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This paper delivers improved theoretical guarantees for the convex programming approach in low-rank matrix estimation, in the presence of (1) random noise, (2) gross sparse outliers, and (3) missing data. This problem, often dubbed as…

We introduce COLA, a self-supervised pre-training approach for learning a general-purpose representation of audio. Our approach is based on contrastive learning: it learns a representation which assigns high similarity to audio segments…

Computing the rate-distortion function for continuous sources is commonly regarded as a standard continuous optimization problem. When numerically addressing this problem, a typical approach involves discretizing the source space and…

Non-Gaussian component analysis (NGCA) is a problem in multidimensional data analysis which, since its formulation in 2006, has attracted considerable attention in statistics and machine learning. In this problem, we have a random variable…

Decentralized optimization, particularly the class of decentralized composite convex optimization (DCCO) problems, has found many applications. Due to ubiquitous communication congestion and random dropouts in practice, it is highly…

We propose Deep Multiset Canonical Correlation Analysis (dMCCA) as an extension to representation learning using CCA when the underlying signal is observed across multiple (more than two) modalities. We use deep learning framework to learn…

Principal component analysis (PCA) is a widely used dimension reduction tool in the analysis of many kind of high-dimensional data. It is used in signal processing, mechanical engineering, psychometrics, and other fields under different…

Synthesizing realistic images involves computing high-dimensional light-transport integrals. In practice, these integrals are numerically estimated via Monte Carlo integration. The error of this estimation manifests itself as conspicuous…

Quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA) is a widely used classification technique. Based on a training dataset, each class in the data is characterized by an estimate of its center and shape, which can then be used to assign unseen…

Multivariate signal processing is often based on dimensionality reduction techniques. We propose a new method, Dynamical Component Analysis (DyCA), leading to a classification of the underlying dynamics and - for a certain type of dynamics…

Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is a fundamental data preprocessing tool in the world of machine learning. While PCA is often thought of as a dimensionality reduction method, the purpose of PCA is actually two-fold: dimension reduction…

Array structures based on the sum and difference co-arrays provide more degrees of freedom (DOF). However, since the growth of DOF is limited by a single case of sum and difference co-arrays, the paper aims to design a sparse linear array…

Several methods have been proposed to explain Deep Neural Network (DNN). However, to our knowledge, only classification networks have been studied to try to determine which input dimensions motivated the decision. Furthermore, as there is…

In this paper, we study the convergence rate of the DCA (Difference-of-Convex Algorithm), also known as the convex-concave procedure, with two different termination criteria that are suitable for smooth and nonsmooth decompositions…

We investigate a difference-of-convex (DC) formulation where the second term is allowed to be weakly convex. We examine the precise behavior of a single iteration of the difference-of-convex algorithm (DCA), providing a tight…

Discriminant analysis (DA) is one of the most popular methods for classification due to its conceptual simplicity, low computational cost, and often solid performance. In its standard form, DA uses the arithmetic mean and sample covariance…

Angular x-ray cross-correlation analysis (XCCA) is an approach to study the structure of disordered systems using the results of x-ray scattering experiments. In this paper we summarize recent theoretical developments related to the Fourier…

In this work, we consider the application of model-based deep learning in nonlinear principal component analysis (PCA). Inspired by the deep unfolding methodology, we propose a task-based deep learning approach, referred to as Deep-RLS,…

A robust and sparse Direction of Arrival (DOA) estimator is derived for array data that follows a Complex Elliptically Symmetric (CES) distribution with zero-mean and finite second-order moments. The derivation allows to choose the loss…

The restoration of nonlinearly distorted audio signals, alongside the identification of the applied memoryless nonlinear operation, is studied. The paper focuses on the difficult but practically important case in which both the nonlinearity…