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We address the problem of estimating a high-dimensional matrix from linear measurements, with a focus on designing optimal rank-adaptive algorithms. These algorithms infer the matrix by estimating its singular values and the corresponding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Frédéric Zheng , Yassir Jedra , Alexandre Proutiere

Low-rank pseudoinverses are widely used to approximate matrix inverses in scalable machine learning, optimization, and scientific computing. However, real-world matrices are often observed with noise, arising from sampling, sketching, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Phuc Tran , Nisheeth K. Vishnoi

Tensor models play an increasingly prominent role in many fields, notably in machine learning. In several applications, such as community detection, topic modeling and Gaussian mixture learning, one must estimate a low-rank signal from a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-06-16 José Henrique de Morais Goulart , Romain Couillet , Pierre Comon

Identifying parameters in a system of nonlinear, ordinary differential equations is vital for designing a robust controller. However, if the system is stochastic in its nature or if only noisy measurements are available, standard…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-10 Tobias Nagel , Marco F. Huber

We tackle the network topology inference problem by utilizing Laplacian constrained Gaussian graphical models, which recast the task as estimating a precision matrix in the form of a graph Laplacian. Recent research \cite{ying2020nonconvex}…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Jiaxi Ying , Xi Han , Rui Zhou , Xiwen Wang , Hing Cheung So

We introduce a data-adaptive inversion method that integrates classical or deep learning-based approaches with iterative graph Laplacian regularization, specifically targeting acoustic impedance inversion - a critical task in seismic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-18 Davide Bianchi , Florian Bossmann , Wenlong Wang , Mingming Liu

We explore the problem of inferring the graph Laplacian of a weighted, undirected network from snapshots of a single or multiple discrete-time consensus dynamics, subject to parameter uncertainty, taking place on the network. Specifically,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-05-08 Yu Zhu , Michael T. Schaub , Ali Jadbabaie , Santiago Segarra

We consider the problem of estimating the factors of a rank-$1$ matrix with i.i.d. Gaussian, rank-$1$ measurements that are nonlinearly transformed and corrupted by noise. Considering two prototypical choices for the nonlinearity, we study…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-02 Kabir Aladin Chandrasekher , Mengqi Lou , Ashwin Pananjady

We introduce a new algorithm and software for solving linear equations in symmetric diagonally dominant matrices with non-positive off-diagonal entries (SDDM matrices), including Laplacian matrices. We use pre-conditioned conjugate gradient…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-16 Yuan Gao , Rasmus Kyng , Daniel A. Spielman

The development of nonlinear optimization algorithms capable of performing reliably in the presence of noise has garnered considerable attention lately. This paper advocates for strategies to create noise-tolerant nonlinear optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-04 Yuchen Lou , Shigeng Sun , Jorge Nocedal

Linear regression studies the problem of estimating a model parameter $\beta^* \in \mathbb{R}^p$, from $n$ observations $\{(y_i,\mathbf{x}_i)\}_{i=1}^n$ from linear model $y_i = \langle \mathbf{x}_i,\beta^* \rangle + \epsilon_i$. We…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-05-14 Xinyang Yi , Zhaoran Wang , Constantine Caramanis , Han Liu

Persistent homology is constrained to purely topological persistence while multiscale graphs account only for geometric information. This work introduces persistent spectral theory to create a unified low-dimensional multiscale paradigm for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-12-13 Rui Wang , Duc Duy Nguyen , Guo-Wei Wei

We propose an algorithm to uncover the intrinsic low-rank component of a high-dimensional, graph-smooth and grossly-corrupted dataset, under the situations that the underlying graph is unknown. Based on a model with a low-rank component…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-07 Rui Liu , Hossein Nejati , Seyed Hamid Safavi , Ngai-Man Cheung

We propose a novel non-parametric adaptive anomaly detection algorithm for high dimensional data based on rank-SVM. Data points are first ranked based on scores derived from nearest neighbor graphs on n-point nominal data. We then train a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-05-06 Jing Qian , Jonathan Root , Venkatesh Saligrama , Yuting Chen

Stochastic resonance holds much promise for the detection of weak signals in the presence of relatively loud noise. Following the discovery of nondynamical and of aperiodic stochastic resonance, it was recently shown that the phenomenon can…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Redouane Fakir

Recently, Anderson et al. (2019) proposed the concept of rankability, which refers to a dataset's inherent ability to produce a meaningful ranking of its items. In the same paper, they proposed a rankability measure that is based on a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-12-03 Thomas R. Cameron , Amy N. Langville , Heather C. Smith

The problem of reconstructing nonlinear and complex dynamical systems from measured data or time series is central to many scientific disciplines including physical, biological, computer, and social sciences, as well as engineering and…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2017-05-01 Wenxu Wang , Ying-Cheng Lai , Celso Grebogi

We consider the following detection problem: given a realization of a symmetric matrix ${\mathbf{X}}$ of dimension $n$, distinguish between the hypothesis that all upper triangular variables are i.i.d. Gaussians variables with mean 0 and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-11-25 Andrea Montanari , Daniel Reichman , Ofer Zeitouni

In this paper, we develop a novel weighted Laplacian method, which is partially inspired by the theory of graph Laplacian, to study recent popular graph problems, such as multilevel graph partitioning and balanced minimum cut problem, in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Shijie Xu , Jiayan Fang , Xiang-Yang Li

Graph Laplacian learning, also known as network topology inference, is a problem of great interest to multiple communities. In Gaussian graphical models (GM), graph learning amounts to endowing covariance selection with the Laplacian…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Changhao Shi , Gal Mishne