  Many interesting problems in fields ranging from telecommunications to
computational biology can be formalized in terms of large underdetermined
systems of linear equations with additional constraints or regularizers. One of
the most studied ones, the Compressed Sensing problem (CS), consists in finding
the solution with the smallest number of non-zero components of a given system
of linear equations $\boldsymbol y = \mathbf{F} \boldsymbol{w}$ for known
measurement vector $\boldsymbol{y}$ and sensing matrix $\mathbf{F}$. Here, we
will address the compressed sensing problem within a Bayesian inference
framework where the sparsity constraint is remapped into a singular prior
distribution (called Spike-and-Slab or Bernoulli-Gauss). Solution to the
problem is attempted through the computation of marginal distributions via
Expectation Propagation (EP), an iterative computational scheme originally
developed in Statistical Physics. We will show that this strategy is
comparatively more accurate than the alternatives in solving instances of CS
generated from statistically correlated measurement matrices. For computational
strategies based on the Bayesian framework such as variants of Belief
Propagation, this is to be expected, as they implicitly rely on the hypothesis
of statistical independence among the entries of the sensing matrix. Perhaps
surprisingly, the method outperforms uniformly also all the other
state-of-the-art methods in our tests.

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