Publications

Publications 2012

Publications reporting on research supported by this MURI

publications: links to publications resulting from this program.

2014

• S. Ahmad, and A. J. Yu, "A social aware Bayesian model for competitive foraging", Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society Conference, 2014. " .pdf

• J. Ash, E. Ertin, L. C. Potter, and E. Zelnio, "Wide-Angle Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging: Models and algorithms for anisotropic scattering" IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, vol. 31, no. 4, pp 16-26, 2014. .pdf

• R. Cabezas, O. Freifeld, G. Rosman, J. W. Fisher III, "Aerial reconstructions via probabilistic data fusion," IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference on Computer Vision, June 2014. .pdf

• L. Crider and D. Cochran, "Effects of network topology on the conditional distributions of surrogated generalized coherence estimates," Proceedings of the Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, November 2014 (to appear).

• J. Duchi, M. I. Jordan, and B. McMahan, "Estimation, optimization, and parallelism when data is sparse," (2014). In L. Bottou, C. Burges, Z. Ghahramani and M. Welling (Eds.), Advances in Neural Information Processing (NIPS) 26, Red Hook, NY: Curran Associates. .pdf

• J. Duchi, M. I. Jordan, and M. Wainwright, "Local privacy and minimax bounds: Sharp rates for probability estimation," (2014). In L. Bottou, C. Burges, Z. Ghahramani and M. Welling (Eds.), Advances in Neural Information Processing (NIPS) 26, Red Hook, NY: Curran Associates. .pdf

• J. C. Duchi, M. I. Jordan, M. J. Wainwright, and Y. Zhang, "Information-theoretic lower bounds for distributed statistical estimation with communication constraints," .pdf

• Z. Dzunic and J. Fisher III, "Bayesian switching interaction analysis under uncertainty," Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, pp. 220-228, 2014.

• E. Ertin, "Three dimensional imaging of vehicles from sparse apertures in urban environment," in Compressive Sensing for Urban Radars, M. Amin, ed., CRC Press, 2014.

• E. Ertin, "Information geometry of radar targets," Information Theory and Applications Workshop, San Diego, 2014.

• B. W. Hong and S. Soatto, "Shape Matching using Multiscale Integral Invariants," IEEE Transactions on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence, July 2014. .pdf
• S. D. Howard, W. Moran, and D. Cochran, "Intrinsic Fisher information on manifolds," Proceedings of the Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, November 2014 (to appear).

• S. D. Howard, D. Cochran, W. Moran, and F. Cohen, "Estimation and registration on graphs," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (in review).

• V. Karasev, A. Ravichandran, and S. Soatto, "Active Frame, Location, and Detector Selection for Automated and Manual Video Annotation," Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2014. pdf

• F. Lindsten, M. I. Jordan, and T. Schoen, "Particle Gibbs with ancestral sampling," Journal of Machine Learning Research, vol. 15, pp. 2145 - 2184, 2014. .pdf

• L. Mackey, M. I. Jordan, R. Chen, B. Farrell, and J. A. Tropp, "Matrix concentration inequalities via the method of exchangeable pairs," Annals of Probability, vol. 42, pp. 906 - 945, 2014. .pdf

• G. Marjanovic and A. O. Hero, "On lq Estimation of Sparse Inverse Covariance," Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), May 2014.

• Z. Meng, B. Erikson, A.O. Hero, "Learning Latent Variable Gaussian Graphical Models," Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), Beijing, July 2014. .pdf

• Z. Meng, D. Wei, A. Wiesel, and A.O. Hero, "Distributed Learning of Gaussian Graphical Models via Marginal Likelihoods," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (to appear). .pdf

• B. Moore, R. R.~Nadakuditi, and J. Fessler, "Improved robust PCA using low-rank denoising with optimal singular value shrinkage," Proceedings of the IEEE Statistical Signal Processing Workshop, July 2014. .pdf

• B. Mu, G. Chowdhary, and J. P. How, "Efficient distributed sensing using adaptive censoring-based inference," Automatica, vol. 50, no. 6, pp. 1590 - 1602, 2014.

• B. Mu and J. P. How, "Learning Sparse Gaussian Graphical Model with l0-regularization," Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 27 (in review).

• R. R. Nadakuditi, "OptShrink: An Algorithm for Improved Low-Rank Signal Matrix Denoising by Optimal, Data-Driven Singular Value Shrinkage," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 60, no. 5, pp. 3002 - 3018, May 2014.

