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Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-02 Gao Huang , Song Li , Deanna Needell

This paper deals with recovering an unknown vector $\theta$ from the noisy data $Y=A\theta+\sigma\xi$, where $A$ is a known $(m\times n)$-matrix and $\xi$ is a white Gaussian noise. It is assumed that $n$ is large and $A$ may be severely…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2010-11-11 Yuri Golubev

We consider the problem of reconstructing an unknown function $f$ on a domain $X$ from samples of $f$ at $n$ randomly chosen points with respect to a given measure $\rho_X$. Given a sequence of linear spaces $(V_m)_{m>0}$ with ${\rm…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-19 Albert Cohen , Mark A. Davenport , Dany Leviatan

We study the problem of recovering an incomplete $m\times n$ matrix of rank $r$ with columns arriving online over time. This is known as the problem of life-long matrix completion, and is widely applied to recommendation system, computer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-12-04 Maria-Florina Balcan , Hongyang Zhang

Estimating singular subspaces from noisy matrices is a fundamental problem with wide-ranging applications across various fields. Driven by the challenges of data integration and multi-view analysis, this study focuses on estimating shared…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-11-27 Zhengchi Ma , Rong Ma

We consider the problem of estimating the structural function in nonparametric instrumental regression, where in the presence of an instrument W a response Y is modeled in dependence of an endogenous explanatory variable Z. The proposed…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-03-13 Jan Johannes , Maik Schwarz

The problem of recovering a matrix of low rank from an incomplete and possibly noisy set of linear measurements arises in a number of areas. In order to derive rigorous recovery results, the measurement map is usually modeled…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-28 Maryia Kabanava , Richard Kueng , Holger Rauhut , Ulrich Terstiege

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

We consider the problem of robust deconvolution, and particularly the recovery of an unknown deterministic signal convolved with a known filter and corrupted by additive noise. We present a novel, non-iterative data-driven approach.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-04 Amir Weiss , Boaz Nadler

With the recent success of representation learning methods, which includes deep learning as a special case, there has been considerable interest in developing representation learning techniques that can incorporate known physical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Harsha Vardhan Tetali , Joel B. Harley , Benjamin D. Haeffele

We consider the problem of estimating the covariance matrix of a random signal observed through unknown translations (modeled by cyclic shifts) and corrupted by noise. Solving this problem allows to discover low-rank structures masked by…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-11-11 Boris Landa , Yoel Shkolnisky

Brain decoding algorithms form an important part of the arsenal of analysis tools available to neuroscientists, allowing for a more detailed study of the kind of information represented in patterns of cortical activity. While most current…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2017-08-17 R. S. van Bergen , J. F. M. Jehee

We consider noisy observations of a distribution with unknown support. In the deconvolution model, it has been proved recently [19] that, under very mild assumptions, it is possible to solve the deconvolution problem without knowing the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-06-21 Jérémie Capitao-Miniconi , Elisabeth Gassiat , Luc Lehéricy

We study a matrix recovery problem with unknown correspondence: given the observation matrix $M_o=[A,\tilde P B]$, where $\tilde P$ is an unknown permutation matrix, we aim to recover the underlying matrix $M=[A,B]$. Such problem commonly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Zhiwei Tang , Tsung-Hui Chang , Xiaojing Ye , Hongyuan Zha

This note considers the spectral estimation problems of sparse spectral measures under unknown noise levels. The main technical tool is the eigenmatrix method for solving unstructured sparse recovery problems. When the noise level is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-09 Lexing Ying

Suppose that a solution $\widetilde{\mathbf{x}}$ to an underdetermined linear system $\mathbf{b} = \mathbf{A} \mathbf{x}$ is given. $\widetilde{\mathbf{x}}$ is approximately sparse meaning that it has a few large components compared to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-29 Mohammadreza Malek-Mohammadi , Cristian R. Rojas , Magnus Jansson , Massoud Babaie-Zadeh

We provide a unified treatment of a broad class of noisy structure recovery problems, known as structured normal means problems. In this setting, the goal is to identify, from a finite collection of Gaussian distributions with different…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-01-27 Akshay Krishnamurthy

The {\em discrepancy} of a matrix $M \in \mathbb{R}^{d \times n}$ is given by $\mathrm{DISC}(M) := \min_{\boldsymbol{x} \in \{-1,1\}^n} \|M\boldsymbol{x}\|_\infty$. An outstanding conjecture, attributed to Koml\'os, stipulates that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-07-08 Elad Aigner-Horev , Dan Hefetz , Michael Trushkin

We investigate minimax testing for detecting local signals or linear combinations of such signals when only indirect data is available. Naturally, in the presence of noise, signals that are too small cannot be reliably detected. In a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-02-21 Markus Pohlmann , Frank Werner , Axel Munk

This paper confirms a surprising phenomenon first observed by Wright \textit{et al.} \cite{WYGSM_Face_2009_J} \cite{WM_denseError_2010_J} under different setting: given $m$ highly corrupted measurements $y = A_{\Omega \bullet} x^{\star} +…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-11-24 Nam H. Nguyen , Trac. D. Tran