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We investigate the efficiency of two very different spoken term detection approaches for transcription when the available data is insufficient to train a robust ASR system. This work is grounded in very low-resource language documentation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Éric Le Ferrand , Steven Bird , Laurent Besacier

The growing environmental footprint of artificial intelligence (AI), especially in terms of storage and computation, calls for more frugal and interpretable models. Sparse models (e.g., linear, neural networks) offer a promising solution by…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-09-23 Sylvain Sardy , Maxime van Cutsem , Xiaoyu Ma

Sparsity priors are commonly used in denoising and image reconstruction. For analysis-type priors, a dictionary defines a representation of signals that is likely to be sparse. In most situations, this dictionary is not known, and is to be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-16 Hashem Ghanem , Joseph Salmon , Nicolas Keriven , Samuel Vaiter

It is well known that sparse approximation problem is \textsf{NP}-hard under general dictionaries. Several algorithms have been devised and analyzed in the past decade under various assumptions on the \emph{coherence} $\mu$ of the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-02-10 Ali Çivril

The dictionary learning problem concerns the task of representing data as sparse linear sums drawn from a smaller collection of basic building blocks. In application domains where such techniques are deployed, we frequently encounter…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-21 Yong Sheng Soh

Dictionary learning is a widely used technique in signal processing and machine learning that aims to represent data as a linear combination of a few elements from an overcomplete dictionary. In this work, we propose a generalization of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-13 Ferdaous Ait Addi , Abdeslem Hafid Bentbib , Khalide Jbilou

Given only observational data $X = g(Z)$, where both the latent variables $Z$ and the generating process $g$ are unknown, recovering $Z$ is ill-posed without additional assumptions. Existing methods often assume linearity or rely on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Yujia Zheng , Zijian Li , Shunxing Fan , Andrew Gordon Wilson , Kun Zhang

This paper presents a model-based, unsupervised algorithm for recovering word boundaries in a natural-language text from which they have been deleted. The algorithm is derived from a probability model of the source that generated the text.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Michael R. Brent

This article extends the concept of compressed sensing to signals that are not sparse in an orthonormal basis but rather in a redundant dictionary. It is shown that a matrix, which is a composition of a random matrix of certain type and a…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-11-10 Holger Rauhut , Karin Schnass , Pierre Vandergheynst

Sparse linear regression is one of the most basic questions in machine learning and statistics. Here, we are given as input a design matrix $X \in \mathbb{R}^{N \times d}$ and measurements or labels ${y} \in \mathbb{R}^N$ where ${y} = {X}…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Gautam Chandrasekaran , Raghu Meka , Konstantinos Stavropoulos

Methods exploiting sparsity have been popular in imaging and signal processing applications including compression, denoising, and imaging inverse problems. Data-driven approaches such as dictionary learning and transform learning enable one…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-05 Saiprasad Ravishankar , Anna Ma , Deanna Needell

This paper presents a structured dictionary-based model for hyperspectral data that incorporates both spectral and contextual characteristics of a spectral sample, with the goal of hyperspectral image classification. The idea is to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-08-07 Ali Soltani-Farani , Hamid R. Rabiee , Seyyed Abbas Hosseini

In the context of high-dimensional linear regression models, we propose an algorithm of exact support recovery in the setting of noisy compressed sensing where all entries of the design matrix are independent and identically distributed…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-10-23 Mohamed Ndaoud , Alexandre B. Tsybakov

This article presents novel results concerning the recovery of signals from undersampled data in the common situation where such signals are not sparse in an orthonormal basis or incoherent dictionary, but in a truly redundant dictionary.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Emmanuel J. Candes , Yonina C. Eldar , Deanna Needell , Paige Randall

This paper addresses the problem of identifying a lower dimensional space where observed data can be sparsely represented. This under-complete dictionary learning task can be formulated as a blind separation problem of sparse sources…

Methodology · Statistics 2010-08-30 Nicolas Dobigeon , Jean-Yves Tourneret

Given an overcomplete dictionary $A$ and a signal $b = Ac^*$ for some sparse vector $c^*$ whose nonzero entries correspond to linearly independent columns of $A$, classical sparse signal recovery theory considers the problem of whether…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Daniel P. Robinson , Rene Vidal , Chong You

Dictionary learning and sparse coding have been widely studied as mechanisms for unsupervised feature learning. Unsupervised learning could bring enormous benefit to the processing of hyperspectral images and to other remote sensing data…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-03 Joshua Bruton , Hairong Wang

We propose a Bayesian approach to learn discriminative dictionaries for sparse representation of data. The proposed approach infers probability distributions over the atoms of a discriminative dictionary using a Beta Process. It also…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-03-30 Naveed Akhtar , Faisal Shafait , Ajmal Mian

Interpretability benefits the theoretical understanding of representations. Existing word embeddings are generally dense representations. Hence, the meaning of latent dimensions is difficult to interpret. This makes word embeddings like a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Minxue Xia , Hao Zhu

Dictionary learning is a challenge topic in many image processing areas. The basic goal is to learn a sparse representation from an overcomplete basis set. Due to combining the advantages of generic multiscale representations with learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-17 Rui Chen , Huizhu Jia , Xiaodong Xie , Wen Gao