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Consider the task of recovering an unknown $n$-vector from phaseless linear measurements. This task is the phase retrieval problem. Through the technique of lifting, this nonconvex problem may be convexified into a semidefinite rank-one…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-02-17 Paul Hand

Gradient-based iterative optimization methods are the workhorse of modern machine learning. They crucially rely on careful tuning of parameters like learning rate and momentum. However, one typically sets them using heuristic approaches…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Dravyansh Sharma

Recovering high-dimensional statistical structure from limited measurements is a fundamental challenge in hyperspectral imaging, where capturing full-resolution data is often infeasible due to sensor, bandwidth, or acquisition constraints.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-01 Jonathan Monsalve , Kumar Vijay Mishra

Recent years have seen increased interest in performance guarantees of gradient descent algorithms for non-convex optimization. A number of works have uncovered that gradient noise plays a critical role in the ability of gradient descent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-21 Stefan Vlaski , Ali H. Sayed

The problem of phase retrieval has many applications in the field of optical imaging. Motivated by imaging experiments with biological specimens, we primarily consider the setting of low-dose illumination where Poisson noise plays the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-28 Benedikt Diederichs , Frank Filbir , Patricia Römer

This paper investigates noise-robust phase retrieval by enhancing the prDeep architecture with difference of convex functions (DC) and DnCNN-based denoising regularization. This research introduces two novel algorithms, prDeep-DC and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-24 Xueming Li , Bing Guo

Phase retrieval aims to recover a signal from magnitude or power spectra measurements. It is often addressed by considering a minimization problem involving a quadratic cost function. We propose a different formulation based on Bregman…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Pierre-Hugo Vial , Paul Magron , Thomas Oberlin , Cédric Févotte

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

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

Optimization algorithms for solving nonconvex inverse problem have attracted significant interests recently. However, existing methods require the nonconvex regularization to be smooth or simple to ensure convergence. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Qingchao Zhang , Xiaojing Ye , Hongcheng Liu , Yunmei Chen

Non-convex optimization problems are challenging to solve; the success and computational expense of a gradient descent algorithm or variant depend heavily on the initialization strategy. Often, either random initialization is used or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Kartik Ahuja , Amit Dhurandhar , Kush R. Varshney

In this paper, we propose a new non-convex algorithm for solving the phase retrieval problem, i.e., the reconstruction of a signal $ \vx\in\H^n $ ($\H=\R$ or $\C$) from phaseless samples $ b_j=\abs{\langle \va_j, \vx\rangle } $, $…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-15 Bing Gao , Xinwei Sun , Yang Wang , Zhiqiang Xu

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

This paper reviews the gradient sampling methodology for solving nonsmooth, nonconvex optimization problems. An intuitively straightforward gradient sampling algorithm is stated and its convergence properties are summarized. Throughout this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-01 James V. Burke , Frank E. Curtis , Adrian S. Lewis , Michael L. Overton , Lucas E. A. Simões

The PhaseLift algorithm is an effective convex method for solving the phase retrieval problem from Fourier measurements with coded diffraction patterns (CDP). While exact reconstruction guarantees are well-established in the noiseless case,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Meng Huang , Jinming Wen , Ran Zhang

We consider the problem of recovering an unknown signal $\pmb{x}_0\in \mathbb{R}^{n}$ from phaseless measurements. In this paper, we study the convex phase retrieval problem via PhaseLift from linear Gaussian measurements perturbed by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Gao Huang , Song Li , Hang Xu

Distributed gradient descent algorithms have come to the fore in modern machine learning, especially in parallelizing the handling of large datasets that are distributed across several workers. However, scant attention has been paid to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-06 Shuche Wang , Vincent Y. F. Tan

In this paper, we develop convergence analysis of a modified line search method for objective functions whose value is computed with noise and whose gradient estimates are inexact and possibly random. The noise is assumed to be bounded in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-05 Albert S. Berahas , Liyuan Cao , Katya Scheinberg

We consider non-smooth saddle point optimization problems. To solve these problems, we propose a zeroth-order method under bounded or Lipschitz continuous noise, possible adversarial. In contrast to the state-of-the-art algorithms, our…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-28 Darina Dvinskikh , Vladislav Tominin , Yaroslav Tominin , Alexander Gasnikov

We consider a variant of regression problem, where the correspondence between input and output data is not available. Such shuffled data is commonly observed in many real world problems. Taking flow cytometry as an example, the measuring…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-12 Yujia Xie , Yixiu Mao , Simiao Zuo , Hongteng Xu , Xiaojing Ye , Tuo Zhao , Hongyuan Zha