Title
On the convergence of approximate message passing with arbitrary matrices.
Abstract
Approximate message passing (AMP) methods and their variants have attracted considerable recent attention for the problem of estimating a random vector x observed through a linear transform A. In the case of large i.i.d. zero-mean Gaussian A, the methods exhibit fast convergence with precise analytic characterizations on the algorithm behavior. However, the convergence of AMP under general transforms A 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 A. This result explains the good performance of AMP on i.i.d. Gaussian transforms A, but also their difficulties with ill-conditioned or non-zero-mean transforms A. 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.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/TIT.2019.2913109
Information Theory
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Convergence,Damping,Transforms,Estimation,Message passing,Belief propagation,Probability density function
Journal
abs/1402.3210
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
9
0018-9448
58
PageRank 
References 
Authors
1.85
22
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sundeep Rangan13101163.90
Philip Schniter2162093.74
Alyson K. Fletcher355241.10