A note on the hardness of sparse approximation

  • Authors:
  • A. ÇIvril

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • Information Processing Letters
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Given a redundant dictionary @F, represented by an MxN matrix (@F@?R^M^x^N) and a target signal y@?R^M, the sparse approximation problem asks to find an approximate representation of y using a linear combination of at most k atoms. This note presents a hardness result for sparse approximation problem under a measure of quality, which is essentially the squared multiple correlation in statistical analysis. We show that unless P=NP, all polynomial time algorithms which provide a k-sparse vector x should satisfy@?@F"x@F"x^+y@?"2^2=