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We consider the estimation of an i.i.d. (possibly non-Gaussian) vector $\xbf \in \R^n$ from measurements $\ybf \in \R^m$ obtained by a general cascade model consisting of a known linear transform followed by a probabilistic componentwise…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-12-04 Ulugbek S. Kamilov , Sundeep Rangan , Alyson K. Fletcher , Michael Unser

The generalized linear model (GLM), where a random vector $\boldsymbol{x}$ is observed through a noisy, possibly nonlinear, function of a linear transform output $\boldsymbol{z}=\boldsymbol{Ax}$, arises in a range of applications such as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-06 Philip Schniter , Sundeep Rangan , Alyson K. Fletcher

We consider the problem of signal estimation in generalized linear models defined via rotationally invariant design matrices. Since these matrices can have an arbitrary spectral distribution, this model is well suited for capturing complex…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-06-10 Ramji Venkataramanan , Kevin Kögler , Marco Mondelli

The estimation of a random vector with independent components passed through a linear transform followed by a componentwise (possibly nonlinear) output map arises in a range of applications. Approximate message passing (AMP) methods, based…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-03 Sundeep Rangan , Philip Schniter , Erwin Riegler , Alyson Fletcher , Volkan Cevher

Channel and frequency offset estimation is a classic topic with a large body of prior work using mainly maximum likelihood (ML) approach together with Cram\'er-Rao Lower bounds (CRLB) analysis. We provide the maximum a posteriori (MAP)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-13 Mingda Zhou , Zhe Feng , Xinming Huang , Youjian , Liu

We study the problem of regression in a generalized linear model (GLM) with multiple signals and latent variables. This model, which we call a matrix GLM, covers many widely studied problems in statistical learning, including mixed linear…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-04-10 Nelvin Tan , Ramji Venkataramanan

We consider the problem of reconstructing a signal from multi-layered (possibly) non-linear measurements. Using non-rigorous but standard methods from statistical physics we present the Multi-Layer Approximate Message Passing (ML-AMP)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Andre Manoel , Florent Krzakala , Marc Mézard , Lenka Zdeborová

Maximum a posteriori (MAP) inference is a fundamental computational paradigm for statistical inference. In the setting of graphical models, MAP inference entails solving a combinatorial optimization problem to find the most likely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Jonathan N. Lee , Aldo Pacchiano , Michael I. Jordan

Millimeter-wave massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) can use a lens antenna array to considerably reduce the number of radio frequency (RF) chains, but channel estimation is challenging due to the number of RF chains is much…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-26 Xiuhong Wei , Chen Hu , Linglong Dai

In this work, a Bayesian approximate message passing algorithm is proposed for solving the multiple measurement vector (MMV) problem in compressive sensing, in which a collection of sparse signal vectors that share a common support are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-01-29 Justin Ziniel , Philip Schniter

MAP is the problem of finding a most probable instantiation of a set of variables given evidence. MAP has always been perceived to be significantly harder than the related problems of computing the probability of a variable instantiation…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-07-04 A. Darwiche , J. D. Park

Much effort has been directed at algorithms for obtaining the highest probability configuration in a probabilistic random field model known as the maximum a posteriori (MAP) inference problem. In many situations, one could benefit from…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-10-19 Dhruv Batra

This two-part work considers the minimum means square error (MMSE) estimation problem for a high dimensional multi-layer generalized linear model (ML-GLM), which resembles a feed-forward fully connected deep learning network in that each of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Haochuan Zhang , Qiuyun Zou , Hongwen Yang

While loopy belief propagation (LBP) performs reasonably well for inference in some Gaussian graphical models with cycles, its performance is unsatisfactory for many others. In particular for some models LBP does not converge, and in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-05-28 Ying Liu , Venkat Chandrasekaran , Animashree Anandkumar , Alan S. Willsky

The standard linear regression (SLR) problem is to recover a vector $\mathbf{x}^0$ from noisy linear observations $\mathbf{y}=\mathbf{Ax}^0+\mathbf{w}$. The approximate message passing (AMP) algorithm recently proposed by Donoho, Maleki,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Sundeep Rangan , Philip Schniter , Alyson K. Fletcher

A pre-trained unconditional diffusion model, combined with posterior sampling or maximum a posteriori (MAP) estimation techniques, can solve arbitrary inverse problems without task-specific training or fine-tuning. However, existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Sai Bharath Chandra Gutha , Ricardo Vinuesa , Hossein Azizpour

In many safety-critical settings, probabilistic ML systems have to make predictions subject to algebraic constraints, e.g., predicting the most likely trajectory that does not cross obstacles. These real-world constraints are rarely convex,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Leander Kurscheidt , Gabriele Masina , Roberto Sebastiani , Antonio Vergari

The Recently proposed Vector Approximate Message Passing (VAMP) algorithm demonstrates a great reconstruction potential at solving compressed sensing related linear inverse problems. VAMP provides high per-iteration improvement, can utilize…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Nikolajs Skuratovs , Michael Davies

Neural network systems describe complex mappings that can be very difficult to understand. In this paper, we study the inverse problem of determining the input images that get mapped to specific neural network classes. Ultimately, we expect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Rebecca Pattichis , Sebastian Janampa , Constantinos S. Pattichis , Marios S. Pattichis

Marginal MAP problems are notoriously difficult tasks for graphical models. We derive a general variational framework for solving marginal MAP problems, in which we apply analogues of the Bethe, tree-reweighted, and mean field…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-02-28 Qiang Liu , Alexander T. Ihler