Inexact FPPA for the $\ell_0$ Sparse Regularization Problem

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Hauptverfasser: Fang, Ronglong, Xu, Yuesheng, Yan, Mingsong
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author Fang, Ronglong
Xu, Yuesheng
Yan, Mingsong
author_facet Fang, Ronglong
Xu, Yuesheng
Yan, Mingsong
contents We study inexact fixed-point proximity algorithms for solving a class of sparse regularization problems involving the $\ell_0$ norm. Specifically, the $\ell_0$ model has an objective function that is the sum of a convex fidelity term and a Moreau envelope of the $\ell_0$ norm regularization term. Such an $\ell_0$ model is non-convex. Existing exact algorithms for solving the problems require the availability of closed-form formulas for the proximity operator of convex functions involved in the objective function. When such formulas are not available, numerical computation of the proximity operator becomes inevitable. This leads to inexact iteration algorithms. We investigate in this paper how the numerical error for every step of the iteration should be controlled to ensure global convergence of the resulting inexact algorithms. We establish a theoretical result that guarantees the sequence generated by the proposed inexact algorithm converges to a local minimizer of the optimization problem. We implement the proposed algorithms for three applications of practical importance in machine learning and image science, which include regression, classification, and image deblurring. The numerical results demonstrate the convergence of the proposed algorithm and confirm that local minimizers of the $\ell_0$ models found by the proposed inexact algorithm outperform global minimizers of the corresponding $\ell_1$ models, in terms of approximation accuracy and sparsity of the solutions.
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spellingShingle Inexact FPPA for the $\ell_0$ Sparse Regularization Problem
Fang, Ronglong
Xu, Yuesheng
Yan, Mingsong
Optimization and Control
65K10, 68U10, 90C26
We study inexact fixed-point proximity algorithms for solving a class of sparse regularization problems involving the $\ell_0$ norm. Specifically, the $\ell_0$ model has an objective function that is the sum of a convex fidelity term and a Moreau envelope of the $\ell_0$ norm regularization term. Such an $\ell_0$ model is non-convex. Existing exact algorithms for solving the problems require the availability of closed-form formulas for the proximity operator of convex functions involved in the objective function. When such formulas are not available, numerical computation of the proximity operator becomes inevitable. This leads to inexact iteration algorithms. We investigate in this paper how the numerical error for every step of the iteration should be controlled to ensure global convergence of the resulting inexact algorithms. We establish a theoretical result that guarantees the sequence generated by the proposed inexact algorithm converges to a local minimizer of the optimization problem. We implement the proposed algorithms for three applications of practical importance in machine learning and image science, which include regression, classification, and image deblurring. The numerical results demonstrate the convergence of the proposed algorithm and confirm that local minimizers of the $\ell_0$ models found by the proposed inexact algorithm outperform global minimizers of the corresponding $\ell_1$ models, in terms of approximation accuracy and sparsity of the solutions.
title Inexact FPPA for the $\ell_0$ Sparse Regularization Problem
topic Optimization and Control
65K10, 68U10, 90C26
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.17689