AbstractIn this paper, the iterative reweighted least squares (IRLS) algorithm for sparse signal recovery with partially known support is studied. We establish a theoretical analysis of the IRLS algorithm by incorporating some known part of support information as a prior, and obtain the error estimate and convergence result of this algorithm. Our results show that the error bound depends on the best {(s+k)}-term approximation and the regularization parameter λ, and convergence result depends only on the regularization parameter λ. Finally, a series of numerical experiments are carried out to demonstrate the effectiveness of the algorithm for sparse signal recovery with partially known support, which shows that an appropriate q ({0<q<1}) can lead to a better recovery performance than that of the case {q=1}.