1) The document discusses sparse methods for machine learning, including regularization techniques like L1 and L2 regularization.
2) L1 regularization results in sparse solutions with many zero weights, which can save memory and computation costs.
3) Compressive sensing is introduced as applying sparse recovery to problems where the underlying signal is sparse or compressible in some domain.
4) Dictionary learning is presented as a way to learn a representation dictionary from data where data points can be represented sparsely with few non-zero coefficients.