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We develop procedures, based on minimization of the composition $f(x) = h(c(x))$ of a convex function $h$ and smooth function $c$, for solving random collections of quadratic equalities, applying our methodology to phase retrieval problems.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-04-24 John C. Duchi , Feng Ruan

In this paper, we introduce two symmetric directed graphs depending on supports of signals and windows, and we show that the connectivity of those graphs provides either necessary and sufficient conditions to phase retrieval of a signal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-22 Lan Li , Cheng Cheng , Deguang Han , Qiyu Sun , Guangming Shi

In this paper, we present a new algorithm, called MagnitudeCut, for recovering a signal from the phase of its Fourier transform. We casted our recovering problem into a new convex optimization problem, and then solved it by the block…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2016-03-02 Jiasong Wu , Jieyuan Liu , Youyong Kong , Xu Han , Lotfi Senhadji , Huazhong Shu

In this paper we consider the following problem of phase retrieval: Given a collection of real-valued band-limited functions $\{\psi_{\lambda}\}_{\lambda\in \Lambda}\subset L^2(\mathbb{R}^d)$ that constitutes a semi-discrete frame, we ask…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2016-09-07 Rima Alaifari , Ingrid Daubechies , Philipp Grohs , Gaurav Thakur

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

Phase retrieval refers to the problem of recovering some signal (which is often modelled as an element of a Hilbert space) from phaseless measurements. It has been shown that in the deterministic setting phase retrieval from frame…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-11 Rima Alaifari , Matthias Wellershoff

The phase retrieval problem asks to recover a natural signal $y_0 \in \mathbb{R}^n$ from $m$ quadratic observations, where $m$ is to be minimized. As is common in many imaging problems, natural signals are considered sparse with respect to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-12 Paul Hand , Oscar Leong , Vladislav Voroninski

The retrieval of phases from intensity measurements is a key process in many fields in science, from optical microscopy to x-ray crystallography. Here we study phase retrieval of a one-dimensional multi-phase object that is illuminated by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-16 Liat Liberman , Yonatan Israel , Eilon Poem , Yaron Silberberg

The key ingredient to retrieving a signal from its Fourier magnitudes, namely, to solve the phase retrieval problem, is an effective prior on the sought signal. In this paper, we study the phase retrieval problem under the prior that the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-30 Tamir Bendory , Nadav Dym , Dan Edidin , Arun Suresh

We consider the problem of finding a low rank symmetric matrix satisfying a system of linear equations, as appears in phase retrieval. In particular, we solve the gauge dual formulation, but use a fast approximation of the spectral…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-02 Ron Estrin , Yifan Sun , Halyun Jeong , Michael Friedlander

Phase retrieval (PR) concerns the recovery of complex phases from complex magnitudes. We identify the connection between the difficulty level and the number and variety of symmetries in PR problems. We focus on the most difficult far-field…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Zhong Zhuang , David Yang , Felix Hofmann , David Barmherzig , Ju Sun

In recent work [P. Grohs and M. Rathmair. Stable Gabor Phase Retrieval and Spectral Clustering. Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics (2018)] the instabilities of the Gabor phase retrieval problem, i.e., the problem of…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-05 Philipp Grohs , Martin Rathmair

In this paper we consider the problem of recovering a signal $x \in \mathbb{R}^N$ from its power spectrum assuming that the signal is sparse with respect to a generic basis for $\mathbb{R}^N$. Our main result is that if the sparsity level…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-04 Dan Edidin , Arun Suresh

In coherent X-ray diffraction microscopy the diffraction pattern generated by a sample illuminated with coherent x-rays is recorded, and a computer algorithm recovers the unmeasured phases to synthesize an image. By avoiding the use of a…

We propose a new algorithm to learn a dictionary for reconstructing and sparsely encoding signals from measurements without phase. Specifically, we consider the task of estimating a two-dimensional image from squared-magnitude measurements…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-23 Andreas M. Tillmann , Yonina C. Eldar , Julien Mairal

We give a large class of examples of non-uniqueness for the phase retrieval problem in multidimensions. Our constructions are based on "oblique tensorization", where one-dimensional results are strongly used, and its generalizations towards…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-09-01 Roman Novikov , Tianli Xu

Reconstructing continuous signals from a small number of discrete samples is a fundamental problem across science and engineering. In practice, we are often interested in signals with 'simple' Fourier structure, such as bandlimited,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-12-24 Haim Avron , Michael Kapralov , Cameron Musco , Christopher Musco , Ameya Velingker , Amir Zandieh

Coherent diffraction imaging (CDI) for visualizing objects at atomic resolution has been realized as a promising tool for imaging single molecules. Drawbacks of CDI are associated with the difficulty of the numerical phase retrieval from…

We improve a phase retrieval approach that uses correlation-based measurements with compactly supported measurement masks [27]. The improved algorithm admits deterministic measurement constructions together with a robust, fast recovery…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-12-07 Mark A. Iwen , Brian Preskitt , Rayan Saab , Aditya Viswanathan

Compressive phase retrieval refers to the problem of recovering a structured $n$-dimensional complex-valued vector from its phase-less under-determined linear measurements. The non-linearity of measurements makes designing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Milad Bakhshizadeh , Arian Maleki , Shirin Jalali