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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

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

We study a nonconvex optimization algorithmic approach to phase retrieval and the more general problem of semidefinite low-rank matrix sensing. Specifically, we analyze the nonconvex landscape of a quartic Burer-Monteiro factored…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-20 Andrew D. McRae

In many areas of imaging science, it is difficult to measure the phase of linear measurements. As such, one often wishes to reconstruct a signal from intensity measurements, that is, perform phase retrieval. In several applications the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-16 Afonso S. Bandeira , Dustin G. Mixon

This paper investigates the sparse phase retrieval problem, which aims to recover a sparse signal from a system of quadratic measurements. In this work, we propose a novel non-convex algorithm, termed Gradient Hard Thresholding Pursuit…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-18 Licheng Dai , Xiliang Lu , Juntao You

PhaseLift is a noted convex optimization technique for phase retrieval that can recover a signal exactly from amplitude measurements only, with high probability. Conventional PhaseLift requires a relatively large number of samples that…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-27 Zhe Zhang , Zhi Tian

In this paper, we propose a new non-convex algorithm for solving the phase retrieval problem, i.e., the reconstruction of a signal $ \vx\in\H^n $ ($\H=\R$ or $\C$) from phaseless samples $ b_j=\abs{\langle \va_j, \vx\rangle } $, $…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-15 Bing Gao , Xinwei Sun , Yang Wang , Zhiqiang Xu

We aim to find a solution $\bm{x}\in\mathbb{C}^n$ to a system of quadratic equations of the form $b_i=\lvert\bm{a}_i^*\bm{x}\rvert^2$, $i=1,2,\ldots,m$, e.g., the well-known NP-hard phase retrieval problem. As opposed to recently proposed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-28 Ji Li , Jian-Feng Cai , Hongkai Zhao

Phase retrieval is an important problem with significant physical and industrial applications. In this paper, we consider the case where the magnitude of the measurement of an underlying signal is corrupted by Gaussian noise. We introduce a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-03 Jianwei Niu , Hok Shing Wong , Tieyong Zeng

The problem of recovering a one-dimensional signal from its Fourier transform magnitude, called Fourier phase retrieval, is ill-posed in most cases. We consider the closely-related problem of recovering a signal from its phaseless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Tamir Bendory , Yonina C. Eldar , Nicolas Boumal

We describe a new algorithm to solve a particular phase retrieval problem, that has wide applications in audio processing: the reconstruction of a function from its scalogram, that is from the modulus of its wavelet transform. It is a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-04-11 Irène Waldspurger

Phase retrieval problems involve solving linear equations, but with missing sign (or phase, for complex numbers) information. More than four decades after it was first proposed, the seminal error reduction algorithm of (Gerchberg and Saxton…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-06-15 Praneeth Netrapalli , Prateek Jain , Sujay Sanghavi

A linear and thus convex phase retrieval algorithm for the application in phaseless near-field far-field transformations is presented. The formulation exploits locally known phase relations among sets of measurement samples, which can in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-24 Alexander Paulus , Jonas Kornprobst , Josef Knapp , Thomas F. Eibert

Phase retrieval refers to the problem of recovering a high-dimensional vector $\boldsymbol{x} \in \mathbb{C}^N$ from the magnitude of its linear transform $\boldsymbol{z} = A \boldsymbol{x}$, observed through a noisy channel. To improve the…

Computation · Statistics 2024-10-10 Hajime Ueda , Shun Katakami , Masato Okada

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

The aim of sparse phase retrieval is to recover a $k$-sparse signal $\mathbf{x}_0\in \mathbb{C}^{d}$ from quadratic measurements $|\langle \mathbf{a}_i,\mathbf{x}_0\rangle|^2$ where $\mathbf{a}_i\in \mathbb{C}^d, i=1,\ldots,m$. Noting…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-05 Yu Xia , Zhiqiang Xu

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

Consider the task of recovering an unknown $n$-vector from phaseless linear measurements. This task is the phase retrieval problem. Through the technique of lifting, this nonconvex problem may be convexified into a semidefinite rank-one…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-02-17 Paul Hand

In this work we analyze the problem of phase retrieval from Fourier measurements with random diffraction patterns. To this end, we consider the recently introduced PhaseLift algorithm, which expresses the problem in the language of convex…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-10 David Gross , Felix Krahmer , Richard Kueng

We present a convex relaxation-based algorithm for large-scale general phase retrieval problems. General phase retrieval problems include i.a. the estimation of the phase of the optical field in the pupil plane based on intensity…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-08-15 Reinier Doelman , H. Thao Nguyen , Michel Verhaegen