• G. Newstadt, D. Wei and A. O. Hero, "Resource-Constrained Adaptive Search and Tracking for Sparse Dynamic Targets," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (in review). .pdf

• G. E. Newstadt, B. Mu, D. Wei, A. O. Hero, and J. P. How, "Mission-weighted adaptive search for multi-class targets," IEEE Transaction on Signal Processing, (in preparation).

• G. Papachristoudis and J. W. Fisher III, "Efficient information planning in Markov chains" (in review). .pdf

• G. Papachristoudis and J. W. Fisher III, "Incremental belief propagation in Markov random trees" (in review). .pdf

• N. Sugavanam and E. Ertin, "Compressive measurement designs for structured signals in signal dependent noise," IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (submitted).

• D. Teng and E. Ertin, "Optimal quantization of likelihood for sequential detection," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing(in review).

• T. Tsiligkaridis, B. M. Sadler, and A. O. Hero, "Collaborative 20 questions for localization," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. vol. 60, no. 4, pp 2233-2252, April 2014. .pdf

• T. Tsiligkaridis, B. M. Sadler and A. O. Hero III, "A collaborative 20 questions model for target search with human-machine interaction," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (in press) .pdf

• D. Wei and A. O. Hero, "Multistage adaptive estimation of sparse signals," IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing (in press). .pdf

• G. T. Whipps, E. Ertin and R. L. Moses, "A Consensus-based Decentralized EM for a Mixture of Factor Analyzers," IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing (to appear) September 2014.

• G. T. Whipps, E. Ertin and R. L. Moses, "Distributed detection of binary decisions with collisions in a large, random network," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing(in review).

• T. Xie, N. Nasrabadi and A.O. Hero, "Learning to classify with possible sensor failures," Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), May 2014.

• X. Zhang, R. R. Nadakuditi, and M. Newman, "Spectra of random graphs with community structure and arbitrary degrees," Physical Review E, vol. 89, no. 4, 042816, 2014. .pdf

• Y. Zhang, X. Chen, D. Zhou, and M. I. Jordan, "Spectral methods meet EM: A provably optimal algorithm for crowdsourcing," Neural Information Processing Systems (in review). http://arxiv.org/abs/1406.3824

• Y. Zhang, M. Wainwright, and M. I. Jordan, "Lower bounds on the performance of polynomial-time algorithms for sparse linear regression," Proceedings of the Annual Conference on Computational Learning Theory, 2014. http://arxiv.org/abs/1402.1918

2013

• S. Ahmad, H. Huang and A. J. Yu, "Context-sensitivity in human active sensing," Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 26. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2013. .pdf

• K. Beaudet and D. Cochran, "Multiple-channel detection in active sensing," Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, June 2013. .pdf

• K. Beaudet, L. Crider, and D. Cochran, "Detection in networked radar," Proc. SPIE 8746, Algorithms for Synthetic Aperture Radar Imagery XX, May 2013. .pdf

• V. Chandrasekaran and M. I. Jordan, "Computational and statistical tradeoffs via convex relaxation," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2013. .pdf

• D. Teng and E. Ertin, "Optimal quantization of likelihood for low complexity sequential testing," Proceedings of the IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing, December 2013..pdf

• J. Duchi, M. I. Jordan, M. Wainwright and A. Wibisono, "Finite sample convergence rates of zero-order stochastic optimization methods," (2013). In P. Bartlett, F. Pereira, L. Bottou, and C. Burges (Eds.), Advances in Neural Information Processing (NIPS) 25, Red Hook, NY: Curran Associates.

• J. Duchi, M. I. Jordan, and M. Wainwright, "Privacy aware learning," Proceedings of NIPS, 2013. .pdf

• J. Duchi, M. I. Jordan and M. Wainwright, "Local privacy and statistical minimax rates", 54th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS), 2013. .pdf

• J. Duchi, L. Mackey, and M. I. Jordan, "The asymptotics of ranking algorithms," Annals of Statistics (2013), 4, 2292-2323. .pdf

• E. Ertin, "Manifold learning methods for wide-angle SAR ATR," Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Radar, Sep 2013..pdf

• B. Farrell and R. Nadakuditi,"Local spectrum of truncations of Kronecker products of Haar distributed unitary matrices," [1]

• J. Gao and E. Ertin, "Contactless sensing of physiological signals using wideband RF probes," Proceedings of the 46th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, November 2013 .pdf

• M. I. Jordan, "On statistics, computation, and scalability," Bernoulli, 19, 1378-1390, (2013). .pdf

• A. Kleiner, A. Talwalkar, S. Agarwal, M. I. Jordan, and I. Stoica, "A general bootstrap performance diagnostic," Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKKD), Chicago 2013. .pdf

• A. Kleiner, A. Talwalkar, P. Sarkar, and M. I. Jordan, "A scalable bootstrap for massive data," Journal of the Royal Society, Series B (in press). .pdf

• F. Lindsten, M. I. Jordan, T. Schoen, "Bayesian semiparametric Wiener system identification", Automatica, 2013, 49, 2053-2063.

