A New Analysis of Compressive Sensing by Stochastic Proximal Gradient Descent

In this manuscript, we analyze the sparse signal recovery (compressive sensing) problem from the perspective of convex optimization by stochastic proximal gradient descent. This view allows us to significantly simplify the recovery analysis of compressive sensing. More importantly, it leads to an efficient optimization algorithm for solving the regularized optimization problem related to the sparse recovery problem. Compared to the existing approaches, there are two advantages of the proposed algorithm. First, it enjoys a geometric convergence rate and therefore is computationally efficient. Second, it guarantees that the support set of any intermediate solution generated by the proposed algorithm is concentrated on the support set of the optimal solution.