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48 results for sparse measurements

This paper establishes conditions for sparse signal recovery with sparse measurements.

problem Recovering the support of a sparse signal using noisy projections with sparse measurement matrices.
method Establishes sufficient conditions for successful sparse recovery using sparse measurement matrices.
result A phase transition threshold for sparse recovery in the sparse setting is discovered, revealing a trade-off between sampling complexity and measurement sparsity.

New measure SEV shows non-sparse models can still have low decision sparsity.

problem Non-sparse models can still make accurate decisions based on a few features.
method Introduced Sparse Explanation Value (SEV) to measure decision sparsity, not overall model sparsity.
result Many non-sparse models have low decision sparsity, as measured by SEV.

Method generates dense fields from sparse measurements without needing spatial statistics or examples.

problem Generating dense physical fields from sparse measurements.
method Introduces a differentiable numerical simulator into neural network training.
result Superior results on fluid mechanics problems compared to statistical and neural network methods.

Paper develops a decoder for sparse codes without encoder matrix, achieving optimal recovery.

problem Designing a decoder for sparse codes from linear measurements alone.
method Matrix factorization to recover encoder and sparse coding matrices from measurements.
result Decoder-Expander Based Factorisation recovers encoder and sparse coding matrix at optimal measurement rate with high probability.

Many signal processing and machine learning methods share essentially the same linear-in-the-parameter model, with as many parameters as available samples as in kernel-based machines. Sparse approximation is essential in many disciplines, with new challenges emerging in online learning with kernels. To this end, severa…

2014-09-21abs ↗pdf ↗

Study on recovering supports of multiple sparse vectors from mixed linear measurements.

problem Recovering supports of multiple sparse vectors from a mixture of linear measurements.
method Developed algorithms to identify the support of all component vectors using polynomial and quasi-polynomial number of measurements.
result Polynomial and quasi-polynomial number of measurements sufficient for recovering the supports of all component vectors.

Continuous-time mirror descent solves sparse phase retrieval efficiently.

problem Recovering sparse signals from magnitude-only measurements.
method Continuous-time mirror descent applied to unconstrained empirical risk minimization problem.
result Mirror descent recovers kk-sparse vectors with minimum non-zero entry order of x2/k\| \mathbf{x}^\star \|_2/\sqrt{k} from k2k^2 Gaussian measurements.

New techniques improve the accuracy of identifying nonlinear systems from noisy data.

problem Identifying nonlinear dynamical systems from noisy state measurements.
method Comparative study of local and global smoothing techniques to denoise state measurements and improve sparse regression methods.
result Global smoothing methods outperform local methods in improving the accuracy of governing equation recovery.

Regular variation provides a convenient theoretical framework to study large events. In the multivariate setting, the dependence structure of the positive extremes is characterized by a measure - the spectral measure - defined on the positive orthant of the unit sphere. This measure gathers information on the localizat…

2019-07-01abs ↗pdf ↗

A new algorithm solves sparse optimization problems on measures efficiently.

problem Sparse optimization problems on measures.
method Over-parameterized Stochastic Gradient Descent with Random Features.
result Global convergence with rate O(log(K)/K)O(\log(K)/\sqrt{K}) and bounded total variation norms.

New algorithm recovers sparse binary vectors from generalized linear measurements efficiently.

problem Recovering sparse binary vectors from generalized linear measurements.
method Linear estimation algorithm and information theoretic lower bounds.
result Optimal sample complexity of O((k+σ2)logn)O((k+σ^2)\log{n}) for noisy one bit quantized linear measurements.

The paper studies PCA of probability measures with varying sample sizes and finds optimal convergence rates.

problem PCA of multiple probability measures with varying sample sizes.
method Double asymptotic regime analysis with convergence rates n1/2+mαn^{-1/2} + m^{-α} for empirical covariance and PCA risk.
result Optimal convergence rates for empirical covariance and PCA risk in the dense regime are proven.

Paper introduces ENZ to measure significant coefficients in sparse recovery, improving over classical methods.

problem Numerical noise creates long tails of negligible coefficients in sparse recovery.
method Entropy-based notion of effective sparsity (ENZ) to measure significant coefficients, proving stability under restricted isometry condition.
result ENZ decomposes into support cardinality and efficiency factor, providing a precise measure of sparsity.

