Reconstruction of Integers from Pairwise Distances

I did not realize that the partial digest problem was related to phase retrieval issue. Now I know. Let us note that the partial digest problem  is dependent on a technology and once that technology hurdle is removed (such as for instance the use of the Nanopore Technology), well, we have other problems :-)

Reconstruction of Integers from Pairwise Distances by Kishore Jaganathan, Babak Hassibi. The abstract reads:

Given a set of integers, one can easily construct the set of their pairwise distances. We consider the inverse problem: given a set of pairwise distances, find the integer set which realizes the pairwise distance set. This problem arises in a lot of fields in engineering and applied physics, and has confounded researchers for over 60 years. It is one of the few fundamental problems that are neither known to be NP-hard nor solvable by polynomial-time algorithms. Whether unique recovery is possible also remains an open question.

In many practical applications where this problem occurs, the integer set is naturally sparse (i.e., the integers are sufficiently spaced), a property which has not been explored. In this work, we exploit the sparse nature of the integer set and develop a polynomial-time algorithm which provably recovers the set of integers (up to linear shift and reversal) from the set of their pairwise distances with arbitrarily high probability if the sparsity is $O(n^{1/2-\eps})$. Numerical simulations verify the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.

Of interest is a previous phase retrieval solver (there are others)

Recovery of Sparse 1-D Signals from the Magnitudes of their Fourier Transform by Kishore Jaganathan, Samet Oymak, Babak Hassibi

The problem of signal recovery from the autocorrelation, or equivalently, the magnitudes of the Fourier transform, is of paramount importance in various fields of engineering. In this work, for one-dimensional signals, we give conditions, which when satisfied, allow unique recovery from the autocorrelation with very high probability. In particular, for sparse signals, we develop two non-iterative recovery algorithms. One of them is based on combinatorial analysis, which we prove can recover signals upto sparsity $o(n^{1/3})$ with very high probability, and the other is developed using a convex optimization based framework, which numerical simulations suggest can recover signals upto sparsity $o(n^{1/2})$ with very high probability.

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