# Beyond $\ell_1$ norm minimization for sparse signal recovery

 Title Beyond $\ell_1$ norm minimization for sparse signal recovery Publication Type Conference Year of Publication 2012 Authors Hassan Mansour Conference Name 2012 IEEE Statistical Signal Processing Workshop (SSP) (SSP'12) Month 03 Organization IEEE Conference Location Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA Keywords compressed sensing, iterative algorithms, partial support recovery, Sparse recovery, weighted $\ell_1$ minimization Abstract Sparse signal recovery has been dominated by the basis pursuit denoise (BPDN) problem formulation for over a decade. In this paper, we propose an algorithm that outperforms BPDN in finding sparse solutions to underdetermined linear systems of equations at no additional computational cost. Our algorithm, called WSPGL1, is a modification of the spectral projected gradient for $\ell_1$ minimization (SPGL1) algorithm in which the sequence of LASSO subproblems are replaced by a sequence of weighted LASSO subproblems with constant weights applied to a support estimate. The support estimate is derived from the data and is updated at every iteration. The algorithm also modifies the Pareto curve at every iteration to reflect the new weighted $\ell_1$ minimization problem that is being solved. We demonstrate through extensive simulations that the sparse recovery performance of our algorithm is superior to that of $\ell_1$ minimization and approaches the recovery performance of iterative re-weighted $\ell_1$ (IRWL1) minimization of Candès, Wakin, and Boyd. Moreover, our algorithm has the computational cost of a single BPDN problem. URL https://www.slim.eos.ubc.ca/Publications/Public/Conferences/SSP/2012/mansour2012SSPwspgl1/mansour2012SSPwspgl1.pdf Presentation https://www.slim.eos.ubc.ca/Publications/Public/Conferences/SSP/2012/man... Citation Key mansour2012SSPwspgl1