2023-07-14
Sharpness and well-conditioning of nonsmooth convex formulations in statistical signal recovery
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We study a sample complexity vs. conditioning tradeoff in modern signal recovery problems where convex optimization problems are built from sampled observations. We begin by introducing a set of condition numbers related to sharpness in ℓp or Schatten-p norms (p∈[1,2]) based on nonsmooth reformulations of a class of convex optimization problems, including sparse recovery, low-rank matrix sensing, covariance estimation, and (abstract) phase retrieval. In each of the recovery tasks, we show that the condition numbers become dimension independent constants once the sample size exceeds some constant multiple of the recovery threshold. Structurally, this result ensures that the inaccuracy in the recovered signal due to both observation noise and optimization error is well-controlled. Algorithmically, such a result ensures that a new first-order method for solving the class of sharp convex functions in a given ℓp or Schatten-p norm, when applied to the nonsmooth formulations, achieves nearly-dimension-independent linear convergence.
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| doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2307.06873 | |
| Optimization for and with Machine Learning | |
| Organisation | Networks and Optimization |
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Ding, L, & Wang, A.L. (2023). Sharpness and well-conditioning of nonsmooth convex formulations in statistical signal recovery. doi:10.48550/arXiv.2307.06873
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