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48 results for signal distribution

New framework models graph signals as distribution-valued signals in Wasserstein space.

problem Limitations of classical vector-based GSP, including synchronous observations and uncertainty.
method Introduces graph distribution-valued signals (GDSs) in the Wasserstein space.
result GDSs naturally encode uncertainty and stochasticity, generalizing traditional graph signals.

New algorithms improve signal processing in federated learning.

problem Efficiently process distributed signal samples with privacy and communication constraints.
method Proposes overpredictive signal approximations using convex optimization.
result Quantifies tradeoffs between communication cost, sampling rate, and approximation error.

Paper studies signal detection in noisy environments with limited communication.

problem Signal detection in Gaussian noise with 1-bit communication constraints.
method Derives lower bounds and exhibits optimal testing strategies.
result Optimal distributed testing strategies attain the derived lower bound.

The aim of this paper is to propose distributed strategies for adaptive learning of signals defined over graphs. Assuming the graph signal to be bandlimited, the method enables distributed reconstruction, with guaranteed performance in terms of mean-square error, and tracking from a limited number of sampled observatio…

2016-09-20abs ↗pdf ↗

Posterior sampling estimator achieves near-optimal recovery guarantees for signals from any prior distribution.

problem Characterizing measurement complexity for signals from any prior distribution, including the entire space.
method Characterization of measurement complexity using posterior sampling estimator for Gaussian measurements and any prior distribution.
result Posterior sampling estimator achieves near-optimal recovery guarantees for signals from any prior distribution, robust to model mismatch.

Proposes a new complex Gaussian distribution for better modeling of complex-valued signals.

problem Limited ability of Gaussian distribution to represent diverse amplitude characteristics.
method Introduces a power-weighted noncentral complex Gaussian distribution on the complex plane.
result Consistently outperforms conventional distributions in log-likelihood for speech power spectra.

Study on optimal information acquisition in Kyle model with entropy cost.

problem Optimal information acquisition in Kyle model with entropy cost.
method Continuous signals are optimal, and any signal with a logit posterior distribution yields the same ex-ante value.
result Posterior expected payoff becomes normally distributed as information acquisition cost increases.

Study detects signal in financial stock correlations using phase-ordering kinetics.

problem Detecting meaningful signals in financial stock return correlations.
method Stochastic field theory model to establish a detection threshold.
result Detection of a signal in the largest eigenvalues of the stock return correlation matrix.

Separating mixed distributions is a long standing challenge for machine learning and signal processing. Most current methods either rely on making strong assumptions on the source distributions or rely on having training samples of each source in the mixture. In this work, we introduce a new method---Neural Egg Separat…

2018-11-30abs ↗pdf ↗

New denoisers improve signal recovery from noisy data without knowing noise distribution.

problem Denoising signals when only noise level is known, not distribution.
method Universal denoisers that shrink PYP_Y toward PXP_X with higher-order accuracy.
result Achieves O(σ4)O(σ^4) and O(σ6)O(σ^6) accuracy in matching generalized moments and densities.

Autoencoder estimates parameters of noisy, multi-component damped signals.

problem Parameter estimation of damped sinusoidal signals under rapid decay and noise.
method Autoencoder-based approach using latent space for frequency, phase, decay, and amplitude estimation.
result High accuracy in parameter estimation, robustness to subdominant components and phase differences.

This research improves asset life prediction by integrating deep learning with mixture distributions.

problem Predicting residual useful life for assets with multiple failure modes.
method Integrates mixture (log)-location-scale distribution with deep learning.
result Proposed models outperform existing methods in predicting residual useful life.

Paper explores Elliptical Wishart distributions in signal processing and machine learning.

problem Estimating parameters of Elliptical Wishart distributions.
method Proposes fixed point and Riemannian optimization algorithms for maximum likelihood estimation.
result Characterizes existence, uniqueness, and convergence of the MLE.

Paper proposes a statistical model for detecting mu-suppression in EEG signals.

problem Detecting mu-suppression in motor imagery EEG signals.
method Proposes a statistical model based on the generalized extreme value distribution (GEV) and a linear classifier.
result Preliminary results show good classification accuracy in detecting mu-suppression and distinguishing EEG events.

In many signal processing problems, it may be fruitful to represent the signal under study in a frame. If a probabilistic approach is adopted, it becomes then necessary to estimate the hyper-parameters characterizing the probability distribution of the frame coefficients. This problem is difficult since in general the …

2009-11-15abs ↗pdf ↗

Modeling trading behavior with information signals and limit order books, showing market impact and equilibrium properties.

problem Analyzing the impact of information signals on trading behavior and market equilibrium in limit order books.
method Static equilibrium model with profit-maximizing investors and competitive dealers, using iterative algorithms and asymptotic analysis.
result The market impact of large trades follows a power law with fat tails and a logarithmic law with lighter tails, and the order book flattens as noise trading increases.

