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Distance metric learning is successful in discovering intrinsic relations in data. However, most algorithms are computationally demanding when the problem size becomes large. In this paper, we propose a discriminative metric learning…

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The decentralized gradient descent (DGD) algorithm, and its sibling, diffusion, are workhorses in decentralized machine learning, distributed inference and estimation, and multi-agent coordination. We propose a novel, principled framework…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-04 Erik G. Larsson , Nicolo Michelusi

Traditionally, fast radio transient searches are conducted on dedispersed time series using thresholding techniques based on the statistical properties of the data. However, peaks in dedispersed time series do not directly provide…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-25 Sergio Belmonte Diaz , Rene P. Breton , Zafiirah Hosenie , Ben W. Stappers

Diffusion models are distinguished by their exceptional generative performance, particularly in producing high-quality samples through iterative denoising. While current theory suggests that the number of denoising steps required for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Gen Li , Changxiao Cai , Yuting Wei

We analyse dispersion measure (DM) variations in six years of radio observations of more than 160 young pulsars, all gamma ray candidates for the Fermi gamma ray telescope mostly located close to the Galactic plane. DMs were fit across 256…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-16 E. Petroff , M. J. Keith , S. Johnston , W. van Straten , R. M. Shannon

We propose that "standard pings", brief broadband radio impulses, can be used to study the three-dimensional clustering of matter in the Universe even in the absence of redshift information. The dispersion of radio waves as they travel…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-23 Kiyoshi Wesley Masui , Kris Sigurdson

In this paper, we consider the problem of joint sparsity pattern recovery in a distributed sensor network. The sparse multiple measurement vector signals (MMVs) observed by all the nodes are assumed to have a common (but unknown) sparsity…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-27 Gang Li , Thakshila Wimalajeewa , Pramod K. Varshney

Diffusion probabilistic models (DPM) have been widely adopted in image-to-image translation to generate high-quality images. Prior attempts at applying the DPM to image super-resolution (SR) have shown that iteratively refining a pure…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-28 Axi Niu , Kang Zhang , Trung X. Pham , Jinqiu Sun , Yu Zhu , In So Kweon , Yanning Zhang

Computationally inexpensive algorithm for detecting of dispersed transients has been developed using Cumulative Sums (CUSUM) scheme for detecting abrupt changes in statistical characteristics of the signal. The efficiency of the algorithm…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-28 Gene Soudlenkov , Vyacheslav V. Kitaev

Medical image segmentation is a challenging task, made more difficult by many datasets' limited size and annotations. Denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPM) have recently shown promise in modelling the distribution of natural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Margherita Rosnati , Melanie Roschewitz , Ben Glocker

SDE-based methods such as denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPMs) have shown remarkable success in real-world sample generation tasks. Prior analyses of DDPMs have been focused on the exponential Euler discretization, showing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Matthew S. Zhang , Stephen Huan , Jerry Huang , Nicholas M. Boffi , Sitan Chen , Sinho Chewi

In an earlier paper (Ahuja, et al, 2005), based on simultaneous multi-frequency observations with the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT), we reported the variation of pulsar dispersion measures (DMs) with frequency. A few different…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Amrit Lal Ahuja , Dipanjan Mitra , Yashwant Gupta

In this work, we introduce a new deep learning approach based on diffusion posterior sampling (DPS) to perform material decomposition from spectral CT measurements. This approach combines sophisticated prior knowledge from unsupervised…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-07 Xiao Jiang , Grace J. Gang , J. Webster Stayman

We present an analysis of the variations seen in the dispersion measures (DMs) of 20 millisecond pulsars observed as part of the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array project. We carry out a statistically rigorous structure function analysis for each…

In this paper, we present a diffusion multi-rate least-mean-square (LMS) algorithm, named DMLMS, which is an effective solution for distributed estimation when two or more observation sequences are available with different sampling rates.…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Lu Lu , Xiaomin Yang , Rongzhu Zhang

Recently, convolutional networks have achieved remarkable development in remote sensing image Super-Resoltuion (SR) by minimizing the regression objectives, e.g., MSE loss. However, despite achieving impressive performance, these methods…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-31 Yi Xiao , Qiangqiang Yuan , Kui Jiang , Jiang He , Xianyu Jin , Liangpei Zhang

This study aims to improve photon counting CT (PCCT) image resolution using denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPM). Although DDPMs have shown superior performance when applied to various computer vision tasks, their effectiveness…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Chuang Niu , Christopher Wiedeman , Mengzhou Li , Jonathan S Maltz , Ge Wang

Diffusion models (DM) can gradually learn to remove noise, which have been widely used in artificial intelligence generated content (AIGC) in recent years. The property of DM for removing noise leads us to wonder whether DM can be applied…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Tong Wu , Zhiyong Chen , Dazhi He , Liang Qian , Yin Xu , Meixia Tao , Wenjun Zhang

In pulsar astronomy, detecting effective pulsar signals among numerous pulsar candidates is an important research topic. Starting from space X-ray pulsar signals, the two-dimensional autocorrelation profile map (2D-APM) feature modelling…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-08 Longqi Wang , Jing Jin , Lu Liu , Yi Shen

This paper investigates how diffusion generative models leverage (unknown) low-dimensional structure to accelerate sampling. Focusing on two mainstream samplers -- the denoising diffusion implicit model (DDIM) and the denoising diffusion…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-18 Jiadong Liang , Zhihan Huang , Yuxin Chen