Sparse signal recovery is a topic of considerable interest,and the literature in this field is already quite immense.Many problems that arise in sparse signal recovery can be generalized as a convex programming with linear conic constraints.In this paper,we present a new proximal point algorithm(PPA) termed as relaxed-PPA(RPPA) contraction method,for solving this common convex programming.More precisely,we first reformulate the convex programming into an equivalent variational inequality(VI),and then efficiently explore its inner structure.In each step,our method relaxes the VI-subproblem to a tractable one,which can be solved much more efficiently than the original VI.Under mild conditions,the convergence of the proposed method is proved.Experiments with l1 analysis show that RPPA is a computationally efficient algorithm and compares favorably with the recently proposed state-of-the-art algorithms.
