Title :

An extension of the angular synchronization problem to the heterogeneous setting

Author(s) :

Cucuringu, Mihai [Auteur]
Department of Statistics [Oxford]
Tyagi, Hemant [Auteur]
MOdel for Data Analysis and Learning [MODAL]

Journal title :

Foundations of Data Science

Publisher :

American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

Publication date :

2022

English keyword(s) :

group synchronization
spectral algorithms
matrix perturbation theory
singular value decomposition
random matrix theory

HAL domain(s) :

Mathématiques [math]/Statistiques [math.ST]

English abstract : [en]

Given an undirected measurement graph G = ([n], E), the classical angular synchronization problem consists of recovering unknown angles θ1,. .. , θn from a collection of noisy pairwise measurements of the form (θi − θj) ...
Show more >Given an undirected measurement graph G = ([n], E), the classical angular synchronization problem consists of recovering unknown angles θ1,. .. , θn from a collection of noisy pairwise measurements of the form (θi − θj) mod 2π, for each {i, j} ∈ E. This problem arises in a variety of applications, including computer vision, time synchronization of distributed networks, and ranking from preference relationships. In this paper, we consider a generalization to the setting where there exist k unknown groups of angles θ_{l,1} ,. .. , θ_{l,n} , for l = 1,. .. , k. For each {i, j} ∈ E, we are given noisy pairwise measurements of the form θ ,i − θ ,j for an unknown ∈ {1, 2,. .. , k}. This can be thought of as a natural extension of the angular synchronization problem to the heterogeneous setting of multiple groups of angles, where the measurement graph has an unknown edge-disjoint decomposition G = G1 ∪ G2. .. ∪ G k , where the Gi's denote the subgraphs of edges corresponding to each group. We propose a probabilistic generative model for this problem, along with a spectral algorithm for which we provide a detailed theoretical analysis in terms of robustness against both sampling sparsity and noise. The theoretical findings are complemented by a comprehensive set of numerical experiments, showcasing the efficacy of our algorithm under various parameter regimes. Finally, we consider an application of bi-synchronization to the graph realization problem, and provide along the way an iterative graph disentangling procedure that uncovers the subgraphs Gi, i = 1,. .. , k which is of independent interest, as it is shown to improve the final recovery accuracy across all the experiments considered.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Popular science :

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