TY - JOUR T1 - Fixed-Point Continuation Applied to Compressed Sensing: Implementation and Numerical Experiments AU - Hale , Elaine T. AU - Yin , Wotao AU - Zhang , Yin JO - Journal of Computational Mathematics VL - 2 SP - 170 EP - 194 PY - 2010 DA - 2010/04 SN - 28 DO - http://doi.org/10.4208/jcm.2009.10-m1007 UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/jcm/8514.html KW - $\ell_1$ regularization, Fixed-point algorithm, Continuation, Compressed sensing, Numerical experiments. AB -

Fixed-point continuation (FPC) is an approach, based on operator-splitting and continuation, for solving minimization problems with $\ell_1$-regularization:

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We investigate the application of this algorithm to compressed sensing signal recovery, in which $f(x) = \frac{1}{2}\|Ax-b\|_M^2$, $A \in \mathbb{R}^{m \times n}$ and $m \leq n$.  In particular, we extend the original algorithm to obtain better practical results, derive appropriate choices for $M$ and $\bar{\mu}$ under a given measurement model, and present numerical results for a variety of compressed sensing problems. The numerical results show that the performance of our algorithm compares favorably with that of several recently proposed algorithms.