Sparse approximation based on a random overcomplete basis

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Abstract: We discuss a strategy of sparse approximation that is based on the use of an overcomplete basis, and evaluate its performance when a random matrix is used as this basis. A small combination of basis vectors is chosen from a given overcomplete basis, according to a given compression rate, such that they compactly represent the target data with as small a distortion as possible. As a selection method, we study the ell0- and ell1-based methods, which employ the exhaustive search and ell1-norm regularization techniques, respectively. The performance is assessed in terms of the trade-off relation between the representation distortion and the compression rate. First, we evaluate the performance analytically in the case that the methods are carried out ideally, using methods of statistical mechanics. Our result clarifies the fact that the ell0-based method greatly outperforms the ell1-based one. Second, we examine the practical performances of two well-known algorithms, orthogonal matching pursuit and approximate message passing, when they are used to execute the ell0- and ell1-based methods, respectively. Our examination shows that orthogonal matching pursuit achieves a much better performance than the exact execution of the ell1-based method, as well as approximate message passing. However, regarding the ell0-based method, there is still room to design more effective greedy algorithms than orthogonal matching pursuit. Finally, we evaluate the performances of the algorithms when they are applied to image data compression.











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