text: Motivated by recent work on stochastic gradient descent methods, we develop two stochastic variants of greedy algorithms for possibly non-convex optimization problems with sparsity constraints. We prove linear convergence in expectation to the solution within a specified tolerance. This generalized framework applies to problems such as sparse signal recovery in compressed sensing, low-rank matrix recovery, and covariance matrix estimation, giving methods with provable convergence guarantees that often outperform their deterministic counterparts. We also analyze the settings where gradients and projections can only be computed approximately, and prove the methods are robust to these approximations. We include many numerical experiments which align with the theoretical analysis and demonstrate these improvements in several different settings.
  @cite_29: Abstract Compressive sampling offers a new paradigm for acquiring signals that are compressible with respect to an orthonormal basis. The major algorithmic challenge in compressive sampling is to approximate a compressible signal from noisy samples. This paper describes a new iterative recovery algorithm called CoSaMP that delivers the same guarantees as the best optimization-based approaches. Moreover, this algorithm offers rigorous bounds on computational cost and storage. It is likely to be extremely efficient for practical problems because it requires only matrix–vector multiplies with the sampling matrix. For compressible signals, the running time is just O ( N log 2 N ) , where N is the length of the signal.
  @cite_21: This paper presents a new analysis for the orthogonal matching pursuit (OMP) algorithm. It is shown that if the restricted isometry property (RIP) is satisfied at sparsity level O(k), then OMP can stably recover a k-sparse signal in 2-norm under measurement noise. For compressed sensing applications, this result implies that in order to uniformly recover a k-sparse signal in Rd, only O(k lnd) random projections are needed. This analysis improves some earlier results on OMP depending on stronger conditions that can only be satisfied with Ω(k2 lnd) or Ω(k1.6 lnd) random projections.
  @cite_24: We demonstrate a simple greedy algorithm that can reliably recover a vector v ∈ R from incomplete and inaccurate measurements x = Φv + e. Here Φ is a N × d measurement matrix with N ≪ d, and e is an error vector. Our algorithm, Regularized Orthogonal Matching Pursuit (ROMP), seeks to close the gap between two major approaches to sparse recovery. It combines the speed and ease of implementation of the greedy methods with the strong guarantees of the convex programming methods. For any measurement matrix Φ that satisfies a Uniform Uncertainty Principle, ROMP recovers a signal v with O(n) nonzeros from its inaccurate measurements x in at most n iterations, where each iteration amounts to solving a Least Squares Problem. The noise level of the recovery is proportional to √ logn‖e‖2. In particular, if the error term e vanishes the reconstruction is exact. This stability result extends naturally to the very accurate recovery of approximately sparse signals.
  @cite_19: This article presents new results on using a greedy algorithm, orthogonal matching pursuit (OMP), to solve the sparse approximation problem over redundant dictionaries. It provides a sufficient condition under which both OMP and Donoho's basis pursuit (BP) paradigm can recover the optimal representation of an exactly sparse signal. It leverages this theory to show that both OMP and BP succeed for every sparse input signal from a wide class of dictionaries. These quasi-incoherent dictionaries offer a natural generalization of incoherent dictionaries, and the cumulative coherence function is introduced to quantify the level of incoherence. This analysis unifies all the recent results on BP and extends them to OMP. Furthermore, the paper develops a sufficient condition under which OMP can identify atoms from an optimal approximation of a nonsparse signal. From there, it argues that OMP is an approximation algorithm for the sparse problem over a quasi-incoherent dictionary. That is, for every input signal, OMP calculates a sparse approximant whose error is only a small factor worse than the minimal error that can be attained with the same number of terms.
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  @cite_12: Compressed sensing is a technique to sample compressible signals below the Nyquist rate, whilst still allowing near optimal reconstruction of the signal. In this paper we present a theoretical analysis of the iterative hard thresholding algorithm when applied to the compressed sensing recovery problem. We show that the algorithm has the following properties (made more precise in the main text of the paper)
summary: More in line with our work are greedy approaches. These algorithms reconstruct the signal by identifying elements of the support iteratively. Once an accurate support set is located, a simple least-squares problem recovers the signal accurately. Greedy algorithms like Orthogonal Matching Pursuit (OMP) @cite_19 and Regularized OMP (ROMP) @cite_24 offer a much faster runtime than the convex relaxation approaches but lack comparable strong recovery guarantees. Recent work on greedy methods like Compressive Sampling Matching Pursuit (CoSaMP) and Iterative Hard Thresholding (IHT) offer both the advantage of a fast runtime and essentially the same recovery guarantees as (e.g. @cite_29 @cite_12 @cite_21 @cite_23 ). However, these algorithms are only applied for problems in compressed sensing where the least square loss is used to measure the discrepancy. There certainly exists many loss functions that are commonly used in statistical machine learning and do not exhibit quadratic structure such as log-likelihood loss. Therefore, it is necessary to develop efficient algorithms to solve ).