Deep Unfolding with Approximated Computations for Rapid Optimization

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Main Authors: Avrahami, Dvir, Milstein, Amit, Chaux, Caroline, Routtenberg, Tirza, Shlezinger, Nir
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Published: 2025
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author Avrahami, Dvir
Milstein, Amit
Chaux, Caroline
Routtenberg, Tirza
Shlezinger, Nir
author_facet Avrahami, Dvir
Milstein, Amit
Chaux, Caroline
Routtenberg, Tirza
Shlezinger, Nir
contents Optimization-based solvers play a central role in a wide range of signal processing and communication tasks. However, their applicability in latency-sensitive systems is limited by the sequential nature of iterative methods and the high computational cost per iteration. While deep unfolding has emerged as a powerful paradigm for converting iterative algorithms into learned models that operate with a fixed number of iterations, it does not inherently address the cost of each iteration. In this paper, we introduce a learned optimization framework that jointly tackles iteration count and per-iteration complexity. Our approach is based on unfolding a fixed number of optimization steps, replacing selected iterations with low-complexity approximated computations, and learning extended hyperparameters from data to compensate for the introduced approximations. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our method on two representative problems: (i) hybrid beamforming; and (ii) robust principal component analysis. These fundamental case studies show that our learned approximated optimizers can achieve state-of-the-art performance while reducing computational complexity by over three orders of magnitude. Our results highlight the potential of our approach to enable rapid, interpretable, and efficient decision-making in real-time systems.
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spellingShingle Deep Unfolding with Approximated Computations for Rapid Optimization
Avrahami, Dvir
Milstein, Amit
Chaux, Caroline
Routtenberg, Tirza
Shlezinger, Nir
Signal Processing
Optimization-based solvers play a central role in a wide range of signal processing and communication tasks. However, their applicability in latency-sensitive systems is limited by the sequential nature of iterative methods and the high computational cost per iteration. While deep unfolding has emerged as a powerful paradigm for converting iterative algorithms into learned models that operate with a fixed number of iterations, it does not inherently address the cost of each iteration. In this paper, we introduce a learned optimization framework that jointly tackles iteration count and per-iteration complexity. Our approach is based on unfolding a fixed number of optimization steps, replacing selected iterations with low-complexity approximated computations, and learning extended hyperparameters from data to compensate for the introduced approximations. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our method on two representative problems: (i) hybrid beamforming; and (ii) robust principal component analysis. These fundamental case studies show that our learned approximated optimizers can achieve state-of-the-art performance while reducing computational complexity by over three orders of magnitude. Our results highlight the potential of our approach to enable rapid, interpretable, and efficient decision-making in real-time systems.
title Deep Unfolding with Approximated Computations for Rapid Optimization
topic Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00782