Exact continuous relaxations of l0-regularized criteria with non-quadratic data terms

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Main Authors: Essafri, M'hamed, Calatroni, Luca, Soubies, Emmanuel
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author Essafri, M'hamed
Calatroni, Luca
Soubies, Emmanuel
author_facet Essafri, M'hamed
Calatroni, Luca
Soubies, Emmanuel
contents We propose a new class of exact continuous relaxations of l0-regularized criteria involving non-quadratic data terms such as the Kullback-Leibler divergence and the logistic regression, possibly combined with an l2 regularization. We first prove the existence of global minimizers for such problems and characterize their local minimizers.Then, we propose the l0 Bregman Relaxation (B-rex), a continuous approximation of the l0 pseudo-norm defined in terms of suitable Bregman distances, which leads to an exact continuous relaxations of the original l0-regularized problem in the sense that it does not alter its set of global minimizers and reduces the non-convexity by eliminating certain local minimizers. Both features make the relaxed problem more amenable to be solved by standard non-convex optimization algorithms. In this spirit, we consider the proximal gradient algorithm and provide explicit computation of proximal points for the B-rex penalty in several cases. Finally, we report a set of numerical results illustrating the geometrical behavior of the proposed B-rex penalty for different choices of the underlying Bregman distance, its relation with convex envelopes, as well as its exact relaxation properties in 1D/2D and higher dimensions.
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spellingShingle Exact continuous relaxations of l0-regularized criteria with non-quadratic data terms
Essafri, M'hamed
Calatroni, Luca
Soubies, Emmanuel
Optimization and Control
We propose a new class of exact continuous relaxations of l0-regularized criteria involving non-quadratic data terms such as the Kullback-Leibler divergence and the logistic regression, possibly combined with an l2 regularization. We first prove the existence of global minimizers for such problems and characterize their local minimizers.Then, we propose the l0 Bregman Relaxation (B-rex), a continuous approximation of the l0 pseudo-norm defined in terms of suitable Bregman distances, which leads to an exact continuous relaxations of the original l0-regularized problem in the sense that it does not alter its set of global minimizers and reduces the non-convexity by eliminating certain local minimizers. Both features make the relaxed problem more amenable to be solved by standard non-convex optimization algorithms. In this spirit, we consider the proximal gradient algorithm and provide explicit computation of proximal points for the B-rex penalty in several cases. Finally, we report a set of numerical results illustrating the geometrical behavior of the proposed B-rex penalty for different choices of the underlying Bregman distance, its relation with convex envelopes, as well as its exact relaxation properties in 1D/2D and higher dimensions.
title Exact continuous relaxations of l0-regularized criteria with non-quadratic data terms
topic Optimization and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.06483