Precise error analysis of the LASSO

Paper in proceeding, 2015

A classical problem that arises in numerous signal processing applications asks for the reconstruction of an unknown, k-sparse signal x0 ∈ n from underdetermined, noisy, linear measurements y = Ax0 + z ∈ m. One standard approach is to solve the following convex program x = arg minx y -Ax2+λx1, which is known as the ℓ2-LASSO. We assume that the entries of the sensing matrix A and of the noise vector z are i.i.d Gaussian with variances 1/m and σ2. In the large system limit when the problem dimensions grow to infinity, but in constant rates, we precisely characterize the limiting behavior of the normalized squared error x -x0 2 2/σ2. Our numerical illustrations validate our theoretical predictions.