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Talks and Poster Presentations (with Proceedings-Entry):

A. Jung, Y. Eldar, N. Görtz:
"Performance Limits of Dictionary Learning for Sparse Coding";
Talk: European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Lissabon, Portugal; 09-01-2014 - 09-05-2014; in: "Proceedings of the European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO)", (2014), 765 - 769.



English abstract:
We consider the problem of dictionary learning under the assumption that the observed signals can be represented as sparse linear combinations of the columns of a single large dictionary matrix. In particular, we analyze the minimax risk of the dictionary learning problem which governs the mean squared error (MSE) performance of any learning scheme, regardless of its computational complexity. By following an established information-theoretic method based on Fano´s inequality, we derive a lower bound on the minimax risk for a given dictionary learning problem. This lower bound yields a characterization of the sample-complexity, i.e., a lower bound on the required number of observations such that con- sistent dictionary learning schemes exist. Our bounds may be compared with the performance of a given learning scheme, allowing to characterize how far the method is from optimal performance.

Keywords:
Dictionary Identification, Dictionary Learn- ing, Big Data, Minimax Risk, Fano Inequality


Electronic version of the publication:
http://publik.tuwien.ac.at/files/PubDat_231658.pdf


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