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48 results for Sparse corruptions

Novel algorithm recovers sparse parameters in high-dimensional data with constant corruption.

problem Sparse regression with high dimensionality and constant fraction of corruptions.
method Robust Iterative Hard Thresholding, filtering algorithm for outlier removal.
result Near information-theoretically optimal error guarantee with sub-linear sample complexity.

New method for separating foreground from background in noisy, moving camera video.

problem Foreground-background separation in noisy, free-moving camera video.
method Registers frames, encodes perspective as missing data, uses OptShrink for low-rank estimation, and weighted total variation for smooth foreground.
result Panoramic background component that stitches together corrupted data from overlapping frames.

Robust Lasso-Zero handles missing covariates and sparse corruptions.

problem Sparse corruptions and missing covariates in sparse linear models.
method Extension of Lasso-Zero to handle sparse corruptions, with theoretical guarantees on sign recovery.
result Robust Lasso-Zero can handle missing values without specifying a parametric model.

New algorithm robustly estimates sparse models in high dimensions with corrupted data.

problem Estimating latent variable models with arbitrarily corrupted samples in high dimensional space.
method Trimmed (Gradient) Expectation Maximization with trimming gradients and hard thresholding steps.
result The algorithm converges to near optimal statistical rate geometrically under certain conditions.

We study the problem of corrupted sensing, a generalization of compressed sensing in which one aims to recover a signal from a collection of corrupted or unreliable measurements. While an arbitrary signal cannot be recovered in the face of arbitrary corruption, tractable recovery is possible when both signal and corrup…

2013-05-11abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper tackles tensor completion from sparse corrupted data using convex optimization.

problem Estimating multidimensional arrays from a subset of corrupted entries.
method Solves a convex program that minimizes a weighted combination of tubal nuclear norm and 1\ell_1-norm.
result Exact recovery of incoherent tensors with overwhelming probability.

Robust testing of sparse signals in corrupted data.

problem Testing the norm of high-dimensional sparse signals in the presence of arbitrary corruption.
method Two observation models: i.i.d. samples from N(θ,Id)\mathcal{N}(θ, I_d) and sparse linear regression model.
result The robust testing requires significantly more samples than non-robust testing.

Conventional sampling techniques fall short of drawing descriptive sketches of the data when the data is grossly corrupted as such corruptions break the low rank structure required for them to perform satisfactorily. In this paper, we present new sampling algorithms which can locate the informative columns in presence …

2016-11-18abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper tackles robust MM-estimation for high-dimensional data with heavy tails or arbitrary corruption.

problem Sparsity-constrained MM-estimation with heavy-tailed or corrupted data.
method Defines Robust Descent Condition (RDC) and uses Robust Hard Thresholding (IHT) with gradient estimators.
result Robust Hard Thresholding is minimax optimal for kk-sparse high-dimensional linear and logistic regression with heavy tails or arbitrary corruption.

We consider the robust phase retrieval problem of recovering the unknown signal from the magnitude-only measurements, where the measurements can be contaminated by both sparse arbitrary corruption and bounded random noise. We propose a new nonconvex algorithm for robust phase retrieval, namely Robust Wirtinger Flow to …

2017-04-20abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper examines a general class of noisy matrix completion tasks where the goal is to estimate a matrix from observations obtained at a subset of its entries, each of which is subject to random noise or corruption. Our specific focus is on settings where the matrix to be estimated is well-approximated by a product …

2014-11-02abs ↗pdf ↗

We consider high dimensional sparse regression, and develop strategies able to deal with arbitrary -- possibly, severe or coordinated -- errors in the covariance matrix XX. These may come from corrupted data, persistent experimental errors, or malicious respondents in surveys/recommender systems, etc. Such non-stochas…

2013-01-12abs ↗pdf ↗

Improved data analysis with robust SPCA algorithm.

problem Identifying localized spatial structures and disambiguating time scales in low-rank data.
method Formulated as a value-function optimization problem, then extended with randomized linear algebra methods for scalability.
result Robust and efficient sparse principal components in corrupted data.

Efficiently recovers data corrupted by adversarial noise in structured settings.

problem Recovering clean data points from corrupted Gaussian data with low-rank noise and adversarial coordinate corruptions.
method Developed an efficient algorithm using a combinatorial approach to analyze Basis Pursuit (BP) method.
result Achieved nearly-optimal recovery of data points up to a ildeO(ks/d) ilde O(ks/d) error bound.

New algorithm improves PPS for multi-object matching.

problem Efficiently synchronize partial permutations for multi-object matching.
method Proposed CEMP-Partial algorithm for partial permutation synchronization (PPS). Uses sparse matrix operations and nonconvex weighted projected power method.
result Proves CEMP-Partial can exactly classify corrupted and clean partial permutations under adversarial corruption.

