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An algorithm for elastic l_2-l_q regularization

ZHANG Yong1  YE Wanzhou1,*   

  1. 1. Department of Mathematics, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China
  • Received:2016-03-18 Online:2016-12-15 Published:2016-12-15

Abstract:

In this paper, we present an iteratively re-weighted l_{1} minimization (IRL1) algorithm for solving elastic l_{2}-l_{q} regularization. We prove that any sequence generated by the IRL1 algorithm is bounded and asymptotically regular. We further prove that the sequence is convergent based on an algebraic method for any rational q \in (0,1) and the limit is a stationary point of the elastic l_{2}-l_{q}(0<q<1) minimization problem. Numerical experiments on sparse signal recovery are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.

Key words: l_{q} regularization, IRL1 algorithm, nonconvex optimization