Efficient Constrained Signal Reconstruction by Randomized Epigraphical Projection

Abstract: This paper proposes a randomized optimization framework for constrained signal reconstruction, where the word "constrained" implies that data-fidelity is imposed as a hard constraint instead of adding a data-fidelity term to an objective function to be minimized. Such formulation facilitates the selection of regularization terms and hyperparameters, but due to the non-separability of the data-fidelity constraint, it does not suit block-coordinate-wise randomization as is. To resolve this, we give another expression of the data-fidelity constraint via epigraphs, which enables to design a randomized solver based on a stochastic proximal algorithm with randomized epigraphical projection. Our method is very efficient especially when the problem involves non-structured large matrices. We apply our method to CT image reconstruction, where the advantage of our method over the deterministic counterpart is demonstrated.