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Collaborative Filtering (CF) remains the cornerstone of modern recommender systems, with dense embedding--based methods dominating current practice. However, these approaches suffer from a critical limitation: our theoretical analysis…

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Low-noise phased arrays are essential for the next generation of microwave and submillimetre wave astronomy. We analyze their behaviour from a functional perspective, and show that their operation is intimately related to the mathematical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-07-12 S. Withington , G. Saklatvala , M. P. Hobson

A central goal in systems biology and drug discovery is to predict the transcriptional response of cells to perturbations. This task is challenging due to the noisy and sparse nature of single-cell measurements, as well as the fact that…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-02-10 Chenglei Yu , Chuanrui Wang , Bangyan Liao , Tailin Wu

Microwave, submillimetre-wave, and far-infrared phased arrays are of considerable importance for astronomy. We consider the behaviour imaging phased arrays and interferometric phased arrays from a functional perspective. It is shown that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Stafford Withington , George Saklatvala , Michael P. Hobson

In this paper, a novel decomposition method for non-stationary and nonlinear signals is proposed. This method is inspired by the adaptive wavelet filter bank of the empirical wavelet transform (EWT) and Fourier intrinsic band functions…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-03 Wei Zhou , Zhongren Feng , Xiongjiang Wang , Hao Lv

Radio interferometers are phased arrays producing high-resolution images from the covariance matrix of measurements. Calibration of such instruments is necessary and is a critical task. This is how the estimation of instrumental errors is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-26 Yassine Mhiri , Mohammed Nabil El Korso , Arnaud Breloy , Pascal Larzabal

A coupling system between Gaussian type-microwave photon flux, static magnetic field and fractal membranes (or other equivalent microwave lenses) can be used to detect high-frequency gravitational waves (HFGWs) in the microwave band. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-06-18 F. Y. Li , N. Yang , Z. Y. Fang , R. M. L. Baker , G. V. Stephenson , H. Wen

This paper is the third part of a trilogy dealing with the principles, performance and limitations of what I named "Telescope-Interferometers" (TIs). The basic idea consists in transforming one telescope into a Wavefront Error (WFE) sensing…

Optics · Physics 2011-05-17 Francois Henault

We show that time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) is applicable to coherent optical phonon generation by intense laser pulses in solids. The two mechanisms invoked in phenomenological theories, namely impulsively stimulated…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-06-22 Y. Shinohara , Y. Kawashita , K. Yabana , J. -I. Iwata , T. Obote , G. F. Bertsch

In order to meet the theoretically achievable imaging performance, calibration of modern radio interferometers is a mandatory challenge, especially at low frequencies. In this perspective, we propose a novel parallel iterative…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-09 Martin Brossard , Mohammed Nabil El Korso , Marius Pesavento , Rémy Boyer , Pascal Larzabal , Stefan J. Wijnholds

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) represent a critical research domain within the Internet of Things (IoT) technology. The distributed Kalman filter (DKF) has garnered significant attention as an information fusion method for WSNs. However,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-11 Xuemei Mao , Gang Wang , Bei Peng , Jiacheng He , Kun Zhang , Song Gao , Jian Chen

Interferometric phase (InPhase) imaging is an important part of many present-day coherent imaging technologies. Often in such imaging techniques, the acquired images, known as interferograms, suffer from two major degradations: 1) phase…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-25 Joshin P. Krishnan , Mário A. T. Figueiredo , José M. Bioucas-Dias

We present a model for a Noise Matched Phased Array Feed (PAF) system and compare model predictions with the measurement results. The PAF system consists of an array feed, a receiver, a beamformer and a parabolic reflector. The novel aspect…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-07 D. Anish Roshi , W. Shillue , J. Richard Fisher

The Kalman filter (KF) is one of the most widely used tools for data assimilation and sequential estimation. In this work, we show that the state estimates from the KF in a standard linear dynamical system setting are equivalent to those…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-08-04 Maria Jahja , David C. Farrow , Roni Rosenfeld , Ryan J. Tibshirani

Matched filters are widely used to localise signal patterns due to their high efficiency and interpretability. However, their effectiveness deteriorates for low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) signals, such as those recorded on edge devices,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-01 Haozhe Tian , Qiyu Rao , Nina Moutonnet , Pietro Ferraro , Danilo Mandic

We report on the detection of source noise in the time domain at 162MHz with the Murchison Widefield Array. During the observation the flux of our target source Virgo A (M87) contributes only $\sim$1\% to the total power detected by any…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-14 John Morgan , Ron Ekers

Seismic noise with an amplitude higher than that of the sought signal is a challenge for detection. Several techniques have been developed to suppress the ambient noise and to reduce the detection threshold in order to find signals with the…

Geophysics · Physics 2026-04-27 Ivan Kitov

Faraday tomography observations with the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) have unveiled a remarkable network of structures in polarized synchrotron emission at high Galactic latitudes. The observed correlation between LOFAR structures, dust…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-07-03 F. Boulanger , C. Gry , E. B. Jenkins , A. Bracco , A. Erceg , V. Jelić , L. Turić

The results of four recently introduced beamforming schemes for phased array systems are discussed, each of which is capable to provide high sensitivity and accurate polarimetric performance of array-based radio telescopes. Ideally, a radio…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-30 Marianna V. Ivashina , Stefan J. Wijnholds , Rob Maaskant , Karl F. Warnick

In this paper, we propose an efficient technique for estimating individual power spectral density (PSD) components, i.e., PSD of each desired sound source as well as of noise and reverberation, in a multi-source reverberant sound scene with…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-05-17 Abdullah Fahim , Prasanga N. Samarasinghe , Thushara D. Abhayapala