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library(pracma)
# library(SynchWave)
# Importing the libraries
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This numerical tour presents the Forward-Backward (FB) algorithm to minimize the sum of a smooth and a simple function. It shows an application to sparse deconvolution.
We consider the problem of minimizing the sum of two functions $$ E^\star = \umin{x \in \RR^N} E(x) = f(x) + g(x). $$
So, we want to find a vector $x^{\star}$ solution to the problem, i.e. a minimizer of $E=f+g$.
We assume that $f$ is a $C^1$ function with $L$-Lipschitz gradient.
We also assume that $g$ is "simple", in the sense that one can compute exactly and quickly its proximity operator, which is defined as $$ \text{prox}_{\ga g}(x) = \uargmin{y \in \RR^N} \frac{1}{2}\norm{x-y}^2 + \ga g(y). $$ for any $\ga > 0$.
The forward-backward algorithm reads, after initializing $x^{(0)} \in \RR^N$, $$ x^{(k+1)} = \text{prox}_{\ga g}\pa{ x^{(k)} - \ga \nabla f( x^{(k)} ) }. $$
If $0 < \ga < \frac{2}{L}$, then this scheme converges to a minimizer of $f+g$.
We consider a linear inverse problem $$ y = \Phi x_{0} + w \in \RR^P$$ where $x_{0} \in \RR^N$ is the (unknown) signal to recover, $w \in \RR^P$ is a noise vector, and $\Phi \in \RR^{P \times N}$ models the acquisition device.
To recover an estimate of the signal $x_{0}$, we consider basis pursuit denoising, which makes use of the $\ell^1$ norm as sparsity enforcing penalty: $$ \umin{x \in \RR^N} \frac{1}{2} \norm{\Phi x-y}^2 + \la \norm{x}_1, $$ where the $\ell^1$ norm is defined as $$ \norm{x}_1 = \sum_i \abs{x_i}. $$
The parameter $\la$ should be set in accordance to the noise level $\norm{w}$.
This minimization problem can be cast in the form of minimizing $f+g$ where $$ f(x) = \frac{1}{2} \norm{\Phi x-y}^2 \qandq g(x) = \la \norm{x}_1. $$
$f$ is smooth; we have $$ \nabla f(x) = \Phi^{*} (\Phi x - y), $$ which is $L$-Lipschitz continuous, with $$ L = \norm{ \Phi^* \Phi }. $$
The $\ell^1$-norm is "simple", because its proximal operator is soft thresholding: $$ \big(\text{prox}_{\ga g}(x)\big)_n = \max\pa{ 0, 1 - \frac{\la \ga}{\abs{x_n}} } x_n. $$
A simple linearized model of seismic acquisition considers a linear filtering operator (convolution): $$ \Phi x = \phi \ast x $$
The filter $\phi$ is called the impulse response, or the poind spread function, of the acquisition process $x\mapsto \Phi x$.
N = 1024
We define the width of the filter.
s = 5
Second derivative of a Gaussian.
t = c(-(N/2) : ((N/2) - 1))
h = (1-t**2/s**2)*exp(-(t**2)/(2*s**2))
h = h - mean(h)
fftshift = SynchWave::fftshift
h1 = fftshift(h) # Recenter the filter for fft use.
Phi = function (u) {Re(ifft(fft(h1) * fft(c(u))))}
We display the filte and its spectrum (amplitude of its Fourier transform).
# Fourier transform (normalized)
hf = Re(pracma::fftshift(fft(h1))) / sqrt(N)
options(repr.plot.width=5, repr.plot.height=3.5)
q = 200
plot(t, h, type="l", main="Filter, Spacial (zoom)",
col="blue", xlim=c(-200,200), ylab="")
plot(t, hf, type="l",
main="Filter, Fourrier (zoom)", col="blue",
xlim=c(-200,200), ylab="")
We generate a synthetic sparse signal $x_{0}$, with only a small number of nonzero coefficients.
Number of Diracs of the signal.
s = round(N * 0.03)
Set the seed-number (for reproductibility).
set.seed(1)
Location of the diracs.
sel = sample(c(1 : N))
sel = sel[0:s]
Signal $x_{0}$.
x0 = zeros(1, N)
x0[sel] = 1.
x0 = x0 * sign(randn(1, N)) * (1 - .3 * rand(1, N))
Noise level.
sigma = 0.06
Compute the measurements $y= \Phi x_{0} + w$ where $w$ is a realization of white Gaussian noise of variance $\sigma^{2}$.
y = Phi(x0) + sigma * randn(1, N)
stemplot(x0, col="blue", ylab="", xlab="", main="Signal")
plot(c(1:N), y, xlab="", ylab="", col="blue", main="Measurements y", type="l")
We now implement the foward-backward algorithm to recover an estimate of the sparse signal
We define the regularization parameter $\la$.
