An introductory guide to Fano's inequality with applications in statistical estimation

J Scarlett, V Cevher - arxiv preprint arxiv:1901.00555, 2019 - arxiv.org
Information theory plays an indispensable role in the development of algorithm-independent
impossibility results, both for communication problems and for seemingly distinct areas such …

Combinatorial group testing and sparse recovery schemes with near-optimal decoding time

M Cheraghchi, V Nakos - 2020 IEEE 61st Annual Symposium …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the long-studied problem of combinatorial group testing, one is asked to detect a set of k
defective items out of a population of size n, using m≪ n disjunctive measurements. In the …

Sample efficient estimation and recovery in sparse FFT via isolation on average

M Kapralov - 2017 IEEE 58th Annual Symposium on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The problem of computing the Fourier Transform of a signal whose spectrum is dominated
by a small number k of frequencies quickly and using a small number of samples of the …

Dimension-independent sparse Fourier transform

M Kapralov, A Velingker, A Zandieh - … of the Thirtieth Annual ACM-SIAM …, 2019 - SIAM
Abstract The Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) is a fundamental computational primitive, and
the fastest known algorithm for computing the DFT is the FFT (Fast Fourier Transform) …

Stronger L2/L2 compressed sensing; without iterating

V Nakos, Z Song - Proceedings of the 51st Annual ACM SIGACT …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
We consider the extensively studied problem of ℓ2/ℓ2 compressed sensing. The main
contribution of our work is an improvement over [Gilbert, Li, Porat and Strauss, STOC 2010] …

A deterministic sparse FFT for functions with structured Fourier sparsity

S Bittens, R Zhang, MA Iwen - Advances in Computational Mathematics, 2019 - Springer
In this paper, a deterministic sparse Fourier transform algorithm is presented which breaks
the quadratic-in-sparsity runtime bottleneck for a large class of periodic functions exhibiting …

Fast band-limited sparse signal reconstruction algorithms for big data processing

L Wang, Q Wang, J Wang, X Zhang - IEEE Sensors Journal, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the increasing size of datasets in wideband spectrum sensing, high-resolution radar
imaging and high-definition multimedia, real-time computation, and sample storage have …

Fast splitting algorithms for sparsity-constrained and noisy group testing

E Price, J Scarlett, N Tan - … and Inference: A Journal of the IMA, 2023 - academic.oup.com
In group testing, the goal is to identify a subset of defective items within a larger set of items
based on tests whose outcomes indicate whether at least one defective item is present. This …

Super-resolution and robust sparse continuous fourier transform in any constant dimension: Nearly linear time and sample complexity

Y **, D Liu, Z Song - Proceedings of the 2023 Annual ACM-SIAM …, 2023 - SIAM
The ability to resolve detail in the object that is being imaged, named by resolution, is the
core parameter of an imaging system. Super-resolution is a class of techniques that can …

Computing the Discrete Fourier Transform of signals with spectral frequency support

PC Reddy, VSSP Tej, A Siripuram… - 2021 IEEE International …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We consider the problem of finding the Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) of N-length signals
with known frequency support of size k. When N is a power of 2 and the frequency support is …