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In this paper, we tackle for the first time the problem of maximum likelihood (ML) estimation of the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) parameter over time-varying single-input multiple-output (SIMO) channels. Both the data-aided (DA) and the…

Applications · Statistics 2014-11-19 Faouzi Bellili , Rabii Meftehi , Sofiene Affes , Alex Stephenne

We study the convergence rates of the EM algorithm for learning two-component mixed linear regression under all regimes of signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). We resolve a long-standing question that many recent results have attempted to tackle:…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-02-08 Jeongyeol Kwon , Nhat Ho , Constantine Caramanis

We call matrix algorithms superfast if they use much fewer flops and memory cells than the input matrix has entries. Using such algorithms is indispensable for Big Data Mining and Analysis, where the input matrices are so immense that one…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-17 Victor Y. Pan , John Svadlenka

We study superfast algorithms that computes low rank approximation of a matrix (hereafter referred to as LRA) that use much fewer memory cells and arithmetic operations than the input matrix has entries. We first specify a family of 2mn…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-08 Victor Y. Pan , Qi Luan , John Svadlenka , Liang Zhao

A matrix algorithm runs superfast (aka at sublinear cost) if it involves much fewer flops and memory cells than an input matrix has entries. Big Data are frequently represented by matrices of immense sizes that cannot be handled directly…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Qi Luan , Victor Y. Pan

A new likelihood based AR approximation is given for ARMA models. The usual algorithms for the computation of the likelihood of an ARMA model require $O(n)$ flops per function evaluation. Using our new approximation, an algorithm is…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-11-04 A. Ian McLeod , Ying Zhang

The multireference alignment problem consists of estimating a signal from multiple noisy shifted observations. Inspired by existing Unique-Games approximation algorithms, we provide a semidefinite program (SDP) based relaxation which…

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Motivated by single-particle cryo-electron microscopy, we study the sample complexity of the multi-target detection (MTD) problem, in which an unknown signal appears multiple times at unknown locations within a long, noisy observation. We…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-31 Kweku Abraham , Amnon Balanov , Tamir Bendory , Carlos Esteve-Yagüe

Estimating the frequencies of multiple sinusoids in the presence of AWGN and when the data record is short is commonly accomplished by subspace-based methods such as ESPRIT, MUSIC, Min-Norm, etc. These methods do not assume that the data…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-31 P. Vishnu , C. S. Ramalingam

In the multireference alignment model, a signal is observed by the action of a random circular translation and the addition of Gaussian noise. The goal is to recover the signal's orbit by accessing multiple independent observations. Of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Emmanuel Abbe , Tamir Bendory , William Leeb , João Pereira , Nir Sharon , Amit Singer

Iterative refinement is particularly popular for numerical solution of linear systems of equations. We extend it to Low Rank Approximation of a matrix (LRA) and observe close link of the resulting algorithm to oversampling techniques,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-28 Victor Y. Pan , Qi Luan , Soo Go

The L1-regularized Gaussian maximum likelihood estimator (MLE) has been shown to have strong statistical guarantees in recovering a sparse inverse covariance matrix, or alternatively the underlying graph structure of a Gaussian Markov…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-06-14 Cho-Jui Hsieh , Matyas A. Sustik , Inderjit S. Dhillon , Pradeep Ravikumar

Adapting large pre-trained language models to downstream tasks often entails fine-tuning millions of parameters or deploying costly dense weight updates, which hinders their use in resource-constrained environments. Low-rank Adaptation…

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The problem of recovering a low $n$-rank tensor is an extension of sparse recovery problem from the low dimensional space (matrix space) to the high dimensional space (tensor space) and has many applications in computer vision and graphics…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-04-09 Min Zhang , Lei Yang , Zheng-Hai Huang

Low rank approximation of a matrix (LRA) is a highly important area of Numerical Linear and Multilinear Algebra and Data Mining and Analysis. One can operate with an LRA superfast -- by using much fewer memory cells and flops than an input…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-16 Soo Go , Qi Luan , Victor Y. Pan , John Svadlenka , Liang Zhao

Conventional methods for computing maximum-likelihood estimators (MLE) often converge slowly in practical situations, leading to a search for simplifying methods that rely on additional assumptions for their validity. In this work, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-28 Jiangwei Shang , Zhengyun Zhang , Hui Khoon Ng

The aim of sparse approximation is to estimate a sparse signal according to the measurement matrix and an observation vector. It is widely used in data analytics, image processing, and communication, etc. Up to now, a lot of research has…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-05-31 Hao Wang , Ruibin Feng , Chi-Sing Leung

Numerous real-world decisions rely on machine learning algorithms and require calibrated uncertainty estimates. However, modern methods often yield overconfident, uncalibrated predictions. The dominant approach to quantifying the…

Maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) is a well-known estimation method used in many robotic and computer vision applications. Under Gaussian assumption, the MLE converts to a nonlinear least squares (NLS) problem. Efficient solutions to NLS…

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