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The randomized Kaczmarz (RK) method is an iterative method for approximating the least-squares solution of large linear systems of equations. The standard RK method uses sequential updates, making parallel computation difficult. Here, we…
Randomized iterative algorithms, such as the randomized Kaczmarz method, have gained considerable popularity due to their efficacy in solving matrix-vector and matrix-matrix regression problems. Our present work leverages the insights…
This paper investigates phase retrieval using the Reshaped Wirtinger Flow (RWF) algorithm, focusing on recovering target vector $\vx \in \R^n$ from magnitude measurements \(y_i = \left| \langle \va_i, \vx \rangle \right|, \; i = 1, \ldots,…
We propose a flexible convex relaxation for the phase retrieval problem that operates in the natural domain of the signal. Therefore, we avoid the prohibitive computational cost associated with "lifting" and semidefinite programming (SDP)…
We obtain an improved finite-sample guarantee on the linear convergence of stochastic gradient descent for smooth and strongly convex objectives, improving from a quadratic dependence on the conditioning $(L/\mu)^2$ (where $L$ is a bound on…
The randomzied Kaczmarz method, along with its recently developed variants, has become a popular tool for dealing with large-scale linear systems. However, these methods usually fail to converge when the linear systems are affected by heavy…
The Kaczmarz method is a popular iterative scheme for solving large-scale linear systems. The randomized Kaczmarz method (RK) greatly improves the convergence rate of the Kaczmarz method, by using the rows of the coefficient matrix in…
The problem of phase retrieval is revisited and studied from a fresh perspective. In particular, we establish a connection between the phase retrieval problem and the sensor network localization problem, which allows us to utilize the vast…
In this paper we propose a variant of the random coordinate descent method for solving linearly constrained convex optimization problems with composite objective functions. If the smooth part of the objective function has Lipschitz…
Linear regression is effective at identifying interpretable trends in a data set, but averages out potentially different effects on subgroups within data. We propose an iterative algorithm based on the randomized Kaczmarz (RK) method to…
The randomized block Kaczmarz (RBK) method is a widely utilized iterative scheme for solving large-scale linear systems. However, the theoretical analysis and practical effectiveness of this method heavily rely on a good row paving of the…
In this paper we tackle the problem of recovering the phase of complex linear measurements when only magnitude information is available and we control the input. We are motivated by the recent development of dedicated optics-based hardware…
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.…
The Kaczmarz method is an iterative algorithm for solving systems of linear equalities and inequalities, that iteratively projects onto these constraints. Recently, Strohmer and Vershynin [J. Fourier Anal. Appl., 15(2):262-278, 2009] gave a…
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…
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…
The mutual intensity and its equivalent phase-space representations quantify an optical field's state of coherence and are important tools in the study of light propagation and dynamics, but they can only be estimated indirectly from…
In this paper, we study the generalized phase retrieval problem: to recover a signal $\bm{x}\in\mathbb{C}^n$ from the measurements $y_r=\lvert \langle\bm{a}_r,\bm{x}\rangle\rvert^2$, $r=1,2,\ldots,m$. The problem can be reformulated as a…
We study the sparse phase retrieval problem, which seeks to recover a sparse signal from a limited set of magnitude-only measurements. In contrast to prevalent sparse phase retrieval algorithms that primarily use first-order methods, we…
The Kaczmarz method is an iterative method for solving overcomplete linear systems of equations Ax=b. The randomized version of the Kaczmarz method put forth by Strohmer and Vershynin iteratively projects onto a randomly chosen solution…