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Publications (38)

math.FA2018

A duality principle for groups II: Multi-frames meet super-frames

Radu Balan, Dorin Ervin Dutkay, Deguang Han +2

The duality principle for group representations developed in \cite{DHL-JFA, HL_BLM} exhibits a fact that the well-known duality principle in Gabor analysis is not an isolated incid…

math.FA2009

Redundancy for localized and Gabor frames

Radu Balan, Pete Casazza, Zeph Landau

Redundancy is the qualitative property which makes Hilbert space frames so useful in practice. However, developing a meaningful quantitative notion of redundancy for infinite frame…

math.FA2013

Multi-window Gabor frames in amalgam spaces

Radu Balan, Jens G. Christensen, Ilya A. Krishtal +2

We show that multi-window Gabor frames with windows in the Wiener algebra are Banach frames for all Wiener amalgam spaces. As a byproduct of our results w…

math.FA2023

Relationships between the Phase Retrieval Problem and Permutation Invariant Embeddings

Radu Balan, Efstratios Tsoukanis

This paper discusses the connection between the phase retrieval problem and permutation invariant embeddings. We show that the real phase retrieval problem for

math.NA2024

Approximation of the Proximal Operator of the Norm Using a Neural Network

Kathryn Linehan, Radu Balan

Computing the proximal operator of the norm, , generally requires a sort of the input data, or at least a partial sort…

math.FA2020

Optimal l-one Rank One Matrix Decompositions

Radu Balan, Kasso A. Okoudjou, Michael Rawson +2

In this paper we consider the decomposition of positive semidefinite matrices as a sum of rank one matrices. We introduce and investigate the properties of various measures of opti…

math.FA2004

On signal reconstruction without noisy phase

Radu Balan, Pete Casazza, Dan Edidin

We construct new classes of Parseval frames for a Hilbert space which allow signal reconstruction from the absolute value of the frame coefficients. As a consequence, signal recons…

math.FA2006

Measure Functions for Frames

Radu Balan, Zeph Landau

This paper addresses the natural question: ``How should frames be compared?'' We answer this question by quantifying the overcompleteness of all frames with the same index set. We…

cs.IT2026

Robust Uniform Recovery of Structured Signals from Nonlinear Observations

Pedro Abdalla, Radu Balan, Junren Chen

While it is well known that the restricted isometry property (RIP) guarantees uniform sparse recovery from noisy linear measurements, uniform recovery of structured signals from no…

eess.SP2018

Learning flexible representations of stochastic processes on graphs

Addison Bohannon, Brian Sadler, Radu Balan

Graph convolutional networks adapt the architecture of convolutional neural networks to learn rich representations of data supported on arbitrary graphs by replacing the convolutio…

math.FA2012

Reconstruction of Signals from Magnitudes of Redundant Representations

Radu Balan

This paper is concerned with the question of reconstructing a vector in a finite-dimensional real or complex Hilbert space when only the magnitudes of the coefficients of the vecto…

cs.LG2022

Convergence Guarantees for Deep Epsilon Greedy Policy Learning

Michael Rawson, Radu Balan

Policy learning is a quickly growing area. As robotics and computers control day-to-day life, their error rate needs to be minimized and controlled. There are many policy learning…

quant-ph2021

Lipschitz Analysis of Generalized Phase Retrievable Matrix Frames

Radu Balan, Chris B. Dock

The classical phase retrieval problem arises in contexts ranging from speech recognition to x-ray crystallography and quantum state tomography. The generalization to matrix frames…

cs.LG2017

Lipschitz Properties for Deep Convolutional Networks

Radu Balan, Maneesh Singh, Dongmian Zou

In this paper we discuss the stability properties of convolutional neural networks. Convolutional neural networks are widely used in machine learning. In classification they are ma…

math.FA2015

Reconstruction of Signals from Magnitudes of Redundant Representations: The Complex Case

Radu Balan

This paper is concerned with the question of reconstructing a vector in a finite-dimensional complex Hilbert space when only the magnitudes of the coefficients of the vector under…

math.FA2013

Invertibility and Robustness of Phaseless Reconstruction

Radu Balan, Yang Wang

This paper is concerned with the question of reconstructing a vector in a finite-dimensional real Hilbert space when only the magnitudes of the coefficients of the vector under a r…

math.FA2022

Permutation Invariant Representations with Applications to Graph Deep Learning

Radu Balan, Naveed Haghani, Maneesh Singh

This paper presents primarily two Euclidean embeddings of the quotient space generated by matrices that are identified modulo arbitrary row permutations. The original application i…

math.RT2025

G-Invariant Representations using Coorbits: Bi-Lipschitz Properties

Radu Balan, Efstratios Tsoukanis

Consider a finite dimensional real vector space and a finite group acting unitarily on it. We study the general problem of constructing Euclidean stable embeddings of the quotient…

math.FA2016

Frames and Phaseless Reconstruction

Radu Balan

Frame design for phaseless reconstruction is now part of the broader problem of nonlinear reconstruction and is an emerging topic in harmonic analysis. The problem of phaseless rec…

math.FA2014

Phase Retrieval using Lipschitz Continuous Maps

Radu Balan, Dongmian Zou

In this note we prove that reconstruction from magnitudes of frame coefficients (the so called "phase retrieval problem") can be performed using Lipschitz continuous maps. Specific…

math.NA2025

CUR Matrix Approximation through Convex Optimization for Feature Selection

Kathryn Linehan, Radu Balan

The singular value decomposition (SVD) is commonly used in applications requiring a low rank matrix approximation. However, the singular vectors cannot be interpreted in terms of t…

math.FA2005

A Noncommutative Wiener Lemma and A Faithful Tracial State on Banach Algebras of Time-Frequency Shift Operators

