- Definition and formulation
- Special case
- References
- See also
{{Multiple issues|{{orphan|date=May 2012}}{{expert-subject|date=March 2012}} }}The Babel function (also known as cumulative coherence) measures the maximum total coherence between a fixed atom and a collection of other atoms in a dictionary. Definition and formulationThe Babel function of a dictionary with normalized columns is a real-valued function that is defined as
where are the columns (atoms) of the dictionary .[1][2] Special caseWhen p=1, the babel function is the mutual coherence. References1. ^{{cite web | title = Greed is good: Algorithmic results for sparse approximation | author=Joel A. Tropp | date=2004 | citeseerx = 10.1.1.84.5256 }} 2. ^Just Relax: Convex Programming Methods for Identifying Sparse Signals in Noise
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