• Z. Meng, D. Wei, A. Wiesel, and A. Hero III, "Distributed learning of Gaussian graphical models via marginal likelihoods," Proceedings of AISTATS, 2013. (Received Notable Paper Award) .pdf

• Z. Meng, D. Wei, A, Wiesel A.O. Hero, "Marginal Likelihoods for Distributed Estimation of Graphical Model Parameters," Proceedings of IEEE CAMSAP 2013. (Received Best Student Paper Award) .pdf

• B. Mu, G. Chowdhary, and J. P. How, "Efficient distributed inference using adaptive censoring algorithms," Automatica (provisionally accepted).

• B. Mu, G. Chowdhary, and J. P. How, "Efficient distributed information fusion using adaptive decentralized censoring algorithms," Proceedings of the American Control Conference (ACC), Washington DC, July 2013.

• B. Mu, G. Chowdhary, and J. P. How, "Value-of-information aware active task assignment," Proceedings of the AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, Boston, August 2013.

• B. Mu, G. Chowdhary, and J. P. How, "Value-of-information aware active task assignment," Proceedings of SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing Symposium, Baltimore 2013.

• R. Nadakuditi, "OptShrink: An algorithm for improved low-rank signal matrix denoising by optimal, data-driven singular value shrinkage," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Accepted for publication [2]

• R. Nadakuditi, "When are the most informative components for inference also the principal components," [3]

• R. Nadakuditi and M. Newman, "Spectra of random graphs with arbitrary expected degrees," Phys. Rev. E 87, 012803 (2013), .html

• M. R. Riedl, L. C. Potter, and E. Ertin, "Augmenting synthetic aperture radar with space time adaptive processing," Proceedings of SPIE, vol. 8746, Baltimore, May 2013...pdf

• P. Shearer, A. Gilbert and A.O. Hero, "Correcting camera shake by incremental sparse approximation," Proceedings of IEEE ICIP 2013. (Best Paper Award) .pdf

• N. Sugavanam and E. Ertin, "Sensor selection and placement in adversarial environments," Proceedings of the IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing, December 2013..pdf

• T. Tsiligkaridis, B. Sadler, A.O. Hero, "Blind Collaborative 20 Questions for Target Localization," Proceedings of GlobalSIP 2013.

• T. Tsiligkaridis and A. O. Hero III, "Covariance estimation in high dimensions via Kronecker product expansions," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (in press). Available on arXiv 1302.2686 .html

• T. Tsiligkaridis and A. Hero, "Low separation rank covariance estimation using Kronecker product expansions," Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Istanbul, 2013. .pdf

• T. Tsiligkaridis and A. Hero, and S. Zhou, "On convergence of Kronecker graphical lasso algorithms," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing vol. 61, no. 9, pp. 1743--1755, 2013. Available as arXiv:1204.0585 .html

• T. Tsiligkaridis, B. Sadler, and A. Hero, "A collaborative 20 questions model for target search with human-machine interaction," Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, June 2013. .pdf

• T. Tsiligkaridis, B. M. Sadler and A. O. Hero III, "On decentralized estimation with active queries," available as arxiv:1312.7848 .pdf

• F. Wauthier, M. I. Jordan and N. Jojic, "Efficient ranking from pairwise comparisons", International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2013. .pdf

• D. Wei and A.O. Hero, "A Performance Guarantee for Adaptive Estimation of Sparse Signals," Proceedings of IEEE GlobalSIP 2013. .pdf

• D. Wei and A. O. Hero, "Adaptive spectrum sensing and estimation," Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) May 2013. .pdf

• G. Whipps, E. Ertin and R. Moses, "Distributed detection with collisions in a random, single-hop wireless sensor network," Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, June 2013. .pdf

• Y. Zeng, C. Wang, S. Soatto, and S.-T. Yau, "Nonlinearly constrained MRFs: Exploring the intrinsic dimensions of higher-order cliques," Proc. IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, June 2013. .pdf

• S. Zhang and A. J. Yu. "Forgetful Bayes and myopic planning: Human learning and decision-making in a bandit setting," Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 26. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2013. .pdf

2012

• D. Cochran, S. D. Howard, and B. Moran, "Operator-theoretic modeling and waveform design for radar in the presence of Doppler," in Proceedings of IEEE-AESS RadarCon, pp. 774-777, May 2012. .pdf

