NESTA: A Fast and Accurate First-Order Method for Sparse Recovery

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DOI10.1137/090756855zbMATH Open1209.90265arXiv0904.3367OpenAlexW3124114587WikidataQ62780326 ScholiaQ62780326MaRDI QIDQ3077123FDOQ3077123

Emmanuel J. Candès, Jérôme Bobin, S. Becker

Publication date: 22 February 2011

Published in: SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Accurate signal recovery or image reconstruction from indirect and possibly undersampled data is a topic of considerable interest; for example, the literature in the recent field of compressed sensing is already quite immense. Inspired by recent breakthroughs in the development of novel first-order methods in convex optimization, most notably Nesterov's smoothing technique, this paper introduces a fast and accurate algorithm for solving common recovery problems in signal processing. In the spirit of Nesterov's work, one of the key ideas of this algorithm is a subtle averaging of sequences of iterates, which has been shown to improve the convergence properties of standard gradient-descent algorithms. This paper demonstrates that this approach is ideally suited for solving large-scale compressed sensing reconstruction problems as 1) it is computationally efficient, 2) it is accurate and returns solutions with several correct digits, 3) it is flexible and amenable to many kinds of reconstruction problems, and 4) it is robust in the sense that its excellent performance across a wide range of problems does not depend on the fine tuning of several parameters. Comprehensive numerical experiments on realistic signals exhibiting a large dynamic range show that this algorithm compares favorably with recently proposed state-of-the-art methods. We also apply the algorithm to solve other problems for which there are fewer alternatives, such as total-variation minimization, and convex programs seeking to minimize the l1 norm of Wx under constraints, in which W is not diagonal.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0904.3367






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