Section: Software

SPAMS (SPArse Modeling Software)

Participants : Jean-Paul Chieze [correspondant] , Guillaume Obozinski [correspondant] .

SPAMS (SPArse Modeling Software) is an optimization toolbox for solving various sparse estimation problems: dictionary learning and matrix factorization, solving sparse decomposition prob- lems, solving structured sparse decomposition problems. It is developped by Julien Mairal (former Willow PhD student, co-advised by F. Bach and J. Ponce), with the collaboration of Francis Bach (Inria), Jean Ponce (Ecole Normale Supérieure), Guillermo Sapiro (University of Minnesota), Rodolphe Jenatton (Inria) and Guillaume Obozinski (Inria). It is coded in C++ with a Matlab interface. Recently, interfaces for R and Python have been developed by Jean-Paul Chieze (Inria). Currently 650 downloads and between 1500 and 2000 page visits per month. See http://spams-devel.gforge.inria.fr/ .