Stable optimizationless recovery from phaseless linear measurements (Q485222)

In this paper the authors address the problem of recovering an n-vector from m linear measurements lacking sign or phase information. They show that lifting and semidefinite relaxation suffice by themselves for stable recovery in the setting of \(m=O(n\log n)\) random sensing vectors, with high probability. The recovery method is optimizationless in the sense that trace minimization in the PhaseLift procedure is unnecessary. That is, PhaseLift reduces to a feasibility problem. The optimizationless perspective allows for a Douglas-Rachford numerical algorithm that is unavailable for PhaseLift. This method exhibits linear convergence with a favorable convergence rate and without any parameter tuning.