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When recovering an unknown signal from noisy measurements, the computational difficulty of performing optimal Bayesian MMSE (minimum mean squared error) inference often necessitates the use of maximum a posteriori (MAP) inference, a special…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-09-23 Madhu Advani , Surya Ganguli

We study the problem of exact support recovery based on noisy observations and present Refined Least Squares (RLS). Given a set of noisy measurement $$ \myvec{y} = \myvec{X}\myvec{\theta}^* + \myvec{\omega},$$ and $\myvec{X} \in…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-03-22 Ofir Lindenbaum , Stefan Steinerberger

This paper studies the numerical solution of strictly convex unconstrained optimization problems by linesearch Newton-CG methods. We focus on methods employing inexact evaluations of the objective function and inexact and possibly random…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-16 Stefania Bellavia , Eugenio Fabrizi , Benedetta Morini

We propose a rectangular rotational invariant estimator to recover a real matrix from noisy matrix observations coming from an arbitrary additive rotational invariant perturbation, in the large dimension limit. Using the Bayes-optimality of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Farzad Pourkamali , Nicolas Macris

In this paper, we study the problem of signal estimation from noisy non-linear measurements when the unknown $n$-dimensional signal is in the range of an $L$-Lipschitz continuous generative model with bounded $k$-dimensional inputs. We make…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-10-09 Zhaoqiang Liu , Jonathan Scarlett

Sparse linear inverse problems appear in a variety of settings, but often the noise contaminating observations cannot accurately be described as bounded by or arising from a Gaussian distribution. Poisson observations in particular are a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-02-14 Xin Jiang , Patricia Reynaud-Bouret , Vincent Rivoirard , Laure Sansonnet , Rebecca Willett

This paper considers the penalized least squares estimator with arbitrary convex penalty. When the observation noise is Gaussian, we show that the prediction error is a subgaussian random variable concentrated around its median. We apply…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-09-22 Pierre C. Bellec , Alexandre B. Tsybakov

Many applications have benefited remarkably from low-dimensional models in the recent decade. The fact that many signals, though high dimensional, are intrinsically low dimensional has given the possibility to recover them stably from a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-29 Raja Giryes , Yaniv Plan , Roman Vershynin

Consider the $n$-dimensional vector $y=X\be+\e$, where $\be \in \R^p$ has only $k$ nonzero entries and $\e \in \R^n$ is a Gaussian noise. This can be viewed as a linear system with sparsity constraints, corrupted by noise. We find a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-10-13 Kamiar Rahnama Rad

For the constrained LiGME model, a nonconvexly regularized least squares estimation model, we present an iterative algorithm of guaranteed convergence to its globally optimal solution. The proposed algorithm can deal with two different…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-05 Wataru Yata , Isao Yamada

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

This paper studies the classification of high-dimensional Gaussian signals from low-dimensional noisy, linear measurements. In particular, it provides upper bounds (sufficient conditions) on the number of measurements required to drive the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-03 Hugo Reboredo , Francesco Renna , Robert Calderbank , Miguel R. D. Rodrigues

We provide high-probability sample complexity guarantees for exact structure recovery and accurate predictive learning using noise-corrupted samples from an acyclic (tree-shaped) graphical model. The hidden variables follow a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-02-18 Konstantinos E. Nikolakakis , Dionysios S. Kalogerias , Anand D. Sarwate

We investigate the stochastic optimization problem of minimizing population risk, where the loss defining the risk is assumed to be weakly convex. Compositions of Lipschitz convex functions with smooth maps are the primary examples of such…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-19 Damek Davis , Dmitriy Drusvyatskiy

System identification is a fundamental problem in control and learning, particularly in high-stakes applications where data efficiency is critical. Classical approaches, such as the ordinary least squares estimator (OLS), achieve an…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-12 Xiong Zeng , Jing Yu , Necmiye Ozay

An unknown $m$ by $n$ matrix $X_0$ is to be estimated from noisy measurements $Y=X_0+Z$, where the noise matrix $Z$ has i.i.d. Gaussian entries. A popular matrix denoising scheme solves the nuclear norm penalization problem $\operatorname…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-11-05 David Donoho , Matan Gavish

We develop a multidimensional version of Gradient-MUSIC for estimating the frequencies of a nonharmonic signal from noisy samples. The guiding principle is that frequency recovery should be based only on the signal subspace determined by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Albert Fannjiang , Weilin Li

Most linear experimental design problems assume homogeneous variance although heteroskedastic noise is present in many realistic settings. Let a learner have access to a finite set of measurement vectors $\mathcal{X}\subset \mathbb{R}^d$…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-09-19 Justin Weltz , Tanner Fiez , Alexander Volfovsky , Eric Laber , Blake Mason , Houssam Nassif , Lalit Jain

Sparse linear regression is one of the most basic questions in machine learning and statistics. Here, we are given as input a design matrix $X \in \mathbb{R}^{N \times d}$ and measurements or labels ${y} \in \mathbb{R}^N$ where ${y} = {X}…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Gautam Chandrasekaran , Raghu Meka , Konstantinos Stavropoulos

Bayesian approach to inverse problems is studied in the case where the forward map is a linear hypoelliptic pseudodifferential operator and measurement error is additive white Gaussian noise. The measurement model for an unknown Gaussian…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-07-20 Hanne Kekkonen , Matti Lassas , Samuli Siltanen