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The Muon optimizer has recently demonstrated remarkable empirical success in training large language models. However, the theoretical understanding of its mechanisms remains limited. Current convergence guarantees for Muon rely heavily on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Yixuan Yang , Yuqing He , Song Li

We present a model for direct semi-parametric estimation of the State Price Density (SPD) implied in quoted option prices. We treat the observed prices as expected values of possible pay-offs at maturity, weighted by the unknown probability…

Applications · Statistics 2021-03-29 Gianluca Frasso , Paul H. C. Eilers

Multi-criteria decision-making often requires finding a small representative set from the database. A recently proposed method is the regret minimization set (RMS) query. RMS returns a size $r$ subset $S$ of dataset $D$ that minimizes the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Xingxing Xiao , Jianzhong Li

The soft SVD is a robust matrix decomposition algorithm and a key component of matrix completion methods. However, computing the soft SVD for large sparse matrices is often impractical using conventional numerical methods for the SVD due to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-06 Mahendra Panagoda , Tyrus Berry , Harbir Antil

We consider a bipartite stochastic block model on vertex sets $V_1$ and $V_2$, with planted partitions in each, and ask at what densities efficient algorithms can recover the partition of the smaller vertex set. When $|V_2| \gg |V_1|$,…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-05-25 Laura Florescu , Will Perkins

Singular value decomposition (SVD) has a crucial role in model order reduction. It is often utilized in the offline stage to compute basis functions that project the high-dimensional nonlinear problem into a low-dimensionsl model which is,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-09 Alessandro Alla , J. Nathan Kutz

We develop a new nonparametric approach for estimating the risk-neutral density of asset prices and reformulate its estimation into a double-constrained optimization problem. We evaluate our approach using the S\&P 500 market option prices…

Pricing of Securities · Quantitative Finance 2019-02-20 Liyuan Jiang , Shuang Zhou , Keren Li , Fangfang Wang , Jie Yang

System Neural Diversity (SND) measures behavioral heterogeneity in multi-agent reinforcement learning by averaging pairwise distances over all $\binom{n}{2}$ agent pairs, making each call quadratic in team size. We introduce Graph-SND,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Shawn Ray

Phase retrieval (PR) is an ill-conditioned inverse problem which can be found in various science and engineering applications. Assuming sparse priority over the signal of interest, recent algorithms have been developed to solve the phase…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-07-26 Samuel Pinilla , Jorge Bacca , Henry Arguello

Forward scatter radar (FSR) has emerged as an effective imaging modality for target detection, utilizing forward scattering (FS) signals to reconstruct two-dimensional shadow profile images of objects. However, real-world FS signals are…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-08-18 ShuQi Lei , Gan Yu , Yuan Tian , XiaoWei Shao

Motivated by recent work on atomic norms in inverse problems, we propose a new approach to line spectral estimation that provides theoretical guarantees for the mean-squared-error (MSE) performance in the presence of noise and without…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-19 Badri Narayan Bhaskar , Gongguo Tang , Benjamin Recht

Recovery of the sparsity pattern (or support) of an unknown sparse vector from a limited number of noisy linear measurements is an important problem in compressed sensing. In the high-dimensional setting, it is known that recovery with a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-06-26 Galen Reeves , Michael Gastpar

Single-image super-resolution (SISR) typically focuses on restoring various degraded low-resolution (LR) images to a single high-resolution (HR) image. However, during SISR tasks, it is often challenging for models to simultaneously…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-10 Xin Wang , Jing-Ke Yan , Jing-Ye Cai , Jian-Hua Deng , Qin Qin , Yao Cheng

We develop a robust regularized singular value decomposition (RobRSVD) method for analyzing two-way functional data. The research is motivated by the application of modeling human mortality as a smooth two-way function of age group and…

Applications · Statistics 2013-12-02 Lingsong Zhang , Haipeng Shen , Jianhua Z. Huang

In this paper, we tackle for the first time the problem of maximum likelihood (ML) estimation of the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) parameter over time-varying single-input multiple-output (SIMO) channels. Both the data-aided (DA) and the…

Applications · Statistics 2014-11-19 Faouzi Bellili , Rabii Meftehi , Sofiene Affes , Alex Stephenne

This paper focuses on recovering a low-rank tensor from its incomplete measurements. We propose a novel algorithm termed the Single Mode Quasi Riemannian Gradient Descent (SM-QRGD). By exploiting the benefits of both fixed-rank matrix…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-30 Yuanwei Zhang , Ya-Nan Zhu , Xiaoqun Zhang

We present a new approach to solve the exponential retrieval problem. We derive a stable technique, based on the singular value decomposition (SVD) of lag-covariance and crosscovariance matrices consisting of covariance coefficients…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-11 D. J Nicolsky , G. S. Tipenko

Speckle is a multiplicative noise which affects all coherent imaging modalities including Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images. The presence of speckle degrades the image quality and adversely affects the performance of SAR image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-21 Malsha V. Perera , Nithin Gopalakrishnan Nair , Wele Gedara Chaminda Bandara , Vishal M. Patel

Blind super-resolution can be cast as a low rank matrix recovery problem by exploiting the inherent simplicity of the signal and the low dimensional structure of point spread functions. In this paper, we develop a simple yet efficient…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Sihan Mao , Jinchi Chen

Low-rank and nonsmooth matrix optimization problems capture many fundamental tasks in statistics and machine learning. While significant progress has been made in recent years in developing efficient methods for \textit{smooth} low-rank…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-08 Dan Garber , Atara Kaplan