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We present a strategy for the recovery of a sparse solution of a common problem in acoustic engineering, which is the reconstruction of sound source levels and locations applying microphone array measurements. The considered task bears…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-07-04 Laurent Hoeltgen , Michael Breuß , Gert Herold , Ennes Sarradj

We take an information theoretic perspective on a classical sparse-sampling noisy linear model and present an analytical expression for the mutual information, which plays central role in a variety of communications/processing problems.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-03-25 Wasim Huleihel , Neri Merhav , Shlomo Shamai

In the problem of learning mixtures of linear regressions, the goal is to learn a collection of signal vectors from a sequence of (possibly noisy) linear measurements, where each measurement is evaluated on an unknown signal drawn uniformly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Akshay Krishnamurthy , Arya Mazumdar , Andrew McGregor , Soumyabrata Pal

Sparse coding--that is, modelling data vectors as sparse linear combinations of basis elements--is widely used in machine learning, neuroscience, signal processing, and statistics. This paper focuses on the large-scale matrix factorization…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2010-02-11 Julien Mairal , Francis Bach , Jean Ponce , Guillermo Sapiro

Factorization of matrices where the rank of the two factors diverges linearly with their sizes has many applications in diverse areas such as unsupervised representation learning, dictionary learning or sparse coding. We consider a setting…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-08-11 Antoine Maillard , Florent Krzakala , Marc Mézard , Lenka Zdeborová

This paper deals with the parametric inference for integrated signals embedded in an additive Gaussian noise and observed at deterministic discrete instants which are not necessarily equidistant. The unknown parameter is multidimensional…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-03-18 Dominique Dehay , Khalil El Waled , Vincent Monsan

We study sparse principal components analysis in high dimensions, where $p$ (the number of variables) can be much larger than $n$ (the number of observations), and analyze the problem of estimating the subspace spanned by the principal…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-01-06 Vincent Q. Vu , Jing Lei

We consider the following signal recovery problem: given a measurement matrix $\Phi\in \mathbb{R}^{n\times p}$ and a noisy observation vector $c\in \mathbb{R}^{n}$ constructed from $c = \Phi\theta^* + \epsilon$ where $\epsilon\in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-07-23 Ji Liu , Lei Yuan , Jieping Ye

Minimum-volume nonnegative matrix factorization (min-vol NMF) has been used successfully in many applications, such as hyperspectral imaging, chemical kinetics, spectroscopy, topic modeling, and audio source separation. However, its…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-07 Giovanni Barbarino , Nicolas Gillis , Subhayan Saha

The performance of estimating the common support for jointly sparse signals based on their projections onto lower-dimensional space is analyzed. Support recovery is formulated as a multiple-hypothesis testing problem. Both upper and lower…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-11-05 Gongguo Tang , Arye Nehorai

Matrix completion is a classical problem that has received recurring interest across a wide range of fields. In this paper, we revisit this problem in an ultra-sparse sampling regime, where each entry of an unknown, $n\times d$ matrix $M$…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Hongyang R. Zhang , Zhenshuo Zhang , Huy L. Nguyen , Guanghui Lan

The recovery of a low rank matrix from a subset of noisy low-precision quantized samples arises in several applications such as collaborative filtering, intelligent recommendation and millimeter wave channel estimation with few bit ADCs. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Jiang Zhu , Zhennan Liu , Qi Zhang , Chunyi Song , Zhiwei Xu

Since its development, the minimax framework has been one of the corner stones of theoretical statistics, and has contributed to the popularity of many well-known estimators, such as the regularized M-estimators for high-dimensional…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-01-01 Yilin Guo , Haolei Weng , Arian Maleki

Suppose that we observe entries or, more generally, linear combinations of entries of an unknown $m\times T$-matrix $A$ corrupted by noise. We are particularly interested in the high-dimensional setting where the number $mT$ of unknown…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2011-05-16 Angelika Rohde , Alexandre B. Tsybakov

We adopt an information-theoretic framework to analyze the generalization behavior of the class of iterative, noisy learning algorithms. This class is particularly suitable for study under information-theoretic metrics as the algorithms are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Ibrahim Issa , Amedeo Roberto Esposito , Michael Gastpar

We consider the problem of noiseless and noisy low-rank tensor completion from a set of random linear measurements. In our derivations, we assume that the entries of the tensor belong to a finite field of arbitrary size and that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-04-05 Amin Emad , Olgica Milenkovic

This paper investigates the effect of the design matrix on the ability (or inability) to estimate a sparse parameter in linear regression. More specifically, we characterize the optimal rate of estimation when the smallest singular value of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-02-02 Reese Pathak , Cong Ma

A matrix completion problem is to recover the missing entries in a partially observed matrix. Most of the existing matrix completion methods assume a low rank structure of the underlying complete matrix. In this paper, we introduce an…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-11-16 Chencheng Cai , Rong Chen , Han Xiao

Linear Least Squares is a very well known technique for parameter estimation, which is used even when sub-optimal, because of its very low computational requirements and the fact that exact knowledge of the noise statistics is not required.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-11-01 Michael Krikheli , Amir Leshem

Randomized matrix sparsification has proven to be a fruitful technique for producing faster algorithms in applications ranging from graph partitioning to semidefinite programming. In the decade or so of research into this technique, the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-11-23 Alex Gittens , Joel A. Tropp