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We consider the estimation of a sparse parameter vector from measurements corrupted by white Gaussian noise. Our focus is on unbiased estimation as a setting under which the difficulty of the problem can be quantified analytically. We show…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-02-02 Alexander Jung , Zvika Ben-Haim , Franz Hlawatsch , Yonina C. Eldar

In phase retrieval, the goal is to recover a complex signal from the magnitude of its linear measurements. While many well-known algorithms guarantee deterministic recovery of the unknown signal using i.i.d. random measurement matrices,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-24 Boshra Rajaei , Sylvain Gigan , Florent Krzakala , Laurent Daudet

Probabilistic encoding introduces Gaussian noise into neural networks, enabling a smooth transition from deterministic to uncertain states and enhancing generalization ability. However, the randomness of Gaussian noise distorts point-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Pengjiu Xia , Yidian Huang , Wenchao Wei , Yuwen Tan

Lower dimensional signal representation schemes frequently assume that the signal of interest lies in a single vector space. In the context of the recently developed theory of compressive sensing (CS), it is often assumed that the signal of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-03-18 Thakshila Wimalajeewa , Yonina C. Eldar , Pramod K. Varshney

Motivated by the problem of matching two correlated random geometric graphs, we study the problem of matching two Gaussian geometric models correlated through a latent node permutation. Specifically, given an unknown permutation $\pi^*$ on…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Shuyang Gong , Zhangsong Li

We propose a new framework -- Square Root Principal Component Pursuit -- for low-rank matrix recovery from observations corrupted with noise and outliers. Inspired by the square root Lasso, this new formulation does not require prior…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Junhui Zhang , Jingkai Yan , John Wright

We study the task of noiseless linear regression under Gaussian covariates in the presence of additive oblivious contamination. Specifically, we are given i.i.d.\ samples from a distribution $(x, y)$ on $\mathbb{R}^d \times \mathbb{R}$ with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Ilias Diakonikolas , Chao Gao , Daniel M. Kane , John Lafferty , Ankit Pensia

This paper considers the problem of recovering the permutation of an n-dimensional random vector X observed in Gaussian noise. First, a general expression for the probability of error is derived when a linear decoder (i.e., linear estimator…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Minoh Jeong , Alex Dytso , Martina Cardone

This paper provides new error bounds on "consistent" reconstruction methods for signals observed from quantized random projections. Those signal estimation techniques guarantee a perfect matching between the available quantized data and a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-21 Laurent Jacques

We consider the following basic inference problem: there is an unknown high-dimensional vector $w \in \mathbb{R}^n$, and an algorithm is given access to labeled pairs $(x,y)$ where $x \in \mathbb{R}^n$ is a measurement and $y = w \cdot x +…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Xue Chen , Anindya De , Rocco A. Servedio

In this paper, we address two challenging problems in unsupervised subspace learning: 1) how to automatically identify the feature dimension of the learned subspace (i.e., automatic subspace learning), and 2) how to learn the underlying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-17 Xi Peng , Jiwen Lu , Zhang Yi , Rui Yan

Sparse signal reconstruction algorithms have attracted research attention due to their wide applications in various fields. In this paper, we present a simple Bayesian approach that utilizes the sparsity constraint and a priori statistical…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-06-05 Ahmed A. Quadeer , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri

Compressed Sensing (CS) is a signal processing technique which can accurately recover sparse signals from linear measurements with far fewer number of measurements than those required by the classical Shannon-Nyquist theorem. Block sparse…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-30 Haifeng Li , Jinming Wen

Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is a classical method for reducing the dimensionality of data by projecting them onto a subspace that captures most of their variation. Effective use of PCA in modern applications requires understanding…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-06-14 David Hong , Laura Balzano , Jeffrey A. Fessler

We consider the following signal recovery problem: given a measurement matrix $\Phi\in \mathbb{R}^{n\times p}$ and a noisy observation vector $c\in \mathbb{R}^{n}$ constructed from $c = \Phi\theta^* + \epsilon$ where $\epsilon\in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-07-23 Ji Liu , Lei Yuan , Jieping Ye

We consider the following multi-component sparse PCA problem: given a set of data points, we seek to extract a small number of sparse components with disjoint supports that jointly capture the maximum possible variance. These components can…

We consider the problem of robust compressed sensing whose objective is to recover a high-dimensional sparse signal from compressed measurements corrupted by outliers. A new sparse Bayesian learning method is developed for robust compressed…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-10-24 Qian Wan , Huiping Duan , Jun Fang , Hongbin Li

Low-rank matrix recovery problems involving high-dimensional and heterogeneous data appear in applications throughout statistics and machine learning. The contribution of this paper is to establish the fundamental limits of recovery for a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-03-22 Joshua K. Behne , Galen Reeves

We study a practical algorithm for sparse principal component analysis (PCA) of incomplete and noisy data. Our algorithm is based on the semidefinite program (SDP) relaxation of the non-convex $l_1$-regularized PCA problem. We provide…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-09-16 Hanbyul Lee , Qifan Song , Jean Honorio

We consider the problem of recovering sparse vectors from underdetermined linear measurements via $\ell_p$-constrained basis pursuit. Previous analyses of this problem based on generalized restricted isometry properties have suggested that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-21 Sjoerd Dirksen , Guillaume Lecué , Holger Rauhut