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Determining the presence of a potential optical source in the interest region is important for an imaging system and can be achieved by using hypothesis testing. The previous studies assume that the potential source is completely…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-23 Jian-Dong Zhang , Kexin Zhang , Lili Hou , Shuai Wang

In this work, we give a novel general approach for distribution testing. We describe two techniques: our first technique gives sample-optimal testers, while our second technique gives matching sample lower bounds. As a consequence, we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-05-10 Ilias Diakonikolas , Daniel M. Kane

Various studies that address the compressed sensing problem with Multiple Measurement Vectors (MMVs) have been recently carried. These studies assume the vectors of the different channels to be jointly sparse. In this paper, we relax this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-14 Hamid Palangi , Rabab Ward , Li Deng

Incomplete data are common in real-world tabular applications, where numerical, categorical, and discrete attributes coexist within a single dataset. This heterogeneous structure presents significant challenges for existing diffusion-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Youran Zhou , Mohamed Reda Bouadjenek , Sunil Aryal

Persistent homology is a vital tool for topological data analysis. Previous work has developed some statistical estimators for characteristics of collections of persistence diagrams. However, tools that provide statistical inference for…

Applications · Statistics 2016-02-23 Andrew Robinson , Katharine Turner

A distributed inference scheme which uses bounded transmission functions over a Gaussian multiple access channel is considered. When the sensor measurements are decreasingly reliable as a function of the sensor index, the conditions on the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-06-16 Sivaraman Dasarathan , Cihan Tepedelenlioglu

Testing hypotheses of goodness-of-fit about mixture distributions on the basis of independent but not necessarily identically distributed random vectors is considered. The hypotheses are given by a specific distribution or by a family of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-04-21 Daniel Gaigall

In this paper we consider the problem of binary hypothesis testing with finite memory systems. Let $X_1,X_2,\ldots$ be a sequence of independent identically distributed Bernoulli random variables, with expectation $p$ under $\mathcal{H}_0$…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-18 Tomer Berg , Ofer Shayevitz , Or Ordentlich

Hypothesis testing is a statistical inference framework for determining the true distribution among a set of possible distributions for a given dataset. Privacy restrictions may require the curator of the data or the respondents themselves…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-28 Jiachun Liao , Lalitha Sankar , Vincent Y. F. Tan , Flavio P. Calmon

We generalize the problem of controlling the interference created to an external observer while communicating over a discrete memoryless channel (DMC) which was studied in \cite{serrano:2014}. In particular, we consider the scenario where…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Michail Mylonakis , Photios A. Stavrou , Mikael Skoglund

In this paper, a cooperative diffusion-based molecular communication system is considered where distributed receivers collaboratively determine a transmitter's signal. In this system, the receivers first make local hard decisions about the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-20 Yuting Fang , Adam Noel , Nan Yang , Andrew W. Eckford , Rodney A. Kennedy

In this paper, we address hypothesis testing in a distributed network of nodes, where each node has only partial information about the State of the World (SotW) and is tasked with determining which hypothesis, among a given set, is most…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Ahmet Faruk Saz , Siheng Xiong , Faramarz Fekri

In this paper, we study the hypothesis testing problem of, among $n$ random variables, determining $k$ random variables which have different probability distributions from the rest $(n-k)$ random variables. Instead of using separate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-05-28 Weiyu Xu , Lifeng Lai

This paper resolves two open problems from a recent paper, arXiv:2403.16981, concerning the sample complexity of distributed simple binary hypothesis testing under information constraints. The first open problem asks whether interaction…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Hadi Kazemi , Ankit Pensia , Varun Jog

Hidden Markov Chains (HMCs) are commonly used mathematical models of probabilistic systems. They are employed in various fields such as speech recognition, signal processing, and biological sequence analysis. We consider the problem of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-05-10 Stefan Kiefer , A. Prasad Sistla

We propose a distributed algorithm for sparse signal recovery in sensor networks based on Iterative Hard Thresholding (IHT). Every agent has a set of measurements of a signal x, and the objective is for the agents to recover x from their…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-22 Stacy Patterson , Yonina C. Eldar , Idit Keidar

In this paper, we consider a network of processors aiming at cooperatively solving mixed-integer convex programs subject to uncertainty. Each node only knows a common cost function and its local uncertain constraint set. We propose a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-19 Mohammadreza Chamanbaz , Giuseppe Notarstefano , Francesco Sasso , Roland Bouffanais

We consider a distributed detection problem where measurements at each sensor follow a general parametric distribution. The network does not have a central processing unit or fusion center (FC). Thus, each node takes some measurements, does…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-08 Juan Maya , Leonardo Rey Vega

We consider a sequential problem in decentralized detection. Two observers can make repeated noisy observations of a binary hypothesis on the state of the environment. At any time, any of the two observers can stop and send a final message…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Ashutosh Nayyar , Demosthenis Teneketzis

In applications involving matching of image sets, the information from multiple images must be effectively exploited to represent each set. State-of-the-art methods use probabilistic distribution or subspace to model a set and use specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-04 Jie Feng , Svebor Karaman , I-Hong Jhuo , Shih-Fu Chang