Phase transitions for greedy sparse approximation algorithms

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Abstract: A major enterprise in compressed sensing and sparse approximation is the design and analysis of computationally tractable algorithms for recovering sparse, exact or approximate, solutions of underdetermined linear systems of equations. Many such algorithms have now been proven to have optimal-order uniform recovery guarantees using the ubiquitous Restricted Isometry Property (RIP). However, it is unclear when the RIP-based sufficient conditions on the algorithm are satisfied. We present a framework in which this task can be achieved; translating these conditions for Gaussian measurement matrices into requirements on the signal's sparsity level, length, and number of measurements. We illustrate this approach on three of the state-of-the-art greedy algorithms: CoSaMP, Subspace Pursuit (SP), and Iterative Hard Thresholding (IHT). Designed to allow a direct comparison of existing theory, our framework implies that, according to the best known bounds, IHT requires the fewest number of compressed sensing measurements and has the lowest per iteration computational cost of the three algorithms compared here.


The authors deal with three illustrative greedy algorithms -- compressed sensing machine pursuits (CoSeMP), subspace pursuits (SP), and iterative hard thresholdings (IHT) -- that have similar uniform guarantees of successful recovery of sparse signals when the measurement matrix \(A\) satisfies the ubiquitous restricted isometry property (RIP). These three algorithms are related. The authors develop several techniques. They derive an important theorem that can be used for CoSeMP, SP, and IHT algorithms. The phase-transition framework translates the generic RIP-based conditions of Theorem 3.



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