Sparse approximate solution of partial differential equations
Applied Numerical Mathematics
Integrated classifier hyperplane placement and feature selection
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
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In this paper, we empirically investigate the NP-hard problem of finding sparsest solutions to linear equation systems, i.e., solutions with as few nonzeros as possible. This problem has recently received considerable interest in the sparse approximation and signal processing literature. We use a branch-and-cut approach via the maximum feasible subsystem problem to compute optimal solutions for small instances and investigate the uniqueness of the optimal solutions. We furthermore discuss six (modifications of) heuristics for this problem that appear in different parts of the literature. For small instances, the exact optimal solutions allow us to evaluate the quality of the heuristics, while for larger instances we compare their relative performance. One outcome is that the so-called basis pursuit heuristic performs worse, compared to the other methods. Among the best heuristics are a method due to Mangasarian and one due to Chinneck.