Accelerated Linearized Bregman Method

  • Authors:
  • Bo Huang;Shiqian Ma;Donald Goldfarb

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Columbia University, New York, USA 10027;Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA 55455;Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Columbia University, New York, USA 10027

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Scientific Computing
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

In this paper, we propose and analyze an accelerated linearized Bregman (ALB) method for solving the basis pursuit and related sparse optimization problems. This accelerated algorithm is based on the fact that the linearized Bregman (LB) algorithm first proposed by Stanley Osher and his collaborators is equivalent to a gradient descent method applied to a certain dual formulation. We show that the LB method requires O(1/驴) iterations to obtain an 驴-optimal solution and the ALB algorithm reduces this iteration complexity to $O(1/\sqrt{\epsilon})$ while requiring almost the same computational effort on each iteration. Numerical results on compressed sensing and matrix completion problems are presented that demonstrate that the ALB method can be significantly faster than the LB method.