In compressed sensing, we wish to reconstruct a sparse signal xx from observed data yy. In sparse coding, on the other hand, we wish to find a representation of an observed signal yy as a sparse linear combination, with coefficients xx, of elements from an overcomplete dictionary. While many algorithms are competit…

2013-10-31abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper uses TDA to select stocks for a sparse portfolio, improving performance across market scenarios.

problem Sparse portfolio selection in financial markets.
method Topological data analysis (TDA) for clustering stock price movements.
result The TDA-based clustering strategy significantly enhances sparse portfolio performance.

Blind source separation (BSS) aims at recovering signals from mixtures. This problem has been extensively studied in cases where the mixtures are contaminated with additive Gaussian noise. However, it is not well suited to describe data that are corrupted with Poisson measurements such as in low photon count optics or …

2018-12-11abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper advances sparse regularisation theory for measures with new kernel insights.

problem Estimating sparse measures from noisy observations using continuous sparse regularisation.
method Develops new continuous sparse regularisation theory on measures with Beurling-LASSO, introduces kernel switch analysis.
result Proves the ``sinc-4'' kernel satisfies a technical LPC assumption for error bounds.

We present an information-theoretic framework for sequential adaptive compressed sensing, Info-Greedy Sensing, where measurements are chosen to maximize the extracted information conditioned on the previous measurements. We show that the widely used bisection approach is Info-Greedy for a family of kk-sparse signals b…

2014-07-02abs ↗pdf ↗

The MIT/IEEE/Amazon GraphChallenge.org encourages community approaches to developing new solutions for analyzing graphs and sparse data. Sparse AI analytics present unique scalability difficulties. The proposed Sparse Deep Neural Network (DNN) Challenge draws upon prior challenges from machine learning, high performanc…

2019-09-02abs ↗pdf ↗

Classical signal recovery based on 1\ell_1 minimization solves the least squares problem with all available measurements via sparsity-promoting regularization. In practice, it is often the case that not all measurements are available or required for recovery. Measurements might be corrupted/missing or they arrive sequ…

2018-10-08abs ↗pdf ↗

New guarantees for recovering matrices as low-rank plus sparse from fewer measurements.

problem Recovering matrices as the sum of a low-rank and sparse matrix from a limited number of measurements.
method Developed guarantees for recovery of low-rank plus sparse matrices from O(r(m+nr)+s)log(mn/s)\mathcal{O}(r(m+n-r)+s)\log(mn/s) measurements, using semidefinite programming and gradient descent algorithms.
result Guarantees for recovery of low-rank plus sparse matrices from fewer measurements than previously possible.

In this paper, we present an algorithm for the sparse signal recovery problem that incorporates damped Gaussian generalized approximate message passing (GGAMP) into Expectation-Maximization (EM)-based sparse Bayesian learning (SBL). In particular, GGAMP is used to implement the E-step in SBL in place of matrix inversio…

2017-03-08abs ↗pdf ↗

We consider the classical sparse regression problem of recovering a sparse signal x0x_0 given a measurement vector y=Φx0+wy = Φx_0+w. We propose a tree search algorithm driven by the deep neural network for sparse regression (TSN). TSN improves the signal reconstruction performance of the deep neural network designed for sp…

2019-04-01abs ↗pdf ↗

Consider the recovery of an unknown signal x{x} from quantized linear measurements. In the one-bit compressive sensing setting, one typically assumes that x{x} is sparse, and that the measurements are of the form sign(ai,x){±1}\operatorname{sign}(\langle {a}_i, {x} \rangle) \in \{\pm1\}. Since such measurements give no informati…

2014-04-28abs ↗pdf ↗

We consider the scenario where one observes an outcome variable and sets of features from multiple assays, all measured on the same set of samples. One approach that has been proposed for dealing with this type of data is ``sparse multiple canonical correlation analysis'' (sparse mCCA). All of the current sparse mCCA t…

2014-01-22abs ↗pdf ↗