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Many signal and image processing applications have benefited remarkably from the fact that the underlying signals reside in a low dimensional subspace. One of the main models for such a low dimensionality is the sparsity one. Within this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-25 Raja Giryes

In this paper we consider Sparse Fourier Transform (SFT) algorithms for approximately computing the best $s$-term approximation of the Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) $\mathbf{\hat{f}} \in \mathbb{C}^N$ of any given input vector…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-06-12 Sami Merhi , Ruochuan Zhang , Mark A. Iwen , Andrew Christlieb

The ability to resolve detail in the object that is being imaged, named by resolution, is the core parameter of an imaging system. Super-resolution is a class of techniques that can enhance the resolution of an imaging system and even…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Yaonan Jin , Daogao Liu , Zhao Song

We study the problem of estimating the best B term Fourier representation for a given frequency-sparse signal (i.e., vector) $\textbf{A}$ of length $N \gg B$. More explicitly, we investigate how to deterministically identify B of the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2007-08-10 M. A. Iwen

In signal processing and data recovery, reconstructing a signal from quadratic measurements poses a significant challenge, particularly in high-dimensional settings where measurements $m$ is far less than the signal dimension $n$ (i.e., $m…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Jinming Wen , Yi Hu , Meng Huang

We study convergence properties of sparse averages of partial sums of Fourier series of continuous functions. By sparse averages, we are considering an increasing sequences of integers $n_0 < n_1 < n_2 < ...$ and looking at…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2019-03-19 Ethan Goolish , Robert S. Strichartz

The paper observes the Hermite and the Fourier Transform domains in terms of Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum signals sparsification. Sparse signals can be recovered from a reduced set of samples by using the Compressive Sensing approach.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-02-15 Valentina Konatar , Maja Vesovic

Computing Fourier transforms of k-sparse signals, where only k of N frequencies are non-zero, is fundamental in compressed sensing, radar, and medical imaging. While the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) evaluates all N frequencies in $O(N \log…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-22 Aaron R. Flouro , Shawn P. Chadwick

In the context of the compressed sensing problem, we propose a new ensemble of sparse random matrices which allow one (i) to acquire and compress a {\rho}0-sparse signal of length N in a time linear in N and (ii) to perfectly recover the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-04-15 Maria Chiara Angelini , Federico Ricci-Tersenghi , Yoshiyuki Kabashima

We consider the problem of computing the Walsh-Hadamard Transform (WHT) of some $N$-length input vector in the presence of noise, where the $N$-point Walsh spectrum is $K$-sparse with $K = {O}(N^{\delta})$ scaling sub-linearly in the input…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-08-27 Xiao Li , Joseph K. Bradley , Sameer Pawar , Kannan Ramchandran

A traditional assumption underlying most data converters is that the signal should be sampled at a rate exceeding twice the highest frequency. This statement is based on a worst-case scenario in which the signal occupies the entire…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-13 Yonina C. Eldar

This paper considers the problem of recovering a one or two dimensional discrete signal which is approximately sparse in its discrete gradient from an incomplete subset of its discrete Fourier coefficients which have been corrupted with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-10 Clarice Poon

Optimal $k$-thresholding algorithms are a class of $k$-sparse signal recovery algorithms that overcome the shortcomings of traditional hard thresholding algorithms caused by the oscillation of the residual function. In this paper, a novel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Jialiang Xu , Xu Zhang

An approximate sparse recovery system consists of parameters $k,N$, an $m$-by-$N$ measurement matrix, $\Phi$, and a decoding algorithm, $\mathcal{D}$. Given a vector, $x$, the system approximates $x$ by $\widehat x =\mathcal{D}(\Phi x)$,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-02-10 Anna C. Gilbert , Yi Li , Ely Porat , Martin J. Strauss

Statistical and machine-learning algorithms are frequently applied to high-dimensional data. In many of these applications data is scarce, and often much more costly than computation time. We provide the first sample-efficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-02-20 Jayadev Acharya , Ashkan Jafarpour , Alon Orlitsky , Ananda Theertha Suresh

The problem of signal recovery from the autocorrelation, or equivalently, the magnitudes of the Fourier transform, is of paramount importance in various fields of engineering. In this work, for one-dimensional signals, we give conditions,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-06-08 Kishore Jaganathan , Samet Oymak , Babak Hassibi

We consider the problem of querying a string (or, a database) of length $N$ bits to determine all the locations where a substring (query) of length $M$ appears either exactly or is within a Hamming distance of $K$ from the query. We assume…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-27 Nagaraj T. Janakiraman , Avinash Vem , Krishna R. Narayanan , Jean-Francois Chamberland

Many empirical studies suggest that samples of continuous-time signals taken at locations randomly deviated from an equispaced grid (i.e., off-the-grid) can benefit signal acquisition, e.g., undersampling and anti-aliasing. However,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Oscar López , Özgür Yılmaz

In this paper, we consider the sparse phase retrieval problem, recovering an $s$-sparse signal $\bm{x}^{\natural}\in\mathbb{R}^n$ from $m$ phaseless samples $y_i=|\langle\bm{x}^{\natural},\bm{a}_i\rangle|$ for $i=1,\ldots,m$. Existing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-15 Jian-Feng Cai , Jingzhi Li , Xiliang Lu , Juntao You

In this work, we give a ${\rm poly}(d,k)$ time and sample algorithm for efficiently learning the parameters of a mixture of $k$ spherical distributions in $d$ dimensions. Unlike all previous methods, our techniques apply to heavy-tailed…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Alkis Kalavasis , Pravesh K. Kothari , Shuchen Li , Manolis Zampetakis