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We consider the problem of identifying the parameters of an unknown mixture of two arbitrary $d$-dimensional gaussians from a sequence of independent random samples. Our main results are upper and lower bounds giving a computationally…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-05-19 Moritz Hardt , Eric Price

We present a novel algorithm for learning the parameters of hidden Markov models (HMMs) in a geometric setting where the observations take values in Riemannian manifolds. In particular, we elevate a recent second-order method of moments…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Berlin Chen , Cyrus Mostajeran , Salem Said

We develop in this work a numerical method for stochastic differential equations (SDEs) with weak second order accuracy based on Gaussian mixture. Unlike the conventional higher order schemes for SDEs based on It\^o-Taylor expansion and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-12 Lei Li , Jianfeng Lu , Jonathan Mattingly , Lihan Wang

We propose a greedy variational method for decomposing a non-negative multivariate signal as a weighted sum of Gaussians, which, borrowing the terminology from statistics, we refer to as a Gaussian mixture model. Notably, our method has the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-05-21 Gustav Zickert , Can Evren Yarman

We show that density models describing multiple observables with (i) hard boundaries and (ii) dependence on external parameters may be created using an auto-regressive Gaussian mixture model. The model is designed to capture how observable…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2022-02-01 Stephen B. Menary , Darren D. Price

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

Deep learning is a hierarchical inference method formed by subsequent multiple layers of learning able to more efficiently describe complex relationships. In this work, Deep Gaussian Mixture Models are introduced and discussed. A Deep…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-21 Cinzia Viroli , Geoffrey J. McLachlan

This paper proposes a novel method for learning highly nonlinear, multivariate functions from examples. Our method takes advantage of the property that continuous functions can be approximated by polynomials, which in turn are representable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Sandor Szedmak , Anna Cichonska , Heli Julkunen , Tapio Pahikkala , Juho Rousu

Tensor train (TT) decomposition has drawn people's attention due to its powerful representation ability and performance stability in high-order tensors. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to recover the missing entries of incomplete…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2018-12-03 Longhao Yuan , Qibin Zhao , Lihua Gui , Jianting Cao

The advancement of sensing technology has driven the widespread application of high-dimensional data. However, issues such as missing entries during acquisition and transmission negatively impact the accuracy of subsequent tasks. Tensor…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-09 Jie Yang , Chang Su , Yuhan Zhang , Jianjun Zhu , Jianli Wang

Decomposing tensors into orthogonal factors is a well-known task in statistics, machine learning, and signal processing. We study orthogonal outer product decompositions where the factors in the summands in the decomposition are required to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-09-13 Franz J. Király

This paper is concerned with an important issue in finite mixture modelling, the selection of the number of mixing components. We propose a new penalized likelihood method for model selection of finite multivariate Gaussian mixture models.…

Methodology · Statistics 2013-01-17 Tao Huang , Heng Peng , Kun Zhang

Tensor decompositions, which represent an $N$-order tensor using approximately $N$ factors of much smaller dimensions, can significantly reduce the number of parameters. This is particularly beneficial for high-order tensors, as the number…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Zhen Qin , Michael B. Wakin , Zhihui Zhu

Recently Chen and Poor initiated the study of learning mixtures of linear dynamical systems. While linear dynamical systems already have wide-ranging applications in modeling time-series data, using mixture models can lead to a better fit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Ainesh Bakshi , Allen Liu , Ankur Moitra , Morris Yau

Latent variable models with hidden binary units appear in various applications. Learning such models, in particular in the presence of noise, is a challenging computational problem. In this paper we propose a novel spectral approach to this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-28 Ariel Jaffe , Roi Weiss , Shai Carmi , Yuval Kluger , Boaz Nadler

We study the problem of learning mixtures of linear dynamical systems (MLDS) from input-output data. The mixture setting allows us to leverage observations from related dynamical systems to improve the estimation of individual models.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-03 Maryann Rui , Munther Dahleh

Multivariate polynomials arise in many different disciplines. Representing such a polynomial as a vector of univariate polynomials can offer useful insight, as well as more intuitive understanding. For this, techniques based on tensor…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-01-29 Gabriel Hollander , Philippe Dreesen , Mariya Ishteva , Johan Schoukens

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have become the gold standard when it comes to learning generative models for high-dimensional distributions. Since their advent, numerous variations of GANs have been introduced in the literature,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Grigorios Chrysos , Stylianos Moschoglou , Yannis Panagakis , Stefanos Zafeiriou

The development of mechanistic models of biological systems is a central part of Systems Biology. One major task in developing these models is the inference of the correct model parameters. Due to the size of most realistic models and their…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2016-06-28 Jan Mikelson , Mustafa Khammash

This paper studies symmetric tensor decompositions. For symmetric tensors, there exist linear relations of recursive patterns among their entries. Such a relation can be represented by a polynomial, which is called a generating polynomial.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-10-06 Jiawang Nie