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Structured random measurements in signal processing
Compressed sensing and its extensions have recently triggered interest in
randomized signal acquisition. A key finding is that random measurements
provide sparse signal reconstruction guarantees for efficient and stable
algorithms with a minimal number of samples. While this was first shown for
(unstructured) Gaussian random measurement matrices, applications require
certain structure of the measurements leading to structured random measurement
matrices. Near optimal recovery guarantees for such structured measurements
have been developed over the past years in a variety of contexts. This article
surveys the theory in three scenarios: compressed sensing (sparse recovery),
low rank matrix recovery, and phaseless estimation. The random measurement
matrices to be considered include random partial Fourier matrices, partial
random circulant matrices (subsampled convolutions), matrix completion, and
phase estimation from magnitudes of Fourier type measurements. The article
concludes with a brief discussion of the mathematical techniques for the
analysis of such structured random measurements.Comment: 22 pages, 2 figure
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
Blind calibration for compressed sensing by convex optimization
We consider the problem of calibrating a compressed sensing measurement
system under the assumption that the decalibration consists in unknown gains on
each measure. We focus on {\em blind} calibration, using measures performed on
a few unknown (but sparse) signals. A naive formulation of this blind
calibration problem, using minimization, is reminiscent of blind
source separation and dictionary learning, which are known to be highly
non-convex and riddled with local minima. In the considered context, we show
that in fact this formulation can be exactly expressed as a convex optimization
problem, and can be solved using off-the-shelf algorithms. Numerical
simulations demonstrate the effectiveness of the approach even for highly
uncalibrated measures, when a sufficient number of (unknown, but sparse)
calibrating signals is provided. We observe that the success/failure of the
approach seems to obey sharp phase transitions
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