A Fast and Provable Algorithm for Sparse Phase Retrieval

Jian-Feng CAI, Yu Long, Ruixue WEN, Jiaxi Ying

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Keywords: Sparse Phase Retrieval, Quadratic Convergence, Newton-type Method, Hard Thresholding, Nonconvex Optimization

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Abstract: We study the sparse phase retrieval problem, which seeks to recover a sparse signal from a limited set of magnitude-only measurements. In contrast to prevalent sparse phase retrieval algorithms that primarily use first-order methods, we propose an innovative second-order algorithm that employs a Newton-type method with hard thresholding. This algorithm overcomes the linear convergence limitations of first-order methods while preserving their hallmark per-iteration computational efficiency. We provide theoretical guarantees that our algorithm converges to the $s$-sparse ground truth signal $\boldsymbol{x}^{\natural} \in \mathbb{R}^n$ (up to a global sign) at a quadratic convergence rate after at most $O(\log (\Vert\boldsymbol{x}^{\natural} \Vert /x_{\min}^{\natural}))$ iterations, using $\Omega(s^2\log n)$ Gaussian random samples. Numerical experiments show that our algorithm achieves a significantly faster convergence rate than state-of-the-art methods.

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Primary Area: optimization

Submission Number: 7574