Auto-tuning Unit Norm Frames
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-2012
Abstract
Finite unit norm tight frames provide Parseval-like decompositions of vectors in terms of redundant components of equal weight. They are known to be exceptionally robust against additive noise and erasures, and as such, have great potential as encoding schemes. Unfortunately, up to this point, these frames have proven notoriously difficult to construct. Indeed, though the set of all unit norm tight frames, modulo rotations, is known to contain manifolds of nontrivial dimension, we have but a small finite number of known constructions of such frames. In this paper, we present a new iterative algorithm---gradient descent of the frame potential---for increasing the degree of tightness of any finite unit norm frame. The algorithm itself is trivial to implement, and it preserves certain group structures present in the initial frame. In the special case where the number of frame elements is relatively prime to the dimension of the underlying space, we show that this algorithm converges to a unit norm tight frame at a linear rate, provided the initial unit norm frame is already sufficiently close to being tight. By slightly modifying this approach, we get a similar, but weaker, result in the non-relatively-prime case, providing an explicit answer to the Paulsen problem: "How close is a frame which is almost tight and almost unit norm to some unit norm tight frame?"
DOI
10.1016/j.acha.2011.02.005
Source Publication
Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis
Recommended Citation
Casazza, P. G., Fickus, M., & Mixon, D. G. (2012). Auto-tuning unit norm frames. Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis, 32(1), 1–15.
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Previous version (Preprint): arXiv:1009.5562 [math.FA].
Date of arXiv submission: 28 Sep 2010.