TY - JOUR N2 - We study phase retrieval from magnitude measurements of an unknown signal as an algebraic estimation problem. Indeed, phase retrieval from rank-one and more general linear measurements can be treated in an algebraic way. It is verified that a certain number of generic rank-one or generic linear measurements are sufficient to enable signal reconstruction for generic signals, and slightly more generic measurements yield reconstructability for all signals. Our results solve a few open problems stated in the recent literature. Furthermore, we show how the algebraic estimation problem can be solved by a closed-form algebraic estimation technique, termed ideal regression, providing non-asymptotic success guarantees. ID - discovery1517413 UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/1402.4053 JF - arXiv.org A1 - Király, FJ A1 - Ehler, M KW - Functional Analysis; Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition; Information Theory; Algebraic Geometry; Machine Learning TI - The Algebraic Approach to Phase Retrieval and Explicit Inversion at the Identifiability Threshold AV - public Y1 - 2014/02/14/ N1 - This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher?s terms and conditions. ER -