Communications on Applied Mathematics and Computation ›› 2024, Vol. 6 ›› Issue (2): 879-906.doi: 10.1007/s42967-023-00273-x

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SRMD: Sparse Random Mode Decomposition

Nicholas Richardson1,2, Hayden Schaeffer1,3, Giang Tran1   

  1. 1. University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada;
    2. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada;
    3. University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
  • Received:2022-04-15 Revised:2023-02-27 Accepted:2023-03-08 Online:2023-06-20 Published:2023-06-20
  • Contact: Giang Tran,E-mail:giang.tran@uwaterloo.ca E-mail:giang.tran@uwaterloo.ca
  • Supported by:
    N.R. and G.T. were supported in part by the NSERC RGPIN 50503-10842. H.S. was supported in part by the AFOSR MURI FA9550-21-1-0084 and the NSF DMS-1752116. The authors would also like to thank Rachel Ward for valuable discussions.

Abstract: Signal decomposition and multiscale signal analysis provide many useful tools for time-frequency analysis. We proposed a random feature method for analyzing time-series data by constructing a sparse approximation to the spectrogram. The randomization is both in the time window locations and the frequency sampling, which lowers the overall sampling and computational cost. The sparsification of the spectrogram leads to a sharp separation between time-frequency clusters which makes it easier to identify intrinsic modes, and thus leads to a new data-driven mode decomposition. The applications include signal representation, outlier removal, and mode decomposition. On benchmark tests, we show that our approach outperforms other state-of-the-art decomposition methods.

Key words: Sparse random features, Signal decomposition, Short-time Fourier transform