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The estimation problem in a high regression model with structured sparsity is investigated. An algorithm using a two steps block thresholding procedure called GR-LOL is provided. Convergence rates are produced: they depend on simple…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2012-07-10 Mathilde Mougeot , Dominique Picard , Karine Tribouley

We study sparse group Lasso for high-dimensional double sparse linear regression, where the parameter of interest is simultaneously element-wise and group-wise sparse. This problem is an important instance of the simultaneously structured…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-05-10 T. Tony Cai , Anru R. Zhang , Yuchen Zhou

Requirements driven search-based testing (also known as falsification) has proven to be a practical and effective method for discovering erroneous behaviors in Cyber-Physical Systems. Despite the constant improvements on the performance and…

Sparse inversion and classification problems are ubiquitous in modern data science and imaging. They are often formulated as non-smooth minimisation problems. In sparse inversion, we minimise, e.g., the sum of a data fidelity term and an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-23 Jonas Latz

We study the problem of identifying defective units in a finite population of \( n \) units, where each unit \( i \) is independently defective with known probability \( p_i \). This setting is referred to as the \emph{Generalized Group…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-23 Yaakov Malinovsky , Viktor Skorniakov

We consider the following basic inference problem: there is an unknown high-dimensional vector $w \in \mathbb{R}^n$, and an algorithm is given access to labeled pairs $(x,y)$ where $x \in \mathbb{R}^n$ is a measurement and $y = w \cdot x +…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Xue Chen , Anindya De , Rocco A. Servedio

Recent advances in audio declipping have substantially improved the state of the art.% in certain saturation regimes. Yet, practitioners need guidelines to choose a method, and while existing benchmarks have been instrumental in advancing…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Clément Gaultier , Srđan Kitić , Rémi Gribonval , Nancy Bertin

Object Classification is a key direction of research in signal and image processing, computer vision and artificial intelligence. The goal is to come up with algorithms that automatically analyze images and put them in predefined…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-31 Tiep Huu Vu

Detection of a signal under noise is a classical signal processing problem. When monitoring spatial phenomena under a fixed budget, i.e., either physical, economical or computational constraints, the selection of a subset of available…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-08-01 Mario Coutino , Sundeep Prabhakar Chepuri , Geert Leus

Efficiently counting or detecting defective items is a crucial task in various fields ranging from biological testing to quality control to streaming algorithms. The \emph{group testing estimation problem} concerns estimating the number of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Nader H. Bshouty , Tsun-Ming Cheung , Gergely Harcos , Hamed Hatami , Anthony Ostuni

The problem of fast items retrieval from a fixed collection is often encountered in most computer science areas, from operating system components to databases and user interfaces. We present an approach based on hash tables that focuses on…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Dan Domnita , Ciprian Oprisa

This paper presents a novel algorithm that leverages Stochastic Gradient Descent strategies in conjunction with Random Features to augment the scalability of Conic Particle Gradient Descent (CPGD) specifically tailored for solving sparse…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-05 Yohann De Castro , Sébastien Gadat , Clément Marteau

In dictionary learning, also known as sparse coding, the algorithm is given samples of the form $y = Ax$ where $x\in \mathbb{R}^m$ is an unknown random sparse vector and $A$ is an unknown dictionary matrix in $\mathbb{R}^{n\times m}$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-01-06 Sanjeev Arora , Aditya Bhaskara , Rong Ge , Tengyu Ma

We study the group test for DNA library screening based on probabilistic approach. Group test is a method of detecting a few positive items from among a large number of items, and has wide range of applications. In DNA library screening,…

Computation · Statistics 2010-04-27 Takafumi Kanamori , Hiroaki Uehara , Masakazu Jimbo

In several applications, input samples are more naturally represented in terms of similarities between each other, rather than in terms of feature vectors. In these settings, machine-learning algorithms can become very computationally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-19 Ambra Demontis , Marco Melis , Battista Biggio , Giorgio Fumera , Fabio Roli

Estimating structures in "big data" and clustering them are among the most fundamental problems in computer vision, pattern recognition, data mining, and many other other research fields. Over the past few decades, many studies have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-09 Maryam Jaberi , Marianna Pensky , Hassan Foroosh

We study practically efficient methods for performing combinatorial group testing. We present efficient non-adaptive and two-stage combinatorial group testing algorithms, which identify the at most d items out of a given set of n items that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-11-09 David Eppstein , Michael T. Goodrich , Daniel S. Hirschberg

We consider the problem of quantitative group testing (QGT), where the goal is to recover a sparse binary vector from aggregate subset-sum queries: each query selects a subset of indices and returns the sum of those entries.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Mahdi Soleymani , Tara Javidi

Consider $n$ items, each of which is characterised by one of $d+1$ possible features in $\{0, \ldots, d\}$. We study the inference task of learning these types by queries on subsets, or pools, of the items that only reveal a form of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-10 Max Hahn-Klimroth , Noela Müller

In this paper, we study the pooled data problem of identifying the labels associated with a large collection of items, based on a sequence of pooled tests revealing the counts of each label within the pool. In the noiseless setting, we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-10-19 Jonathan Scarlett , Volkan Cevher