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We consider the problem of recovering clustered sparse signals with no prior knowledge of the sparsity pattern. Beyond simple sparsity, signals of interest often exhibits an underlying sparsity pattern which, if leveraged, can improve the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-05 Xiangming Meng , Sheng Wu , Linling Kuang , Defeng , Huang , Jianhua Lu

Mixture models, such as Gaussian mixture models, are widely used in machine learning to represent complex data distributions. A key challenge, especially in high-dimensional settings, is to determine the mixture order and estimate the…

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Given full or partial information about a collection of points that lie close to a union of several subspaces, subspace clustering refers to the process of clustering the points according to their subspace and identifying the subspaces. One…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-01-16 Zachary Charles , Amin Jalali , Rebecca Willett

The problem of clustering noisy and incompletely observed high-dimensional data points into a union of low-dimensional subspaces and a set of outliers is considered. The number of subspaces, their dimensions, and their orientations are…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-08-24 Reinhard Heckel , Helmut Bölcskei

Estimation of Gaussian graphical models is important in natural science when modeling the statistical relationships between variables in the form of a graph. The sparsity and clustering structure of the concentration matrix is enforced to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-20 Meixia Lin , Defeng Sun , Kim-Chuan Toh , Chengjing Wang

State-of-the-art subspace clustering methods are based on self-expressive model, which represents each data point as a linear combination of other data points. By enforcing such representation to be sparse, sparse subspace clustering is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Ying Chen , Chun-Guang Li , Chong You

In a recent article (Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 110(36), 14557-14562), El Karoui et al. study the distribution of robust regression estimators in the regime in which the number of parameters p is of the same order as the number of samples n.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-11-18 David Donoho , Andrea Montanari

In mixture models, anisotropic noise within each cluster is widely present in real-world data. This work investigates both computationally efficient procedures and fundamental statistical limits for clustering in high-dimensional…

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This paper studies the problem of clustering in the two-component Gaussian mixture model where the centers are separated by $2\Delta$ for some $\Delta>0$. We characterize the exact phase transition threshold, given by $$ \bar{\Delta}_n^{2}…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-07-07 Mohamed Ndaoud

This paper is about variable selection, clustering and estimation in an unsupervised high-dimensional setting. Our approach is based on fitting constrained Gaussian mixture models, where we learn the number of clusters $K$ and the set of…

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Compressed sensing is designed to measure sparse signals directly in a compressed form. However, most signals of interest are only "approximately sparse", i.e. even though the signal contains only a small fraction of relevant (large)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-04-04 Jean Barbier , Florent Krzakala , Marc Mézard , Lenka Zdeborová

The problem of consistently estimating the sparsity pattern of a vector $\betastar \in \real^\mdim$ based on observations contaminated by noise arises in various contexts, including subset selection in regression, structure estimation in…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2007-07-13 Martin J. Wainwright

One of the most popular algorithms for clustering in Euclidean space is the $k$-means algorithm; $k$-means is difficult to analyze mathematically, and few theoretical guarantees are known about it, particularly when the data is {\em…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2009-12-02 Kamalika Chaudhuri , Sanjoy Dasgupta , Andrea Vattani

Spectral clustering is one of the most popular algorithms to group high dimensional data. It is easy to implement and computationally efficient. Despite its popularity and successful applications, its theoretical properties have not been…

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This paper addresses the reconstruction of an unknown signal vector with sublinear sparsity from generalized linear measurements. Generalized approximate message-passing (GAMP) is proposed via state evolution in the sublinear sparsity…

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This paper develops several average-case reduction techniques to show new hardness results for three central high-dimensional statistics problems, implying a statistical-computational gap induced by robustness, a detection-recovery gap and…

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High-order clustering aims to identify heterogeneous substructures in multiway datasets that arise commonly in neuroimaging, genomics, social network studies, etc. The non-convex and discontinuous nature of this problem pose significant…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-10-11 Rungang Han , Yuetian Luo , Miaoyan Wang , Anru R. Zhang

When recovering a sparse signal from noisy compressive linear measurements, the distribution of the signal's non-zero coefficients can have a profound effect on recovery mean-squared error (MSE). If this distribution was apriori known, then…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-05 Jeremy P. Vila , Philip Schniter

We consider the problem of clustering a set of high-dimensional data points into sets of low-dimensional linear subspaces. The number of subspaces, their dimensions, and their orientations are unknown. We propose a simple and low-complexity…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-03-18 Reinhard Heckel , Helmut Bölcskei

Recovering a sparse signal from an undersampled set of random linear measurements is the main problem of interest in compressed sensing. In this paper, we consider the case where both the signal and the measurements are complex. We study…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Arian Maleki , Laura Anitori , Zai Yang , Richard Baraniuk