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Optimization problems with rank constraints arise in many applications, including matrix regression, structured PCA, matrix completion and matrix decomposition problems. An attractive heuristic for solving such problems is to factorize the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-09-11 Yudong Chen , Martin J. Wainwright

The paper considers the minimization of a separable convex function subject to linear ascending constraints. The problem arises as the core optimization in several resource allocation scenarios, and is a special case of an optimization of a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-30 Akhil P T , Rajesh Sundaresan

We consider the problem of approximating an affinely structured matrix, for example a Hankel matrix, by a low-rank matrix with the same structure. This problem occurs in system identification, signal processing and computer algebra, among…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-06-25 Mariya Ishteva , Konstantin Usevich , Ivan Markovsky

In this paper, we propose a method for the approximation of the solution of high-dimensional weakly coercive problems formulated in tensor spaces using low-rank approximation formats. The method can be seen as a perturbation of a minimal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-02-13 Marie Billaud-Friess , Anthony Nouy , Olivier Zahm

Singular value decomposition (SVD) and matrix inversion are ubiquitous in scientific computing. Both tasks are computationally demanding for large scale matrices. Existing algorithms can approximatively solve these problems with a given…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-28 Weiwei Xu , Weijie Shen , Zhengjian Bai , Chen Xu

This paper describes a suite of algorithms for constructing low-rank approximations of an input matrix from a random linear image of the matrix, called a sketch. These methods can preserve structural properties of the input matrix, such as…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2018-01-03 Joel A. Tropp , Alp Yurtsever , Madeleine Udell , Volkan Cevher

The matrix completion problem consists of finding or approximating a low-rank matrix based on a few samples of this matrix. We propose a new algorithm for matrix completion that minimizes the least-square distance on the sampling set over…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-09-19 Bart Vandereycken

This paper considers the minimization of a general objective function $f(X)$ over the set of rectangular $n\times m$ matrices that have rank at most $r$. To reduce the computational burden, we factorize the variable $X$ into a product of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-04 Zhihui Zhu , Qiuwei Li , Gongguo Tang , Michael B. Wakin

We address the problem of estimating a high-dimensional matrix from linear measurements, with a focus on designing optimal rank-adaptive algorithms. These algorithms infer the matrix by estimating its singular values and the corresponding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Frédéric Zheng , Yassir Jedra , Alexandre Proutiere

Low-rank matrix completion consists of computing a matrix of minimal complexity that recovers a given set of observations as accurately as possible. Unfortunately, existing methods for matrix completion are heuristics that, while highly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Dimitris Bertsimas , Ryan Cory-Wright , Sean Lo , Jean Pauphilet

Many applications require recovering a matrix of minimal rank within an affine constraint set, with matrix completion a notable special case. Because the problem is NP-hard in general, it is common to replace the matrix rank with the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-07-08 Bo Xin , David Wipf

In this paper, we consider optimal low-rank regularized inverse matrix approximations and their applications to inverse problems. We give an explicit solution to a generalized rank-constrained regularized inverse approximation problem,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-03-21 Julianne Chung , Matthias Chung

For a given matrix subspace, how can we find a basis that consists of low-rank matrices? This is a generalization of the sparse vector problem. It turns out that when the subspace is spanned by rank-1 matrices, the matrices can be obtained…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2016-06-29 Yuji Nakatsukasa , Tasuku Soma , André Uschmajew

Majorization-minimization algorithms consist of iteratively minimizing a majorizing surrogate of an objective function. Because of its simplicity and its wide applicability, this principle has been very popular in statistics and in signal…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-09-11 Julien Mairal

We consider the problem of minimizing a linear function over an affine section of the cone of positive semidefinite matrices, with the additional constraint that the feasible matrix has prescribed rank. When the rank constraint is active,…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-11-22 Simone Naldi

In many prediction problems, it is not uncommon that the number of variables used to construct a forecast is of the same order of magnitude as the sample size, if not larger. We then face the problem of constructing a prediction in the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-02-08 Alessio Sancetta

We address the collective matrix completion problem of jointly recovering a collection of matrices with shared structure from partial (and potentially noisy) observations. To ensure well--posedness of the problem, we impose a joint low rank…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-04-09 Suriya Gunasekar , Makoto Yamada , Dawei Yin , Yi Chang

Matrices are exceptionally useful in various fields of study as they provide a convenient framework to organize and manipulate data in a structured manner. However, modern matrices can involve billions of elements, making their storage and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Rajarshi Saha , Varun Srivastava , Mert Pilanci

We consider the problem of matrix completion on an $n \times m$ matrix. We introduce the problem of Interpretable Matrix Completion that aims to provide meaningful insights for the low-rank matrix using side information. We show that the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-05 Dimitris Bertsimas , Michael Lingzhi Li

Matrix completion is a problem that arises in many data-analysis settings where the input consists of a partially-observed matrix (e.g., recommender systems, traffic matrix analysis etc.). Classical approaches to matrix completion assume…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-02 Natali Ruchansky , Mark Crovella , Evimaria Terzi