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Improving compressed sensing with the diamond norm
In low-rank matrix recovery, one aims to reconstruct a low-rank matrix from a
minimal number of linear measurements. Within the paradigm of compressed
sensing, this is made computationally efficient by minimizing the nuclear norm
as a convex surrogate for rank.
In this work, we identify an improved regularizer based on the so-called
diamond norm, a concept imported from quantum information theory. We show that
-for a class of matrices saturating a certain norm inequality- the descent cone
of the diamond norm is contained in that of the nuclear norm. This suggests
superior reconstruction properties for these matrices. We explicitly
characterize this set of matrices. Moreover, we demonstrate numerically that
the diamond norm indeed outperforms the nuclear norm in a number of relevant
applications: These include signal analysis tasks such as blind matrix
deconvolution or the retrieval of certain unitary basis changes, as well as the
quantum information problem of process tomography with random measurements.
The diamond norm is defined for matrices that can be interpreted as order-4
tensors and it turns out that the above condition depends crucially on that
tensorial structure. In this sense, this work touches on an aspect of the
notoriously difficult tensor completion problem.Comment: 25 pages + Appendix, 7 Figures, published versio
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