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most citedOn the low-rank approach for semidefinite programs arising in synchronization and community detection

87 citations · 386 across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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23 papers

cs.LG2020

Optimal Sample Complexity of Subgradient Descent for Amplitude Flow via Non-Lipschitz Matrix Concentration

Paul Hand, Oscar Leong, Vladislav Voroninski

We consider the problem of recovering a real-valued -dimensional signal from phaseless, linear measurements and analyze the amplitude-based non-smooth least squares objectiv…

cs.IT2020★ 1 cited

Compressive Phase Retrieval: Optimal Sample Complexity with Deep Generative Priors

Paul Hand, Oscar Leong, Vladislav Voroninski

Advances in compressive sensing provided reconstruction algorithms of sparse signals from linear measurements with optimal sample complexity, but natural extensions of this methodo…

stat.ML2020★ 2 cited

Nonasymptotic Guarantees for Spiked Matrix Recovery with Generative Priors

Jorio Cocola, Paul Hand, Vladislav Voroninski

Many problems in statistics and machine learning require the reconstruction of a rank-one signal matrix from noisy data. Enforcing additional prior information on the rank-one comp…

math.OC2018★ 17 cited

A Provably Convergent Scheme for Compressive Sensing under Random Generative Priors

Wen Huang, Paul Hand, Reinhard Heckel +1

Deep generative modeling has led to new and state of the art approaches for enforcing structural priors in a variety of inverse problems. In contrast to priors given by sparsity, d…

cs.IT2018★ 16 cited

Phase Retrieval Under a Generative Prior

Paul Hand, Oscar Leong, Vladislav Voroninski

The phase retrieval problem asks to recover a natural signal from quadratic observations, where is to be minimized. As is common in many imaging prob…

cs.IT2018

Rate-Optimal Denoising with Deep Neural Networks

Reinhard Heckel, Wen Huang, Paul Hand +1

Deep neural networks provide state-of-the-art performance for image denoising, where the goal is to recover a near noise-free image from a noisy observation. The underlying princip…

math.OC2018★ 54 cited

Deterministic guarantees for Burer-Monteiro factorizations of smooth semidefinite programs

Nicolas Boumal, Vladislav Voroninski, Afonso S. Bandeira

We consider semidefinite programs (SDPs) with equality constraints. The variable to be optimized is a positive semidefinite matrix of size . Following the Burer--Monteiro ap…

cs.IT2017

Global Guarantees for Enforcing Deep Generative Priors by Empirical Risk

Paul Hand, Vladislav Voroninski

We examine the theoretical properties of enforcing priors provided by generative deep neural networks via empirical risk minimization. In particular we consider two models, one in…

cs.CV2017

A Survey of Structure from Motion

Onur Ozyesil, Vladislav Voroninski, Ronen Basri +1

The structure from motion (SfM) problem in computer vision is the problem of recovering the three-dimensional (D) structure of a stationary scene from a set of projective measur…

cs.IT2016★ 16 cited

Corruption Robust Phase Retrieval via Linear Programming

Paul Hand, Vladislav Voroninski

We consider the problem of phase retrieval from corrupted magnitude observations. In particular we show that a fixed can be recovered exactly from corrupted…

cs.IT2016★ 34 cited

An Elementary Proof of Convex Phase Retrieval in the Natural Parameter Space via the Linear Program PhaseMax

Paul Hand, Vladislav Voroninski

The phase retrieval problem has garnered significant attention since the development of the PhaseLift algorithm, which is a convex program that operates in a lifted space of matric…

cs.IT2016★ 21 cited

Compressed Sensing from Phaseless Gaussian Measurements via Linear Programming in the Natural Parameter Space

Paul Hand, Vladislav Voroninski

We consider faithfully combining phase retrieval with classical compressed sensing. Inspired by the recent novel formulation for phase retrieval called PhaseMax, we present and ana…

cs.CV2016★ 8 cited

ShapeFit and ShapeKick for Robust, Scalable Structure from Motion

Thomas Goldstein, Paul Hand, Choongbum Lee +2

We introduce a new method for location recovery from pair-wise directions that leverages an efficient convex program that comes with exact recovery guarantees, even in the presence…

math.OC2016★ 33 cited

The non-convex Burer-Monteiro approach works on smooth semidefinite programs

Nicolas Boumal, Vladislav Voroninski, Afonso S. Bandeira

Semidefinite programs (SDPs) can be solved in polynomial time by interior point methods, but scalability can be an issue. To address this shortcoming, over a decade ago, Burer and…

math.OC2016★ 87 cited

On the low-rank approach for semidefinite programs arising in synchronization and community detection

Afonso S. Bandeira, Nicolas Boumal, Vladislav Voroninski

To address difficult optimization problems, convex relaxations based on semidefinite programming are now common place in many fields. Although solvable in polynomial time, large se…

cs.CV2015

Exact simultaneous recovery of locations and structure from known orientations and corrupted point correspondences

Paul Hand, Choongbum Lee, Vladislav Voroninski

Let and and consider the bipartite location recovery problem: given a subset of pairwise direction obser…

cs.CV2015

ShapeFit: Exact location recovery from corrupted pairwise directions

Paul Hand, Choongbum Lee, Vladislav Voroninski

Let and consider the location recovery problem: given a subset of pairwise direction observations $\{(t_i - t_j) / \|t_i - t_j\|_2\}_{i<j \in [n]…

cs.IT2014★ 3 cited

A strong restricted isometry property, with an application to phaseless compressed sensing

Vladislav Voroninski, Zhiqiang Xu

The many variants of the restricted isometry property (RIP) have proven to be crucial theoretical tools in the fields of compressed sensing and matrix completion. The study of exte…

math-ph2013★ 14 cited

Quantum Tomography From Few Full-Rank Observables

Vladislav Voroninski

We establish that the PhaseLift algorithm recovers pure states from a constant number of full-rank observables with high probability.

math-ph2013★ 22 cited

Determination of all pure quantum states from a minimal number of observables

Damien Mondragon, Vladislav Voroninski

We show that for any positive integer , the maps , where are the colu…

cs.IT2012★ 30 cited

Sparse Signal Recovery from Quadratic Measurements via Convex Programming

Xiaodong Li, Vladislav Voroninski

In this paper we consider a system of quadratic equations |<z_j, x>|^2 = b_j, j = 1, ..., m, where x in R^n is unknown while normal random vectors z_j in R_n and quadratic measurem…

cs.IT2011★ 28 cited

PhaseLift: Exact and Stable Signal Recovery from Magnitude Measurements via Convex Programming

Emmanuel J. Candes, Thomas Strohmer, Vladislav Voroninski

Suppose we wish to recover a signal x in C^n from m intensity measurements of the form |<x,z_i>|^2, i = 1, 2,..., m; that is, from data in which phase information is missing. We pr…

cs.IT2011

Phase Retrieval via Matrix Completion

Emmanuel J. Candes, Yonina Eldar, Thomas Strohmer +1

This paper develops a novel framework for phase retrieval, a problem which arises in X-ray crystallography, diffraction imaging, astronomical imaging and many other applications. O…