Abstract
This letter considers an M-ary hypothesis testing problem on an n-dimensional random vector perturbed by the addition of Gaussian noise. A novel expression for the gradient of the error probability, with respect to the covariance matrix of the noise, is derived and shown to be a function of the cross-covariance matrix between the noise matrix (i.e., the matrix obtained by multiplying the noise vector by its transpose) and Bernoulli random variables associated with the correctness event.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Article number | 9226081 |
| Pages (from-to) | 1909-1913 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | IEEE Signal Processing Letters |
| Volume | 27 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2020 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Manuscript received August 11, 2020; revised September 25, 2020; accepted October 10, 2020. Date of publication October 15, 2020; date of current version November 4, 2020. The work of M. Jeong and M. Cardone was supported in part by the U.S. National Science Foundation under Grant CCF-1849757. The associate editor coordinating the review of this manuscript and approving it for publication was Prof. Jun Liu (Corresponding author: Minoh Jeong.) Minoh Jeong and Martina Cardone are with the Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55404 USA (e-mail: jeong316@umn.edu; cardo089@umn.edu).
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Keywords
- Error probability
- Gradient
- Hypothesis testing
- Multivariate Gaussian noise