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Obtaining superlinear lower bounds on tensor rank is a major open problem in complexity theory. In this paper we propose a generalization of the approach used by Strassen in the proof of his 3n/2 border rank lower bound. Our approach…

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We analyze low rank tensor completion (TC) using noisy measurements of a subset of the tensor. Assuming a rank-$r$, order-$d$, $N \times N \times \cdots \times N$ tensor where $r=O(1)$, the best sampling complexity that was achieved is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Navid Ghadermarzy , Yaniv Plan , Özgür Yılmaz

We establish several mathematical and computational properties of the nuclear norm for higher-order tensors. We show that like tensor rank, tensor nuclear norm is dependent on the choice of base field --- the value of the nuclear norm of a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-05-19 Shmuel Friedland , Lek-Heng Lim

Higher-order tensors are becoming prevalent in many scientific areas such as computer vision, social network analysis, data mining and neuroscience. Traditional tensor decomposition approaches face three major challenges: model selecting,…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2014-07-08 Fanhua Shang , Yuanyuan Liu , James Cheng

In this paper, we propose three approaches for the estimation of the Tucker decomposition of multi-way arrays (tensors) from partial observations. All approaches are formulated as convex minimization problems. Therefore, the minimum is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-03-17 Ryota Tomioka , Kohei Hayashi , Hisashi Kashima

The tensor train (TT) rank has received increasing attention in tensor completion due to its ability to capture the global correlation of high-order tensors ($\textrm{order} >3$). For third order visual data, direct TT rank minimization has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Meng Ding , Ting-Zhu Huang , Xi-Le Zhao , Michael K. Ng , Tian-Hui Ma

A computationally challenging classical elimination theory problem is to compute polynomials which vanish on the set of tensors of a given rank. By moving away from computing polynomials via elimination theory to computing pseudowitness…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2016-07-08 Alessandra Bernardi , Noah S. Daleo , Jonathan D. Hauenstein , Bernard Mourrain

Low-rank tensor approximation approaches have become an important tool in the scientific computing community. The aim is to enable the simulation and analysis of high-dimensional problems which cannot be solved using conventional methods…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-26 Patrick Gelß , Stefan Klus , Sebastian Matera , Christof Schütte

The tensor rank decomposition, also known as canonical polyadic(CP) or simply tensor decomposition, has a long history in multilinear algebra. However, computing a rank decomposition becomes particularly challenging when the rank lies…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Zequn Zheng , Hongchao Zhang , Guangming Zhou

Tensor networks provide compact and scalable representations of high-dimensional data, enabling efficient computation in fields such as quantum physics, numerical partial differential equations (PDEs), and machine learning. This paper…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-28 Julia Wei , Alec Dektor , Chungen Shen , Zaiwen Wen , Chao Yang

The tensor rank of a tensor t is the smallest number r such that t can be decomposed as a sum of r simple tensors. Let s be a k-tensor and let t be an l-tensor. The tensor product of s and t is a (k + l)-tensor. Tensor rank is…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2022-09-30 Matthias Christandl , Asger Kjærulff Jensen , Jeroen Zuiddam

In this paper we examine a symmetric tensor decomposition problem, the Gramian decomposition, posed as a rank minimization problem. We study the relaxation of the problem and consider cases when the relaxed solution is a solution to the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-08-10 Erik Skau , Agnes Szanto

We consider the problem of recovering a low-multilinear-rank tensor from a small amount of linear measurements. We show that the Riemannian gradient algorithm initialized by one step of iterative hard thresholding can reconstruct an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-14 Jian-Feng Cai , Lizhang Miao , Yang Wang , Yin Xian

We consider the problem of finding the best nonnegative rank-2 approximation of an arbitrary nonnegative matrix. We first revisit the theory, including an explicit parametrization of all possible nonnegative factorizations of a nonnegative…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Etna Lindy , Vanni Noferini , Paul Van Dooren

We consider a framework for the construction of iterative schemes for operator equations that combine low-rank approximation in tensor formats and adaptive approximation in a basis. Under fairly general assumptions, we obtain a rigorous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-03-17 Markus Bachmayr , Wolfgang Dahmen

We consider the problem of decomposing higher-order moment tensors, i.e., the sum of symmetric outer products of data vectors. Such a decomposition can be used to estimate the means in a Gaussian mixture model and for other applications in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-06 Samantha Sherman , Tamara G. Kolda

Given a tensor $f$ in a Euclidean tensor space, we are interested in the critical points of the distance function from $f$ to the set of tensors of rank at most $k$, which we call the critical rank-at-most-$k$ tensors for $f$. When $f$ is a…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2018-04-30 Jan Draisma , Giorgio Ottaviani , Alicia Tocino

We consider the rank reduction problem for matroids: Given a matroid M and an integer k, find a minimum size subset of elements of M whose removal reduces the rank of M by at least k. When M is a graphical matroid this problem is the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Gwenaël Joret , Adrian Vetta

In this paper we generalize the 1-bit matrix completion problem to higher order tensors. We prove that when $r=O(1)$ a bounded rank-$r$, order-$d$ tensor $T$ in $\mathbb{R}^{N} \times \mathbb{R}^{N} \times \cdots \times \mathbb{R}^{N}$ can…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-12-05 Navid Ghadermarzy , Yaniv Plan , Ozgur Yilmaz

We propose a constructive algorithm that decomposes an arbitrary real tensor into a finite sum of orthonormal rank-1 outer products. The algorithm, named TTr1SVD, works by converting the tensor into a tensor-train rank-1 (TTr1) series via…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-26 Kim Batselier , Haotian Liu , Ngai Wong