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This paper establishes theoretical recovery guarantees for noisy one-bit compressed sensing, demonstrating that posterior sampling remains robust even when the learned prior distribution slightly mismatches the true signal. By linking sample complexity to the logarithm of the approximate covering number and validating the approach with diffusion priors on standard image datasets, the work bridges information-theoretic bounds with practical generative modeling techniques.
Recovery Guarantees for Posterior Sampling of One-Bit Compressed Sensing
arXiv:2610.11834v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study the sample complexity of noisy one-bit compressed sensing for signals drawn from a prior distribution. By characterizing the effective distributional complexity of the prior via its approximate covering number, we prove that posterior sampling achieves accurate recovery with high probability when the number of measurements scales with the logarithm of the approximate covering number, up to a one-bit separation gap factor. This upper bound is robust to learned prior mismatch. Specifically, we show that posterior sampling with an approximate prior remains reliable, provided that the learned prior distribution is sufficiently close to the true signal distribution in Wasserstein distance. In addition, we establish a sample complexity lower bound for any reliable method of noisy one-bit compressed sensing, showing that our upper bound is nearly matched in its main prior dependent term. To approximate the ideal posterior sampling process for real world scenarios, we instantiate posterior sampling through a plug-and-play algorithm with diffusion priors. Experiments on the FFHQ and ImageNet datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed approach.
Abstract:We study the sample complexity of noisy one-bit compressed sensing for signals drawn from a prior distribution. By characterizing the effective distributional complexity of the prior via its approximate covering number, we prove that posterior sampling achieves accurate recovery with high probability when the number of measurements scales with the logarithm of the approximate covering number, up to a one-bit separation gap factor. This upper bound is robust to learned prior mismatch. Specifically, we show that posterior sampling with an approximate prior remains reliable, provided that the learned prior distribution is sufficiently close to the true signal distribution in Wasserstein distance. In addition, we establish a sample complexity lower bound for any reliable method of noisy one-bit compressed sensing, showing that our upper bound is nearly matched in its main prior dependent term. To approximate the ideal posterior sampling process for real world scenarios, we instantiate posterior sampling through a plug-and-play algorithm with diffusion priors. Experiments on the FFHQ and ImageNet datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed approach.
Machine Learning (cs.LG); Information Theory (cs.IT)
arXiv:2610.11834 [cs.LG]
(or arXiv:2610.11834v1 [cs.LG] for this version)
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