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Spectral interference, the frequency counterpart of the beating phenomenon in the time domain, can severely distort time-frequency representations (TFRs) in physical applications. We study this phenomenon for the short-time Fourier…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2026-01-19 Shrikant Chand , James Nolen , Hau-Tieng Wu

Many interesting and fundamentally practical optimization problems, ranging from optics, to signal processing, to radar and acoustics, involve constraints on the Fourier transform of a function. It is well-known that the {\em fast Fourier…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-09-05 Robert J. Vanderbei

Phase retrieval from phaseless short-time Fourier transform (STFT) measurements is known to be inherently unstable when measurements are taken with respect to a single window. While an explicit inversion formula exists, it is useless in…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-19 Rima Alaifari , Yunan Yang

This paper introduces an innovative approach for signal reconstruction using data acquired through multi-input-multi-output (MIMO) sampling. First, we show that it is possible to perfectly reconstruct a set of periodic band-limited signals…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Dong Cheng , Xiaoxiao Hu , Kit Ian Kou

Alignment with human preference is a desired property of large language models (LLMs). Currently, the main alignment approach is based on reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF). Despite the effectiveness of RLHF, it is intricate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Geyang Guo , Ranchi Zhao , Tianyi Tang , Wayne Xin Zhao , Ji-Rong Wen

Test-time finetuning (TTFT) is a rapidly evolving paradigm that adapts a language model to each prompt by retrieving related sequences, updating the model on them, and then evaluating the prompt. However, TTFT is only practical if it is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Alaa Khamis , Alaa Maalouf

High-resolution time-frequency (TF) analysis plays crucial role in characterizing multicomponent signal (MCSs) and estimating oscillatory properties. Linear time-frequency representations (TFRs) such as classical short-time Fourier…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-12 Rayyan Abdalla

We address the problem of signal reconstruction from intensity measurements with respect to a measurement frame. This non-convex inverse problem is known as phase retrieval. The case considered in this paper concerns phaseless measurements…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-13 Goetz E. Pfander , Palina Salanevich

In recent years, the synchrosqueezing transform (SST) has gained popularity as a method for the analysis of signals that can be broken down into multiple components determined by instantaneous amplitudes and phases. One such version of SST,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-09-20 Alexander Berrian , Naoki Saito

Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) is widely used in signal processing to analyze the frequencies in a discrete signal. However, DFT fails to recover the exact Fourier spectrum, when the signal contains frequencies that do not correspond to…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2015-06-15 M. Andrecut

We propose a flexible convex relaxation for the phase retrieval problem that operates in the natural domain of the signal. Therefore, we avoid the prohibitive computational cost associated with "lifting" and semidefinite programming (SDP)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-17 Sohail Bahmani , Justin Romberg

We consider the problem of phase retrieval, namely, recovery of a signal from the magnitude of its Fourier transform, or of any other linear transform. Due to the loss of the Fourier phase information, this problem is ill-posed. Therefore,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Yoav Shechtman , Amir Beck , Yonina C. Eldar

We consider the phase retrieval problem, in which the observer wishes to recover a $n$-dimensional real or complex signal $\mathbf{X}^\star$ from the (possibly noisy) observation of $|\mathbf{\Phi} \mathbf{X}^\star|$, in which…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Antoine Maillard , Florent Krzakala , Yue M. Lu , Lenka Zdeborová

Phase retrieval refers to a classical nonconvex problem of recovering a signal from its Fourier magnitude measurements. Inspired by the compressed sensing technique, signal sparsity is exploited in recent studies of phase retrieval to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2013-02-04 Zai Yang , Cishen Zhang , Lihua Xie

We discuss the approach to estimate aggregation and adaptive estimation based upon (nearly optimal) testing of convex hypotheses. We show that in the situation where the observations stem from {\em simple observation schemes} and where set…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-07-19 Anatoli Juditsky , Arkadi Nemirovski

Convex regression is the problem of fitting a convex function to a data set consisting of input-output pairs. We present a new approach to this problem called spectrahedral regression, in which we fit a spectrahedral function to the data,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-01 Eliza O'Reilly , Venkat Chandrasekaran

This paper considers the phase retrieval problem in which measurements consist of only the magnitude of several linear measurements of the unknown, e.g., spectral components of a time sequence. We develop low-complexity algorithms with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-24 Tianyu Qiu , Prabhu Babu , Daniel P. Palomar

The goal in signal compression is to reduce the size of the input signal without a significant loss in the quality of the recovered signal. One way to achieve this goal is to apply the principles of compressive sensing, but this has not…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-09 Fereshteh Fakhar Firouzeh , John W. Chinneck , Sreeraman Rajan

In this paper we study the topic of signal restoration using complexity regularization, quantifying the compression bit-cost of the signal estimate. While complexity-regularized restoration is an established concept, solid practical methods…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Yehuda Dar , Michael Elad , Alfred M. Bruckstein