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With ever increasing data rates produced by modern radio telescopes like LOFAR and future telescopes like the SKA, many data processing steps are overwhelmed by the amount of data that needs to be handled using limited compute resources.…

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Convex nonsmooth optimization problems, whose solutions live in very high dimensional spaces, have become ubiquitous. To solve them, the class of first-order algorithms known as proximal splitting algorithms is particularly adequate: they…

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In a companion paper, a faceted wideband imaging technique for radio interferometry, dubbed Faceted HyperSARA, has been introduced and validated on synthetic data. Building on the recent HyperSARA approach, Faceted HyperSARA leverages the…

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Co-clustering simultaneously clusters rows and columns, revealing more fine-grained groups. However, existing co-clustering methods suffer from poor scalability and cannot handle large-scale data. This paper presents a novel and scalable…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Zihan Wu , Zhaoke Huang , Hong Yan

Radio interferometric imaging has long relied on the CLEAN algorithm, valued for its speed, robustness, and integration with calibration pipelines. However, next-generation facilities such as the ngVLA, SKA, and ALMAs Wideband Sensitivity…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-19 Hendrik Müller

Next-generation radio interferometers, such as the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), will revolutionise our understanding of the universe through their unprecedented sensitivity and resolution. However, to realise these goals significant…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-20 Luke Pratley , Jason D. McEwen , Mayeul d'Avezac , Rafael E. Carrillo , Alexandru Onose , Yves Wiaux

Novel sparse reconstruction algorithms are proposed for beamspace channel estimation in massive multiple-input multiple-output systems. The proposed algorithms minimize a least-squares objective having a nonconvex regularizer. This…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Pengxia Wu , Julian Cheng

In imaging modalities recording diffraction data, the original image can be reconstructed assuming known phases. When phases are unknown, oversampling and a constraint on the support region in the original object can be used to solve a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-17 Alberto Pietrini , Carl Nettelblad

Data sizes for next generation radio telescopes, such as the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), are far above that of their predecessors. The CLEAN algorithm was originally developed by H\"ogbom [1974], long before such data sizes were thought…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-06 Daniel Wright , Karel Adámek , Wesley Armour

Having an accurate calibration method is crucial for any scientific research done by a radio telescope. The next generation radio telescopes such as the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will have a large number of receivers which will produce…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-03 Ahmad Mouri Sardarabadi , Alle-Jan van der Veen , Léon V. E. Koopmans

Data dimensionality reduction in radio interferometry can provide savings of computational resources for image reconstruction through reduced memory footprints and lighter computations per iteration, which is important for the scalability…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-03 S. Vijay Kartik , Rafael E. Carrillo , Jean-Philippe Thiran , Yves Wiaux

Radio astronomy is currently thriving with new large ground-based radio telescopes coming online in preparation for the upcoming Square Kilometre Array (SKA). Facilities like LOFAR, MeerKAT/SKA, ASKAP/SKA, and the future SKA-LOW bring…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-02 Benjamin Naoto Chiche , Julien N. Girard , Joana Frontera-Pons , Arnaud Woiselle , Jean-Luc Starck

Sparsity-constrained optimization underlies many problems in signal processing, statistics, and machine learning. State-of-the-art hard-thresholding (HT) algorithms rely on an appropriately selected continuous step-size parameter to ensure…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-13 Jin Zhu , Junxian Zhu , Zezhi Wang , Borui Tang , Hongmei Lin , Xueqin Wang

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is the largest radio interferometer under construction in the world. The high accuracy, wide-field and large size imaging significantly challenge the construction of the Science Data Processor (SDP) of SKA.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-20 Yangfan Xie , Feng Wang , Hui Deng , Ying Mei , Ying-He Celeste Lu , Gabriella Hodosan , Vladislav Stolyarov , Oleg Smirnov , Xiaofeng Li , Tim Cornwell

New and upcoming radio interferometers will produce unprecedented amounts of data that demand extremely powerful computers for processing. This is a limiting factor due to the large computational power and energy costs involved. Such…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-31 Sarod Yatawatta , Faruk Diblen , Hanno Spreeuw , L. V. E. Koopmans

Radio astronomy is transitioning to a big-data era due to the emerging generation of radio interferometric (RI) telescopes, such as the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), which will acquire massive volumes of data. In this article we review…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-15 Xiaohao Cai , Luke Pratley , Jason D. McEwen

Next-generation radio interferometers, such as the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), will revolutionise our understanding of the universe through their unprecedented sensitivity and resolution. However, standard methods in radio interferometry…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-23 Luke Pratley , Jason D. McEwen , Mayeul d'Avezac , Rafael E. Carrillo , Alexandru Onose , Yves Wiaux

We propose a decomposition framework for the parallel optimization of the sum of a differentiable (possibly nonconvex) function and a (block) separable nonsmooth, convex one. The latter term is usually employed to enforce structure in the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-06-18 Francisco Facchinei , Gesualdo Scutari , Simone Sagratella

The volume estimation of brain regions from MRI data is a key problem in many clinical applications, where the acquisition of data at high spatial resolution is desirable. While parallel MRI and constrained image reconstruction algorithms…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-20 Aniket Pramanik , Xiaodong Wu , Mathews Jacob

Subspace clustering (SC) is a popular method for dimensionality reduction of high-dimensional data, where it generalizes Principal Component Analysis (PCA). Recently, several methods have been proposed to enhance the robustness of PCA and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-06-09 Sanghyuk Chun , Yung-Kyun Noh , Jinwoo Shin