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We consider a group synchronization problem with multiple frequencies which involves observing pairwise relative measurements of group elements on multiple frequency channels, corrupted by Gaussian noise. We study the computational phase…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-06-06 Anastasia Kireeva , Afonso S. Bandeira , Dmitriy Kunisky

The problem of synchronization over a group $\mathcal{G}$ aims to estimate a collection of group elements $G^*_1, \dots, G^*_n \in \mathcal{G}$ based on noisy observations of a subset of all pairwise ratios of the form $G^*_i {G^*_j}^{-1}$.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-19 Huikang Liu , Man-Chung Yue , Anthony Man-Cho So

We study the computational phase transition in a multi-frequency group synchronization problem, where pairwise relative measurements of group elements are observed across multiple frequency channels and corrupted by Gaussian noise. Using…

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Finding group elements from noisy measurements of their pairwise ratios is also known as the group synchronization problem, first introduced in the context of the group SO(2) of planar rotations, whose usefulness has been demonstrated…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-04-17 Mihai Cucuringu

Group synchronization is the problem of determining reliable global estimates from noisy local measurements on networks. The typical task for group synchronization is to assign elements of a group to the nodes of a graph in a way that…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-06 Adriana L. Duncan , Joe Kileel

Group synchronization asks to recover group elements from their pairwise measurements. It has found numerous applications across various scientific disciplines. In this work, we focus on orthogonal and permutation group synchronization…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Shuyang Ling

The generalized phase retrieval problem over compact groups aims to recover a set of matrices -- representing an unknown signal -- from their associated Gram matrices. This framework generalizes the classical phase retrieval problem, which…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-20 Tal Amir , Tamir Bendory , Nadav Dym , Dan Edidin

Various alignment problems arising in cryo-electron microscopy, community detection, time synchronization, computer vision, and other fields fall into a common framework of synchronization problems over compact groups such as Z/L, U(1), or…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-14 Amelia Perry , Alexander S. Wein , Afonso S. Bandeira , Ankur Moitra

In synchronization problems, the goal is to estimate elements of a group from noisy measurements of their ratios. A popular estimation method for synchronization is the spectral method. It extracts the group elements from eigenvectors of a…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2023-07-18 Ido Hadi , Tamir Bendory , Nir Sharon

Group synchronization arises when two or more synchronization patterns coexist in a network formed of oscillators of different types, with the systems in each group synchronizing on the same time-evolution, but systems in different groups…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2021-12-21 Shirin Panahi , Francesco Sorrentino

We propose a novel formulation for phase synchronization -- the statistical problem of jointly estimating alignment angles from noisy pairwise comparisons -- as a nonconvex optimization problem that enforces consistency among the pairwise…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Tingran Gao , Zhizhen Zhao

The group synchronization problem involves estimating a collection of group elements from noisy measurements of their pairwise ratios. This task is a key component in many computational problems, including the molecular reconstruction…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-09 Noam Janco , Tamir Bendory

We propose a general framework for solving the group synchronization problem, where we focus on the setting of adversarial or uniform corruption and sufficiently small noise. Specifically, we apply a novel message passing procedure that…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-07-29 Gilad Lerman , Yunpeng Shi

Group synchronization refers to estimating a collection of group elements from the noisy pairwise measurements. Such a nonconvex problem has received much attention from numerous scientific fields including computer vision, robotics, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-14 Linglingzhi Zhu , Jinxin Wang , Anthony Man-Cho So

The synchronization problem over the special orthogonal group $SO(d)$ consists of estimating a set of unknown rotations $R_1,R_2,...,R_n$ from noisy measurements of a subset of their pairwise ratios $R_{i}^{-1}R_{j}$. The problem has found…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-07-17 Lanhui Wang , Amit Singer

Community detection and orthogonal group synchronization are both fundamental problems with a variety of important applications in science and engineering. In this work, we consider the joint problem of community detection and orthogonal…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-09-19 Yifeng Fan , Yuehaw Khoo , Zhizhen Zhao

Group-testing refers to the problem of identifying (with high probability) a (small) subset of $D$ defectives from a (large) set of $N$ items via a "small" number of "pooled" tests. For ease of presentation in this work we focus on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-07-11 Sheng Cai , Mohammad Jahangoshahi , Mayank Bakshi , Sidharth Jaggi

The group testing problem consists of determining a small set of defective items from a larger set of items based on a number of tests, and is relevant in applications such as medical testing, communication protocols, pattern matching, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-30 Jonathan Scarlett , Volkan Cevher

Group synchronization requires to estimate unknown elements $({\theta}_v)_{v\in V}$ of a compact group ${\mathfrak G}$ associated to the vertices of a graph $G=(V,E)$, using noisy observations of the group differences associated to the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-06-28 Emmanuel Abbe , Laurent Massoulie , Andrea Montanari , Allan Sly , Nikhil Srivastava

The group synchronization problem is to estimate unknown group elements at the vertices of a graph when given a set of possibly noisy observations of group differences at the edges. We consider the group synchronization problem on finite…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-05-24 Bradley Stich
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