Weak Recovery Conditions from Graph Partitioning Bounds and Order Statistics

  • Authors:
  • Alexandre d'Aspremont;Noureddine El Karoui

  • Affiliations:
  • CMAP, Ecole Polytechnique, UMR CNRS 7641, 91128 Palaiseau, France;Statistics Department, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720

  • Venue:
  • Mathematics of Operations Research
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

We study a weaker formulation of the nullspace property which guarantees recovery of sparse signals from linear measurements by L1 minimization. We require this condition to hold only with high probability, given a distribution on the nullspace of the coding matrix A. Under some assumptions on the distribution of the reconstruction error, we show that testing these weak conditions means bounding the optimal value of two classical graph partitioning problems: the k-Dense-Subgraph and MaxCut problems. Both problems admit efficient, relatively tight relaxations, and we use a randomization argument to produce new approximation bounds for k-Dense-Subgraph. We test the performance of our results on several families of coding matrices.