• D. Cochran, S.D. Howard, B. Moran, and H.A. Schmitt, “Maximum-entropy Surrogation in Network Signal Detection,” Proceedings of the IEEE Statistical Signal Processing Workshop, August 2012. .pdf

• J.C. Duchi, L. Mackey, and M.I. Jordan, "The asymptotics of ranking algorithms," Apr. 2012. .pdf

• E. Ertin, "Sensor selection in adversarial setting," Proceedings of the IEEE Statistical Signal Processing Workshop, August 2012. .pdf

• G. Georgiadis, A. Ayvaci, and S. Soatto, "Actionable saliency detection," in Proc. of the IEEE Intl. Conf. on Comp. Vis. and Patt. Recog., 2012. .pdf

• V. Karasev, A. Chiuso, and S. Soatto, "Controlled recognition bounds for visual learning and exploration," Proceedings of NIPS, December 2012..pdf

• A. Kleiner, A. Talwalkar, P. Sarkar, M. Jordan, "The Big Data Bootstrap," Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Machine Learning, Edinburgh, UK, 2012. .pdf

• Z. Meng, A. Wiesel, and A. O. Hero, "Distributed principal component analysis on networks via directed graphical models," IEEE ICASSP 2012. Author preprint .pdf

• T. Moldovan, P. Abbeel, "Safe Exploration in Markov Decision Processes," Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Machine Learning, Edinburgh, UK, 2012. .pdf

• B. Moran, S. D. Howard, and D. Cochran, ``An information-geometric approach to sensor scheduling” (Invited paper), Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, April 2012. .pdf

• W. Moran, S. D. Howard, D. Cochran, and S. Suvorova, "Sensor Management via Riemannian Geometry," Proceedings of the Fiftieth Annual Asilomar Conference on Communication, Control and Computing,, October 2012. .pdf

• B. Mu, G. Chowdhary, and J. P. How, "Efficient distributed information fusion using value of information based censoring," Aerospace control laboratory technical report, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, July 2012. .html.

• S. Olver and R. Nadakuditi, "Numerical computation of convolutions in free probability theory," Arxiv preprint arXiv:1203.1958, 2012. [4]

• G. Papachristoudis and J. W. Fisher III, "Theoretical guarantees on penalized information gathering," Proceedings of the IEEE Statistical Signal Processing Workshop, August 2012. .pdf

• A. Ravichandran and S. Soatto, "Modeling stationarity at multiple time-scales for applications in fire detection and traffic monitoring," Proc. of the Eur. Conf. on Comp. Vision, 2012. .pdf

• A. Ravichandran and C. Wang and S. Soatto, "SuperFloxels: A Mid-Level Representation for Video Sequences," Proc. of ARTEMIS, October 2012. .pdf

• C. Rossler, E. Ertin, and R. L. Moses, "Waveform diversity and optimal change detection," Proceedings of the 46th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Sysyems, and Computers, November 2012.

• T. Tsiligkardis and A.O. Hero, "Sparse covariance estimation under Kronecker product structure," Proc. IEEE ICASSP, March 2012. .pdf

• T. Tsiligkardis, A.O. Hero, and S. Zhou, "Convergence properties of Kronecker graphical lasso algorithms," Proceedings of the IEEE Statistical Signal Processing Workshop, Ann Arbor MI, August 2012..pdf

• L. Valente, R. Tsai, and S. Soatto, "Information gathering control via exploratory path planning," Proc. of the Conf. on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), March 2012. .pdf

• F. L. Wauthier and M. I. Jordan, "Bayesian bias mitigation for crowdsourcing," In P. Bartlett, F. Pereira, J. Shawe-Taylor and R. Zemel (Eds.), Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) 24, 2012..pdf

• D. Wei and A. Hero, "Multistage adaptive estimation of sparse signals," in Proceedings of the IEEE Statistical Signal Processing Workshop, Ann Arbor MI, August 2012. .pdf

• G. T. Whipps, E. Ertin, and R. L. Moses, “Threshold considerations in distributed detection in a network of sensors,” in Proceedings of SPIE Ground/Air Multisensor Interoperability, Integration, and Networking for Persistent ISR III, volume 8389, Baltimore, MD, May 2012. .pdf

• Z. Yi and S. Soatto, "Information Forests," Proc. ITA, Information Theory and Applications, Feb. 2012. Technical Report UCLA CSD 120002. .pdf

• Z. Zhang, S. Wang, D. Liu and M. I. Jordan, "EP-GIG priors and applications in Bayesian sparse learning," Journal of Machine Learning Research, 13, 2031-2061, 2012. .pdf