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Canonical Tensor Scaling

Numerical Analysis 2020-09-03 v1 Numerical Analysis

Abstract

In this paper we generalize the canonical positive scaling of rows and columns of a matrix to the scaling of selected-rank subtensors of an arbitrary tensor. We expect our results and framework will prove useful for sparse-tensor completion required for generalizations of the recommender system problem beyond a matrix of user-product ratings to multidimensional arrays involving coordinates based both on user attributes (e.g., age, gender, geographical location, etc.) and product/item attributes (e.g., price, size, weight, etc.).

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@article{arxiv.2009.01175,
  title  = {Canonical Tensor Scaling},
  author = {Tung D. Nguyen and Jeffrey Uhlmann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.01175},
  year   = {2020}
}
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