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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

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

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

It was recently shown that the phase retrieval imaging of a sample can be modeled as a simple convolution process. Sometimes, such a convolution depends on physical parameters of the sample which are difficult to estimate a priori. In this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-02-20 Eduardo X. Miqueles , Nathaly L. Archilha , Marcelo R. Dos Anjos , Harry Westfahl , Elias S. Helou

The problem of recovering a signal from its phaseless Fourier transform measurements, called Fourier phase retrieval, arises in many applications in engineering and science. Fourier phase retrieval poses fundamental theoretical and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-08 Tamir Bendory , Robert Beinert , Yonina C. Eldar

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

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

Signal recovery from nonlinear measurements involves solving an iterative optimization problem. In this paper, we present a framework to optimize the sensing parameters to improve the quality of the signal recovered by the given iterative…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-09 Zikui Cai , Rakib Hyder , M. Salman Asif

In imaging modalities recording diffraction data, the original image can be reconstructed assuming known phases. When phases are unknown, oversampling and a constraint on the support region in the original object can be used to solve a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-17 Alberto Pietrini , Carl Nettelblad

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

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

The phase retrieval problem in the presence of noise aims to recover the signal vector of interest from a set of quadratic measurements with infrequent but arbitrary corruptions, and it plays an important role in many scientific…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-09-04 Zhong Zheng , Lingzhou Xue

Given a linear system in a real or complex domain, linear regression aims to recover the model parameters from a set of observations. Recent studies in compressive sensing have successfully shown that under certain conditions, a linear…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-11-15 Henrik Ohlsson , Allen Y. Yang , Roy Dong , S. Shankar Sastry

We consider the robust phase retrieval problem of recovering the unknown signal from the magnitude-only measurements, where the measurements can be contaminated by both sparse arbitrary corruption and bounded random noise. We propose a new…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-01-08 Jinghui Chen , Lingxiao Wang , Xiao Zhang , Quanquan Gu

Generally, phase retrieval problem can be viewed as the reconstruction of a function/signal from only the magnitude of the linear measurements. These measurements can be, for example, the Fourier transform of the density function.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-21 Bing Gao , Haixia Liu , Yang Wang

Phase retrieval aims at reconstructing unknown signals from magnitude measurements of linear mixtures. In this paper, we consider the phase retrieval with dictionary learning problem, which includes an additional prior information that the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-24 Tianyi Liu , Andreas M. Tillmann , Yang Yang , Yonina C. Eldar , Marius Pesavento

We study a spectral initialization method that serves a key role in recent work on estimating signals in nonconvex settings. Previous analysis of this method focuses on the phase retrieval problem and provides only performance bounds. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Yue M. Lu , Gen Li

In many applications, signals are measured according to a linear process, but the phases of these measurements are often unreliable or not available. To reconstruct the signal, one must perform a process known as phase retrieval. This paper…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2013-07-30 Matthew Fickus , Dustin G. Mixon , Aaron A. Nelson , Yang Wang

We develop procedures, based on minimization of the composition $f(x) = h(c(x))$ of a convex function $h$ and smooth function $c$, for solving random collections of quadratic equalities, applying our methodology to phase retrieval problems.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-04-24 John C. Duchi , Feng Ruan

Phase retrieval (PR), also sometimes referred to as quadratic sensing, is a problem that occurs in numerous signal and image acquisition domains ranging from optics, X-ray crystallography, Fourier ptychography, sub-diffraction imaging, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Namrata Vaswani