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Sparse representations of images are useful in many computer vision applications. Sparse coding with an $l_1$ penalty and a learned linear dictionary requires regularization of the dictionary to prevent a collapse in the $l_1$ norms of the…

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This paper describes design of a low-complexity algorithm for adaptive encoding/ decoding of binary sequences produced by memoryless sources. The algorithm implements universal block codes constructed for a set of contexts identified by the…

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Sparse coding (SC) is attracting more and more attention due to its comprehensive theoretical studies and its excellent performance in many signal processing applications. However, most existing sparse coding algorithms are nonconvex and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-09-12 Xiaodong Feng , Zhiwei Tang , Sen Wu

Block encoding is a key ingredient in the recently developed quantum singular value transformation (QSVT) framework, which provides a unifying description for many quantum algorithms. Initially introduced to simplify and optimize resource…

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Sparse coding and dictionary learning are popular techniques for linear inverse problems such as denoising or inpainting. However in many cases, the measurement process is nonlinear, for example for clipped, quantized or 1-bit measurements.…

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Pseudospectral analysis is fundamental for quantifying the sensitivity and transient behavior of nonnormal matrices, yet its computational cost scales cubically with dimension, rendering it prohibitive for large-scale systems. While…

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One of the challenges in quantum computing is the synthesis of unitary operators into quantum circuits with polylogarithmic gate complexity. Exact synthesis of generic unitaries requires an exponential number of gates in general. We propose…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-24 Daan Camps , Roel Van Beeumen

The power of sparse signal modeling with learned over-complete dictionaries has been demonstrated in a variety of applications and fields, from signal processing to statistical inference and machine learning. However, the statistical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-26 Ignacio Ramírez , Guillermo Sapiro

The ultimate goal of any sparse coding method is to accurately recover from a few noisy linear measurements, an unknown sparse vector. Unfortunately, this estimation problem is NP-hard in general, and it is therefore always approached with…

Quantum state preparation and block encoding are versatile and practical input models for quantum algorithms in scientific computing. The circuit complexity of state preparation and block encoding frequently dominates the end-to-end gate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-18 Zexian Li , Guofeng Zhang , Xiao-Ming Zhang

Block-encoding is a standard framework for embedding matrices into unitary operators in quantum algorithms. Efficient implementation of products between block-encoded matrices is crucial for applications such as Hamiltonian simulation and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-22 Dekuan Dong , Yingzhou Li , Jungong Xue

We introduce Unitaria, a Python library that brings the simplicity of classical linear algebra toolkits such as NumPy and SciPy to the implementation of quantum algorithms based on block encodings, a general-purpose abstraction in which a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Matthias Deiml , Oliver Hüttenhofer , Ram Mosco , Jakob S. Kottmann , Daniel Peterseim

Sparse coding consists in representing signals as sparse linear combinations of atoms selected from a dictionary. We consider an extension of this framework where the atoms are further assumed to be embedded in a tree. This is achieved…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2011-08-18 Rodolphe Jenatton , Julien Mairal , Guillaume Obozinski , Francis Bach

We introduce a block encoding method for mapping discrete subgroups to qubits on a quantum computer. This method is applicable to general discrete groups, including crystal-like subgroups such as $\mathbb{BI}$ of $SU(2)$ and $\mathbb{V}$ of…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2024-05-22 Henry Lamm , Ying-Ying Li , Jing Shu , Yi-Lin Wang , Bin Xu

In this paper, we introduce a wideband dictionary framework for estimating sparse signals. By formulating integrated dictionary elements spanning bands of the considered parameter space, one may efficiently find and discard large parts of…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-08-01 Maksim Butsenko , Johan Swärd , Andreas Jakobsson

Sparse superimposed coding (SSC) has emerged as a promising technique for short-packet transmission in ultra-reliable low-latency communication scenarios. However, conventional SSC schemes often suffer from high encoding and decoding…

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Sparse regression codes (SPARCs) are a class of codes that encode information through the superposition of columns of a randomised coding matrix. The combination with an outer non-binary low density parity check (NB-LDPC) code was recently…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Alexander Fengler , Burak Çakmak , Giuseppe Caire

This article treats the problem of learning a dictionary providing sparse representations for a given signal class, via $\ell_1$-minimisation. The problem can also be seen as factorising a $\ddim \times \nsig$ matrix $Y=(y_1 >... y_\nsig),…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-03-01 Remi Gribonval , Karin Schnass

We study the problem of efficiently learning an unknown $n$-qubit unitary channel in diamond distance given query access. We present a general framework showing that if Pauli operators remain low-complexity under conjugation by a unitary,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-07 Sabee Grewal , Daniel Liang

In sparse signal representation, the choice of a dictionary often involves a tradeoff between two desirable properties -- the ability to adapt to specific signal data and a fast implementation of the dictionary. To sparsely represent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-06-18 Dorina Thanou , David I Shuman , Pascal Frossard