Lambda = 1.
We define the proximity operator of $\ga g$.
proxg = function(x, gamma, Lambda) {x * pmax(1 - ((Lambda * gamma) / abs(x)), 0)}
We define the gradient operator of $f$. Note that $\Phi^*=\Phi$ because the filter $\phi$ is symmetric.
Exercise 1
Write the code of the function grad_f.
source("nt_solutions/optim_2_condat_fb/exo1.R")
# Insert your code here.
We define the Lipschitz constant $\beta$ of $\nabla f$.
L = max(abs(fft(h)))**2
We define the stepsize $\ga$, which must be smaller than $2/\beta$.
gamma = 1.95 / L
We compute the solution of $\ell_1$ deconvolution (basis pursuit denoising). We keep track of the energy $E_k=f(x^{(k)})+g(x^{(k)})$.
Exercise 2
Write the code of the forward-backward iteration.
source("nt_solutions/optim_2_condat_fb/exo2.R")
# Insert code here.
We display the result.
# Insert code here.
We plot the relative error $(E_k-E^\star)/(E_0-E^\star)$ in log-scale with respect to $k$.
# Insert code here.
It is possible to introduce a relaxation parameter $\rho$ with $0 < \rho < 1$. The over-relaxed foward-backward algorithm initializes $x^{(0)} \in \RR^N$, and then iterates, for $k=1,2,\ldots$ $$ z^{(k)} = \text{prox}_{\ga g}\pa{ x^{(k-1)} - \ga \nabla f( x^{(k-1)} ) }. $$ $$ x^{(k)} = z^{(k)} + \rho \pa{ z^{(k)} - x^{(k-1)} } $$
Let us assume $\gamma=1/\beta$. Convergence of the iterates $x^{(k)}$ and $z^{(k)}$ to a solution is guaranteed for $ 0 < \rho < 1/2 $. The weaker property of convergence of $ E(x^{(k)}) $ to $E^\star$ is proved, when $ 1/2\leq \rho <1 $.
gamma = 1 / L
Exercise 3
Write the code of the over-relaxed forward-backward iteration.
source("nt_solutions/optim_2_condat_fb/exo3.R")
# Insert code here.
As we see, in this example, over-relaxation does not bring any speedup, because $\gamma$ is lower than without over-relaxation. There are other setting parameters or other problems, for which over-relaxation does bring a significant speedup.
We consider the FISTA algorithm introduced in:
A. Beck and M. Teboulle, "A Fast Iterative Shrinkage-Thresholding Algorithm for Linear Inverse Problems", SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences, 2009.
More precisely, we consider a slightly modified version of FISTA, whose convergence is proved, see A. Chambolle and C. Dossal, "On the convergence of the iterates of "FISTA"", preprint, 2015.
Given an initial estimate $x^{(0)}$ of the solution and a parameter $a>2$, the algorithm sets $\gamma=1/\beta$, sets $z^{(0)}=x^{(0)} \in \RR^N$, and iterates, for $k=1,2,\ldots$ $$ x^{(k)} = \text{prox}_{\ga g}\pa{ z^{(k-1)} - \ga \nabla f( z^{(k-1)} ) }. $$ $$ \alpha_k=(k-1)/(k+a) $$ $$ z^{(k)} = x^{(k)} + \alpha_k \pa{ x^{(k)} - x^{(k-1)} } $$
It is proved that the iterates $x^{(k)}$ converge to a solution $x^\star$ of the problem. Moreover, the optimal convergence rate for this class of problems is reached, namely $$ E_k - E^\star = O(1/k^2), $$ whereas the convergence rate for the normal forward-backward is only $O(1/k)$.
Note the difference between the over-relaxed forward-backward and the accelerated forward-backward: the later is based on an inertia mechanism, of different nature than over-relaxation.
Exercise 4
Write the code of the accelerated forward-backward iteration.
source("nt_solutions/optim_2_condat_fb/exo4.R")
# Insert code here.
We can note that the accelerated forward-backward is not monotonic: the cost function E is not decreasing along with the iterations and some oscillations are present.