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A new maximum approximate likelihood (ML) estimation algorithm for the mixture of Kent distribution is proposed. The new algorithm is constructed via the BSLM (block successive lower-bound maximization) framework and incorporates manifold…

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The estimation of the direction of electromagnetic (EM) waves from a radio source using electrically short antennas is one of the challenging problems in the field of radio astronomy. In this paper we have developed an algorithm which…

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We propose a joint estimation method for the Direction-of-Arrival (DoA) and the Noise Covariance Matrix (NCM) tailored for beamforming applications. Building upon an existing NCM framework, our approach simplifies the estimation procedure…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Vitor Gelsleichter Probst Curtarelli , Stephan Paul , Anderson Wedderhoff Spengler

Joint maximum likelihood (JML) estimation is one of the earliest approaches to fitting item response theory (IRT) models. This procedure treats both the item and person parameters as unknown but fixed model parameters and estimates them…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-06-17 Yunxiao Chen , Xiaoou Li , Siliang Zhang

Direction of arrival (DoA) estimation of multiple signals is pivotal in sensor array signal processing. A popular multi-signal DoA estimation method is the multiple signal classification (MUSIC) algorithm, which enables high-performance…

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We consider the parametric data model employed in applications such as line spectral estimation and direction-of-arrival estimation. We focus on the stochastic maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) framework and offer approaches to estimate…

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This paper introduces distribution-based prediction, a novel approach to using Large Language Models (LLMs) as predictive tools by interpreting output token probabilities as distributions representing the models' learned representation of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Caleb Bradshaw , Caelen Miller , Sean Warnick

Machine Learning (ML) and linear System Identification (SI) have been historically developed independently. In this paper, we leverage well-established ML tools - especially the automatic differentiation framework - to introduce SIMBa, a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-27 Loris Di Natale , Muhammad Zakwan , Bratislav Svetozarevic , Philipp Heer , Giancarlo Ferrari-Trecate , Colin N. Jones

Direction of arrival (DOA) estimation in array processing using uniform/sparse linear arrays is concerned in this paper. While sparse methods via approximate parameter discretization have been popular in the past decade, the discretization…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-10-24 Zai Yang , Lihua Xie , Cishen Zhang

The direction of arrival (DOA) estimation algorithms are crucial in localizing acoustic sources. Traditional localization methods rely on block-level processing to extract the directional information from multiple measurements processed…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-15 Ruchi Pandey , Santosh Nannuru

We investigate localization of a source based on angle of arrival (AoA) measurements made at a geographically dispersed network of cooperating receivers. The goal is to efficiently compute accurate estimates despite outliers in the AoA…

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We propose a new meta learning based framework for low resource speech recognition that improves the previous model agnostic meta learning (MAML) approach. The MAML is a simple yet powerful meta learning approach. However, the MAML presents…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-13 Satwinder Singh , Ruili Wang , Feng Hou

A maximum likelihood methodology for the parameters of models with an intractable likelihood is introduced. We produce a likelihood-free version of the stochastic approximation expectation-maximization (SAEM) algorithm to maximize the…

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Nonparametric maximum likelihood (NPML) for mixture models is a technique for estimating mixing distributions that has a long and rich history in statistics going back to the 1950s, and is closely related to empirical Bayes methods.…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-01-15 Long Feng , Lee H. Dicker

Direction-of-Arrival (DOA) estimation is critical in spatial audio and acoustic signal processing, with wide-ranging applications in real-world. Most existing DOA models are trained on synthetic data by convolving clean speech with room…

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The Expectation--Maximization Maximum Likelihood (EMML) algorithm belongs to the Expectation--Maximization family and is widely used for image reconstruction problems under Poisson noise.In this paper, we reinterpret EMML as a mirror…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-20 Antonin Clerc , Ségolène Martin , Nicolas Papadakis , Gabriele Steidl

Low complexity joint estimation of synchronization impairments and channel in a single-user MIMO-OFDM system is presented in this letter. Based on a system model that takes into account the effects of synchronization impairments such as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-04-30 Renu Jose , Sooraj K. Ambat , K. V. S. Hari

Maximum likelihood (ML) detection is an optimal signal detection scheme, which is often difficult to implement due to its high computational complexity, especially in a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) scenario. In a system with $N_t$…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Sharan Mourya , Amit Kumar Dutta

Single-snapshot signal processing in sparse linear arrays has become increasingly vital, particularly in dynamic environments like automotive radar systems, where only limited snapshots are available. These arrays are often utilized either…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-14 Ruxin Zheng , Shunqiao Sun , Hongshan Liu , Yimin D. Zhang