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The Multi-Reference Alignment (MRA) problem aims at the recovery of an unknown signal from repeated observations under the latent action of a group of cyclic isometries, in the presence of additive noise of high intensity $\sigma$. It is a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-12-14 Subhro Ghosh , Soumendu Sundar Mukherjee , Jing Bin Pan

Bayesian predictive inference provides a coherent description of entire predictive uncertainty through predictive distributions. We examine several widely used sparsity priors from the predictive (as opposed to estimation) inference…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-06-03 Veronika Rockova

Missing values in datasets are common in applied statistics. For regression problems, theoretical work thus far has largely considered the issue of missing covariates as distinct from missing responses. However, in practice, many datasets…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Benedict M. Risebrow , Thomas B. Berrett

Inspired by several recent developments in regularization theory, optimization, and signal processing, we present and analyze a numerical approach to multi-penalty regularization in spaces of sparsely represented functions. The sparsity…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-11-25 Valeriya Naumova , Steffen Peter

Advances of information-theoretic understanding of sparse sampling of continuous uncoded signals at sampling rates exceeding the Landau rate were reported in recent works. This work examines sparse sampling of coded signals at sub-Landau…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-03-04 Michael Peleg , Shlomo Shamai

The detection of weak and rare effects in large amounts of data arises in a number of modern data analysis problems. Known results show that in this situation the potential of statistical inference is severely limited by the large-scale…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-05-10 Jiyao Kou , Guenther Walther

In this paper, we aim to take one step forward to the scenario where an adaptive subspace detection framework is required to detect subspace signals in non-stationary environments. Despite the fact that this scenario is more realistic, the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-24 Aref Miri Rekavandi

Sparse representations have emerged as a powerful tool in signal and information processing, culminated by the success of new acquisition and processing techniques such as Compressed Sensing (CS). Fusion frames are very rich new signal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-06-20 Petros T. Boufounos , Gitta Kutyniok , Holger Rauhut

High-dimensional linear regression with interaction effects is broadly applied in research fields such as bioinformatics and social science. In this paper, we first investigate the minimax rate of convergence for regression estimation in…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-04-10 Chenglong Ye , Yuhong Yang

In high-dimensional linear regression, the goal pursued here is to estimate an unknown regression function using linear combinations of a suitable set of covariates. One of the key assumptions for the success of any statistical procedure in…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-03-13 Philippe Rigollet , Alexandre Tsybakov

This paper studies sparse density estimation via $\ell_1$ penalization (SPADES). We focus on estimation in high-dimensional mixture models and nonparametric adaptive density estimation. We show, respectively, that SPADES can recover, with…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2010-10-22 Florentina Bunea , Alexandre B. Tsybakov , Marten H. Wegkamp , Adrian Barbu

We observe a $N\times M$ matrix $Y_{ij}=s_{ij}+\xi_{ij}$ with $\xi_{ij}\sim {\mathcal {N}}(0,1)$ i.i.d. in $i,j$, and $s_{ij}\in \mathbb {R}$. We test the null hypothesis $s_{ij}=0$ for all $i,j$ against the alternative that there exists…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-12-20 Cristina Butucea , Yuri I. Ingster

This paper presents an adaptive and intelligent sparse model for digital image sampling and recovery. In the proposed sampler, we adaptively determine the number of required samples for retrieving image based on space-frequency-gradient…

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In this paper, we propose methods for functional predictor selection and the estimation of smooth functional coefficients simultaneously in a scalar-on-function regression problem under high-dimensional multivariate functional data setting.…

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Recent work has established an empirically successful framework for adapting learning rates for stochastic gradient descent (SGD). This effectively removes all needs for tuning, while automatically reducing learning rates over time on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-03-28 Tom Schaul , Yann LeCun

Neural networks are usually not the tool of choice for nonparametric high-dimensional problems where the number of input features is much larger than the number of observations. Though neural networks can approximate complex multivariate…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-06-25 Jean Feng , Noah Simon

We describe, in the detection of multi-sample aligned sparse signals, the critical boundary separating detectable from nondetectable signals, and construct tests that achieve optimal detectability: penalized versions of the Berk-Jones and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-10-14 Hock Peng Chan , Guenther Walther

Sparse signal recovery based on nonconvex and nonsmooth optimization problems has significant applications and demonstrates superior performance in signal processing and machine learning. This work deals with a scale-invariant…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-29 Lang Yu , Nanjing Huang

Modeling signals as linear combinations of atoms from a dictionary is ubiquitous in modern signal processing. In the finite-dimensional setting, whenever atoms depend nonlinearly upon unknown parameters, the signal model is said to be…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-04 Santos Michelena , Maxime Ferreira Da Costa , José Picheral

Robust statistical inference often faces a severe computational-statistical gap when dealing with complex parameter spaces. We investigate minimax signal detection in the Gaussian sequence model under strong $\epsilon$-contamination, where…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Yikun Li , Matey Neykov