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We consider the problem of phase retrieval from corrupted magnitude observations. In particular we show that a fixed $x_0 \in \mathbb{R}^n$ can be recovered exactly from corrupted magnitude measurements $|\langle a_i, x_0 \rangle | +…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-13 Paul Hand , Vladislav Voroninski

In the phase retrieval problem, an unknown vector is to be recovered given quadratic measurements. This problem has received considerable attention in recent times. In this paper, we present an algorithm to solve a nonconvex formulation of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-13 Ritesh Kolte , Ayfer Özgür

Phase retrieval refers to algorithmic methods for recovering a signal from its phaseless measurements. Local search algorithms that work directly on the non-convex formulation of the problem have been very popular recently. Due to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-06 Rishabh Dudeja , Milad Bakhshizadeh , Junjie Ma , Arian Maleki

This paper considers the robust phase retrieval, which can be cast as a nonsmooth and nonconvex composite optimization problem. We propose two first-order algorithms with adaptive step sizes: the subgradient algorithm (AdaSubGrad) and the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Zhong Zheng , Necdet Serhat Aybat , Shiqian Ma , Lingzhou Xue

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 has been mainly considered in the presence of Gaussian noise. However, the performance of the algorithms proposed under the Gaussian noise model severely degrades when grossly corrupted data, i.e., outliers, exist. This…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-22 Cheng Qian , Xiao Fu , Nicholas D. Sidiropoulos , Lei Huang , Junhao Xie

We improve a phase retrieval approach that uses correlation-based measurements with compactly supported measurement masks [27]. The improved algorithm admits deterministic measurement constructions together with a robust, fast recovery…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-12-07 Mark A. Iwen , Brian Preskitt , Rayan Saab , Aditya Viswanathan

We study nonconvex optimization for phase retrieval and the more general problem of semidefinite low-rank matrix sensing; in particular, we focus on the global nonconvex landscape of overparametrized versions of the nonsmooth amplitude…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Andrew D. McRae

We develop a fast phase retrieval method which can utilize a large class of local phaseless correlation-based measurements in order to recover a given signal ${\bf x} \in \mathbb{C}^d$ (up to an unknown global phase) in near-linear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-07-12 Mark Iwen , Aditya Viswanathan , Yang Wang

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

Affine phase retrieval is the problem of recovering signals from the magnitude-only measurements with a priori information. In this paper, we use the $\ell_1$ minimization to exploit the sparsity of signals for affine phase retrieval,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Meng Huang , Shixiang Sun , Zhiqiang Xu

In this paper, we consider the sparse phase retrieval problem, recovering an $s$-sparse signal $\bm{x}^{\natural}\in\mathbb{R}^n$ from $m$ phaseless samples $y_i=|\langle\bm{x}^{\natural},\bm{a}_i\rangle|$ for $i=1,\ldots,m$. Existing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-15 Jian-Feng Cai , Jingzhi Li , Xiliang Lu , Juntao You

Recent progress in robust statistical learning has mainly tackled convex problems, like mean estimation or linear regression, with non-convex challenges receiving less attention. Phase retrieval exemplifies such a non-convex problem,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-10-15 Alex Buna , Patrick Rebeschini

Sparse phase retrieval plays an important role in many fields of applied science and thus attracts lots of attention. In this paper, we propose a \underline{sto}chastic alte\underline{r}nating \underline{m}inimizing method for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-17 Jianfeng Cai , Yuling Jiao , Xiliang Lu , Juntao You

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

Sparse modeling is one of the efficient techniques for imaging that allows recovering lost information. In this paper, we present a novel iterative phase-retrieval algorithm using a sparse representation of the object amplitude and phase.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2011-08-17 Artem Migukin , Vladimir Katkovnik , Jaakko Astola

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)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-17 Sohail Bahmani , Justin Romberg

We consider the problem of recovering a signal $\mathbf{x}^* \in \mathbf{R}^n$, from magnitude-only measurements $y_i = |\left\langle\mathbf{a}_i,\mathbf{x}^*\right\rangle|$ for $i=[m]$. Also called the phase retrieval, this is a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-28 Gauri Jagatap , Chinmay Hegde

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

We study a nonconvex optimization algorithmic approach to phase retrieval and the more general problem of semidefinite low-rank matrix sensing. Specifically, we analyze the nonconvex landscape of a quartic Burer-Monteiro factored…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-20 Andrew D. McRae