Gradient descent recovers low-rank matrices from corrupted measurements with double over-parameterization.

problem Robust recovery of low-rank matrices from grossly corrupted measurements.
method Gradient descent with discrepant learning rates for double over-parameterized models.
result Gradient descent with discrepant learning rates provably recovers the underlying matrix without prior knowledge on rank or sparsity.

New method for robust PCA with exponential family distributions.

problem Recovering low-rank structure from data matrices with outliers.
method Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers for eextRPCAe^{ ext{RPCA}}.
result Demonstrated effectiveness in steel sheet defect detection and crime activity monitoring.

New method decomposes corrupted data matrices into sparse and low-rank components.

problem Decomposing corrupted data matrices into sparse and low-rank components.
method Discrete optimization approach with alternating minimization, semidefinite relaxation, and branch-and-bound algorithm.
result High-quality solutions and meaningful bounds for SLR problems.

New algorithm defends against adversarial examples in image classification.

problem Defending against adversarial examples in image classification.
method Approximates Discrete Fourier transform of sparse signals corrupted by L0L_0 noise.
result Successfully defends against L0L_0 adversaries in image classification.

Class selectivity affects robustness to corruptions but not to adversarial attacks.

problem Understanding the relationship between class selectivity and robustness in neural networks.
method Investigated the impact of class selectivity on robustness to natural corruptions and adversarial attacks using Tiny ImageNetC and CIFAR10C datasets.
result Decreasing class selectivity increases robustness to both natural corruptions and adversarial attacks.

Study robust recovery of low-rank matrices from corrupted measurements without rank prior.

problem Robust recovery of low-rank matrices from corrupted Gaussian measurements with unknown rank.
method Subgradient method with diminishing stepsizes for nonconvex nonsmooth problem.
result Subgradient method converges to exact low-rank solution at sublinear rate under RDPP condition.

New method for robust regression with near-optimal performance even with high corruption rates.

problem Robust linear regression with response variable corruptions.
method Adaptive hard thresholding for consistent estimation.
result Near-optimal consistent estimation of the true regression vector with 1o(1)1-o(1) fraction of corruptions.

The performance of sparse signal recovery from noise corrupted, underdetermined measurements can be improved if both sparsity and correlation structure of signals are exploited. One typical correlation structure is the intra-block correlation in block sparse signals. To exploit this structure, a framework, called block…

2012-11-21abs ↗pdf ↗

New algorithms reduce communication for sparse mean estimation in noisy distributed systems.

problem Sparse normal means estimation with limited communication in a distributed setting.
method Two distributed algorithms for estimating a sparse mean vector with sublinear communication.
result Correct support of the sparse mean can be recovered with significantly less communication than previously required.

Proposes a method to handle sparse multiway count data with false zeros using zero-truncated Poisson regression.

problem Handling sparse multiway count data corrupted by false zeros.
method Zero-truncated Poisson regression with tensor completion.
result Accurate estimation of multiway count data from approximately IR2log22(I)IR^2\log_2^2(I) non-zero counts.

Kernel regression predicts graph signals in noisy environments.

problem Predicting smooth graph signals in the presence of sparse noise.
method Kernel regression with 1\ell_1-norm and 2\ell_2-norm optimization using IRLS.
result Efficacy demonstrated on real-world temperature data.

Novel algorithm for separating moving camera video into static and dynamic components.

problem Foreground-background separation in noisy, moving camera video.
method Augmented robust PCA with total variation regularization, OptShrink low-rank matrix estimator.
result Panoramic low-rank component spanning entire field of view, automatically stitching corrupted data.

This paper solves tensor robust principal component analysis via scaled gradient descent.

problem Extracting useful information from tensor data robust to corruptions and ill-conditioning.
method Directly recovers low-rank tensor factors via scaled gradient descent with adaptive thresholding.
result The proposed algorithm converges linearly to the true low-rank tensor at a constant rate independent of the condition number.

Robust estimators for Gaussian sparse tasks with optimal error under contamination.

problem Robust mean estimation, PCA, and linear regression in the presence of Huber contamination.
method Novel multidimensional filtering method for sparse regime.
result Optimal error guarantees within constant factors for Gaussian robust kk-sparse mean estimation.

A simple self-supervised model for tensor RPCA using deep unfolding.

problem Tensor robust principal component analysis (RPCA) challenges in practical applications.
method Deep unfolding with only four hyperparameters.
result Competitive or superior performance compared to supervised methods, even in data-starved scenarios.