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Flow Matching has become a cornerstone of modern generative models like Stable Diffusion 3, largely due to the efficiency of its Rectified Flow (RF) variant. The success of RF hinges on iteratively learning straight trajectories, pushing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Vansh Bansal , Saptarshi Roy , Purnamrita Sarkar , Alessandro Rinaldo

This paper considers the noisy sparse phase retrieval problem: recovering a sparse signal $x \in \mathbb{R}^p$ from noisy quadratic measurements $y_j = (a_j' x )^2 + \epsilon_j$, $j=1, \ldots, m$, with independent sub-exponential noise…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-06-11 T. Tony Cai , Xiaodong Li , Zongming Ma

In this paper, we analyze the non-convex framework of Wirtinger Flow (WF) for phase retrieval and identify a novel sufficient condition for universal exact recovery through the lens of low rank matrix recovery theory. Via a perspective in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Bariscan Yonel , Birsen Yazici

The phase retrieval problem has garnered significant attention since the development of the PhaseLift algorithm, which is a convex program that operates in a lifted space of matrices. Because of the substantial computational cost due to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Paul Hand , Vladislav Voroninski

We consider the problem of phase retrieval, i.e. that of solving systems of quadratic equations. A simple variant of the randomized Kaczmarz method was recently proposed for phase retrieval, and it was shown numerically to have a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-16 Yan Shuo Tan , Roman Vershynin

This paper discusses phase retrieval algorithms for maximum likelihood (ML) estimation from measurements following independent Poisson distributions in very low-count regimes, e.g., 0.25 photon per pixel. To maximize the log-likelihood of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Zongyu Li , Kenneth Lange , Jeffrey A. Fessler

This paper presents a new algorithm, termed \emph{truncated amplitude flow} (TAF), to recover an unknown vector $\bm{x}$ from a system of quadratic equations of the form $y_i=|\langle\bm{a}_i,\bm{x}\rangle|^2$, where $\bm{a}_i$'s are given…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-08-22 Gang Wang , Georgios B. Giannakis , Yonina C. Eldar

This paper investigates the convergence of the randomized Kaczmarz algorithm for the problem of phase retrieval of complex-valued objects. While this algorithm has been studied for the real-valued case}, its generalization to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Teng Zhang , Feng Yu

This paper considers the problem of phase retrieval, where the goal is to recover a signal $z\in C^n$ from the observations $y_i=|a_i^* z|$, $i=1,2,\cdots,m$. While many algorithms have been proposed, the alternating minimization algorithm…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-17 Teng Zhang

The problem of reconstructing a sparse signal vector from magnitude-only measurements (a.k.a., compressive phase retrieval), emerges naturally in diverse applications, but it is NP-hard in general. Building on recent advances in nonconvex…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Liang Zhang , Gang Wang , Georgios B. Giannakis , Jie Chen

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

This paper presents a new algorithm, Accelerated Wirtinger Flow (AWF), for ptychographic image reconstruction from phaseless diffraction pattern measurements. AWF is based on combining Nesterov's acceleration approach with Wirtinger…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-06-29 Rui Xu , Mahdi Soltanolkotabi , Justin P. Haldar , Walter Unglaub , Joshua Zusman , Anthony F. J. Levi , Richard M. Leahy

Existing nonconvex statistical optimization theory and methods crucially rely on the correct specification of the underlying "true" statistical models. To address this issue, we take a first step towards taming model misspecification by…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-12-19 Zhuoran Yang , Lin F. Yang , Ethan X. Fang , Tuo Zhao , Zhaoran Wang , Matey Neykov

Likelihood-based deep generative models have been widely investigated for Image Anomaly Detection (IAD), particularly Normalizing Flows, yet their strict architectural invertibility needs often constrain scalability, particularly in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Liangwei Li , Lin Liu , Hanzhe Liang , Juanxiu Liu , Jing Zhang , Ruqian Hao , Xiaohui Du , Yong Liu , Pan Li

Recent advancements in generative modeling have significantly enhanced the reconstruction of audio waveforms from various representations. While diffusion models are adept at this task, they are hindered by latency issues due to their…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Peng Liu , Dongyang Dai , Zhiyong Wu

The problem of recovering a one-dimensional signal from its Fourier transform magnitude, called Fourier phase retrieval, is ill-posed in most cases. We consider the closely-related problem of recovering a signal from its phaseless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Tamir Bendory , Yonina C. Eldar , Nicolas Boumal

We consider the problem of reconstructing an $n$-dimensional $k$-sparse signal from a set of noiseless magnitude-only measurements. Formulating the problem as an unregularized empirical risk minimization task, we study the sample complexity…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-02-25 Fan Wu , Patrick Rebeschini

Extended formulation of Full Waveform Inversion (FWI), called Wavefield Reconstruction Inversion (WRI), offers potential benefits of decreasing the nonlinearity of the inverse problem by replacing the explicit inverse of the ill-conditioned…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-18 Hossein S. Aghamiry , Ali Gholami , Stéphane Operto

In many areas of imaging science, it is difficult to measure the phase of linear measurements. As such, one often wishes to reconstruct a signal from intensity measurements, that is, perform phase retrieval. In this paper, we provide a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-09-13 Boris Alexeev , Afonso S. Bandeira , Matthew Fickus , Dustin G. Mixon

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