A new distance metric derived from information theory and estimation theory.

problem Developing a robust distance metric for complex signal distributions.
method Information-Estimation Metric (IEM) derived from continuous probability density and denoising errors.
result The IEM is a valid global distance metric that adapts to the geometry of complex distributions.

Bayesian priors improve neural network performance on weak signals.

problem Challenges in encoding domain knowledge for weak signals in neural networks.
method Proposed a new joint prior over local scale parameters for feature sparsity and signal-to-noise ratio, optimized with Stein gradient.
result Improved prediction accuracy on various datasets, including genetics applications with weak and sparse signals.

The presence of noise is common in signal processing regardless the signal type. Deep neural networks have shown good performance in noise removal, especially on the image domain. In this work, we consider deep neural networks as a denoising tool where our focus is on one dimensional signals. We introduce an encoder-de…

2018-12-20abs ↗pdf ↗

Non-linear image reconstruction and signal analysis deal with complex inverse problems. To tackle such problems in a systematic way, I present information field theory (IFT) as a means of Bayesian, data based inference on spatially distributed signal fields. IFT is a statistical field theory, which permits the construc…

2013-01-11abs ↗pdf ↗

Investigation of human brain states through electroencephalograph (EEG) signals is a crucial step in human-machine communications. However, classifying and analyzing EEG signals are challenging due to their noisy, nonlinear and nonstationary nature. Current methodologies for analyzing these signals often fall short bec…

2019-12-18abs ↗pdf ↗

Study reveals how attention helps in signal recovery from sequence models using random matrix theory.

problem Signal recovery from sequence models with attention mechanisms.
method Analysis of sample covariance matrices constructed from pooled sequence representations with attention weights.
result Optimal attention weights maximize signal-to-noise ratio and improve signal recovery.

This paper presents a novel Block Iterative Bayesian Algorithm (Block-IBA) for reconstructing block-sparse signals with unknown block structures. Unlike the existing algorithms for block sparse signal recovery which assume the cluster structure of the nonzero elements of the unknown signal to be independent and identic…

2014-12-07abs ↗pdf ↗

Combines neural networks with splitting-up method for filtering equations.

problem Approximating the solution of filtering equations for signal processes.
method Combines splitting-up method with neural networks.
result Produces an approximation of the unnormalised conditional distribution.

PolarBM models complex-valued audio signals in polar coordinates, improving over conventional methods.

problem Discarding structural information in complex-valued problems simplifies models but loses important amplitude-phase relationships.
method Proposes PolarBM, a novel Boltzmann machine for complex-valued variables in polar coordinates, and LogPolarBM for logarithmic amplitude.
result PolarBM and LogPolarBM achieve superior modeling accuracy compared to conventional models, including deep neural networks.

Spectral estimation (SE) aims to identify how the energy of a signal (e.g., a time series) is distributed across different frequencies. This can become particularly challenging when only partial and noisy observations of the signal are available, where current methods fail to handle uncertainty appropriately. In this c…

2018-09-06abs ↗pdf ↗

The signal-noise ratio of a portfolio of p assets, its expected return divided by its risk, is couched as an estimation problem on the sphere. When the portfolio is built using noisy data, the expected value of the signal-noise ratio is bounded from above via a Cramer-Rao bound, for the case of Gaussian returns. The bo…

2014-09-21abs ↗pdf ↗

Distributed-OMP recovers sparse vectors with low communication costs.

problem High-dimensional sparse linear regression with limited computation and communication.
method Distributed orthogonal matching pursuit (OMP) scheme.
result Support of the regression vector can be recovered with linear communication per machine and logarithmic in dimension.

Self-supervised method predicts clean signal and noise distribution from noisy images.

problem Blind denoising and noise estimation in biomedical images with limited clean data.
method Two neural networks jointly predict clean signal and noise distribution from noisy observations.
result Significantly outperforms state-of-the-art algorithms on six biomedical image datasets.

New lower bounds show sparse recovery is hard even with multiple preconditioners.

problem Sparse recovery with ill-conditioned designs is hard for certain algorithms.
method Constructing a single signal distribution that multiple preconditioned Lasso programs fail on.
result Standard sparse random designs are robust to erasures, aiding sparse recovery.