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Verifiable conditions of -recovery of sparse signals with sign restrictions
We propose necessary and sufficient conditions for a sensing matrix to be
"s-semigood" -- to allow for exact -recovery of sparse signals with at
most nonzero entries under sign restrictions on part of the entries. We
express the error bounds for imperfect -recovery in terms of the
characteristics underlying these conditions. Furthermore, we demonstrate that
these characteristics, although difficult to evaluate, lead to verifiable
sufficient conditions for exact sparse -recovery and to efficiently
computable upper bounds on those for which a given sensing matrix is
-semigood. We concentrate on the properties of proposed verifiable
sufficient conditions of -semigoodness and describe their limits of
performance
Spin-lattice interactions of ions with unfilled F-shells measured by ESR in uniaxially stressed crystals
Spin-lattice interactions of ions with unfilled F-shells measured by electron spin resonance in uniaxially stressed crystal
Direct one-phonon spin-lattice relaxation times for Nd sup 3 plus and U sup 3 plus ions in CaF sub 2 in sites of tetragonal symmetry
Phonon spin-lattice relaxation times for uranium and neodymium ions in calcium fluorid
On the irreversibility of entanglement distillation
We investigate the irreversibility of entanglement distillation for a
symmetric d-1 parameter family of mixed bipartite quantum states acting on
Hilbert spaces of arbitrary dimension d x d. We prove that in this family the
entanglement cost is generically strictly larger than the distillable
entanglement, such that the set of states for which the distillation process is
asymptotically reversible is of measure zero. This remains true even if the
distillation process is catalytically assisted by pure state entanglement and
every operation is allowed, which preserves the positivity of the partial
transpose. It is shown, that reversibility occurs only in cases where the state
is quasi-pure in the sense that all its pure state entanglement can be revealed
by a simple operation on a single copy. The reversible cases are shown to be
completely characterized by minimal uncertainty vectors for entropic
uncertainty relations.Comment: 5 pages, revtex
Spin-lattice Interaction in Ruby Measured by ESR in Uniaxially Stressed Crystals
Spin-lattice Hamiltonian determined for chromium ions in ruby single crystal
Blind Deconvolution of Ultrasonic Signals Using High-Order Spectral Analysis and Wavelets
Defect detection by ultrasonic method is limited by the pulse width.
Resolution can be improved through a deconvolution process with a priori
information of the pulse or by its estimation. In this paper a regularization
of the Wiener filter using wavelet shrinkage is presented for the estimation of
the reflectivity function. The final result shows an improved signal to noise
ratio with better axial resolution.Comment: 8 pages, CIARP 2005, LNCS 377
Studies in Astronomical Time Series Analysis. VI. Bayesian Block Representations
This paper addresses the problem of detecting and characterizing local
variability in time series and other forms of sequential data. The goal is to
identify and characterize statistically significant variations, at the same
time suppressing the inevitable corrupting observational errors. We present a
simple nonparametric modeling technique and an algorithm implementing it - an
improved and generalized version of Bayesian Blocks (Scargle 1998) - that finds
the optimal segmentation of the data in the observation interval. The structure
of the algorithm allows it to be used in either a real-time trigger mode, or a
retrospective mode. Maximum likelihood or marginal posterior functions to
measure model fitness are presented for events, binned counts, and measurements
at arbitrary times with known error distributions. Problems addressed include
those connected with data gaps, variable exposure, extension to piecewise
linear and piecewise exponential representations, multi-variate time series
data, analysis of variance, data on the circle, other data modes, and dispersed
data. Simulations provide evidence that the detection efficiency for weak
signals is close to a theoretical asymptotic limit derived by (Arias-Castro,
Donoho and Huo 2003). In the spirit of Reproducible Research (Donoho et al.
2008) all of the code and data necessary to reproduce all of the figures in
this paper are included as auxiliary material.Comment: Added some missing script files and updated other ancillary data
(code and data files). To be submitted to the Astophysical Journa
Estimating point-to-point and point-to-multipoint traffic matrices: An information-theoretic approach
© 2005 IEEE.Traffic matrices are required inputs for many IP network management tasks, such as capacity planning, traffic engineering, and network reliability analysis. However, it is difficult to measure these matrices directly in large operational IP networks, so there has been recent interest in inferring traffic matrices from link measurements and other more easily measured data. Typically, this inference problem is ill-posed, as it involves significantly more unknowns than data. Experience in many scientific and engineering fields has shown that it is essential to approach such ill-posed problems via "regularization". This paper presents a new approach to traffic matrix estimation using a regularization based on "entropy penalization". Our solution chooses the traffic matrix consistent with the measured data that is information-theoretically closest to a model in which source/destination pairs are stochastically independent. It applies to both point-to-point and point-to-multipoint traffic matrix estimation. We use fast algorithms based on modern convex optimization theory to solve for our traffic matrices. We evaluate our algorithm with real backbone traffic and routing data, and demonstrate that it is fast, accurate, robust, and flexible.Yin Zhang, Member, Matthew Roughan, Carsten Lund, and David L. Donoh
On Verifiable Sufficient Conditions for Sparse Signal Recovery via Minimization
We propose novel necessary and sufficient conditions for a sensing matrix to
be "-good" - to allow for exact -recovery of sparse signals with
nonzero entries when no measurement noise is present. Then we express the error
bounds for imperfect -recovery (nonzero measurement noise, nearly
-sparse signal, near-optimal solution of the optimization problem yielding
the -recovery) in terms of the characteristics underlying these
conditions. Further, we demonstrate (and this is the principal result of the
paper) that these characteristics, although difficult to evaluate, lead to
verifiable sufficient conditions for exact sparse -recovery and to
efficiently computable upper bounds on those for which a given sensing
matrix is -good. We establish also instructive links between our approach
and the basic concepts of the Compressed Sensing theory, like Restricted
Isometry or Restricted Eigenvalue properties
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