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Recently, machine learning-based channel estimation has attracted much attention. The performance of machine learning-based estimation has been validated by simulation experiments. However, little attention has been paid to the theoretical…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-15 Kai Mei , Jun Liu , Xiaochen Zhang , Nandana Rajatheva , Jibo Wei

Channel estimation is essential to massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. While recent generative model-based approaches using lightweight diffusion models (DMs) have achieved superior performance, they typically rely on a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Zhuorui Jiang , Jun Fang , Boyu Ning , Hongbin Li , Ying-Chang Liang

Estimation of the covariance matrix has attracted a lot of attention of the statistical research community over the years, partially due to important applications such as Principal Component Analysis. However, frequently used empirical…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-06-19 Stanislav Minsker

Obtaining channel covariance knowledge is of great importance in various Multiple-Input Multiple-Output MIMO communication applications, including channel estimation and covariance-based user grouping. In a massive MIMO system, covariance…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Mahdi Barzegar Khalilsarai , Tianyu Yang , Saeid Haghighatshoar , Giuseppe Caire

In this paper, we introduce a distributed algorithm that optimizes the Gaussian signal covariance matrices of multi-antenna users transmitting to a common multi-antenna receiver under imperfect and possibly delayed channel state…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-02-06 Panayotis Mertikopoulos , Aris L. Moustakas

In this paper we propose a generalization of a class of Gaussian Semiparametric Estimators (GSE) of the fractional differencing parameter for long-range dependent multivariate time series. We generalize a known GSE-type estimator by…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-05-23 Guilherme Pumi , Sílvia R. C. Lopes

We provide a unified approach to MM-estimation with auxiliary scale for balanced linear models with structured covariance matrices. This approach leads to estimators that are highly robust against outliers and highly efficient for normal…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-11-10 Hendrik Paul Lopuhaa

Variational auto-encoders (VAEs) are a popular and powerful deep generative model. Previous works on VAEs have assumed a factorized likelihood model, whereby the output uncertainty of each pixel is assumed to be independent. This…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-14 Gara Dorta , Sara Vicente , Lourdes Agapito , Neill D. F. Campbell , Ivor Simpson

In multivariate time series, the estimation of the covariance matrix of the observation innovations plays an important role in forecasting as it enables the computation of the standardized forecast error vectors as well as it enables the…

Methodology · Statistics 2008-02-04 K. Triantafyllopoulos

The partially observed linear Gaussian system of stochastic differential equations with low noise in observations is considered. A kernel-type estimators are used for estimation of the quadratic variation of the derivative of the limit of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-11-23 Yury A. Kutoyants

We present a new trace estimator of the matrix whose explicit form is not given but its matrix multiplication to a vector is available. The form of the estimator is similar to the Hutchison stochastic trace estimator, but instead of the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-06-20 Boram Yoon

This paper studies the problem of estimating the covariance of a collection of vectors using only highly compressed measurements of each vector. An estimator based on back-projections of these compressive samples is proposed and analyzed. A…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-01-16 Martin Azizyan , Akshay Krishnamurthy , Aarti Singh

We propose a class of robust estimates for multivariate linear models. Based on the approach of MM estimation (Yohai 1987), we estimate the regression coefficients and the covariance matrix of the errors simultaneously. These estimates have…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-03 Nadia L. Kudraszow , Ricardo A. Maronna

Statistical channel models are instrumental to design and evaluate wireless communication systems. In the millimeter wave bands, such models become acutely challenging; they must capture the delay, directions, and path gains, for each link…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-18 William Xia , Sundeep Rangan , Marco Mezzavilla , Angel Lozano , Giovanni Geraci , Vasilii Semkin , Giuseppe Loianno

A method for channel estimation in wideband massive Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) systems using covariance identification is developed. The method is useful for Frequency-Division Duplex (FDD) at either sub-6GHz or millimeter wave…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-30 José González-Coma , Pedro Suárez-Casal , Paula M. Castro , Luis Castedo , Michael Joham

We tackle covariance estimation in low-sample scenarios, employing a structured covariance matrix with shrinkage methods. These involve convexly combining a low-bias/high-variance empirical estimate with a biased regularization estimator,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-28 Olivier Flasseur , Eric Thiébaut , Loïc Denis , Maud Langlois

The beam squint effect, which manifests in different steering matrices in different sub-bands, has been widely considered a challenge in millimeter wave (mmWave) multiinput multi-output (MIMO) channel estimation. Existing methods either…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-21 Le Xu , Lei Cheng , Ngai Wong , Yik-Chung Wu , H. Vincent Poor

In this work, we propose to utilize a variational autoencoder (VAE) for channel estimation (CE) in underdetermined (UD) systems. The basis of the method forms a recently proposed concept in which a VAE is trained on channel state…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-29 Michael Baur , Nurettin Turan , Benedikt Fesl , Wolfgang Utschick

This paper presents novel cascaded channel estimation techniques for an intelligent reflecting surface-aided multiple-input multiple-output system. Motivated by the channel angular sparsity at higher frequency bands, the channel estimation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-17 Yanbin He , Geethu Joseph

We discuss a class of difference-based estimators for the autocovariance in nonparametric regression when the signal is discontinuous (change-point regression), possibly highly fluctuating, and the errors form a stationary $m$-dependent…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-08-09 Inder Tecuapetla-Gómez , Axel Munk