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We propose a new gradient projection algorithm that compares favorably with the fastest algorithms available to date for $\ell_1$-constrained sparse recovery from noisy data, both in the compressed sensing and inverse problem frameworks.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-01-01 I. Loris , M. Bertero , C. De Mol , R. Zanella , L. Zanni

We consider the problem of minimizing a difference of (smooth) convex functions over a compact convex feasible region $P$, i.e., $\min_{x \in P} f(x) - g(x)$, with smooth $f$ and Lipschitz continuous $g$. This computational study builds…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-05 Sebastian Pokutta

We consider a least absolute deviation (LAD) approach to the robust phase retrieval problem that aims to recover a signal from its absolute measurements corrupted with sparse noise. To solve the resulting non-convex optimization problem, we…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-25 Seonho Kim , Kiryung Lee

Despite the widespread use of gradient-based algorithms for optimizing high-dimensional non-convex functions, understanding their ability of finding good minima instead of being trapped in spurious ones remains to a large extent an open…

In this paper, we investigate a class of nonconvex and nonsmooth fractional programming problems, where the numerator composed of two parts: a convex, nonsmooth function and a differentiable, nonconvex function, and the denominator consists…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-18 Deren Han , Min Tao , Zihao Xia

The problem of minimizing a separable convex function under linearly coupled constraints arises from various application domains such as economic systems, distributed control, and network flow. The main challenge for solving this problem is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-09-05 Qin Fan , Min Xu , Yiming Ying

Motivated by a class of applied problems arising from physical layer based security in a digital communication system, in particular, by a secrecy sum-rate maximization problem, this paper studies a nonsmooth, difference-of-convex (dc)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-11-06 Jong-Shi Pang , Meisam Razaviyayn , Alberth Alvarado

This paper presents a rigorous theoretical convergence analysis of the Wirtinger Flow (WF) algorithm for Poisson phase retrieval, a fundamental problem in imaging applications. Unlike prior analyses that rely on truncation or additional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-14 Bing Gao , Ran Gu , Shigui Ma

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

Problems in signal processing and medical imaging often lead to calculating sparse solutions to under-determined linear systems. Methodologies for solving this problem are presented as background to the method used in this work where the…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2009-07-21 R. Broughton , I. Coope , P. Renaud , R. Tappenden

We propose a new approach to perform the boosted difference of convex functions algorithm (BDCA) on non-smooth and non-convex problems involving the difference of convex (DC) functions. The recently proposed BDCA uses an extrapolation step…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-05 ZeYu Li , Te Qi , TieYong Zeng

Proximal algorithms have gained popularity in recent years in large-scale and distributed optimization problems. One such problem is the phase retrieval problem, for which proximal operators have been proposed recently. The phase retrieval…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-08-16 Biel Roig-Solvas , Lee Makowski , Dana H. Brooks

In this paper, we consider a class of generalized difference-of-convex functions (DC) programming, whose objective is the difference of two convex (not necessarily smooth) functions plus a decomposable (possibly nonconvex) function with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-10 Chenjian Pan , Yingxin Zhou , Hongjin He , Chen Ling

We present a computational imaging mode for large scale electron microscopy data, which retrieves a complex wave from noisy/sparse intensity recordings using a deep learning approach and subsequently reconstructs an image of the specimen…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-02-28 Thomas Friedrich , Chu-Ping Yu , Johan Verbeek , Timothy Pennycook , Sandra Van Aert

We study the low-rank phase retrieval problem, where we try to recover a $d_1\times d_2$ low-rank matrix from a series of phaseless linear measurements. This is a fourth-order inverse problem, as we are trying to recover factors of matrix…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Kiryung Lee , Sohail Bahmani , Yonina Eldar , Justin Romberg

In this paper we develop a randomized block-coordinate descent method for minimizing the sum of a smooth and a simple nonsmooth block-separable convex function and prove that it obtains an $\epsilon$-accurate solution with probability at…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-07-15 Peter Richtárik , Martin Takáč

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

This paper presents a stochastic block-coordinate proximal Newton method for minimizing the sum of a blockwise Lipschitz-continuously differentiable function and a separable nonsmooth convex function. At each iteration, the method randomly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-25 Hong Zhu , Xun Qian

This technical note considers the identification of nonlinear discrete-time systems with additive process noise but without measurement noise. In particular, we propose a method and its associated algorithm to identify the system nonlinear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-04-27 Wei Pan , Ye Yuan , Jorge Gonçalves , Guy-Bart Stan

Novel sparse reconstruction algorithms are proposed for beamspace channel estimation in massive multiple-input multiple-output systems. The proposed algorithms minimize a least-squares objective having a nonconvex regularizer. This…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Pengxia Wu , Julian Cheng