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Errors occurring on noisy hardware pose a key challenge to reliable quantum computing. Existing techniques such as error correction, mitigation, or suppression typically separate the error handling from the algorithm analysis and design. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Julian Berberich , Tobias Fellner , Robert L. Kosut , Christian Holm

We consider the problem of detecting the presence of a spatially correlated multichannel signal corrupted by additive Gaussian noise (i.i.d across sensors). No prior knowledge is assumed about the system parameters such as the noise…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-04-19 Vidyadhar Upadhya , Devendra Jalihal

We consider a Gaussian sequence model that contains ill-posed inverse problems as special cases. We assume that the associated operator is partially unknown in the sense that its singular functions are known and the corresponding singular…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-06-22 Clément Marteau , Theofanis Sapatinas

We develop an approach through geometric functional analysis to error correcting codes and to reconstruction of signals from few linear measurements. An error correcting code encodes an n-letter word x into an m-letter word y in such a way…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2016-12-23 Mark Rudelson , Roman Vershynin

Noise is the central obstacle to building large-scale quantum computers. Quantum systems with sufficiently uncorrelated and weak noise could be used to solve computational problems that are intractable with current digital computers. There…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-19 Robin Harper , Steven T. Flammia , Joel J. Wallman

We consider estimation models of the form $Y=X^*+N$, where $X^*$ is some $m$-dimensional signal we wish to recover, and $N$ is symmetrically distributed noise that may be unbounded in all but a small $\alpha$ fraction of the entries. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Tommaso d'Orsi , Rajai Nasser , Gleb Novikov , David Steurer

We propose an approach to construction of robust non-Euclidean iterative algorithms for convex composite stochastic optimization based on truncation of stochastic gradients. For such algorithms, we establish sub-Gaussian confidence bounds…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-07-08 Anatoli Juditsky , Alexander Nazin , Arkadi Nemirovsky , Alexandre Tsybakov

We study the problem of recovering an $s$-sparse signal $\mathbf{x}^{\star}\in\mathbb{C}^n$ from corrupted measurements $\mathbf{y} = \mathbf{A}\mathbf{x}^{\star}+\mathbf{z}^{\star}+\mathbf{w}$, where $\mathbf{z}^{\star}\in\mathbb{C}^m$ is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-04 Peng Zhang , Lu Gan , Cong Ling , Sumei Sun

In this paper, we study color image inpainting as a pure quaternion matrix completion problem. In the literature, the theoretical guarantee for quaternion matrix completion is not well-established. Our main aim is to propose a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Junren Chen , Michael K. Ng

Detecting weak signals buried in complex, non-Gaussian noise is a fundamental challenge in science and engineering, with applications ranging from radar systems and communications to industrial monitoring and gravitational wave detection.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-03 J. Zschetzsche , M. Weimar , O. Lang , S. Schuster , A. Haberl , S. Schertler , B. Lehner , J. Reisinger , M. Huemer , S. Rotter

We study the problem of estimating low-rank matrices from linear measurements (a.k.a., matrix sensing) through nonconvex optimization. We propose an efficient stochastic variance reduced gradient descent algorithm to solve a nonconvex…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-01-17 Xiao Zhang , Lingxiao Wang , Quanquan Gu

We present a semidefinite program optimization approach to quantum error correction that yields codes and recovery procedures that are robust against significant variations in the noise channel. Our approach allows us to optimize the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. L. Kosut , A. Shabani , D. A. Lidar

Robust covariance estimation is the following, well-studied problem in high dimensional statistics: given $N$ samples from a $d$-dimensional Gaussian $\mathcal{N}(\boldsymbol{0}, \Sigma)$, but where an $\varepsilon$-fraction of the samples…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Jerry Li , Guanghao Ye

For linear systems, many data-driven control methods rely on the behavioral framework, using historical data of the system to predict the future trajectories. However, measurement noise introduces errors in predictions. When the noise is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-29 Baiwei Guo , Yuning Jiang , Colin N. Jones , Giancarlo Ferrari-Trecate

The Linear Quadratic Gaussian (LQG) regulator is a cornerstone of optimal control theory, yet its performance can degrade significantly when the noise distributions deviate from the assumed Gaussian model. To address this limitation, this…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-27 Riccardo Cescon , Andrea Martin , Giancarlo Ferrari-Trecate

We develop procedures, based on minimization of the composition $f(x) = h(c(x))$ of a convex function $h$ and smooth function $c$, for solving random collections of quadratic equalities, applying our methodology to phase retrieval problems.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-04-24 John C. Duchi , Feng Ruan

In this paper, we consider the problem of recovering a sparse signal from noisy linear measurements using the so called LASSO formulation. We assume a correlated Gaussian design matrix with additive Gaussian noise. We precisely analyze the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-09-18 Ayed M. Alrashdi , Houssem Sifaou , Abla Kammoun , Mohamed-Slim Alouini , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri

This paper examines the performance of ridge regression in reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces in the presence of noise that exhibits a finite number of higher moments. We establish excess risk bounds consisting of subgaussian and polynomial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Mattes Mollenhauer , Nicole Mücke , Dimitri Meunier , Arthur Gretton

We address the problem of blind gain and phase calibration of a sensor array from ambient noise. The key motivation is to ease the calibration process by avoiding a complex procedure setup. We show that computing the sample covariance…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-03-22 Charles Vanwynsberghe , Simon Bouley , Jérôme Antoni

This paper describes computationally efficient approaches and associated theoretical performance guarantees for the detection of known targets and anomalies from few projection measurements of the underlying signals. The proposed approaches…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-06-03 Kalyani Krishnamurthy , Rebecca Willett , Maxim Raginsky