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We give the first algorithm for Matrix Completion whose running time and sample complexity is polynomial in the rank of the unknown target matrix, linear in the dimension of the matrix, and logarithmic in the condition number of the matrix.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-07-16 Moritz Hardt , Mary Wootters

This paper considers the problem of completing a rating matrix based on sub-sampled matrix entries as well as observed social graphs and hypergraphs. We show that there exists a \emph{sharp threshold} on the sample probability for the task…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Zhongtian Ma , Qiaosheng Zhang , Zhen Wang

Low-rank matrix completion (LRMC) problems arise in a wide variety of applications. Previous theory mainly provides conditions for completion under missing-at-random samplings. This paper studies deterministic conditions for completion. An…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-10-12 Daniel L. Pimentel-Alarcón , Nigel Boston , Robert D. Nowak

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

Despite the popularity of low-rank matrix completion, the majority of its theory has been developed under the assumption of random observation patterns, whereas very little is known about the practically relevant case of non-random…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Manolis C. Tsakiris

Robust Principal Component Analysis (PCA) (Candes et al., 2011) and low-rank matrix completion (Recht et al., 2010) are extensions of PCA to allow for outliers and missing entries respectively. It is well-known that solving these problems…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-12 Jared Tanner , Andrew Thompson , Simon Vary

The matrix rank minimization problem has applications in many fields such as system identification, optimal control, low-dimensional embedding, etc. As this problem is NP-hard in general, its convex relaxation, the nuclear norm minimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-01-04 Donald Goldfarb , Shiqian Ma

We study the Riemannian optimization methods on the embedded manifold of low rank matrices for the problem of matrix completion, which is about recovering a low rank matrix from its partial entries. Assume $m$ entries of an $n\times n$ rank…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-04-12 Ke Wei , Jian-Feng Cai , Tony F. Chan , Shingyu Leung

We consider the symmetric Toeplitz matrix completion problem, whose matrix under consideration possesses specific row and column structures. This problem, which has wide application in diverse areas, is well-known to be computationally…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-15 Xihong Yan , Jiahao Guo , Yi Xu

The task of reconstructing a matrix given a sample of observedentries is known as the matrix completion problem. It arises ina wide range of problems, including recommender systems, collaborativefiltering, dimensionality reduction, image…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-12-20 Jean Lafond , Olga Klopp , Eric Moulines , Jospeh Salmon

We consider the problem of recovering a low-rank matrix from its clipped observations. Clipping is conceivable in many scientific areas that obstructs statistical analyses. On the other hand, matrix completion (MC) methods can recover a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Takeshi Teshima , Miao Xu , Issei Sato , Masashi Sugiyama

We consider the problem of robust matrix completion, which aims to recover a low rank matrix $L_*$ and a sparse matrix $S_*$ from incomplete observations of their sum $M=L_*+S_*\in\mathbb{R}^{m\times n}$. Algorithmically, the robust matrix…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-03-25 Yunfeng Cai , Ping Li

We consider two matrix completion problems, in which we are given a matrix with missing entries and the task is to complete the matrix in a way that (1) minimizes the rank, or (2) minimizes the number of distinct rows. We study the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-09-14 Robert Ganian , Iyad Kanj , Sebastian Ordyniak , Stefan Szeider

We show that under some widely believed assumptions, there are no higher-order algorithms for basic tasks in computational mathematics such as: Computing integrals with neural network integrands, computing solutions of a Poisson equation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-26 Michael Feischl , Fabian Zehetgruber

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

In this paper we study the matrix completion problem: Suppose $X \in {\mathbb R}^{n_r \times n_c}$ is unknown except for a known upper bound $r$ on its rank. By measuring a small number $m \ll n_r n_c$ of elements of $X$, is it possible to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-05-22 Shantanu Prasad Burnwal , Mathukumalli Vidyasagar

Matrix completion is about recovering a matrix from its partial revealed entries, and it can often be achieved by exploiting the inherent simplicity or low dimensional structure of the target matrix. For instance, a typical notion of matrix…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Jinchi Chen , Weiguo Gao , Ke Wei

In this paper, we describe a low-rank matrix completion method based on matrix decomposition. An incomplete matrix is decomposed into submatrices which are filled with a proposed trimming step and then are recombined to form a low-rank…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-06-29 Rick Ma , Samuel Cheng

This paper introduces a novel algorithm to approximate the matrix with minimum nuclear norm among all matrices obeying a set of convex constraints. This problem may be understood as the convex relaxation of a rank minimization problem, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2008-10-21 Jian-Feng Cai , Emmanuel J. Candes , Zuowei Shen

Alternating minimization represents a widely applicable and empirically successful approach for finding low-rank matrices that best fit the given data. For example, for the problem of low-rank matrix completion, this method is believed to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2012-12-04 Prateek Jain , Praneeth Netrapalli , Sujay Sanghavi