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Galactic binaries are expected to be the most numerous LISA sources and to produce a stochastic gravitational-wave foreground whose spectral shape encodes information about the underlying population. Extracting this information with…

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We present a generative modeling approach based on the variational inference framework for likelihood-free simulation-based inference. The method leverages latent variables within variational autoencoders to efficiently estimate complex…

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Out of the estimated few trillion galaxies, only around a million have been detected through radio frequencies, and only a tiny fraction, approximately a thousand, have been manually classified. We have addressed this disparity between…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-10 Mir Sazzat Hossain , Sugandha Roy , K. M. B. Asad , Arshad Momen , Amin Ahsan Ali , M Ashraful Amin , A. K. M. Mahbubur Rahman

The increasing demand for high-speed and reliable wireless networks has driven advancements in technologies such as millimeter-wave and 5G radios, which requires efficient planning and timely deployment of wireless access points. A critical…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Xuanhao Luo , Zhizhen Li , Zhiyuan Peng , Mingzhe Chen , Yuchen Liu

The millimeter wave bands are being increasingly considered for wireless communication to unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Critical to this undertaking are statistical channel models that describe the distribution of constituent parameters…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-27 William Xia , Sundeep Rangan , Marco Mezzavillla , Angel Lozano , Giovanni Geraci , Vasilii Semkin , Giuseppe Loianno

As a widely recognized approach to deep generative modeling, Variational Auto-Encoders (VAEs) still face challenges with the quality of generated images, often presenting noticeable blurriness. This issue stems from the unrealistic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Georgios Batzolis , Jan Stanczuk , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

A Radio Environment Map (REM) is a powerful tool in enhancing the experience of radio-enabled agents but building such a REM can be a laborious undertaking, especially in three dimensions. This project shows how such a REM of an indoor…

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Pixel-based reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) employ a novel design to achieve high reflection gain at a lower hardware cost by eliminating the phase shifters used in traditional RIS. However, this design presents challenges for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-24 Huayan Guo , Junhui Rao , Alex M. H. Wong , Ross Murch , Vincent K. N. Lau

In this paper, we aim to estimate the direction of an underlying signal from its nonlinear observations following the semi-parametric single index model (SIM). Unlike conventional compressed sensing where the signal is assumed to be sparse,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Jiulong Liu , Zhaoqiang Liu

During the fifth science run of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO), signals modelling the gravitational waves emitted by coalescing non-spinning compact-object binaries were injected into the LIGO data stream. We…

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In the development of locally resonant metamaterials, the physical resonator design is often omitted and replaced by an idealized mass-spring system. This paper presents a novel approach for designing multimodal resonant structures, which…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-11-05 Sander Dedoncker , Christian Donner , Raphael Bischof , Linus Taenzer , Bart Van Damme

In recent years, studies on image generation models of spiking neural networks (SNNs) have gained the attention of many researchers. Variational autoencoders (VAEs), as one of the most popular image generation models, have attracted a lot…

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The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will form the largest radio telescope ever built and such a huge instrument in the desert poses enormous engineering and logistic challenges. Algorithmic and architectural breakthroughs are needed. Data is…

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Radio tomographic imaging (RTI) is an emerging technology for localization of physical objects in a geographical area covered by wireless networks. With attenuation measurements collected at spatially distributed sensors, RTI capitalizes on…

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Popular generative model learning methods such as Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), and Variational Autoencoders (VAE) enforce the latent representation to follow simple distributions such as isotropic Gaussian. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-15 Cem Subakan , Oluwasanmi Koyejo , Paris Smaragdis

This work analyzes the RAID dataset to evaluate human responses to affine image distortions, including rotation, translation, scaling, and Gaussian noise. Using Mean Squared Error (MSE), the study establishes human detection thresholds for…

Biological systems commonly exhibit complex spatiotemporal patterns whose underlying generative mechanisms pose a significant analytical challenge. Traditional approaches to spatiodynamic inference rely on dimensionality reduction through…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-08-01 Jun Won Park , Kangyu Zhao , Sanket Rane

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a promising candidate technology of the upcoming Sixth Generation (6G) communication system for its ability to provide unprecedented spectral and energy efficiency increment through passive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Haochen Li , Zhiwen Pan , Bin Wang , Nan Liu , Xiaohu You

VAEs (Variational AutoEncoders) have proved to be powerful in the context of density modeling and have been used in a variety of contexts for creative purposes. In many settings, the data we model possesses continuous attributes that we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-07-18 Gaëtan Hadjeres , Frank Nielsen , François Pachet

Estimation of Markov Random Field and covariance models from high-dimensional data represents a canonical problem that has received a lot of attention in the literature. A key assumption, widely employed, is that of {\em sparsity} of the…

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