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We give a polynomial-time algorithm for the problem of robustly estimating a mixture of $k$ arbitrary Gaussians in $\mathbb{R}^d$, for any fixed $k$, in the presence of a constant fraction of arbitrary corruptions. This resolves the main…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Ainesh Bakshi , Ilias Diakonikolas , He Jia , Daniel M. Kane , Pravesh K. Kothari , Santosh S. Vempala

We study Gaussian sparse estimation tasks in Huber's contamination model with a focus on mean estimation, PCA, and linear regression. For each of these tasks, we give the first sample and computationally efficient robust estimators with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Ilias Diakonikolas , Daniel M. Kane , Sushrut Karmalkar , Ankit Pensia , Thanasis Pittas

The main goal of 1-bit compressive sampling is to decode $n$ dimensional signals with sparsity level $s$ from $m$ binary measurements. This is a challenging task due to the presence of nonlinearity, noises and sign flips. In this paper, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-05 Zhao Ding , Junjun Huang , Yuling Jiao , Xiliang Lu , Zhijian Yang

In this paper we focus on the unconstrained binary quadratic optimization model, maximize x^t Qx, x binary, and consider the problem of identifying optimal solutions that are robust with respect to perturbations in the Q matrix.. We are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-09-25 Mark Lewis , Gary Kochenberger , John Metcalfe

We study the algorithmic problem of sparse mean estimation in the presence of adversarial outliers. Specifically, the algorithm observes a \emph{corrupted} set of samples from $\mathcal{N}(\mu,\mathbf{I}_d)$, where the unknown mean $\mu \in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Ankit Pensia

The compressive sensing (CS) and 1-bit CS demonstrate superior efficiency in signal acquisition and resource conservation, while 1-bit CS achieves maximum resource efficiency through sign-only measurements. With the emergence of massive…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-05-06 Erbo Li , Qi Qin , Yifan Sun , Liping Zhu

In this paper, we bring together two trends that have recently emerged in sparse signal recovery: the problem of sparse signals that stem from finite alphabets and the techniques that introduce concave penalties. Specifically, we show that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-04 Sophie M. Fosson

We consider the problem of learning a graph from a finite set of noisy graph signal observations, the goal of which is to find a smooth representation of the graph signal. Such a problem is motivated by the desire to infer relational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Xiaolu Wang , Yuen-Man Pun , Anthony Man-Cho So

Phase-only compressed sensing (PO-CS) concerns the recovery of sparse signals from the phases of complex measurements. Recent results show that sparse signals in the standard sphere $\mathbb{S}^{n-1}$ can be exactly recovered from complex…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Junren Chen , Michael K. Ng , Jonathan Scarlett

We study the problem of high-dimensional sparse mean estimation in the presence of an $\epsilon$-fraction of adversarial outliers. Prior work obtained sample and computationally efficient algorithms for this task for identity-covariance…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Ilias Diakonikolas , Daniel M. Kane , Sushrut Karmalkar , Ankit Pensia , Thanasis Pittas

Denoising has to do with estimating a signal $x_0$ from its noisy observations $y=x_0+z$. In this paper, we focus on the "structured denoising problem", where the signal $x_0$ possesses a certain structure and $z$ has independent normally…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-11-15 Samet Oymak , Babak Hassibi

We propose a Binary Robust Least Squares (BRLS) model that encompasses key robust least squares formulations, such as those involving uncertain binary labels and adversarial noise constrained within a hypercube. We show that the geometric…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Yang Zhou , Xiaojun Chen

We investigate the problem of reconstructing n-by-n structured matrix signal X via convex programming, where each column xj is a vector of s-sparsity and all columns have the same l1-norm. The regularizer in use is matrix norm…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-12-03 Yuan Tian

In this paper, tight upper and lower bounds are derived on the weighted sum of minimum mean-squared errors for additive Gaussian noise channels. The bounds are obtained by constraining the input distribution to be close to a Gaussian…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-23 Michael Fauß , Abdelhak M. Zoubir , Alex Dytso , H. Vincent Poor , K. G. Nagananda

We consider a separation problem where the observation consists of the sum of a high amplitude smooth signal and a low amplitude transient signal. We propose a method for decomposition that relies on solving instances of a `constrained…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-15 Ilker Bayram

This paper deals with the parametric inference for integrated signals embedded in an additive Gaussian noise and observed at deterministic discrete instants which are not necessarily equidistant. The unknown parameter is multidimensional…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-03-18 Dominique Dehay , Khalil El Waled , Vincent Monsan

We study the fundamental problems of Gaussian mean estimation and linear regression with Gaussian covariates in the presence of Huber contamination. Our main contribution is the design of the first sample near-optimal and almost linear-time…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Ilias Diakonikolas , Daniel M. Kane , Ankit Pensia , Thanasis Pittas

We study the problem of testing the covariance matrix of a high-dimensional Gaussian in a robust setting, where the input distribution has been corrupted in Huber's contamination model. Specifically, we are given i.i.d. samples from a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Ilias Diakonikolas , Daniel M. Kane

As quantum machine learning continues to develop at a rapid pace, the importance of ensuring the robustness and efficiency of quantum algorithms cannot be overstated. Our research presents an analysis of quantum randomized smoothing, how…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-26 Nicola Franco , Marie Kempkes , Jakob Spiegelberg , Jeanette Miriam Lorenz

Mitigating noise-induced decoherence is the central challenge in controlling open quantum systems. While existing robust protocols often require precise noise models, we introduce a universal framework for noise-agnostic quantum control…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-18 Lixiang Ding , Jingtao Fan , Xingze Qiu