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We study the problem of signal recovery in the dihedral multi-reference alignment (MRA) model, where a signal is observed under random actions of the dihedral group and corrupted by additive noise. While previous has shown that cyclic…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2025-11-20 Dan Edidin , Josh Katz

We consider the multi-target detection problem of recovering a set of signals that appear multiple times at unknown locations in a noisy measurement. In the low noise regime, one can estimate the signals by first detecting occurrences, then…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Tamir Bendory , Nicolas Boumal , William Leeb , Eitan Levin , Amit Singer

In cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM), a microscope generates a top view of a sample of randomly-oriented copies of a molecule. The problem of single particle reconstruction (SPR) from cryo-EM is to use the resulting set of noisy 2D…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-09-16 Gene Katsevich , Alexander Katsevich , Amit Singer

Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) has recently emerged as a powerful tool for obtaining three-dimensional (3D) structures of biological macromolecules in native states. A minimum cryo-EM image data set for deriving a meaningful…

Applications · Statistics 2014-04-28 Ting-Li Chen , Dai-Ni Hsieh , Hung Hung , I-Ping Tu , Pei-Shien Wu , Yi-Ming Wu , Wei-Hau Chang , Su-Yun Huang

Motivated by modern data applications such as cryo-electron microscopy, the goal of classic multi-reference alignment (MRA) is to recover an unknown signal $f: \mathbb{R} \to \mathbb{R}$ from many observations that have been randomly…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-23 Liping Yin , Anna Little , Matthew Hirn

We propose a Bayesian approach to the problem of multi-reference alignment -- the recovery of signals from noisy, randomly shifted observations. While existing frequentist methods accurately recover the signal at arbitrarily low…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-15 Axel Janson , Joakim Andén

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

Single-particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) is an emerging imaging modality capable of visualizing proteins and macro-molecular complexes at near-atomic resolution. The low electron-doses used to prevent sample radiation damage,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-24 Qinwen Huang , Ye Zhou , Xiaochen Du , Reed Chen , Jianyou Wang , Cynthia Rudin , Alberto Bartesaghi

Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) is a powerful imaging technique for reconstructing three-dimensional molecular structures from noisy tomographic projection images of randomly oriented particles. We introduce a new data fusion framework,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Joe Kileel , Oscar Mickelin , Amit Singer , Sheng Xu

We consider the problem of recovering a signal $\mathbf{x}^* \in \mathbf{R}^n$, from magnitude-only measurements $y_i = |\left\langle\mathbf{a}_i,\mathbf{x}^*\right\rangle|$ for $i=[m]$. Also called the phase retrieval, this is a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-28 Gauri Jagatap , Chinmay Hegde

This paper studies the multi-reference alignment (MRA) problem of estimating a signal function from shifted, noisy observations. Our functional formulation reveals a new connection between MRA and deconvolution: the signal can be estimated…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Omar Al-Ghattas , Anna Little , Daniel Sanz-Alonso , Mikhail Sweeney

The computational pipelines of single-particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) and cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) include an early particle-picking stage, in which a micrograph or tomogram is scanned to extract candidate particles,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-14 Amnon Balanov , Alon Zabatani , Tamir Bendory

We study super-resolution multi-reference alignment, the problem of estimating a signal from many circularly shifted, down-sampled, and noisy observations. We focus on the low SNR regime, and show that a signal in $\mathbb{R}^M$ is uniquely…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Tamir Bendory , Ariel Jaffe , William Leeb , Nir Sharon , Amit Singer

In recent years, there is a growing need for processing methods aimed at extracting useful information from large datasets. In many cases the challenge is to discover a low-dimensional structure in the data, often concealed by the existence…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-06-05 Yariv Aizenbud , Boris Landa , Yoel Shkolnisky

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a powerful technique employed for non-invasive in vivo visualization of internal structures. Sparsity is often deployed to accelerate the signal acquisition or overcome the presence of motion artifacts,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-27 Gianluca Giacchi , Isidoros Iakovidis , Bastien Milani , Micah Murray , Benedetta Franceschiello

Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) has recently become a premier method for obtaining high-resolution structures of biological macromolecules. However, it is limited to biomolecular samples with low conformational heterogeneity, where all…

Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) emerges as a pivotal technology for determining the architecture of cells, viruses, and protein assemblies at near-atomic resolution. Traditional particle picking, a key step in cryo-EM, struggles with…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-04-17 Chentianye Xu , Xueying Zhan , Min Xu

We study the high-dimensional inference of a rank-one signal corrupted by sparse noise. The noise is modelled as the adjacency matrix of a weighted undirected graph with finite average connectivity in the large size limit. Using the replica…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-18 Urte Adomaityte , Gabriele Sicuro , Pierpaolo Vivo

Stochastic Resonance (SR) and Coherence Resonance (CR) have been studied experimentally in the discharge plasma close to a homoclinic bifurcation. For the SR phenomena, it is observed that a superimposed subthreshold periodic signal can be…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2010-03-17 Md. Nurujjaman , A. N. Sekar Iyengar , Punit Parmananda

In the problem of multiple support recovery, we are given access to linear measurements of multiple sparse samples in $\mathbb{R}^{d}$. These samples can be partitioned into $\ell$ groups, with samples having the same support belonging to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Lekshmi Ramesh , Chandra R. Murthy , Himanshu Tyagi