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We propose and analyze an approximate message passing (AMP) algorithm for the matrix tensor product model, which is a generalization of the standard spiked matrix models that allows for multiple types of pairwise observations over a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-06-28 Riccardo Rossetti , Galen Reeves

The problem of Group Testing is to identify defective items out of a set of objects by means of pool queries of the form "Does the pool contain at least a defective?". The aim is of course to perform detection with the fewest possible…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Mézard , M. Tarzia , C. Toninelli

We consider the problem of signal estimation in a generalized linear model (GLM). GLMs include many canonical problems in statistical estimation, such as linear regression, phase retrieval, and 1-bit compressed sensing. Recent work has…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Pablo Pascual Cobo , Kuan Hsieh , Ramji Venkataramanan

We propose a new analysis framework for clustering $M$ items into an unknown number of $K$ distinct groups using noisy and actively collected responses. At each time step, an agent is allowed to query pairs of items and observe bandit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Rachel S. Y. Teo , P. N. Karthik , Ramya Korlakai Vinayak , Vincent Y. F. Tan

We solve the analysis sparse coding problem considering a combination of convex and non-convex sparsity promoting penalties. The multi-penalty formulation results in an iterative algorithm involving proximal-averaging. We then unfold the…

Pathogenic infections pose a significant threat to global health, affecting millions of people every year and presenting substantial challenges to healthcare systems worldwide. Efficient and timely testing plays a critical role in disease…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-08-03 Ananthan Nambiar , Chao Pan , Vishal Rana , Mahdi Cheraghchi , João Ribeiro , Sergei Maslov , Olgica Milenkovic

This paper considers the noisy group testing problem where among a large population of items some are defective. The goal is to identify all defective items by testing groups of items, with the minimum possible number of tests. The focus of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Esmaeil Karimi , Anoosheh Heidarzadeh , Krishna R. Narayanan , Alex Sprintson

This paper proposes a fast approximate message-passing (AMP) algorithm for solving compressed sensing (CS) recovery problems with 1D-finite-difference sparsity in term of MMSE estimation. The proposed algorithm, named ssAMP-BGFD, is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-07 Jaewook Kang , Hyoyoung Jung , Heung-No Lee , Kiseon Kim

This paper proposes a simple adaptive sensing and group testing algorithm for sparse signal recovery. The algorithm, termed Compressive Adaptive Sense and Search (CASS), is shown to be near-optimal in that it succeeds at the lowest possible…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-30 Matthew L. Malloy , Robert D. Nowak

We consider an efficiently decodable non-adaptive group testing (NAGT) problem that meets theoretical bounds. The problem is to find a few specific items (at most $d$) satisfying certain characteristics in a colossal number of $N$ items as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-20 Thach V. Bui , Minoru Kuribayashi , Isao Echizen

Sparse recovery is one of the most fundamental and well-studied inverse problems. Standard statistical formulations of the problem are provably solved by general convex programming techniques and more practical, fast (nearly-linear time)…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Jonathan A. Kelner , Jerry Li , Allen Liu , Aaron Sidford , Kevin Tian

This paper investigates system identification problems with Gaussian inputs and quantized observations under fixed thresholds. By reinterpreting the nonlinear effects induced by quantization as the product of the unknown parameter and an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Xingrui Liu , Ying Wang , Yanlong Zhao

We consider the problem of non-adaptive group testing of $N$ items out of which $K$ or less items are known to be defective. We propose a testing scheme based on left-and-right-regular sparse-graph codes and a simple iterative decoder. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-27 Avinash Vem , Nagaraj T. Janakiraman , Krishna R. Narayanan

Adaptive sampling theory has shown that, with proper assumptions on the signal class, algorithms exist to reconstruct a signal in $\mathbb{R}^{d}$ with an optimal number of samples. We generalize this problem to the case of spatial signals,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-02-20 John Lipor , Brandon Wong , Donald Scavia , Branko Kerkez , Laura Balzano

Missing data presents a critical challenge in real-world datasets, significantly degrading the performance of machine learning models. While Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently demonstrated remarkable capabilities in tabular data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Hossein Jamali

We propose two novel approaches to the recovery of an (approximately) sparse signal from noisy linear measurements in the case that the signal is a priori known to be non-negative and obey given linear equality constraints, such as simplex…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-17 Jeremy Vila , Philip Schniter

In this paper, we introduce a variation of the group testing problem where each test is specified by an ordered subset of items and returns the first defective item in the specified order or returns null if there are no defectives. We refer…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Waqar Mirza , Nikhil Karamchandani , Niranjan Balachandran

The group testing problem consists of determining a small set of defective items from a larger set of items based on tests on groups of items, and is relevant in applications such as medical testing, communication protocols, pattern…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-27 Steffen Bondorf , Binbin Chen , Jonathan Scarlett , Haifeng Yu , Yuda Zhao

In the pooled data problem we are given a set of $n$ agents, each of which holds a hidden state bit, either $0$ or $1$. A querying procedure returns for a query set the sum of the states of the queried agents. The goal is to reconstruct the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-18 Max Hahn-Klimroth , Dominik Kaaser

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