{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/node-screening-tests-for-l0-penalized-least","title":"Node-screening tests for L0-penalized least-squares problem with supplementary material","arxiv_id":"2110.07308","date":"2021-10-14","proceeding":null,"authors":["Théo Guyard","Cédric Herzet","Clément Elvira"],"abstract":"We present a novel screening methodology to safely discard irrelevant nodes within a generic branch-and-bound (BnB) algorithm solving the l0-penalized least-squares problem. Our contribution is a set of two simple tests to detect sets of feasible vectors that cannot yield optimal solutions. This allows to prune nodes of the BnB search tree, thus reducing the overall optimization time. One cornerstone of our contribution is a nesting property between tests at different nodes that allows to implement them with a low computational cost. Our work leverages the concept of safe screening, well known for sparsity-inducing convex problems, and some recent advances in this field for l0-penalized regression problems.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.07308v2","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2110.07308v2.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"node-screening-tests-for-l0-penalized-least","repo_url":"https://gitlab.insa-rennes.fr/Theo.Guyard/bnb-screening","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":0,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"regression-1","task_name":"regression"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}