Compressive Phase Retrieval via Reweighted Amplitude Flow

Liang Zhang; Gang Wang; Georgios B. Giannakis; Jie Chen

doi:10.1109/TSP.2018.2862395

Compressive Phase Retrieval via Reweighted Amplitude Flow

Liang Zhang, Gang Wang, Georgios B. Giannakis, Jie Chen

Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Abstract

The problem of reconstructing a sparse signal vector from magnitude-only measurements (a.k.a. compressive phase retrieval) emerges in diverse applications, but it is NP-hard in general. Building on recent advances in nonconvex optimization, this paper puts forth a new algorithm that is termed compressive reweighted amplitude flow (CRAF) and abbreviated as CRAF, for compressive phase retrieval. Specifically, CRAF operates in two stages. The first stage seeks a sparse initial guess via a new spectral procedure. In the second stage, CRAF implements a few hard thresholding based iterations using reweighted gradients. When there are sufficient measurements, CRAF provably recovers the underlying signal vector exactly with high probability under suitable conditions. Moreover, its sample complexity coincides with that of state-of-the-art procedures. Finally, numerical tests showcase improved performance of the new spectral initialization, as well as improved exact recovery relative to competing alternatives. Empirically, the number of measurements required for exact recovery by CRAF is about 40% less than those of competing alternatives in our experiments using real images.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	8424911
Pages (from-to)	5029-5040
Number of pages	12
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
Volume	66
Issue number	19
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TSP.2018.2862395
State	Published - Oct 1 2018

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Manuscript received January 2, 2018; revised May 24, 2018; accepted July 23, 2018. Date of publication August 3, 2018; date of current version August 24, 2018. The associate editor coordinating the review of this manuscript and approving it for publication was Prof. Tsung-Hui Chang. The work of L. Zhang, G. Wang, and G. B. Giannakis was supported by National Science Foundation under Grant 1423316, Grant 1442686, Grant 1508993, and Grant 1509040. The work of J. Chen was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant U1509215 and Grant 61621063, and in part by the Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University (IRT1208). (Corresponding author: Georgios B. Giannakis.) L. Zhang and G. B. Giannakis are with the Digital Technology Center and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA (e-mail:, zhan3523@umn.edu; georgios@umn.edu).

Funding Information:
The associate editor coordinating the review of this manuscript and approving it for publication was Prof. Tsung-Hui Chang. The work of L. Zhang, G. Wang, and G. B. Giannakis was supported by National Science Foundation under Grant 1423316, Grant 1442686, Grant 1508993, and Grant 1509040. The work of J. Chen was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant U1509215 and Grant 61621063, and in part by the Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University (IRT1208).

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Keywords

Nonconvex optimization
iteratively reweighting
linear convergence to the global optimum
model-based hard thresholding

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