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

We propose a projection pursuit (PP) algorithm based on Gaussian mixture models (GMMs). The negentropy obtained from a multivariate density estimated by GMMs is adopted as the PP index to be maximised. For a fixed dimension of the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-04-06 Luca Scrucca , Alessio Serafini

The smoothing distribution of dynamic probit models with Gaussian state dynamics was recently proved to belong to the unified skew-normal family. Although this is computationally tractable in small-to-moderate settings, it may become…

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This paper proposes a unified tree-reweighted belief propagation (BP) and mean field (MF) approach for scalable detection and tracking of extended targets within the framework of factor graph. The factor graph is partitioned into a BP…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-30 Weizhen Ma , Zhongliang Jing , Peng Dong , Henry Leung

Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DPMs) have emerged as the de facto approach for high-fidelity image synthesis, operating diffusion processes on continuous VAE latent, which significantly differ from the text generation methods employed by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Xiaoping Wu , Jie Hu , Xiaoming Wei

We introduce the bilinear generalized vector approximate message passing (BiG-VAMP) algorithm which jointly recovers two matrices U and V from their noisy product through a probabilistic observation model. BiG-VAMP provides computationally…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Mohamed Akrout , Anis Housseini , Faouzi Bellili , Amine Mezghani

The Expectation-Maximisation (EM) algorithm is a central tool in statistics and machine learning, widely used for latent-variable models such as Gaussian Mixture Models (GMMs). Despite its ubiquity, EM is typically treated as a…

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Variational inference with Gaussian mixture models (GMMs) enables learning of highly tractable yet multi-modal approximations of intractable target distributions with up to a few hundred dimensions. The two currently most effective methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Oleg Arenz , Philipp Dahlinger , Zihan Ye , Michael Volpp , Gerhard Neumann

Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) and Belief Propagation (BP) are the most popular algorithms for computational inference in Graphical Models (GM). In principle, MCMC is an exact probabilistic method which, however, often suffers from…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-05-12 Sungsoo Ahn , Michael Chertkov , Jinwoo Shin

High-dimensional signal recovery of standard linear regression is a key challenge in many engineering fields, such as, communications, compressed sensing, and image processing. The approximate message passing (AMP) algorithm proposed by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Qiuyun Zou , Hongwen Yang

This paper focuses on the distributed static estimation problem and a Belief Propagation (BP) based estimation algorithm is proposed. We provide a complete analysis for convergence and accuracy of it. More precisely, we offer conditions…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-07 Damián Marelli , Tianju Sui , Minyue Fu , Ximing Sun

Diffusion models optimized via variational inference (VI) have emerged as a promising tool for generating samples from unnormalized target densities. These models create samples by simulating a stochastic differential equation, starting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Denis Blessing , Xiaogang Jia , Gerhard Neumann

In a recent paper, the authors proposed a new class of low-complexity iterative thresholding algorithms for reconstructing sparse signals from a small set of linear measurements \cite{DMM}. The new algorithms are broadly referred to as AMP,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-11-24 David L. Donoho , Arian Maleki , Andrea Montanari

Cell-Free (CF) Massive Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MaMIMO) is considered one of the leading candidates for enabling next-generation wireless communication. With the growing interest in the Internet of Things (IoT), the Grant-Free (GF)…

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Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithm is a widely used iterative algorithm for computing (local) maximum likelihood estimate (MLE). It can be used in an extensive range of problems, including the clustering of data based on the Gaussian…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-03-28 Pierre Houdouin , Esa Ollila , Frederic Pascal

This paper presents a new distance metric to compare two continuous probability density functions. The main advantage of this metric is that, unlike other statistical measurements, it can provide an analytic, closed-form expression for a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Ahmad Sajedi , Yuri A. Lawryshyn , Konstantinos N. Plataniotis

Approximations of loopy belief propagation, including expectation propagation and approximate message passing, have attracted considerable attention for probabilistic inference problems. This paper proposes and analyzes a generalization of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-26 Alyson K. Fletcher , Mojtaba Sahraee-Ardakan , Sundeep Rangan , Philip Schniter

Recently, a versatile limited feedback scheme based on a Gaussian mixture model (GMM) was proposed for frequency division duplex (FDD) systems. This scheme provides high flexibility regarding various system parameters and is applicable to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Nurettin Turan , Benedikt Fesl , Wolfgang Utschick

We present a differentiable approach to learn the probabilistic factors used for inference by a nonparametric belief propagation algorithm. Existing nonparametric belief propagation methods rely on domain-specific features encoded in the…