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Abstract: This paper introduces a high-resolution spectral estimation algorithm that minimizes the Frobenius norm between the estimated covariance matrix (derived from data) and the true covariance ...

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You are the benevolent ruler of The Republic of Graphistan, and you want to modernize the roads between cities—widening them, repaving them, turning them into superhighways. But it’s complicated. When ...