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Computing the Sparse Fast Fourier Transform(sFFT) of a K-sparse signal of size N has emerged as a critical topic for a long time. The sFFT algorithms decrease the runtime and sampling complexity by taking advantage of the signal inherent…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-16 Bin Li , Zhikang Jiang , Jie Chen

We present a sparse analogue to stochastic gradient descent that is guaranteed to perform well under similar conditions to the lasso. In the linear regression setup with irrepresentable noise features, our algorithm recovers the support set…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-12-16 Jacob Steinhardt , Stefan Wager , Percy Liang

Motivated by applications such as sparse PCA, in this paper we present provably-accurate one-pass algorithms for the sparse approximation of the top eigenvectors of extremely massive matrices based on a single compact linear sketch. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Edem Boahen , Simone Brugiapaglia , Hung-Hsu Chou , Mark Iwen , Felix Krahmer

Fine-tuning is an important step in adapting foundation models such as large language models to downstream tasks. To make this step more accessible to users with limited computational budgets, it is crucial to develop fine-tuning methods…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Cen-Jhih Li , Aditya Bhaskara

We present a new algorithm for finding a near optimal low-rank approximation of a matrix $A$ in $O(nnz(A))$ time. Our method is based on a recursive sampling scheme for computing a representative subset of $A$'s columns, which is then used…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-10-10 Michael B. Cohen , Cameron Musco , Christopher Musco

We consider the problem of estimating the trace of a matrix function $f(A)$. In certain situations, in particular if $f(A)$ cannot be well approximated by a low-rank matrix, combining probing methods based on graph colorings with stochastic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-16 Andreas Frommer , Michele Rinelli , Marcel Schweitzer

We introduce a rank-statistic approximation of $f$-divergences that avoids explicit density-ratio estimation by working directly with the distribution of ranks. For a resolution parameter $K$, we map the mismatch between two univariate…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-02 Viktor Stein , José Manuel de Frutos

The common methods of spectral analysis for multivariate ($n$-dimensional) time series, like discrete Frourier transform (FT) or Wavelet transform, are based on Fourier series to decompose discrete data into a set of trigonometric model…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-10-26 Martin Seilmayer , Ferran Garcia Gonzalez , Thomas Wondrak

We present a method for constructing superoscillatory functions the superoscillatory part of which approximates a given polynomial with arbitrarily small error in a fixed interval. These functions are obtained as the product of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-04-21 Ioannis Chremmos , George Fikioris

We address the problem of estimating a sparse low-rank matrix from its noisy observation. We propose an objective function consisting of a data-fidelity term and two parameterized non-convex penalty functions. Further, we show how to set…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-04-13 Ankit Parekh , Ivan W. Selesnick

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

Fast Fourier Transform based phase screen simulations give accurate results only when the screen size ($G$) is much larger than the outer scale parameter ($L_0$). Otherwise, they fall short in correctly predicting both the low and high…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-03 Sorabh Chhabra , Jyotirmay Paul , Anamparambu N. Ramaprakash , Avinash Surendran

The problem of maximizing non-negative submodular functions has been studied extensively in the last few years. However, most papers consider submodular set functions. Recently, several advances have been made for the more general case of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-11-29 Corinna Gottschalk , Britta Peis

Natural signals and images are well-known to be approximately sparse in transform domains such as Wavelets and DCT. This property has been heavily exploited in various applications in image processing and medical imaging. Compressed sensing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-10-26 Saiprasad Ravishankar , Yoram Bresler

We initiate the study on fault-tolerant spanners in hypergraphs and develop fast algorithms for their constructions. A fault-tolerant (FT) spanner preserves approximate distances under network failures, often used in applications like…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Jialin He , Nicholas Popescu , Chunjiang Zhu

We develop a fast and accurate method for 3D alignment, recovering the rotation and translation that best align a reference volume with a noisy observation. Classical matched filtering evaluates cross-correlation over a large discretized…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-17 Fabian Kruse , Valentin Debarnot , Vinith Kishore , Ivan Dokmanić

We consider the task of estimating a low-rank matrix from non-linear and noisy observations. We prove a strong universality result showing that Bayes-optimal performances are characterized by an equivalent Gaussian model with an effective…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-03-08 Pierre Mergny , Justin Ko , Florent Krzakala , Lenka Zdeborová

We describe a method for fast approximation of sparse coding. The input space is subdivided by a binary decision tree, and we simultaneously learn a dictionary and assignment of allowed dictionary elements for each leaf of the tree. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-09 Arthur Szlam , Karol Gregor , Yann LeCun

In this paper, a sparse-based method for the estimation of the parameters of multidimensional ($R$-D) modal (harmonic or damped) complex signals in noise is presented. The problem is formulated as $R$ simultaneous sparse approximations of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-02 Souleymen Sahnoun , El-Hadi Djermoune , David Brie , Pierre Comon

We obtain conditions for a trigonometric polynomial t of one variable to equal or be approximated by |p|^2 where p has frequencies in a Bohr set of integers obtained by projecting lattice points in the open planar region bounded by the…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2011-10-25 Wayne Lawton