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In many practical applications such as direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation and line spectral estimation, the sparsifying dictionary is usually characterized by a set of unknown parameters in a continuous domain. To apply the conventional…
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In this paper we consider box constrained adaptations of $\ell_1$ optimization heuristic when applied for solving random linear systems. These are typically employed when on top of being sparse the systems' solutions are also known to be…
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Modern statistical learning algorithms are capable of amazing flexibility, but struggle with interpretability. One possible solution is sparsity: making inference such that many of the parameters are estimated as being identically 0, which…
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Low-rank tensors are an established framework for high-dimensional least-squares problems. We propose to extend this framework by including the concept of block-sparsity. In the context of polynomial regression each sparsity pattern…
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Metric data structures (distance oracles, distance labeling schemes, routing schemes) and low-distortion embeddings provide a powerful algorithmic methodology, which has been successfully applied for approximation algorithms \cite{llr},…
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