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We study the multi-reference alignment (MRA) problem of recovering a signal from noisy observations acted on by unknown random circular shifts. While the information-theoretic limits of MRA are well characterized in many settings, the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-12 Amnon Balanov , Wasim Huleihel , Tamir Bendory

Motivated by single-particle cryo-electron microscopy, multi-reference alignment (MRA) models the task of recovering an unknown signal from multiple noisy observations corrupted by random rotations. The standard approach,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-09 Shay Kreymer , Amnon Balanov , Tamir Bendory

Multireference alignment (MRA) refers to the problem of recovering a signal from noisy samples subject to random circular shifts. Expectation--maximization (EM) and variational approaches use statistical modeling to achieve high accuracy at…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Vahid Shahverdi , Emanuel Ström , Joakim Andén

Motivated by the problem of determining the atomic structure of macromolecules using single-particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM), we study the sample and computational complexities of the sparse multi-reference alignment (MRA) model:…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Tamir Bendory , Oscar Mickelin , Amit Singer

Multireference alignment (MRA) problem is to estimate an underlying signal from a large number of noisy circularly-shifted observations. The existing methods are always proposed under the hypothesis of a single Gaussian noise. However, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-23 Cuicui Zhao , Jun Liu , Xinqi Gong

Rotation averaging (RA) is a fundamental problem in robotics and computer vision. In RA, the goal is to estimate a set of $N$ unknown orientations $R_{1}, ..., R_{N} \in SO(3)$, given noisy measurements $R_{ij} \sim R^{-1}_{i} R_{j}$ of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Owen Howell , Haoen Huang , David Rosen

The growing role of data-driven approaches to scientific discovery has unveiled a large class of models that involve latent transformations with a rigid algebraic constraint. Three-dimensional molecule reconstruction in Cryo-Electron…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Amelia Perry , Jonathan Weed , Afonso S. Bandeira , Philippe Rigollet , Amit Singer

The Multi-Reference Alignment (MRA) problem aims at the recovery of an unknown signal from repeated observations under the latent action of a group of cyclic isometries, in the presence of additive noise of high intensity $\sigma$. It is a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-12-14 Subhro Ghosh , Soumendu Sundar Mukherjee , Jing Bin Pan

Motivated by structural biology applications, we study the projected multi-reference alignment (MRA) model, in which an unknown signal is observed through noisy samples, each generated by applying a random cyclic shift followed by a fixed…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-26 Amnon Balanov , Josh Katz , Tamir Bendory , Dan Edidin

The multi-reference alignment (MRA) problem involves reconstructing a signal from multiple noisy observations, each transformed by a random group element. In this paper, we focus on the group \(\mathrm{SO}(2)\) of in-plane rotations and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-07 Gil Drozatz , Tamir Bendory , Nir Sharon

Multi-reference alignment (MRA) is the problem of recovering a signal from its multiple noisy copies, each acted upon by a random group element. MRA is mainly motivated by single-particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) that has recently…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Tamir Bendory , Dan Edidin

From molecular imaging to wireless communications, the ability to align and reconstruct signals from multiple misaligned observations is crucial for system performance. We study the problem of multi-reference alignment (MRA), which arises…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Rob Romijnders , Gabriele Cesa , Christos Louizos , Kumar Pratik , Arash Behboodi

Motivated by cutting-edge applications like cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM), the Multi-Reference Alignment (MRA) model entails the learning of an unknown signal from repeated measurements of its images under the latent action of a group…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-03-11 Subhro Ghosh , Philippe Rigollet

We consider the problem of estimating a signal from noisy circularly-translated versions of itself, called multireference alignment (MRA). One natural approach to MRA could be to estimate the shifts of the observations first, and infer the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Tamir Bendory , Nicolas Boumal , Chao Ma , Zhizhen Zhao , Amit Singer

We study the 2-D super-resolution multi-reference alignment (SR-MRA) problem: estimating an image from its down-sampled, circularly-translated, and noisy copies. The SR-MRA problem serves as a mathematical abstraction of the structure…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-03 Jonathan Shani , Tom Tirer , Raja Giryes , Tamir Bendory

The convergence of expectation-maximization (EM)-based algorithms typically requires continuity of the likelihood function with respect to all the unknown parameters (optimization variables). The requirement is not met when parameters…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-18 Geethu Joseph

We study the convergence of the Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithm for mixtures of linear regressions with an arbitrary number $k$ of components. We show that as long as signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is $\tilde{\Omega}(k)$,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Jeongyeol Kwon , Constantine Caramanis

Multireference alignment (MRA) is the problem of estimating a signal from many noisy and cyclically shifted copies of itself. In this paper, we consider an extension called heterogeneous MRA, where $K$ signals must be estimated, and each…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-02 Nicolas Boumal , Tamir Bendory , Roy R. Lederman , Amit Singer

The group synchronization problem involves estimating a collection of group elements from noisy measurements of their pairwise ratios. This task is a key component in many computational problems, including the molecular reconstruction…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-09 Noam Janco , Tamir Bendory

Multiple rotation averaging (MRA) is a fundamental optimization problem in 3D vision and robotics that aims to recover globally consistent absolute rotations from noisy relative measurements. Established classical methods, such as L1-IRLS…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Shuteng Wang , Natacha Kuete Meli , Michael Möller , Vladislav Golyanik
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