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We propose a tensor-based criterion for benign landscape in phase retrieval and establish boundedness of gradient trajectories. This implies that gradient descent will converge to a global minimum for almost every initial point.

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-18 Théodore Fougereux , Cédric Josz , Xiaopeng Li

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 short note we propose a simple two-stage sparse phase retrieval strategy that uses a near-optimal number of measurements, and is both computationally efficient and robust to measurement noise. In addition, the proposed strategy is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-04-27 Mark Iwen , Aditya Viswanathan , Yang Wang

It has been observed in a variety of contexts that gradient descent methods have great success in solving low-rank matrix factorization problems, despite the relevant problem formulation being non-convex. We tackle a particular instance of…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2016-06-28 Dejiao Zhang , Laura Balzano

We consider an $\ell_2$-regularized non-convex optimization problem for recovering signals from their noisy phaseless observations. We design and study the performance of a message passing algorithm that aims to solve this optimization…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Junjie Ma , Ji Xu , Arian Maleki

We study the problem of estimating low-rank matrices from linear measurements (a.k.a., matrix sensing) through nonconvex optimization. We propose an efficient stochastic variance reduced gradient descent algorithm to solve a nonconvex…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-01-17 Xiao Zhang , Lingxiao Wang , Quanquan Gu

We consider the classical 1D phase retrieval problem. In order to overcome the difficulties associated with phase retrieval from measurements of the Fourier magnitude, we treat recovery from the magnitude of the short-time Fourier transform…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-23 Yonina C. Eldar , Pavel Sidorenko , Dustin G. Mixon , Shaby Barel , Oren Cohen

We consider the problem of recovering signals from their power spectral density. This is a classical problem referred to in literature as the phase retrieval problem, and is of paramount importance in many fields of applied sciences. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-11-12 Kishore Jaganathan , Samet Oymak , Babak Hassibi

Phase retrieval aims to recover a signal $x \in \mathbb{C}^{n}$ from its amplitude measurements $|<x, a_i > |^2$, $i=1,2,...,m$, where $a_i$'s are over-complete basis vectors, with $m$ at least $3n -2$ to ensure a unique solution up to a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-10-09 Penghang Yin , Jack Xin

Recovering an unknown signal from quadratic measurements has gained popularity due to its wide range of applications, including phase retrieval, fusion frame phase retrieval, and positive operator-valued measures. In this paper, we employ a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-02 Jun Fan , Jie Sun , Ailing Yan , Shenglong Zhou

Sampling a probability distribution with an unknown normalization constant is a fundamental problem in computational science and engineering. This task may be cast as an optimization problem over all probability measures, and an initial…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-09-12 Yifan Chen , Daniel Zhengyu Huang , Jiaoyang Huang , Sebastian Reich , Andrew M. Stuart

For the problem of reconstructing a low-rank matrix from a few linear measurements, two classes of algorithms have been widely studied in the literature: convex approaches based on nuclear norm minimization, and non-convex approaches that…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-07-29 Dominik Stöger , Yizhe Zhu

Advances in compressive sensing provided reconstruction algorithms of sparse signals from linear measurements with optimal sample complexity, but natural extensions of this methodology to nonlinear inverse problems have been met with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Paul Hand , Oscar Leong , Vladislav Voroninski

Phase retrieval seeks to recover a complex signal from amplitude-only measurements, a challenging nonlinear inverse problem. Current theory and algorithms often ignore signal priors. By contrast, we evaluate here a variety of image priors…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-19 Stanislas Ducotterd , Zhiyuan Hu , Michael Unser , Jonathan Dong

Gradient descent is one of the most widely used iterative algorithms in modern statistical learning. However, its precise algorithmic dynamics in high-dimensional settings remain only partially understood, which has limited its broader…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-11-19 Qiyang Han , Xiaocong Xu

We study theoretical limits of \emph{descending} phase retrieval algorithms. Utilizing \emph{Random duality theory} (RDT) we develop a generic program that allows statistical characterization of various algorithmic performance metrics.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-24 Mihailo Stojnic

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

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…

Optics · Physics 2017-11-16 Chenglong Bao , George Barbastathis , Hui Ji , Zuowei Shen , Zhengyun Zhang

Suppose that we observe noisy linear measurements of an unknown signal that can be modeled as the sum of two component signals, each of which arises from a nonlinear sub-manifold of a high dimensional ambient space. We introduce SPIN, a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-06-11 Chinmay Hegde , Richard G. Baraniuk

This paper develops a novel framework for phase retrieval, a problem which arises in X-ray crystallography, diffraction imaging, astronomical imaging and many other applications. Our approach combines multiple structured illuminations…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-09-21 Emmanuel J. Candes , Yonina Eldar , Thomas Strohmer , Vlad Voroninski