Title
A convex program for bilinear inversion of sparse vectors.
Abstract
We consider the bilinear inverse problem of recovering two vectors, x is an element of R-L and w is an element of R-L, from their entrywise product. We consider the case where x and w have known signs and are sparse with respect to known dictionaries of size K and N, respectively. Here, K and N may be larger than, smaller than, or equal to L. We introduce l(1)-BranchHull, which is a convex program posed in the natural parameter space and does not require an approximate solution or initialization in order to be stated or solved. We study the case where x and w are S-1- and S-2-sparse with respect to a random dictionary, with the sparse vectors satisfying an effective sparsity condition, and present a recovery guarantee that depends on the number of measurements as L >= Omega( S-1 + S-2) log(2) (K + N). Numerical experiments verify that the scaling constant in the theorem is not too large. One application of this problem is the sweep distortion removal task in dielectric imaging, where one of the signals is a nonnegative reflectivity, and the other signal lives in a known subspace, for example that given by dominant wavelet coefficients. We also introduce a variants of l(1)-BranchHull for the purposes of tolerating noise and outliers, and for the purpose of recovering piecewise constant signals. We provide an ADMM implementation of these variants and show they can extract piecewise constant behavior from real images.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2018
ADVANCES IN NEURAL INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEMS 31 (NIPS 2018)
inverse problem,convex program,natural parameter,piecewise constant,entrywise product
DocType
Volume
ISSN
Conference
31
1049-5258
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.35
0
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Alireza Aghasi1182.10
Ahmed, Ali221.71
paul hand3347.64
Joshi, Babhru410.35