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We develop a multidimensional version of Gradient-MUSIC for estimating the frequencies of a nonharmonic signal from noisy samples. The guiding principle is that frequency recovery should be based only on the signal subspace determined by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Albert Fannjiang , Weilin Li

Motivated by multi-task and meta-learning approaches, we consider the problem of learning structure shared by tasks or users, such as shared low-rank representations or clustered structures. While all previous works focus on well-specified…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Mathieu Even , Laurent Massoulié

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 interplay between computational efficiency and statistical accuracy in high-dimensional inference has drawn increasing attention in the literature. In this paper, we study computational and statistical boundaries for submatrix…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-07-27 T. Tony Cai , Tengyuan Liang , Alexander Rakhlin

In recent years, the use of sparse recovery techniques in the approximation of high-dimensional functions has garnered increasing interest. In this work we present a survey of recent progress in this emerging topic. Our main focus is on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-06-12 Ben Adcock , Simone Brugiapaglia , Clayton G. Webster

The high-dimensional data setting, in which p >> n, is a challenging statistical paradigm that appears in many real-world problems. In this setting, learning a compact, low-dimensional representation of the data can substantially help…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-07 Micol Marchetti-Bowick , Benjamin J. Lengerich , Ankur P. Parikh , Eric P. Xing

The problem of learning structural equation models (SEMs) from data is a fundamental problem in causal inference. We develop a new algorithm --- which is computationally and statistically efficient and works in the high-dimensional regime…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-30 Asish Ghoshal , Jean Honorio

Gradient-based dimension reduction decreases the cost of Bayesian inference and probabilistic modeling by identifying maximally informative (and informed) low-dimensional projections of the data and parameters, allowing high-dimensional…

Computation · Statistics 2025-06-02 Ricardo Baptista , Michael Brennan , Youssef Marzouk

Noisy matrix completion has attracted significant attention due to its applications in recommendation systems, signal processing and image restoration. Most existing works rely on (weighted) least squares methods under various low-rank…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-12-17 Ziyuan Chen , Fang Yao

We consider $m \times s$ matrices (with $m\geq s$) in a real affine subspace of dimension $n$. The problem of finding elements of low rank in such spaces finds many applications in information and systems theory, where low rank is…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2019-07-19 Didier Henrion , Simone Naldi , Mohab Safey El Din

We study the problem of estimating a low-rank positive semidefinite (PSD) matrix from a set of rank-one measurements using sensing vectors composed of i.i.d. standard Gaussian entries, which are possibly corrupted by arbitrary outliers.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-21 Yuanxin Li , Yue Sun , Yuejie Chi

Low rank matrix recovery problems appear widely in statistics, combinatorics, and imaging. One celebrated method for solving these problems is to formulate and solve a semidefinite program (SDP). It is often known that the exact solution to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-26 Lijun Ding , Madeleine Udell

Datasets such as images, text, or movies are embedded in high-dimensional spaces. However, in important cases such as images of objects, the statistical structure in the data constrains samples to a manifold of dramatically lower…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Stefano Recanatesi , Matthew Farrell , Madhu Advani , Timothy Moore , Guillaume Lajoie , Eric Shea-Brown

Recent work has generalized several results concerning the well-understood spiked Wigner matrix model of a low-rank signal matrix corrupted by additive i.i.d. Gaussian noise to the inhomogeneous case, where the noise has a variance profile.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-10 Debsurya De , Dmitriy Kunisky

We study the following basic machine learning task: Given a fixed set of $d$-dimensional input points for a linear regression problem, we wish to predict a hidden response value for each of the points. We can only afford to attain the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-07 Michał Dereziński , Manfred K. Warmuth

We consider the problem of extracting a low-dimensional, linear latent variable structure from high-dimensional random variables. Specifically, we show that under mild conditions and when this structure manifests itself as a linear space…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-10-14 Xiongzhi Chen , John D. Storey

We study a nonconvex optimization algorithmic approach to phase retrieval and the more general problem of semidefinite low-rank matrix sensing. Specifically, we analyze the nonconvex landscape of a quartic Burer-Monteiro factored…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-20 Andrew D. McRae

A low-rank transformation learning framework for subspace clustering and classification is here proposed. Many high-dimensional data, such as face images and motion sequences, approximately lie in a union of low-dimensional subspaces. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-03-11 Qiang Qiu , Guillermo Sapiro

We construct efficient data structures that are resilient against a constant fraction of adversarial noise. Our model requires that the decoder answers most queries correctly with high probability and for the remaining queries, the decoder…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-01-27 Victor Chen , Elena Grigorescu , Ronald de Wolf

Although the standard formulations of prediction problems involve fully-observed and noiseless data drawn in an i.i.d. manner, many applications involve noisy and/or missing data, possibly involving dependence, as well. We study these…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-03-19 Po-Ling Loh , Martin J. Wainwright