discrete mathematical optimization. While there exist several appealing approaches based on convex relaxations and nonconvex heuristics, we focus on…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-10-19 Hussein Hazimeh , Rahul Mazumder , Peter Radchenko

In this paper, we consider the $\alpha\| \cdot\|_{\ell_1}-\beta\| \cdot\|_{\ell_2}$ sparsity regularization with parameter $\alpha\geq\beta\geq0$ for nonlinear ill-posed inverse problems. We investigate the well-posedness of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-23 Liang Ding , Weimin Han

Non-convex optimization problems can be approximately solved via relaxation or local algorithms. For many practical problems such as optimal power flow (OPF) problems, both approaches tend to succeed in the sense that relaxation is usually…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-25 Fengyu Zhou , Steven H. Low

We identify a new sufficient condition for the finite convergence of moment relaxations of polynomial optimization problems with correlative sparsity. This condition, which follows from a solution to a correlatively sparse version of the…

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