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Compressed sensing - probabilistic analysis of a null-space characterization

Stojnic, Mihailo and Xu, Weiyu and Hassibi, Babak (2008) Compressed sensing - probabilistic analysis of a null-space characterization. In: 2008 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing. International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP). IEEE , pp. 3377-3380. ISBN 978-1-4244-1483-3. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20100707-153301650

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Abstract

It is well known that compressed sensing problems reduce to solving large under-determined systems of equations. To assure that the problem is well defined, i.e., that the solution is unique the vector of unknowns is of course assumed to be sparse. Nonetheless, even when the solution is unique, finding it in general may be computationally difficult. However, starting with the seminal work of Candes and Tao [2005], it has been shown that linear programming techniques, obtained from an l_1-norm relaxation of the original non-convex problem, can provably find the unknown vector in certain instances. In particular, using a certain restricted isometry property, Candes and Tao [2005] shows that for measurement matrices chosen from a random Gaussian ensemble, l_1 optimization can find the correct solution with overwhelming probability even when the number of non-zero entries of the unknown vector is proportional to the number of measurements (and the total number of unknowns). The subsequent paper [Donoho and Tanner, 2005] uses results on neighborly polytopes from [Vershik and Sporyshev, 1992] to give a "sharp" bound on what this proportionality should be in the Gaussian case. In the current paper, we observe that what matters is not so much the distribution from which the entries of the measurement matrix A are drawn, but rather the statistics of the null-space of A. Using this observation, we provide an alternative proof of the main result of Candes and Tao [2005] by analyzing matrices whose null-space is isotropic (of which i.i.d. Gaussian ensembles are a special case).


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Additional Information:© 2008 IEEE. This work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation under grant no. CCR-0133818, by the David and Lucille Packard Foundation, and by Caltech’s Lee Center for Advanced Networking.
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Subject Keywords:compressed sensing; l(1)-optimization
Series Name:International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
DOI:10.1109/ICASSP.2008.4518375
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Deposited By: Tony Diaz
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