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We consider a phase retrieval problem, where the goal is to reconstruct a $n$-dimensional complex vector from its phaseless scalar products with $m$ sensing vectors, independently sampled from complex normal distributions. We show that,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-12-05 Teng Zhang

Ill-posed linear inverse problems appear in many scientific setups, and are typically addressed by solving optimization problems, which are composed of data fidelity and prior terms. Recently, several works have considered a back-projection…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-10 Tom Tirer , Raja Giryes

We introduce an approach based on mirror descent and sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) to perform joint parameter inference and posterior estimation in latent variable models. This approach is based on minimisation of a functional over the…

Computation · Statistics 2025-11-07 Francesca R. Crucinio

The properties of gradient techniques for the phase retrieval problem have received a considerable attention in recent years. In almost all applications, however, the phase retrieval problem is solved using a family of algorithms that can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-05 Eitan Levin , Tamir Bendory

This paper introduces a coordinate descent version of the V\~u-Condat algorithm. By coordinate descent, we mean that only a subset of the coordinates of the primal and dual iterates is updated at each iteration, the other coordinates being…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-17 Olivier Fercoq , Pascal Bianchi

In this paper we consider convergence rate problems for stochastic strongly-convex optimization in the non-Euclidean sense with a constraint set over a time-varying multi-agent network. We propose two efficient non-Euclidean stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-08-23 Deming Yuan , Yiguang Hong , Daniel W. C. Ho , Guoping Jiang

One of the challenges in phase measuring deflectometry is to retrieve the wavefront from objects that present discontinuities or non-differentiable gradient fields. Here, we propose the integration of such gradients fields based on an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-02 Ricardo Legarda-Saenz , Jorge L. Flores , Manuel Servin , Anabel Martin-Gonzalez

The phase retrieval problem, where one aims to recover a complex-valued image from far-field intensity measurements, is a classic problem encountered in a range of imaging applications. Modern phase retrieval approaches usually rely on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-03 Saugat Kandel , S. Maddali , Youssef S G Nashed , Stephan O Hruszkewycz , Chris Jacobsen , Marc Allain

Mirror descent (MD) is a powerful first-order optimization technique that subsumes several optimization algorithms including gradient descent (GD). In this work, we develop a semi-definite programming (SDP) framework to analyze the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-19 Youbang Sun , Mahyar Fazlyab , Shahin Shahrampour

Phase retrieval is the nonlinear inverse problem of recovering a true signal from its Fourier magnitude measurements. It arises in many applications such as astronomical imaging, X-Ray crystallography, microscopy, and more. The problem is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Rohun Agrawal , Oscar Leong

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…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-24 Mihailo Stojnic

Image segmentation is an important median level vision topic. Accurate and efficient multiphase segmentation for images with intensity inhomogeneity is still a great challenge. We present a new two-stage multiphase segmentation method…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-15 Xueyan Guo , Yunhua Xue , Chunlin Wu

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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-02-14 Ion Necoara , Andrei Patrascu

Convergence of the gradient descent algorithm has been attracting renewed interest due to its utility in deep learning applications. Even as multiple variants of gradient descent were proposed, the assumption that the gradient of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-29 Thulasi Tholeti , Sheetal Kalyani

In this paper, we analyze the local convergence rate of optimistic mirror descent methods in stochastic variational inequalities, a class of optimization problems with important applications to learning theory and machine learning. Our…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-06 Waïss Azizian , Franck Iutzeler , Jérôme Malick , Panayotis Mertikopoulos

This paper aims to address the phase retrieval problem from subgaussian measurements with arbitrary noise, with a focus on devising robust and efficient algorithms for solving non-convex problems. To ensure uniqueness of solutions in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-11 Haiyang Peng , Deren Han , Linbin Li , Meng Huang

Ptychography has risen as a reference X-ray imaging technique: it achieves resolutions of one billionth of a meter, macroscopic field of view, or the capability to retrieve chemical or magnetic contrast, among other features. A…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-10 Huibin Chang , Pable Enfedaque , Stefano Marchesini

In this paper, we examine the convergence of mirror descent in a class of stochastic optimization problems that are not necessarily convex (or even quasi-convex), and which we call variationally coherent. Since the standard technique of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-07-17 Zhengyuan Zhou , Panayotis Mertikopoulos , Nicholas Bambos , Stephen Boyd , Peter Glynn

In this short note, we give the convergence analysis of the policy in the recent famous policy mirror descent (PMD). We mainly consider the unregularized setting following [11] with generalized Bregman divergence. The difference is that we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-04 Dachao Lin , Zhihua Zhang

The retrieval of phases from intensity measurements is a key process in many fields in science, from optical microscopy to x-ray crystallography. Here we study phase retrieval of a one-dimensional multi-phase object that is illuminated by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-16 Liat Liberman , Yonatan Israel , Eilon Poem , Yaron Silberberg