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48 results for sparsity-promoting regularizers

Paper develops a method to learn optimal sparsity-promoting regularizers for linear inverse problems.

problem Solving linear inverse problems with sparse solutions.
method Bilevel optimization framework to select an optimal synthesis operator BB.
result Established well-posedness and theoretical guarantees for the learning process.

In this paper, we study the effect of different regularizers and their implications in high dimensional image classification and sparse linear unmixing. Although kernelization or sparse methods are globally accepted solutions for processing data in high dimensions, we present here a study on the impact of the form of r…

2016-06-23abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper studies how regularization parameters affect sparsity in deep neural networks.

problem Reducing the complexity of deep neural networks by promoting sparsity.
method Derives 1\ell_1-norm sparsity-promoting models, characterizes sparsity levels, and develops algorithms for selecting optimal regularization parameters.
result Developed algorithms to select regularization parameters for desired sparsity levels in neural networks.

High dimensional regression benefits from sparsity promoting regularizations. Screening rules leverage the known sparsity of the solution by ignoring some variables in the optimization, hence speeding up solvers. When the procedure is proven not to discard features wrongly the rules are said to be \emph{safe}. In this …

2015-06-11abs ↗pdf ↗

The potential of recovering the topology of a grid using solely publicly available market data is explored here. In contemporary whole-sale electricity markets, real-time prices are typically determined by solving the network-constrained economic dispatch problem. Under a linear DC model, locational marginal prices (LM…

2013-12-02abs ↗pdf ↗

A new method for high-dimensional data classification reduces misclassification errors.

problem High-dimensional data classification with limited samples.
method Compressive Regularized Discriminant Analysis (CRDA) using joint-sparsity promoting hard thresholding and regularized covariance matrix estimators.
result CRDA gives fewer misclassification errors than competitors and accurately selects features.

New algorithms extract Koopman invariant subspaces from large-scale data.

problem Difficulty in discerning the Koopman invariant subspace from many Koopman eigenmodes.
method Multi-task feature learning and pruning procedure to remove spurious modes.
result Effective in approximating Koopman operator for complex flows.

Our goal is to estimate causal interactions in multivariate time series. Using vector autoregressive (VAR) models, these can be defined based on non-vanishing coefficients belonging to respective time-lagged instances. As in most cases a parsimonious causality structure is assumed, a promising approach to causal discov…

2009-01-15abs ↗pdf ↗

Sparsity-promoting priors have become increasingly popular over recent years due to an increased number of regression and classification applications involving a large number of predictors. In time series applications where observations are collected over time, it is often unrealistic to assume that the underlying spar…

2012-03-01abs ↗pdf ↗

Regularized least-squares approaches have been successfully applied to linear system identification. Recent approaches use quadratic penalty terms on the unknown impulse response defined by stable spline kernels, which control model space complexity by leveraging regularity and bounded-input bounded-output stability. T…

2013-09-30abs ↗pdf ↗

Proposes a neural network for sparsity regularization in inverse problems using Gaussian mixture.

problem Sparsity in inverse problems with limited significant components.
method Probabilistic sparsity prior as a mixture of degenerate Gaussians, trained with neural network.
result Neural network yields lower mean square error than LASSO, group LASSO, and iterative hard thresholding.

New framework explains deep neural networks using variational spline theory.

problem Understanding functions learned by deep neural networks.
method Developed a variational framework and function space.
result Deep ReLU networks are solutions to regularized data fitting problems over the proposed function space.

We propose to optimize the activation functions of a deep neural network by adding a corresponding functional regularization to the cost function. We justify the use of a second-order total-variation criterion. This allows us to derive a general representer theorem for deep neural networks that makes a direct connectio…

2018-02-26abs ↗pdf ↗

In this paper, the task-related fMRI problem is treated in its matrix factorization formulation, focused on the Dictionary Learning (DL) approach. The new method allows the incorporation of a priori knowledge associated both with the experimental design as well as with available brain Atlases. Moreover, the proposed me…

2018-02-05abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper finds sparsest ReLU networks for interpolating data.

problem Finding the sparsest neural network that fits a dataset.
method Proposes a continuous, differentiable objective function based on p\ell^p quasinorms.
result Global minimizers of the proposed objective correspond to sparsest ReLU networks.

