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Stable Recovery Of Sparse Vectors From Random Sinusoidal Feature Maps
Random sinusoidal features are a popular approach for speeding up
kernel-based inference in large datasets. Prior to the inference stage, the
approach suggests performing dimensionality reduction by first multiplying each
data vector by a random Gaussian matrix, and then computing an element-wise
sinusoid. Theoretical analysis shows that collecting a sufficient number of
such features can be reliably used for subsequent inference in kernel
classification and regression.
In this work, we demonstrate that with a mild increase in the dimension of
the embedding, it is also possible to reconstruct the data vector from such
random sinusoidal features, provided that the underlying data is sparse enough.
In particular, we propose a numerically stable algorithm for reconstructing the
data vector given the nonlinear features, and analyze its sample complexity.
Our algorithm can be extended to other types of structured inverse problems,
such as demixing a pair of sparse (but incoherent) vectors. We support the
efficacy of our approach via numerical experiments
Conditioning of Random Block Subdictionaries with Applications to Block-Sparse Recovery and Regression
The linear model, in which a set of observations is assumed to be given by a
linear combination of columns of a matrix, has long been the mainstay of the
statistics and signal processing literature. One particular challenge for
inference under linear models is understanding the conditions on the dictionary
under which reliable inference is possible. This challenge has attracted
renewed attention in recent years since many modern inference problems deal
with the "underdetermined" setting, in which the number of observations is much
smaller than the number of columns in the dictionary. This paper makes several
contributions for this setting when the set of observations is given by a
linear combination of a small number of groups of columns of the dictionary,
termed the "block-sparse" case. First, it specifies conditions on the
dictionary under which most block subdictionaries are well conditioned. This
result is fundamentally different from prior work on block-sparse inference
because (i) it provides conditions that can be explicitly computed in
polynomial time, (ii) the given conditions translate into near-optimal scaling
of the number of columns of the block subdictionaries as a function of the
number of observations for a large class of dictionaries, and (iii) it suggests
that the spectral norm and the quadratic-mean block coherence of the dictionary
(rather than the worst-case coherences) fundamentally limit the scaling of
dimensions of the well-conditioned block subdictionaries. Second, this paper
investigates the problems of block-sparse recovery and block-sparse regression
in underdetermined settings. Near-optimal block-sparse recovery and regression
are possible for certain dictionaries as long as the dictionary satisfies
easily computable conditions and the coefficients describing the linear
combination of groups of columns can be modeled through a mild statistical
prior.Comment: 39 pages, 3 figures. A revised and expanded version of the paper
published in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (DOI:
10.1109/TIT.2015.2429632); this revision includes corrections in the proofs
of some of the result
Off-grid Direction of Arrival Estimation Using Sparse Bayesian Inference
Direction of arrival (DOA) estimation is a classical problem in signal
processing with many practical applications. Its research has recently been
advanced owing to the development of methods based on sparse signal
reconstruction. While these methods have shown advantages over conventional
ones, there are still difficulties in practical situations where true DOAs are
not on the discretized sampling grid. To deal with such an off-grid DOA
estimation problem, this paper studies an off-grid model that takes into
account effects of the off-grid DOAs and has a smaller modeling error. An
iterative algorithm is developed based on the off-grid model from a Bayesian
perspective while joint sparsity among different snapshots is exploited by
assuming a Laplace prior for signals at all snapshots. The new approach applies
to both single snapshot and multi-snapshot cases. Numerical simulations show
that the proposed algorithm has improved accuracy in terms of mean squared
estimation error. The algorithm can maintain high estimation accuracy even
under a very coarse sampling grid.Comment: To appear in the IEEE Trans. Signal Processing. This is a revised,
shortened version of version
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