Radu Balan

In this paper we analyze the Banach *-algebra of time-frequency shifts with absolutely summable coefficients. We prove a noncommutative version of the Wiener lemma. We also constru…

math.FA2015

On Lipschitz Analysis and Lipschitz Synthesis for the Phase Retrieval Problem

Radu Balan, Dongmian Zou

In this paper we prove two results regarding reconstruction from magnitudes of frame coefficients (the so called "phase retrieval problem"). First we show that phase retrievability…

math.DS2005

An Extension of Barbashin-Krasovski-LaSalle Theorem to a Class of Nonautonomous Systems

Radu Balan

In this paper we give an extension of the Barbashin-Krasovski-LaSalle Theorem to a class of time-varying dynamical systems, namely the class of systems for which the restricted vec…

math.FA2026

Factorization of positive-semidefinite operators with absolutely summable entries

Radu Balan, Fushuai Jiang

A problem by Feichtinger, Heil, and Larson asks whether every infinite matrix with (an equivalent substitute for the Feichtinger algebra) that is…

cs.LG2026

Quantitative Bounds for Sorting-Based Permutation-Invariant Embeddings

Nadav Dym, Matthias Wellershoff, Efstratios Tsoukanis +2

We study permutation-invariant embeddings of -dimensional point sets, which are defined by sorting independent one-dimensional projections of the input. Such embeddings aris…

math.CA2018

On a problem by Hans Feichtinger

Radu Balan, Kasso A. Okoudjou, Anirudha Poria

In this paper, we solve a spectral problem about positive semi-definite trace-class pseudodifferential operators on modulation spaces which was posed by H. Feichtinger. Later, C. H…

math.FA2013

Stability of Phase Retrievable Frames

Radu Balan

In this paper we study the property of phase retrievability by redundant sysems of vectors under perturbations of the frame set. Specifically we show that if a set $\fc$ of vec…

cs.LG2025

Coupled Multiwavelet Neural Operator Learning for Coupled Partial Differential Equations

Xiongye Xiao, Defu Cao, Ruochen Yang +5

Coupled partial differential equations (PDEs) are key tasks in modeling the complex dynamics of many physical processes. Recently, neural operators have shown the ability to solve…

math.FA2024

Stability of sorting based embeddings

Radu Balan, Efstratios Tsoukanis, Matthias Wellershoff

Consider a group of order acting unitarily on a real inner product space . We show that the sorting based embedding obtained by applying a general linear map $α: \mathb…

cs.LG2025

ScoresActivation: A New Activation Function for Model Agnostic Global Explainability by Design

Emanuel Covaci, Fabian Galis, Radu Balan +2

Understanding the decision of large deep learning models is a critical challenge for building transparent and trustworthy systems. Although the current post hoc explanation methods…

math.FA2016

Optimization methods for frame conditioning and application to graph Laplacian scaling

Radu Balan, Mathew Begué, Chae Clark +1

A frame is scalable if each of its vectors can be rescaled in such a way that the resulting set becomes a Parseval frame. In this paper, we consider four different optimization pro…

eess.IV2022

Motion correction in MRI using deep learning and a novel hybrid loss function

Lei Zhang, Xiaoke Wang, Michael Rawson +6

Purpose To develop and evaluate a deep learning-based method (MC-Net) to suppress motion artifacts in brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Methods MC-Net was derived from a UNet…

cs.IT2018

On Lipschitz Bounds of General Convolutional Neural Networks

Dongmian Zou, Radu Balan, Maneesh Singh

Many convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have a feed-forward structure. In this paper, a linear program that estimates the Lipschitz bound of such CNNs is proposed. Several CNNs,…

math.RT2025

G-Invariant Representations using Coorbits: Injectivity Properties

Radu Balan, Efstratios Tsoukanis

Consider a finite-dimensional real vector space equipped with a finite group acting unitarily on it. We address the general problem of constructing Euclidean stable embeddings of t…

cs.LG2025

PICore: Physics-Informed Unsupervised Coreset Selection for Data Efficient Neural Operator Training

Anirudh Satheesh, Anant Khandelwal, Mucong Ding +1

Neural operators offer a powerful paradigm for solving partial differential equations (PDEs) that cannot be solved analytically by learning mappings between function spaces. Howeve…

cs.CV2022

An Exact Hypergraph Matching Algorithm for Nuclear Identification in Embryonic Caenorhabditis elegans

Andrew Lauziere, Ryan Christensen, Hari Shroff +1

Finding an optimal correspondence between point sets is a common task in computer vision. Existing techniques assume relatively simple relationships among points and do not guarant…

cs.LG2022

VQ-Flows: Vector Quantized Local Normalizing Flows

Sahil Sidheekh, Chris B. Dock, Tushar Jain +2

Normalizing flows provide an elegant approach to generative modeling that allows for efficient sampling and exact density evaluation of unknown data distributions. However, current…