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This paper deals with sparse phase retrieval, i.e., the problem of estimating a vector from quadratic measurements under the assumption that few components are nonzero. In particular, we consider the problem of finding the sparsest vector…
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…
We consider a non-convex constrained Lagrangian formulation of a fundamental bi-criteria optimization problem for variable selection in statistical learning; the two criteria are a smooth (possibly) nonconvex loss function, measuring the…
Motivated by the need for decentralized learning, this paper aims at designing a distributed algorithm for solving nonconvex problems with general linear constraints over a multi-agent network. In the considered problem, each agent owns…
Sparse phase retrieval plays an important role in many fields of applied science and thus attracts lots of attention. In this paper, we propose a \underline{sto}chastic alte\underline{r}nating \underline{m}inimizing method for…
In this paper, we consider a class of constrained multiobjective optimization problems, where each objective function can be expressed by adding a possibly nonsmooth nonconvex function and a differentiable function with Lipschitz continuous…
Recovering a low-rank matrix from highly corrupted measurements arises in compressed sensing of structured high-dimensional signals (e.g., videos and hyperspectral images among others). Robust principal component analysis (RPCA), solved via…
Accurately recovering images from phaseless measurements is a challenging and long-standing problem. In this work, we present "deepECpr," which combines expectation-consistent (EC) approximation with deep denoising networks to surpass…
In this paper, we propose first-order feasible methods for difference-of-convex (DC) programs with smooth inequality and simple geometric constraints. Our strategy for maintaining feasibility of the iterates is based on a "retraction" idea…
This paper discusses phase retrieval algorithms for maximum likelihood (ML) estimation from measurements following independent Poisson distributions in very low-count regimes, e.g., 0.25 photon per pixel. To maximize the log-likelihood of…
This paper conducts a comparative study of proximal gradient methods (PGMs) and proximal DC algorithms (PDCAs) for sparse regression problems which can be cast as Difference-of-two-Convex-functions (DC) optimization problems. It has been…
We present novel analysis and algorithms for solving sparse phase retrieval and sparse principal component analysis (PCA) with convex lifted matrix formulations. The key innovation is a new mixed atomic matrix norm that, when used as…
Companion paper [118] developed a powerful \emph{Random duality theory} (RDT) based analytical program to statistically characterize performance of \emph{descending} phase retrieval algorithms (dPR) (these include all variants of gradient…
We introduce a new approach to apply the boosted difference of convex functions algorithm (BDCA) for solving non-convex and non-differentiable problems involving difference of two convex functions (DC functions). Supposing the first DC…
Imaging tasks are typically tackled using a structured optimization framework. This paper delves into a class of algorithms for difference-of-convex (DC) structured optimization, focusing on minimizing a DC function along with a possibly…
This work proposes a novel and unified sparse recovery framework, termed the difference of convex Elastic Net (DCEN). This framework effectively balances strong sparsity promotion with solution stability, and is particularly suitable for…
This paper develops a novel algorithm, termed \emph{SPARse Truncated Amplitude flow} (SPARTA), to reconstruct a sparse signal from a small number of magnitude-only measurements. It deals with what is also known as sparse phase retrieval…
This paper presents a directional proximal point method (DPPM) to derive the minimum of any C1-smooth function f. The proposed method requires a function persistent a local convex segment along the descent direction at any non-critical…
We propose a general framework to recover underlying images from noisy phaseless diffraction measurements based on the alternating directional method of multipliers and the plug-and-play technique. The algorithm consists of three-step…
A recently proposed convex formulation of the phase retrieval problem estimates the unknown signal by solving a simple linear program. This new scheme, known as PhaseMax, is computationally efficient compared to standard convex relaxation…