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Poster

A Nonconvex Approach for Exact and Efficient Multichannel Sparse Blind Deconvolution

Qing Qu · Xiao Li · Zhihui Zhu

East Exhibition Hall B, C #207

Keywords: [ Algorithms ] [ Sparsity and Compressed Sensing ] [ Non-Convex Optimization ] [ Applications -> Signal Processing; Optimization ]


Abstract: We study the multi-channel sparse blind deconvolution (MCS-BD) problem, whose task is to simultaneously recover a kernel $\mathbf a$ and multiple sparse inputs $\{\mathbf x_i\}_{i=1}^p$ from their circulant convolution $\mathbf y_i = \mathbf a \circledast \mathbf x_i $ ($i=1,\cdots,p$). We formulate the task as a nonconvex optimization problem over the sphere. Under mild statistical assumptions of the data, we prove that the vanilla Riemannian gradient descent (RGD) method, with random initializations, provably recovers both the kernel $\mathbf a$ and the signals $\{\mathbf x_i\}_{i=1}^p$ up to a signed shift ambiguity. In comparison with state-of-the-art results, our work shows significant improvements in terms of sample complexity and computational efficiency. Our theoretical results are corroborated by numerical experiments, which demonstrate superior performance of the proposed approach over the previous methods on both synthetic and real datasets.

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