In this paper, we consider the problem of recovering a sparse signal based on penalized least squares formulations. We develop a novel algorithm of primal-dual active set type for a class of nonconvex sparsity-promoting penalties, including 0\ell^0, bridge, smoothly clipped absolute deviation, capped 1\ell^1 and mini…

2013-10-04abs ↗pdf ↗

New neural architectures with multivariate nonlinearities are optimal in function space.

problem Optimality of neural architectures with multivariate nonlinearities.
method Construction of Banach spaces via kk-plane transform and sparsity-promoting norm, proving representer theorem.
result Neural architectures with multivariate nonlinearities are optimal in function space.

Level-set optimization formulations with data-driven constraints minimize a regularization functional subject to matching observations to a given error level. These formulations are widely used, particularly for matrix completion and sparsity promotion in data interpolation and denoising. The misfit level is typically …

2018-11-28abs ↗pdf ↗

Convex sparsity-promoting regularizations are ubiquitous in modern statistical learning. By construction, they yield solutions with few non-zero coefficients, which correspond to saturated constraints in the dual optimization formulation. Working set (WS) strategies are generic optimization techniques that consist in s…

2017-03-21abs ↗pdf ↗

Classical signal recovery based on 1\ell_1 minimization solves the least squares problem with all available measurements via sparsity-promoting regularization. In practice, it is often the case that not all measurements are available or required for recovery. Measurements might be corrupted/missing or they arrive sequ…

2018-10-08abs ↗pdf ↗

We present a family of expectation-maximization (EM) algorithms for binary and negative-binomial logistic regression, drawing a sharp connection with the variational-Bayes algorithm of Jaakkola and Jordan (2000). Indeed, our results allow a version of this variational-Bayes approach to be re-interpreted as a true EM al…

2013-05-31abs ↗pdf ↗

Recently, a number of mostly 1\ell_1-norm regularized least squares type deterministic algorithms have been proposed to address the problem of \emph{sparse} adaptive signal estimation and system identification. From a Bayesian perspective, this task is equivalent to maximum a posteriori probability estimation under a …

2014-01-13abs ↗pdf ↗

In this paper, we study the system identification problem for sparse linear time-invariant systems. We propose a sparsity promoting block-regularized estimator to identify the dynamics of the system with only a limited number of input-state data samples. We characterize the properties of this estimator under high-dimen…

2018-03-21abs ↗pdf ↗

In this paper, we introduce a new sparsity-promoting prior, namely, the "normal product" prior, and develop an efficient algorithm for sparse signal recovery under the Bayesian framework. The normal product distribution is the distribution of a product of two normally distributed variables with zero means and possibly …

2017-08-24abs ↗pdf ↗

A new filter adapts to heavy-tailed data without tuning, improving performance in challenging conditions.

problem Degraded performance of Kalman and EnKF in heavy-tailed distributions.
method Generalizes EnKF using t-distributions, estimating parameters via EM algorithm.
result Improves performance on challenging filtering problems with heavy-tailed noise.

Recently, there has been focus on penalized log-likelihood covariance estimation for sparse inverse covariance (precision) matrices. The penalty is responsible for inducing sparsity, and a very common choice is the convex l1l_1 norm. However, the best estimator performance is not always achieved with this penalty. The …

2014-08-05abs ↗pdf ↗

We consider an important class of signal processing problems where the signal of interest is known to be sparse, and can be recovered from data given auxiliary information about how the data was generated. For example, a sparse Green's function may be recovered from seismic experimental data using sparsity optimization…

2012-12-05abs ↗pdf ↗

This work shows how disentangled and sparse representations improve multi-task learning.

problem Improving generalization in multi-task learning with disentangled and sparse representations.
method Proved a new identifiability result and proposed a practical approach using sparsity-promoting bi-level optimization.
result Maximally sparse base-predictors yield disentangled representations under certain conditions.

Bayesian framework for robust model discovery from noisy data.

problem Robust model discovery from noisy, sparse and irregular observations of nonlinear systems.
method Bayesian differential programming using Hamiltonian Monte Carlo and sparsity-promoting priors.
result Efficient inference of posterior distributions over plausible models with quantified uncertainty.