Abstract
Adaptive sampling results in significant improvements in the recovery of sparse signals in white Gaussian noise. A sequential adaptive sampling-and-refinement procedure called Distilled Sensing (DS) is proposed and analyzed. DS is a form of multistage experimental design and testing. Because of the adaptive nature of the data collection, DS can detect and localize far weaker signals than possible from non-adaptive measurements. In particular, reliable detection and localization (support estimation) using non-adaptive samples is possible only if the signal amplitudes grow logarithmically with the problem dimension. Here it is shown that using adaptive sampling, reliable detection is possible provided the amplitude exceeds a constant, and localization is possible when the amplitude exceeds any arbitrarily slowly growing function of the dimension.
Original language | English (US) |
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Article number | 6006586 |
Pages (from-to) | 6222-6235 |
Number of pages | 14 |
Journal | IEEE Transactions on Information Theory |
Volume | 57 |
Issue number | 9 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Sep 2011 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Manuscript received May 27, 2010; revised April 10, 2011; accepted April 12, 2011. Date of current version August 31, 2011. This work was supported in part by NSF Grant CCF-0353079 and AFOSR Grant FA9550-09-1-0140, and is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Dennis Healy, who inspired and supported this direction of research through the DARPA Analog-to-Information Program. Dennis’ guidance, vision, and inspiration will be missed. A preliminary version of this paper appeared at the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Austin, TX, June 2010.
Keywords
- Adaptive sampling
- experimental design
- multiple hypothesis testing
- sequential sensing
- sparse recovery