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We establish fundamental limits on estimation accuracy for the noisy 20 questions problem with measurement-dependent noise and introduce optimal non-adaptive procedures that achieve these limits. The minimal achievable resolution is defined…
We establish fundamental limits on estimation accuracy for the noisy 20 questions problem with measurement-dependent noise and introduce optimal non-adaptive procedures that achieve these limits. The minimal achievable resolution is defined…
We study the problem of simultaneous search for multiple targets over a multidimensional unit cube and derive fundamental resolution limits of non-adaptive querying procedures using the 20 questions estimation framework. The performance…
Using the 20 questions estimation framework with query-dependent noise, we study non-adaptive search strategies for a moving target over the unit cube with unknown initial location and velocities under a piecewise constant velocity model.…
We establish fundamental limits of tracking a moving target over the unit cube under the framework of 20 questions with measurement-dependent noise. In this problem, there is an oracle who knows the instantaneous location of a target. Our…
The problem of target localization with noise is addressed. The target is a sample from a continuous random variable with known distribution and the goal is to locate it with minimum mean squared error distortion. The localization scheme or…
A numerical method is developed to solve linear semi-infinite programming problem (LSIP) in which the iterates produced by the algorithm are feasible for the original problem. This is achieved by constructing a sequence of standard linear…
Adaptive random search approaches have been shown to be effective for global optimization problems, where under certain conditions, the expected performance time increases only linearly with dimension. However, previous analyses assume that…
We revisit the problem of computing with noisy information considered in Feige et al. 1994, which includes computing the OR function from noisy queries, and computing the MAX, SEARCH and SORT functions from noisy pairwise comparisons. For…
In this paper, we consider the group testing problem with adaptive test designs and noisy outcomes. We propose a computationally efficient four-stage procedure with components including random binning, identification of bins containing…
Low-rank matrix completion has been studied extensively under various type of categories. The problem could be categorized as noisy completion or exact completion, also active or passive completion algorithms. In this paper we focus on…
This paper considers the problem of adaptively searching for an unknown target using multiple agents connected through a time-varying network topology. Agents are equipped with sensors capable of fast information processing, and we propose…
This note documents an implementation issue in recent adaptive attacks (Zhang et al. [2024]) against the multi-resolution self-ensemble defense (Fort and Lakshminarayanan [2024]). The implementation allowed adversarial perturbations to…
In this paper, we propose an open-loop unequal-error-protection querying policy based on superposition coding for the noisy 20 questions problem. In this problem, a player wishes to successively refine an estimate of the value of a…
Consider a target moving at a constant velocity on a unit-circumference circle, starting at an arbitrary location. To acquire the target, any region of the circle can be probed to obtain a noisy measurement of the target's presence, where…
We consider the problem of detecting a small subset of defective items from a large set via non-adaptive "random pooling" group tests. We consider both the case when the measurements are noiseless, and the case when the measurements are…
In this paper, we investigate the additive Gaussian noise channel with noisy feedback. We consider the setup of linear coding of the feedback information and Gaussian signaling of the message (i.e. Cover-Pombra Scheme). Then, we derive the…
The problem of adaptive noisy clustering is investigated. Given a set of noisy observations $Z_i=X_i+\epsilon_i$, $i=1,...,n$, the goal is to design clusters associated with the law of $X_i$'s, with unknown density $f$ with respect to the…
Adapting to a priori unknown noise level is a very important but challenging problem in sequential decision-making as efficient exploration typically requires knowledge of the noise level, which is often loosely specified. We report…
How much adversarial noise can protocols for interactive communication tolerate? This question was examined by Braverman and Rao (IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 2014) for the case of "robust" protocols, where each party sends messages only in…