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This work studies the recursive robust principal components' analysis(PCA) problem. Here, "robust" refers to robustness to both independent and correlated sparse outliers. If the outlier is the signal-of-interest, this problem can be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-08-20 Chenlu Qiu , Namrata Vaswani , Brian Lois , Leslie Hogben

Algorithmic robust statistics has traditionally focused on the contamination model where a small fraction of the samples are arbitrarily corrupted. We consider a recent contamination model that combines two kinds of corruptions: (i) small…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Thanasis Pittas , Ankit Pensia

In one-bit compressed sensing, previous results state that sparse signals may be robustly recovered when the measurements are taken using Gaussian random vectors. In contrast to standard compressed sensing, these results are not extendable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-04-10 Albert Ai , Alex Lapanowski , Yaniv Plan , Roman Vershynin

In this work, we give efficient algorithms for privately estimating a Gaussian distribution in both pure and approximate differential privacy (DP) models with optimal dependence on the dimension in the sample complexity. In the pure DP…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Daniel Alabi , Pravesh K. Kothari , Pranay Tankala , Prayaag Venkat , Fred Zhang

We study the problem of learning general (i.e., not necessarily homogeneous) halfspaces with Random Classification Noise under the Gaussian distribution. We establish nearly-matching algorithmic and Statistical Query (SQ) lower bound…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Ilias Diakonikolas , Jelena Diakonikolas , Daniel M. Kane , Puqian Wang , Nikos Zarifis

This paper studies the problem of robust signal detection in Gaussian noise under quadratically convex orthosymmetric (QCO) constraints. We consider a minimax testing framework where the signal belongs to a QCO set and is separated from…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Yikun Li , Matey Neykov

In this article, we discuss a novel greedy algorithm for the recovery of compressive sampled signals under noisy conditions. Most of the greedy recovery algorithms proposed in the literature require sparsity of the signal to be known or…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-12-18 V. Meena , G. Abhilash

We resolve one of the major outstanding problems in robust statistics. In particular, if $X$ is an evenly weighted mixture of two arbitrary $d$-dimensional Gaussians, we devise a polynomial time algorithm that given access to samples from…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Daniel M. Kane

Probabilistic principal component analysis (PPCA) seeks a low dimensional representation of a data set in the presence of independent spherical Gaussian noise. The maximum likelihood solution for the model is an eigenvalue problem on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-06-22 Alfredo Kalaitzis , Neil Lawrence

One of the key challenges in sensor networks is the extraction of information by fusing data from a multitude of distinct, but possibly unreliable sensors. Recovering information from the maximum number of dependable sensors while…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-05-20 Vassilis Kekatos , Georgios B. Giannakis

Sparse Principal Component Analysis (sparse PCA) is a fundamental dimension-reduction tool that enhances interpretability in various high-dimensional settings. An important variant of sparse PCA studies the scenario when samples are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-11 Yuqing He , Guanyi Wang , Yu Yang

We investigate the recovery of signals exhibiting a sparse representation in a general (i.e., possibly redundant or incomplete) dictionary that are corrupted by additive noise admitting a sparse representation in another general dictionary.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-12-08 Christoph Studer , Patrick Kuppinger , Graeme Pope , Helmut Bölcskei

Singular Value Decomposition (and Principal Component Analysis) is one of the most widely used techniques for dimensionality reduction: successful and efficiently computable, it is nevertheless plagued by a well-known, well-documented…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2011-01-04 Huan Xu , Constantine Caramanis , Sujay Sanghavi

Sparse Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is a prevalent tool across a plethora of subfields of applied statistics. While several results have characterized the recovery error of the principal eigenvectors, these are typically in spectral…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-02-09 Joshua Agterberg , Jeremias Sulam

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

The problem of consistently estimating the sparsity pattern of a vector $\betastar \in \real^\mdim$ based on observations contaminated by noise arises in various contexts, including subset selection in regression, structure estimation in…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2007-07-13 Martin J. Wainwright

This paper investigates the problem of signal estimation from undersampled noisy sub-Gaussian measurements under the assumption of a cosparse model. Based on generalized notions of sparsity, we derive novel recovery guarantees for the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Martin Genzel , Gitta Kutyniok , Maximilian März

Given $n$ i.i.d. random matrices $A_i \in \mathbb{R}^{d \times d}$ that share a common expectation $\Sigma$, the objective of Differentially Private Stochastic PCA is to identify a subspace of dimension $k$ that captures the largest…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-08-15 Johanna Düngler , Amartya Sanyal

In the Multiple Measurements Vector (MMV) model, measurement vectors are connected to unknown, jointly sparse signal vectors through a linear regression model employing a single known measurement matrix (or dictionary). Typically, the…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-08-05 Esa Ollila

We consider estimation of a deterministic unknown parameter vector in a linear model with non-Gaussian noise. In the Gaussian case, dimensionality reduction via a linear matched filter provides a simple low dimensional sufficient statistic…

Applications · Statistics 2013-11-05 Jakob Vovnoboy , Ami Wiesel