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Deconvolution is a statistical inverse problem to estimate the distribution of a random variable based on its noisy observations. Despite the extensive studies on the topic, deconvolution with unknown noise distribution remains as a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-04-06 Devavrat Shah , Dogyoon Song

A considerable amount of research in harmonic analysis has been devoted to non-linear estimators of signals contaminated by additive Gaussian noise. They are implemented by thresholding coefficients in a frame, which provide a sparse signal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Nathanaël Cuvelle--Magar , Stéphane Mallat

We derive near optimal performance guarantees for subsampled blind deconvolution. Blind deconvolution is an ill-posed bilinear inverse problem and additional subsampling makes the problem even more challenging. Sparsity and spectral…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-23 Kiryung Lee , Marius Junge

We consider linear inverse problems in a nonparametric statistical framework. Both the signal and the operator are unknown and subject to error measurements. We establish minimax rates of convergence under squared error loss when the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2012-04-16 S. Delattre , M. Hoffmann , D. Picard , T. Vareschi

We propose a solution to the image deconvolution problem where the convolution kernel or point spread function (PSF) is assumed to be only partially known. Small perturbations generated from the model are exploited to produce a few…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2015-06-04 Se Un Park , Nicolas Dobigeon , Alfred O. Hero

We study the question of extracting a sequence of functions $\{\boldsymbol{f}_i, \boldsymbol{g}_i\}_{i=1}^s$ from observing only the sum of their convolutions, i.e., from $\boldsymbol{y} = \sum_{i=1}^s \boldsymbol{f}_i\ast…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-29 Shuyang Ling , Thomas Strohmer

We study the multi-channel sparse blind deconvolution (MCS-BD) problem, whose task is to simultaneously recover a kernel $\mathbf a$ and multiple sparse inputs $\{\mathbf x_i\}_{i=1}^p$ from their circulant convolution $\mathbf y_i =…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-03 Qing Qu , Xiao Li , Zhihui Zhu

The popular Lasso approach for sparse estimation can be derived via marginalization of a joint density associated with a particular stochastic model. A different marginalization of the same probabilistic model leads to a different…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-02-28 Aleksandr Y. Aravkin , James V. Burke , Alessandro Chiuso , Gianluigi Pillonetto

Efficient algorithms for the sparse solution of under-determined linear systems $Ax = b$ are known for matrices $A$ satisfying suitable assumptions like the restricted isometry property (RIP). Without such assumptions little is known and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-22 G. Welper

In this short article we present the theory of sparse representations recovery in convex regularized optimization problems introduced in (Carioni and Del Grande, arXiv:2311.08072, 2023). We focus on the scenario where the unknowns belong to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-17 Marcello Carioni , Leonardo Del Grande

Blind deconvolution is an ubiquitous non-linear inverse problem in applications like wireless communications and image processing. This problem is generally ill-posed since signal identifiability is a key concern, and there have been…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Sunav Choudhary , Urbashi Mitra

In this paper, we propose a successive convex approximation framework for sparse optimization where the nonsmooth regularization function in the objective function is nonconvex and it can be written as the difference of two convex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-26 Yang Yang , Marius Pesavento , Symeon Chatzinotas , Björn Ottersten

Recent years have seen a flurry of activities in designing provably efficient nonconvex procedures for solving statistical estimation problems. Due to the highly nonconvex nature of the empirical loss, state-of-the-art procedures often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Cong Ma , Kaizheng Wang , Yuejie Chi , Yuxin Chen

Recently, the $\l_{p}$-norm regularization minimization problem $(P_{p}^{\lambda})$ has attracted great attention in compressed sensing. However, the $\l_{p}$-norm $\|x\|_{p}^{p}$ in problem $(P_{p}^{\lambda})$ is nonconvex and…

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We investigate the problem of reconstructing signals from a subsampled convolution of their modulated versions and a known filter. The problem is studied as applies to specific imaging systems relying on spatial phase modulation by randomly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-23 Sohail Bahmani , Justin Romberg

We study parameter estimation and asymptotic inference for sparse nonlinear regression. More specifically, we assume the data are given by $y = f( x^\top \beta^* ) + \epsilon$, where $f$ is nonlinear. To recover $\beta^*$, we propose an…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-11-17 Zhuoran Yang , Zhaoran Wang , Han Liu , Yonina C. Eldar , Tong Zhang

Blind deconvolution is an ill-posed problem arising in various fields ranging from microscopy to astronomy. The ill-posed nature of the problem requires adequate priors to arrive to a desirable solution. Recently, it has been shown that…

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Sparse coding and dictionary learning are popular techniques for linear inverse problems such as denoising or inpainting. However in many cases, the measurement process is nonlinear, for example for clipped, quantized or 1-bit measurements.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-08 Lucas Rencker , Francis Bach , Wenwu Wang , Mark D. Plumbley

Sparse estimation methods are aimed at using or obtaining parsimonious representations of data or models. They were first dedicated to linear variable selection but numerous extensions have now emerged such as structured sparsity or kernel…

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