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We consider the recovery of a (real- or complex-valued) signal from magnitude-only measurements, known as phase retrieval. We formulate phase retrieval as a convex optimization problem, which we call PhaseMax. Unlike other convex methods…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-31 Tom Goldstein , Christoph Studer

This paper deals with finding an $n$-dimensional solution $x$ to a system of quadratic equations of the form $y_i=|\langle{a}_i,x\rangle|^2$ for $1\le i \le m$, which is also known as phase retrieval and is NP-hard in general. We put forth…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-31 Gang Wang , Georgios B. Giannakis , Yousef Saad , Jie Chen

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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-22 Sherry Xue-Ying Ni , Man-Chung Yue , Kam-Fung Cheung , Anthony Man-Cho So

In this paper, we study the sample complexity and develop efficient optimal algorithms for 1-bit phase retrieval: recovering a signal $\mathbf{x}\in\mathbb{R}^n$ from $m$ phaseless bits…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Junren Chen , Ming Yuan

This paper explores the problem of generalized phase retrieval, which involves reconstructing a length-$n$ signal $\bm{x}$ from its $m$ phaseless samples $y_k = \left|\langle \bm{a}_k,\bm{x}\rangle\right|^2$, where $k = 1,2,...,m$, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Jianfeng Cai , Huiping Li , Jiayi Li

Phase retrieval is the classical problem of recovering a signal $x^* \in \mathbb{R}^n$ from its noisy phaseless measurements $y_i = \langle a_i, x^* \rangle^2 + \zeta_i$ (where $\zeta_i$ denotes noise, and $a_i$ is the sensing vector) for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Santanu Das , Jatin Batra

The phase retrieval problem has garnered significant attention since the development of the PhaseLift algorithm, which is a convex program that operates in a lifted space of matrices. Because of the substantial computational cost due to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Paul Hand , Vladislav Voroninski

In recent years, phase retrieval has received much attention in statistics, applied mathematics and optical engineering. In this paper, we propose an efficient algorithm, termed Subspace Phase Retrieval (SPR), which can accurately recover…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Mengchu Xu , Dekuan Dong , Jian Wang

Fourier phase retrieval, which seeks to reconstruct a signal from its Fourier magnitude, is of fundamental importance in fields of engineering and science. In this paper, we give a theoretical understanding of algorithms for Fourier phase…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Meng Huang , Zhiqiang Xu

The problem of phase retrieval, i.e., the problem of recovering a function from the magnitudes of its Fourier transform, naturally arises in various fields of physics, such as astronomy, radar, speech recognition, quantum mechanics and,…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-17 Philipp Grohs , Sarah Koppensteiner , Martin Rathmair

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

In a variety of fields, in particular those involving imaging and optics, we often measure signals whose phase is missing or has been irremediably distorted. Phase retrieval attempts to recover the phase information of a signal from the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Gilles Baechler , Miranda Kreković , Juri Ranieri , Amina Chebira , Yue M. Lu , Martin Vetterli

We propose a new algorithm to learn a dictionary for reconstructing and sparsely encoding signals from measurements without phase. Specifically, we consider the task of estimating a two-dimensional image from squared-magnitude measurements…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-23 Andreas M. Tillmann , Yonina C. Eldar , Julien Mairal

Phase retrieval refers to the problem of recovering a signal $\mathbf{x}_{\star}\in\mathbb{C}^n$ from its phaseless measurements $y_i=|\mathbf{a}_i^{\mathrm{H}}\mathbf{x}_{\star}|$, where $\{\mathbf{a}_i\}_{i=1}^m$ are the measurement…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-10 Junjie Ma , Rishabh Dudeja , Ji Xu , Arian Maleki , Xiaodong Wang

The problem of phase retrieval is a classic one in optics and arises when one is interested in recovering an unknown signal from the magnitude (intensity) of its Fourier transform. While there have existed quite a few approaches to phase…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-28 Kishore Jaganathan , Yonina C. Eldar , Babak Hassibi

In the undersampled phase retrieval problem, the goal is to recover an $N$-dimensional complex signal $\mathbf{x}$ from only $M<N$ noisy intensity measurements without phase information. This problem has drawn a lot of attention to reduce…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-11 Tianyu Qiu , Daniel P. Palomar

Phase retrieval in dynamical sampling is a novel research direction, where an unknown signal has to be recovered from the phaseless measurements with respect to a dynamical frame, i.e. a sequence of sampling vectors constructed by the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-19 Robert Beinert , Marzieh Hasannasab

We study algorithms for solving quadratic systems of equations based on optimization methods over polytopes. Our work is inspired by a recently proposed convex formulation of the phase retrieval problem, which estimates the unknown signal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-25 Oussama Dhifallah , Christos Thrampoulidis , Yue M. Lu

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…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Jian-Feng Cai , Yu Long , Ruixue Wen , Jiaxi Ying

Phase retrieval, a nonlinear problem prevalent in imaging applications, has been extensively studied using random models, some of which with i.i.d. sensing matrix components. While these models offer robust reconstruction guarantees, they…

Optics · Physics 2024-09-10 Zhiyuan Hu , Julián Tachella , Michael Unser , Jonathan Dong