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Sparse Recovery with Linear and Nonlinear Observations: Dependent and Noisy Data

Information Theory 2014-03-14 v1 Machine Learning math.IT Statistics Theory Statistics Theory

Abstract

We formulate sparse support recovery as a salient set identification problem and use information-theoretic analyses to characterize the recovery performance and sample complexity. We consider a very general model where we are not restricted to linear models or specific distributions. We state non-asymptotic bounds on recovery probability and a tight mutual information formula for sample complexity. We evaluate our bounds for applications such as sparse linear regression and explicitly characterize effects of correlation or noisy features on recovery performance. We show improvements upon previous work and identify gaps between the performance of recovery algorithms and fundamental information.

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@article{arxiv.1403.3109,
  title  = {Sparse Recovery with Linear and Nonlinear Observations: Dependent and Noisy Data},
  author = {Cem Aksoylar and Venkatesh Saligrama},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1403.3109},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

Extended version of the paper that was accepted to AISTATS 2014 as "Information-Theoretic Characterization of Sparse Recovery". arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1304.0682

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