Title: Signal Recovery from Unlabeled Samples,
Abstract: In this paper, we study the recovery of a signal from a set of noisy linear
projections (measurements), when such projections are unlabeled, that is, the
correspondence between the measurements and the set of projection vectors
(i.e., the rows of the measurement matrix) is not known a priori. We consider a
special case of unlabeled sensing referred to as Unlabeled Ordered Sampling
(UOS) where the ordering of the measurements is preserved. We identify a
natural duality between this problem and classical Compressed Sensing (CS),
where we show that the unknown support (location of nonzero elements) of a
sparse signal in CS corresponds to the unknown indices of the measurements in
UOS. While in CS it is possible to recover a sparse signal from an
under-determined set of linear equations (less equations than the signal
dimension), successful recovery in UOS requires taking more samples than the
dimension of the signal. Motivated by this duality, we develop a Restricted
Isometry Property (RIP) similar to that in CS. We also design a low-complexity
Alternating Minimization algorithm that achieves a stable signal recovery under
the established RIP. We analyze our proposed algorithm for different signal
dimensions and number of measurements theoretically and investigate its
performance empirically via simulations. The results are reminiscent of
phase-transition similar to that occurring in CS.