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We consider an uncertain linear inverse problem as follows. Given observation $\omega=Ax_*+\zeta$ where $A\in {\bf R}^{m\times p}$ and $\zeta\in {\bf R}^{m}$ is observation noise, we want to recover unknown signal $x_*$, known to belong to…

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We investigate the calibration of estimations to increase performance with an optimal monotone transform on the estimator outputs. We start by studying the traditional square error setting with its weighted variant and show that the optimal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Kaan Gokcesu , Hakan Gokcesu

We present a comparison between various algorithms of inference of covariance and precision matrices in small datasets of real vectors, of the typical length and dimension of human brain activity time series retrieved by functional Magnetic…

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This paper considers the problem of recovery of a low-rank matrix in the situation when most of its entries are not observed and a fraction of observed entries are corrupted. The observations are noisy realizations of the sum of a low rank…

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In this paper, we extend our research concerning the standard and linearized monotonicity methods for the inverse problem of the time harmonic elastic wave equation and introduce the modification of these methods for noisy data. In more…

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We study the problem of estimating a rank one signal matrix from an observed matrix generated by corrupting the signal with additive rotationally invariant noise. We develop a new class of approximate message-passing algorithms for this…

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Disease progression models infer group-level temporal trajectories of change in patients' features as a chronic degenerative condition plays out. They provide unique insight into disease biology and staging systems with individual-level…

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Phase mixing is a fundamental kinetic process that governs dissipation and stability in collisionless plasmas, but its inherent filamentation in velocity space creates major challenges for both high-fidelity simulations and reduced-order…

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We consider the basic problem of learning Single-Index Models with respect to the square loss under the Gaussian distribution in the presence of adversarial label noise. Our main contribution is the first computationally efficient algorithm…

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Owing to its immense storage density and durability, DNA has emerged as a promising storage medium. However, due to technological constraints, data can only be written onto many short DNA molecules called data blocks that are stored in an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Shubhransh Singhvi , Charchit Gupta , Avital Boruchovsky , Yuval Goldberg , Han Mao Kiah , Eitan Yaakobi

In this work we propose an objective function to guide the search for a state space reconstruction of a dynamical system from a time series of measurements. This statistics can be evaluated on any reconstructed attractor, thereby allowing a…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2012-05-16 L. C. Uzal , G. L. Grinblat , P. F. Verdes

We provide novel sufficient conditions for the uniform recovery of sparse Legendre expansions using $\ell_1$ minimization, where the sampling points are drawn according to orthogonalization (uniform) measure. So far, conditions of the form…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-09 Hoang Tran , Clayton Webster

Turing patterns play a fundamental role in morphogenesis and population dynamics, encoding key information about the underlying biological mechanisms. Yet, traditional inverse problems have largely relied on non-biological data such as…

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We consider the problem of recovering a structured signal $\mathbf{x} \in \mathbb{R}^{n}$ from noisy linear observations $\mathbf{y} =\mathbf{M} \mathbf{x}+\mathbf{w}$. The measurement matrix is modeled as $\mathbf{M} =…

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We study the Inexact Restoration framework with random models for minimizing functions whose evaluation is subject to errors. We propose a constrained formulation that includes well-known stochastic problems and an algorithm applicable when…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Benedetta Morini , Simone Rebegoldi

Consider the $n$-dimensional vector $y=X\be+\e$, where $\be \in \R^p$ has only $k$ nonzero entries and $\e \in \R^n$ is a Gaussian noise. This can be viewed as a linear system with sparsity constraints, corrupted by noise. We find a…

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Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scanners are usually designed with the goal to obtain the best compromise between sensitivity, resolution, field-of-view size, and cost. Therefore, it is difficult to improve the resolution of a PET…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-07-18 Pablo Galve , Alejandro Lopez-Montes , Jose M Udias , Stephen C Moore , Joaquin L Herraiz

Sequential maximization of expected improvement (EI) is one of the most widely used policies in Bayesian optimization because of its simplicity and ability to handle noisy observations. In particular, the improvement function often uses the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Han Zhou , Xingchen Ma , Matthew B Blaschko

Permutation testing is a non-parametric method for obtaining the max null distribution used to compute corrected $p$-values that provide strong control of false positives. In neuroimaging, however, the computational burden of running such…

We introduce algorithms for learning nonlinear dynamical systems of the form $x_{t+1}=\sigma(\Theta^{\star}x_t)+\varepsilon_t$, where $\Theta^{\star}$ is a weight matrix, $\sigma$ is a nonlinear link function, and $\varepsilon_t$ is a…

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