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The matrix joint block diagonalization problem (JBDP) of a given matrix set $\mathcal{A}=\{A_i\}_{i=1}^m$ is about finding a nonsingular matrix $W$ such that all $W^{T} A_i W$ are block diagonal. It includes the matrix joint diagonalization…
In this paper, we consider the exact/approximate general joint block diagonalization (GJBD) problem of a matrix set $\{A_i\}_{i=0}^p$ ($p\ge 1$), where a nonsingular matrix $W$ (often referred to as diagonalizer) needs to be found such that…
Matrix Joint Diagonalization (MJD) is a powerful approach for solving the Blind Source Separation (BSS) problem. It relies on the construction of matrices which are diagonalized by the unknown demixing matrix. Their joint diagonalizer…
The exact/approximate non-orthogonal general joint block diagonalization ({\sc nogjbd}) problem of a given real matrix set $\mathcal{A}=\{A_i\}_{i=1}^m$ is to find a nonsingular matrix $W\in\mathbb{R}^{n\times n}$ (diagonalizer) such that…
In a recent paper, a new method was proposed to find the common invariant subspaces of a set of matrices. This paper invstigates the more general problem of putting a set of matrices into block triangular or block-diagonal form…
This paper studies the subspace clustering problem. Given some data points approximately drawn from a union of subspaces, the goal is to group these data points into their underlying subspaces. Many subspace clustering methods have been…
Obtaining the inverse of a large symmetric positive definite matrix $\mathcal{A}\in\mathbb{R}^{p\times p}$ is a continual challenge across many mathematical disciplines. The computational complexity associated with direct methods can be…
Matrix joint block-diagonalization (JBD) frequently arises from diverse applications such as independent component analysis, blind source separation, and common principal component analysis (CPCA), among others. Particularly, CPCA aims at…
Block coordinate descent (BCD) methods approach optimization problems by performing gradient steps along alternating subgroups of coordinates. This is in contrast to full gradient descent, where a gradient step updates all coordinates…
We consider a blind identification problem in which we aim to recover a statistical model of a network without knowledge of the network's edges, but based solely on nodal observations of a certain process. More concretely, we focus on…
A new approach to solving a class of rankconstrained semi-definite programming (SDP) problems, which appear in many signal processing applications such as transmit beamspace design in multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar, downlink…
It is well known that a set of non-defect matrices can be simultaneously diagonalized if and only if the matrices commute. In the case of non-commuting matrices, the best that can be achieved is simultaneous block diagonalization. Here we…
A number of ill-posed inverse problems in signal processing, like blind deconvolution, matrix factorization, dictionary learning and blind source separation share the common characteristic of being bilinear inverse problems (BIPs), i.e. the…
Bilinear inverse problems (BIPs), the resolution of two vectors given their image under a bilinear mapping, arise in many applications. Without further constraints, BIPs are usually ill-posed. In practice, properties of natural signals are…
The problem of diagonalizing a class of complicated matrices, to be called ultrametric matrices, is investigated. These matrices appear at various stages in the description of disordered systems with many equilibrium phases by the technique…
We provide a solution to the problem of simultaneous $diagonalization$ $via$ $congruence$ of a given set of $m$ complex symmetric $n\times n$ matrices $\{A_{1},\ldots,A_{m}\}$, by showing that it can be reduced to a possibly…
Blind Source Separation (BSS) is a challenging matrix factorization problem that plays a central role in multichannel imaging science. In a large number of applications, such as astrophysics, current unmixing methods are limited since…
Given a set of $p$ symmetric (real) matrices, the Orthogonal Joint Diagonalization (OJD) problem consists of finding an orthonormal basis in which the representation of each of these $p$ matrices is as close as possible to a diagonal…
Block diagonalization (BD) is a practical linear precoding technique that eliminates the inter-user interference in downlink multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. In this paper, we apply BD to the downlink transmission in…
Every square matrix $A=(a_{uv})\in \mathcal{C}^{n\times n}$ can be represented as a digraph having $n$ vertices. In the digraph, a block (or 2-connected component) is a maximally connected subdigraph that has no cut-vertex. The determinant…