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Regularization using the L0 pseudo-norm is a common approach to promote sparsity, with widespread applications in machine learning and signal processing. However, solving such problems is known to be NP-hard. Recently, the L0 Bregman…

In this paper, we study (noisy) linear systems, and their $\ell_0$-regularized optimization problems, coupled with general data fidelity terms. Recent approaches for solving this class of problems have proposed to consider non-convex exact…

Relying on the co-area formula, an exact relaxation framework for minimizing objectives involving the total variation of a binary valued function (of bounded variation) is presented. The underlying problem class covers many important…

The (global) Lipschitz smoothness condition is crucial in establishing the convergence theory for most optimization methods. Unfortunately, most machine learning and signal processing problems are not Lipschitz smooth. This motivates us to…

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…

In this paper, we propose the approximate Bregman proximal gradient algorithm (ABPG) for solving composite nonconvex optimization problems. ABPG employs a new distance that approximates the Bregman distance, making the subproblem of ABPG…

An optimal transport problem on finite spaces is a linear program. Recently, a relaxation of the optimal transport problem via strictly convex functions, especially via the Kullback--Leibler divergence, sheds new light on data sciences.…

We propose a unifying algorithm for non-smooth non-convex optimization. The algorithm approximates the objective function by a convex model function and finds an approximate (Bregman) proximal point of the convex model. This approximate…

In this paper, we propose some accelerated methods for solving optimization problems under the condition of relatively smooth and relatively Lipschitz continuous functions with an inexact oracle. We consider the problem of minimizing the…

In this paper, we consider a class of difference-of-convex (DC) optimization problems, which require only a weaker restricted $L$-smooth adaptable property on the smooth part of the objective function, instead of the standard global…

In this paper, we study the low-rank matrix minimization problem, where the loss function is convex but nonsmooth and the penalty term is defined by the cardinality function. We first introduce an exact continuous relaxation, that is, both…

A regularized minimization model with $l_1$-norm penalty (RP) is introduced for training the autoencoders that belong to a class of two-layer neural networks. We show that the RP can act as an exact penalty model which shares the same…

Penalty methods are a well known class of algorithms for constrained optimization. They transform a constrained problem into a sequence of unconstrained \emph{penalized} problems in the hope that approximate solutions of the latter converge…

In this work, we consider a class of differentiable criteria for sparse image computing problems, where a nonconvex regularization is applied to an arbitrary linear transform of the target image. As special cases, it includes…

We present a new approach for computing approximate global minimizers to a large class of non-local pairwise interaction problems defined over probability distributions. The approach predicts candidate global minimizers, with a recovery…

Modern statistical applications often involve minimizing an objective function that may be nonsmooth and/or nonconvex. This paper focuses on a broad Bregman-surrogate algorithm framework including the local linear approximation, mirror…

This two-part paper is concerned with the problem of minimizing a linear objective function subject to a bilinear matrix inequality (BMI) constraint. In this part, we first consider a family of convex relaxations which transform BMI…

This article considers nonconvex global optimization problems subject to uncertainties described by continuous random variables. Such problems arise in chemical process design, renewable energy systems, stochastic model predictive control,…

We focus on the minimization of the least square loss function either under a $k$-sparse constraint or with a sparse penalty term. Based on recent results, we reformulate the $\ell_0$ pseudo-norm exactly as a convex minimization problem by…

This paper presents a unified framework for smooth convex regularization of discrete optimal transport problems. In this context, the regularized optimal transport turns out to be equivalent to a matrix nearness problem with respect to…