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Robust Principal Component Analysis (RPCA) is a fundamental technique for decomposing data into low-rank and sparse components, which plays a critical role for applications such as image processing and anomaly detection. Traditional RPCA…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Kexin Li , You-wei Wen , Xu Xiao , Mingchao Zhao

Pruning of deep neural networks has been an effective technique for reducing model size while preserving most of the performance of dense networks, crucial for deploying models on memory and power-constrained devices. While recent sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Andy Li , Aiden Durrant , Milan Markovic , Tianjin Huang , Souvik Kundu , Tianlong Chen , Lu Yin , Georgios Leontidis

Sparse estimation methods are aimed at using or obtaining parsimonious representations of data or models. They were first dedicated to linear variable selection but numerous extensions have now emerged such as structured sparsity or kernel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2011-11-24 Francis Bach , Rodolphe Jenatton , Julien Mairal , Guillaume Obozinski

Feature selection and feature transformation, the two main ways to reduce dimensionality, are often presented separately. In this paper, a feature selection method is proposed by combining the popular transformation based dimensionality…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-04-22 Hong Tao , Chenping Hou , Feiping Nie , Yuanyuan Jiao , Dongyun Yi

This work aims at solving the problems with intractable sparsity-inducing norms that are often encountered in various machine learning tasks, such as multi-task learning, subspace clustering, feature selection, robust principal component…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-03 Feiping Nie , Zhanxuan Hu , Xiaoqian Wang , Rong Wang , Xuelong Li , Heng Huang

Sparse regularization techniques are well-established in machine learning, yet their application in neural networks remains challenging due to the non-differentiability of penalties like the $L_1$ norm, which is incompatible with stochastic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Chris Kolb , Tobias Weber , Bernd Bischl , David Rügamer

Weight averaging has become a standard technique for enhancing model performance. However, methods such as Stochastic Weight Averaging (SWA) and Latest Weight Averaging (LAWA) often require manually designed procedures to sample from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Peng Wang , Shengchao Hu , Zerui Tao , Guoxia Wang , Dianhai Yu , Li Shen , Quan Zheng , Dacheng Tao

This article proposes diffusion LMS strategies for distributed estimation over adaptive networks that are able to exploit sparsity in the underlying system model. The approach relies on convex regularization, common in compressive sensing,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-06-05 Paolo Di Lorenzo , Ali H. Sayed

Motivated by the observation that a given signal $\boldsymbol{x}$ admits sparse representations in multiple dictionaries $\boldsymbol{\Psi}_d$ but with varying levels of sparsity across dictionaries, we propose two new algorithms for the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-29 Rizwan Ahmad , Philip Schniter

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

We consider the sparse optimization problem with nonlinear constraints and an objective function, which is given by the sum of a general smooth mapping and an additional term defined by the $ \ell_0 $-quasi-norm. This term is used to obtain…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-19 Christian Kanzow , Alexandra Schwarz , Felix Weiß

The discontinuous operations inherent in quantization and sparsification introduce a long-standing obstacle to backpropagation, particularly in ultra-low precision and sparse regimes. While the community has long viewed quantization as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Chengxi Ye , Grace Chu , Yanfeng Liu , Yichi Zhang , Lukasz Lew , Li Zhang , Mark Sandler , Andrew Howard

It is now well understood that (1) it is possible to reconstruct sparse signals exactly from what appear to be highly incomplete sets of linear measurements and (2) that this can be done by constrained L1 minimization. In this paper, we…

Methodology · Statistics 2007-11-13 Emmanuel J. Candes , Michael B. Wakin , Stephen P. Boyd

Sparse estimation methods are aimed at using or obtaining parsimonious representations of data or models. While naturally cast as a combinatorial optimization problem, variable or feature selection admits a convex relaxation through the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-04-23 Francis Bach , Rodolphe Jenatton , Julien Mairal , Guillaume Obozinski

Efficient long-sequence generation is a critical challenge for Large Language Models. While recent sparse decoding methods improve efficiency, they suffer from KV cache misalignment, where approximation errors accumulate and degrade…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Yutao Sun , Tianzhu Ye , Li Dong , Yuqing Xia , Jian Chen , Yizhao Gao , Shijie Cao , Jianyong Wang , Furu Wei

Several challenges make it difficult for sparse neural networks to compete with dense models. First, setting a large fraction of weights to zero impairs forward and gradient signal propagation. Second, sparse studies often need to test…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Nolan Dey , Shane Bergsma , Joel Hestness

In many practical applications such as direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation and line spectral estimation, the sparsifying dictionary is usually characterized by a set of unknown parameters in a continuous domain. To apply the conventional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-18 Jun Fang , Jing Li , Yanning Shen , Hongbin Li , Shaoqian Li

Sparse representation learning has recently gained a great success in signal and image processing, thanks to recent advances in dictionary learning. To this end, the $\ell_0$-norm is often used to control the sparsity level. Nevertheless,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-19 Yuan Liu , Stéphane Canu , Paul Honeine , Su Ruan

In this paper we study the sparse coding problem in the context of sparse dictionary learning for image recovery. To this end, we consider and compare several state-of-the-art sparse optimization methods constructed using the shrinkage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Shima Shabani , Mohammadsadegh Khoshghiaferezaee , Michael Breuß

We consider a minimization problem whose objective function is the sum of a fidelity term, not necessarily convex, and a regularization term defined by a positive regularization parameter $\lambda$ multiple of the $\ell_0$ norm composed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-17 Yuesheng Xu