1. What have the authors contributed in "An lms style variable tap-length algorithm for structure adaptation" ?
In this paper, at first, the authors carefully compare the SF and GD algorithms and show that the two algorithms are equivalent in performance under some constraints, but each has advantages/disadvanges relative to the other.. Then, the authors propose an improved variable tap-length algorithm using the concept of the pseudo fractional tap-length ( FT ).
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2. Why is the optimum tap length always higher than the MMSE?
Due to adaptation noise, the steady-state MSE is always higher than the MMSE, and the authors may have sometimes, although the MMSE is a strict nonincreasing function of.
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3. What is the accumulated squared error of each segment?
An exponential smoothing window with forgetting factor is used to track the so-called accumulated squared error (ASE) of each segmentASE (6)where is the segment index and is obtained from (3) with , which is the output error from the th segmentat time instant .
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4. What is the main advantage of the GD algorithm over the SF algorithm?
The main advantage of the GD algorithm over the SF algorithm is that the former can freely choose the step-size param-eter of , whereas the latter must have , which implies that the tap-length in the SF algorithm has to be changed by each time.
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