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Recent advances in quantized compressed sensing and high-dimensional estimation have shown that signal recovery is even feasible under strong non-linear distortions in the observation process. An important characteristic of associated…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Martin Genzel , Alexander Stollenwerk

In this paper, we propose a unified framework of denoising score-based models in the context of graduated non-convex energy minimization. We show that for sufficiently large noise variance, the associated negative log density -- the energy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Erich Kobler , Thomas Pock

We consider the problem of estimating convex boundaries from blurred and noisy observations. In our model, the convolution of an intensity function $f$ is observed with additive Gaussian white noise. The function $f$ is assumed to have…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2007-06-13 Alexander Goldenshluger , Assaf Zeevi

This paper discusses a general framework for designing robust state estimators for a class of discrete-time nonlinear systems. We consider systems that may be impacted by impulsive (sparse but otherwise arbitrary) measurement noise…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Laurent Bako , Madiha Nadri , Vincent Andrieu , Qinghua Zhang

We propose a new estimator for the high-dimensional linear regression model with observation error in the design where the number of coefficients is potentially larger than the sample size. The main novelty of our procedure is that the…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-09-09 Alexandre Belloni , Abhishek Kaul , Mathieu Rosenbaum

There are two major routes to address the ubiquitous family of inverse problems appearing in signal and image processing, such as denoising or deblurring. A first route relies on Bayesian modeling, where prior probabilities are used to…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Rémi Gribonval , Mila Nikolova

We adress the problem of Laplace deconvolution with random noise in a regression framework. The time set is not considered to be fixed, but grows with the number of observation points. Moreover, the convolution kernel is unknown, and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-04-05 Thomas Vareschi

We consider the problem of estimating a low-rank matrix from a noisy observed matrix. Previous work has shown that the optimal method depends crucially on the choice of loss function. In this paper, we use a family of weighted loss…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-04-08 William Leeb

This paper studies a tensor-structured linear regression model with a scalar response variable and tensor-structured predictors, such that the regression parameters form a tensor of order $d$ (i.e., a $d$-fold multiway array) in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-26 Talal Ahmed , Haroon Raja , Waheed U. Bajwa

This paper studies least-square regression penalized with partly smooth convex regularizers. This class of functions is very large and versatile allowing to promote solutions conforming to some notion of low-complexity. Indeed, they force…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-07-01 Samuel Vaiter , Gabriel Peyré , Jalal M. Fadili

In this paper, we study the mixed-integer nonlinear set given by a separable quadratic constraint on continuous variables, where each continuous variable is controlled by an additional indicator. This set occurs pervasively in optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-07 Andres Gomez , Weijun Xie

This paper investigates the state estimation problem for a class of complex networks, in which the dynamics of each node is subject to Gaussian noise, system uncertainties and nonlinearities. Based on a regularized least-squares approach,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-16 Peihu Duan , Qishao Wang , Zhisheng Duan , Guanrong Chen

Inverse optimal control (IOC) aims to estimate the underlying cost that governs the observed behavior of an expert system. However, in practical scenarios, the collected data is often corrupted by noise, which poses significant challenges…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Ziliang Wang , Axel Ringh , Han Zhang

Variable selection is a fundamental task in statistical data analysis. Sparsity-inducing regularization methods are a popular class of methods that simultaneously perform variable selection and model estimation. The central problem is a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-16 Hongbo Dong , Kun Chen , Jeff Linderoth

In this paper, we propose a new approach to design globally convergent reduced-order observers for nonlinear control systems via contraction analysis and convex optimization. Despite the fact that contraction is a concept naturally suitable…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-17 Bowen Yi , Ruigang Wang , Ian R. Manchester

In this paper, we propose a novel high-dimensional time-varying coefficient estimator for noisy high-frequency observations with a factor structure. In high-frequency finance, we often observe that noises dominate the signal of underlying…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-12 Minseok Shin , Donggyu Kim

Denoising diffusion models have recently emerged as the predominant paradigm for generative modelling on image domains. In addition, their extension to Riemannian manifolds has facilitated a range of applications across the natural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Nic Fishman , Leo Klarner , Emile Mathieu , Michael Hutchinson , Valentin de Bortoli

Consider the problem of estimating the mean of a Gaussian random vector when the mean vector is assumed to be in a given convex set. The most natural solution is to take the Euclidean projection of the data vector on to this convex set; in…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-11-21 Sourav Chatterjee

We propose a nonconvexly regularized convex model for linear regression problems under non-Gaussian noise. The cost function of the proposed model is designed with a possibly non-quadratic data fidelity term and a nonconvex regularizer via…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-04 Wataru Yata , Keita Kume , Isao Yamada

Autonomous systems often must predict the motions of nearby agents from partial and noisy data. This paper asks and answers the question: "can we learn, in real-time, a nonlinear predictive model of another agent's motions?" Our online…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Stella Kombo , Masih Haseli , Skylar X. Wei , Joel W. Burdick