A fast dual projected Newton method for l1-regularized least squares

  • Authors:
  • Pinghua Gong;Changshui Zhang

  • Affiliations:
  • State Key Laboratory on Intelligent Technology and Systems, Tsinghua National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology, Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China;State Key Laboratory on Intelligent Technology and Systems, Tsinghua National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology, Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

  • Venue:
  • IJCAI'11 Proceedings of the Twenty-Second international joint conference on Artificial Intelligence - Volume Volume Two
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

L1-regularized least squares, with the ability of discovering sparse representations, is quite prevalent in the field of machine learning, statistics and signal processing. In this paper, we propose a novel algorithm called Dual Projected Newton Method (DPNM) to solve the l1-regularized least squares problem. In DPNM, we first derive a new dual problem as a box constrained quadratic programming. Then, a projected Newton method is utilized to solve the dual problem, achieving a quadratic convergence rate. Moreover, we propose to utilize some practical techniques, thus it greatly reduces the computational cost and makes DPNM more efficient. Experimental results on six real-world data sets indicate that DPNM is very efficient for solving the l1-regularized least squares problem, by comparing it with state of the art methods.