Fast Rank-One Alternating Minimization Algorithm for Phase Retrieval

The phase retrieval problem is a fundamental problem in many fields, which is appealing for investigation. It is to recover the signal vector x ~ ∈ C d from a set of N measurements b n = | f n ∗ x ~ | 2 , n = 1 , … , N , where { f n } n = 1 N forms a frame of C d . Existing algorithms usually use a...

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Published in:Journal of scientific computing Vol. 79; no. 1; pp. 128 - 147
Main Authors: Cai, Jian-Feng, Liu, Haixia, Wang, Yang
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: New York Springer US 01.04.2019
Springer Nature B.V
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ISSN:0885-7474, 1573-7691
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Summary:The phase retrieval problem is a fundamental problem in many fields, which is appealing for investigation. It is to recover the signal vector x ~ ∈ C d from a set of N measurements b n = | f n ∗ x ~ | 2 , n = 1 , … , N , where { f n } n = 1 N forms a frame of C d . Existing algorithms usually use a least squares fitting to the measurements, yielding a quartic polynomial minimization. In this paper, we employ a new strategy by splitting the variables, and we solve a bi-variate optimization problem that is quadratic in each of the variables. An alternating gradient descent algorithm is proposed, and its convergence for any initialization is provided. Since a larger step size is allowed due to the smaller Hessian, the alternating gradient descent algorithm converges faster than the gradient descent algorithm (known as the Wirtinger flow algorithm) applied to the quartic objective without splitting the variables. Numerical results illustrate that our proposed algorithm needs less iterations than Wirtinger flow to achieve the same accuracy.
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ISSN:0885-7474
1573-7691
DOI:10.1007/s10915-018-0857-9