<formula formulatype="inline"><tex Notation="TeX">L_{1/2}</tex> </formula> Regularization: Convergence of Iterative Half Thresholding Algorithm

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Abstract: In recent studies on sparse modeling, the nonconvex regularization approaches (particularly, Lq regularization with qin(0,1)) have been demonstrated to possess capability of gaining much benefit in sparsity-inducing and efficiency. As compared with the convex regularization approaches (say, L1 regularization), however, the convergence issue of the corresponding algorithms are more difficult to tackle. In this paper, we deal with this difficult issue for a specific but typical nonconvex regularization scheme, the L1/2 regularization, which has been successfully used to many applications. More specifically, we study the convergence of the iterative extit{half} thresholding algorithm (the extit{half} algorithm for short), one of the most efficient and important algorithms for solution to the L1/2 regularization. As the main result, we show that under certain conditions, the extit{half} algorithm converges to a local minimizer of the L1/2 regularization, with an eventually linear convergence rate. The established result provides a theoretical guarantee for a wide range of applications of the extit{half} algorithm. We provide also a set of simulations to support the correctness of theoretical assertions and compare the time efficiency of the extit{half} algorithm with other known typical algorithms for L1/2 regularization like the iteratively reweighted least squares (IRLS) algorithm and the iteratively reweighted l1 minimization (IRL1) algorithm.





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