On the Convergence of Approximate Message Passing With Arbitrary Matrices

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Abstract: Approximate message passing (AMP) methods and their variants have attracted considerable recent attention for the problem of estimating a random vector mathbfx observed through a linear transform mathbfA. In the case of large i.i.d. zero-mean Gaussian mathbfA, the methods exhibit fast convergence with precise analytic characterizations on the algorithm behavior. However, the convergence of AMP under general transforms mathbfA is not fully understood. In this paper, we provide sufficient conditions for the convergence of a damped version of the generalized AMP (GAMP) algorithm in the case of quadratic cost functions (i.e., Gaussian likelihood and prior). It is shown that, with sufficient damping, the algorithm is guaranteed to converge, although the amount of damping grows with peak-to-average ratio of the squared singular values of the transforms mathbfA. This result explains the good performance of AMP on i.i.d. Gaussian transforms mathbfA, but also their difficulties with ill-conditioned or non-zero-mean transforms mathbfA. A related sufficient condition is then derived for the local stability of the damped GAMP method under general cost functions, assuming certain strict convexity conditions.













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