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The incremental aggregated gradient algorithm is popular in network optimization and machine learning research. However, the current convergence results require the objective function to be strongly convex. And the existing convergence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-14 Tao Sun , Yuejiao Sun , Dongsheng Li , Qing Liao

The problem of recovering a signal $\mathbf{x}\in \mathbb{R}^n$ from a set of magnitude measurements $y_i=|\langle \mathbf{a}_i, \mathbf{x} \rangle |, \; i=1,\ldots,m$ is referred as phase retrieval, which has many applications in fields of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Jianfeng Cai , Meng Huang , Dong Li , Yang Wang

Phase retrieval (PR) is a popular research topic in signal processing and machine learning. However, its performance degrades significantly when the measurements are corrupted by noise or outliers. To address this limitation, we propose a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-30 Jun Fan , Ailing Yan , Xianchao Xiu , Wanquan Liu

In this paper, we study the phase retrieval problem in the situation where the vector to be recovered has an a priori structure that can encoded into a regularization term. This regularizer is intended to promote solutions conforming to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-24 Jean-Jacques Godeme , Jalal Fadili

Phase retrieval (PR) is a crucial problem in many imaging applications. This study focuses on resolving the holographic phase retrieval problem in situations where the measurements are affected by a combination of Poisson and Gaussian…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-22 Zongyu Li , Jason Hu , Xiaojian Xu , Liyue Shen , Jeffrey A. Fessler

We present a new formulation of a family of proximity operators that generalize the projector step for phase retrieval. These proximity operators for noisy intensity measurements can replace the classical "noise free" projection in any…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-30 Ferréol Soulez , Éric Thiébaut , Antony Schutz , André Ferrari , Frédéric Courbin , Michael Unser

In this paper, we present a novel yet simple homotopy proximal mapping algorithm for compressive sensing. The algorithm adopts a simple proximal mapping of the $\ell_1$ norm at each iteration and gradually reduces the regularization…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-29 Tianbao Yang , Lijun Zhang , Rong Jin , Shenghuo Zhu , Zhi-Hua Zhou

This paper presents a new approach to the recovery of a spectrally sparse signal (SSS) from partially observed entries, focusing on challenges posed by large-scale data and heavy noise environments. The SSS reconstruction can be formulated…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-14 Xi Yao , Wei Dai

We study nonconvex optimization for phase retrieval and the more general problem of semidefinite low-rank matrix sensing; in particular, we focus on the global nonconvex landscape of overparametrized versions of the nonsmooth amplitude…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Andrew D. McRae

Sparse modeling is one of the efficient techniques for imaging that allows recovering lost information. In this paper, we present a novel iterative phase-retrieval algorithm using a sparse representation of the object amplitude and phase.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2011-08-17 Artem Migukin , Vladimir Katkovnik , Jaakko Astola

In this manuscript, we analyze the sparse signal recovery (compressive sensing) problem from the perspective of convex optimization by stochastic proximal gradient descent. This view allows us to significantly simplify the recovery analysis…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-04-19 Rong Jin , Tianbao Yang , Shenghuo Zhu

We propose a principled algorithm for robust Bayesian filtering and smoothing in nonlinear stochastic dynamic systems when both the transition function and the measurement function are described by non-parametric Gaussian process (GP)…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2012-08-13 Marc Peter Deisenroth , Ryan Turner , Marco F. Huber , Uwe D. Hanebeck , Carl Edward Rasmussen

For the composite multi-objective optimization problem composed of two nonsmooth terms, a smoothing method is used to overcome the nonsmoothness of the objective function, making the objective function contain at most one nonsmooth term.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-18 Huang Chengzhi

We investigate the Randomized Stochastic Accelerated Gradient (RSAG) method, utilizing either constant or adaptive step sizes, for stochastic optimization problems with generalized smooth objective functions. Under relaxed affine variance…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-25 Chenhao Yu , Yusu Hong , Junhong Lin

Probabilistic smoothing is a standard tool for global optimization, but existing methods rely on Gaussian kernels and specific transforms, often resulting in strong hyperparameter sensitivity and limited robustness. We propose a general…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Kukyoung Jang , Taehyun Cho , Junrui Zhang , Ping Xu , Kyungjae Lee

Recovering a signal from its Fourier intensity underlies many important applications, including lensless imaging and imaging through scattering media. Conventional algorithms for retrieving the phase suffer when noise is present but display…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-05 Yaotian Wang , Xiaohang Sun , Jason W. Fleischer

We study the problem of estimating high-dimensional regression models regularized by a structured sparsity-inducing penalty that encodes prior structural information on either the input or output variables. We consider two widely adopted…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2012-07-02 Xi Chen , Qihang Lin , Seyoung Kim , Jaime G. Carbonell , Eric P. Xing

Satellite-based positioning system such as GPS often suffers from large amount of noise that degrades the positioning accuracy dramatically especially in real-time applications. In this work, we consider a data-mining approach to enhance…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-05 Ming Lin , Xiaomin Song , Qi Qian , Hao Li , Liang Sun , Shenghuo Zhu , Rong Jin

In phase retrieval, the goal is to recover a signal $\mathbf{x}\in\mathbb{C}^N$ from the magnitudes of linear measurements $\mathbf{Ax}\in\mathbb{C}^M$. While recent theory has established that $M\approx 4N$ intensity measurements are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-19 Philip Schniter , Sundeep Rangan

Globally, Pulsar Timing Array (PTA) experiments have revealed evidence supporting an existing gravitational wave background (GWB) signal in the PTA data set. Apart from acquiring more observations, the sensitivity of PTA experiments can be…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-03 El Mehdi Zahraoui , Patricio Maturana-Russel , Willem van Straten , Renate Meyer , Sergei Gulyaev