This paper studies the joint support recovery of similar sparse vectors on the basis of a limited number of noisy linear measurements, i.e., in a multiple measurement vector (MMV) model. The additive noise signals on each measurement vector are assumed to be Gaussian and to exhibit different variances. The simultaneous orthogonal matching pursuit (SOMP) algorithm is generalized to weight the impact of each measurement vector on the choice of the atoms to be picked according to their noise levels. The new algorithm is referred to as SOMP-NS where NS stands for noise stabilization. To begin with, a theoretical framework to analyze the performance of the proposed algorithm is developed. This framework is then used to build conservative lower bounds on the probability of partial or full joint support recovery. Numerical simulations show that the proposed algorithm outperforms SOMP and that the theoretical lower bound provides a great insight into how SOMP-NS behaves when the weighting strategy is modified.
While our statistical analysis considers the additive measurement noise as a random variable and the sparse signals to be recovered as deterministic quantities, the results obtained in @cite_29 use the opposite approach, , the sparse signals are random and the noise is deterministic. Thus, the problem addressed in our paper differs from that presented in @cite_29 but both papers use similar mathematical tools and the criteria to ensure full support recovery with high probability share analogous properties. This last remark will be further discussed in .
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We consider the problem of estimating a deterministic finite alphabet vector @math from underdetermined measurements @math , where @math is a given (random) @math matrix. Two new convex optimization methods are introduced for the recovery of finite alphabet signals via @math -norm minimization. The first method is based on regularization. In the second approach, the problem is formulated as the recovery of sparse signals after a suitable sparse transform. The regularization-based method is less complex than the transform-based one. When the alphabet size @math equals 2 and @math grows proportionally, the conditions under which the signal will be recovered with high probability are the same for the two methods. When @math , the behavior of the transform-based method is established. Experimental results support this theoretical result and show that the transform method outperforms the regularization-based one.