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In the phase retrieval problem one seeks to recover an unknown $n$ dimensional signal vector $\mathbf{x}$ from $m$ measurements of the form $y_i = |(\mathbf{A} \mathbf{x})_i|$, where $\mathbf{A}$ denotes the sensing matrix. Many algorithms…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-06-10 Rishabh Dudeja , Milad Bakhshizadeh

We study theoretical limits of \emph{descending} phase retrieval algorithms. Utilizing \emph{Random duality theory} (RDT) we develop a generic program that allows statistical characterization of various algorithmic performance metrics.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-24 Mihailo Stojnic

Phase retrieval seeks to recover a signal x from the amplitude |Ax| of linear measurements. We cast the phase retrieval problem as a non-convex quadratic program over a complex phase vector and formulate a tractable relaxation (called…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-07-23 Irène Waldspurger , Alexandre d'Aspremont , Stéphane Mallat

Real-valued Phase retrieval is a non-convex continuous inference problem, where a high-dimensional signal is to be reconstructed from a dataset of signless linear measurements. Focusing on the noiseless case, we aim to disentangle the two…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-02-07 Davide Straziota , Luca Saglietti

If the phase retrieval problem can be solved by a method similar to that of solving a system of linear equations under the context of FFT, the time complexity of computer based phase retrieval algorithm would be reduced. Here I present such…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-05-20 Yuan Sun

We consider the robust phase retrieval problem of recovering the unknown signal from the magnitude-only measurements, where the measurements can be contaminated by both sparse arbitrary corruption and bounded random noise. We propose a new…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-01-08 Jinghui Chen , Lingxiao Wang , Xiao Zhang , Quanquan Gu

While characterization of coherent wavefields is essential to laser, x-ray and electron imaging, sensors measure the squared magnitude of the field, rather than the field itself. Holography or phase retrieval must be used to characterize…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-10 David J. Brady , Timothy J. Schulz , Chengyu Wang

The generalized phase retrieval problem over compact groups aims to recover a set of matrices -- representing an unknown signal -- from their associated Gram matrices. This framework generalizes the classical phase retrieval problem, which…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-20 Tal Amir , Tamir Bendory , Nadav Dym , Dan Edidin

Iterative phase retrieval algorithms typically employ projections onto constraint subspaces to recover the unknown phases in the Fourier transform of an image, or, in the case of x-ray crystallography, the electron density of a molecule.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Veit Elser

Compressed sensing investigates the recovery of sparse signals from linear measurements. But often, in a wide range of applications, one is given only the absolute values (squared) of the linear measurements. Recovering such signals (not…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2015-09-29 Irena Bojarovska , Axel Flinth

The null vector method, based on a simple linear algebraic concept, is proposed as a solution to the phase retrieval problem. In the case with complex Gaussian random measurement matrices, a non-asymptotic error bound is derived, yielding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-27 P. Chen , A. Fannjiang , G. Liu

In the phase retrieval problem, an unknown vector is to be recovered given quadratic measurements. This problem has received considerable attention in recent times. In this paper, we present an algorithm to solve a nonconvex formulation of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-13 Ritesh Kolte , Ayfer Özgür

We consider a variant of the phase retrieval problem, where vectors are replaced by unitary matrices, i.e., the unknown signal is a unitary matrix U, and the measurements consist of squared inner products |Tr(C*U)|^2 with unitary matrices C…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-07 Shelby Kimmel , Yi-Kai Liu

We study algorithms for solving quadratic systems of equations based on optimization methods over polytopes. Our work is inspired by a recently proposed convex formulation of the phase retrieval problem, which estimates the unknown signal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-25 Oussama Dhifallah , Christos Thrampoulidis , Yue M. Lu

In a variety of fields, in particular those involving imaging and optics, we often measure signals whose phase is missing or has been irremediably distorted. Phase retrieval attempts to recover the phase information of a signal from the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Gilles Baechler , Miranda Kreković , Juri Ranieri , Amina Chebira , Yue M. Lu , Martin Vetterli

We consider a recently proposed convex formulation, known as the PhaseMax method, for solving the phase retrieval problem. Using the replica method from statistical mechanics, we analyze the performance of PhaseMax in the high-dimensional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-14 Oussama Dhifallah , Yue M. Lu

Phase retrieval seeks to recover a complex signal from amplitude-only measurements, a challenging nonlinear inverse problem. Current theory and algorithms often ignore signal priors. By contrast, we evaluate here a variety of image priors…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-19 Stanislas Ducotterd , Zhiyuan Hu , Michael Unser , Jonathan Dong

Phase retrieval problems occur in a width range of applications in physics and engineering such as crystallography, astronomy, and laser optics. Common to all of them is the recovery of an unknown signal from the intensity of its Fourier…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-19 Robert Beinert

In phase retrieval, the goal is to recover a complex signal from the magnitude of its linear measurements. While many well-known algorithms guarantee deterministic recovery of the unknown signal using i.i.d. random measurement matrices,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-24 Boshra Rajaei , Sylvain Gigan , Florent Krzakala , Laurent Daudet

For performing regression tasks involved in various physics problems, enhancing the precision or equivalently reducing the uncertainty of regression results is undoubtedly one of the central goals. Here, somewhat surprisingly, we find that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-11-09 Wei-Chen Guo , Liang He