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On the heels of compressed sensing, a remarkable new field has very recently emerged. This field addresses a broad range of problems of significant practical interest, namely, the recovery of a data matrix from what appears to be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-03-19 Emmanuel J. Candes , Yaniv Plan

We consider a generalization of low-rank matrix completion to the case where the data belongs to an algebraic variety, i.e. each data point is a solution to a system of polynomial equations. In this case the original matrix is possibly…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-03-29 Greg Ongie , Rebecca Willett , Robert D. Nowak , Laura Balzano

We consider the problem of reconstructing a rank-$k$ $n \times n$ matrix $M$ from a sampling of its entries. Under a certain incoherence assumption on $M$ and for the case when both the rank and the condition number of $M$ are bounded, it…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-08-23 David Gamarnik , Quan Li , Hongyi Zhang

Motivated by the philosophy and phenomenal success of compressed sensing, the problem of reconstructing a matrix from a sampling of its entries has attracted much attention recently. Such a problem can be viewed as an information-theoretic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-05-15 Zhisu Zhu , Anthony Man-Cho So , Yinyu Ye

We present novel techniques for analyzing the problem of low-rank matrix recovery. The methods are both considerably simpler and more general than previous approaches. It is shown that an unknown (n x n) matrix of rank r can be efficiently…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-03-22 David Gross

Kernel matrices (e.g. Gram or similarity matrices) are essential for many state-of-the-art approaches to classification, clustering, and dimensionality reduction. For large datasets, the cost of forming and factoring such kernel matrices…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-05-21 Raajen Patel , Thomas A. Goldstein , Eva L. Dyer , Azalia Mirhoseini , Richard G. Baraniuk

Most of the existing works on provable guarantees for low-rank matrix completion algorithms rely on some unrealistic assumptions such that matrix entries are sampled randomly or the sampling pattern has a specific structure. In this work,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-06-06 Hanbyul Lee , Rahul Mazumder , Qifan Song , Jean Honorio

In some significant applications such as data forecasting, the locations of missing entries cannot obey any non-degenerate distributions, questioning the validity of the prevalent assumption that the missing data is randomly chosen…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-09 Guangcan Liu , Qingshan Liu , Xiao-Tong Yuan , Meng Wang

Matrix completion aims to estimate missing entries in a data matrix, using the assumption of a low-complexity structure (e.g., low rank) so that imputation is possible. While many effective estimation algorithms exist in the literature,…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-10-24 Yu Gui , Rina Foygel Barber , Cong Ma

We consider the problem of estimation of a low-rank matrix from a limited number of noisy rank-one projections. In particular, we propose two fast, non-convex \emph{proper} algorithms for matrix recovery and support them with rigorous…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-05-23 Mohammadreza Soltani , Chinmay Hegde

Finding a small spectral approximation for a tall $n \times d$ matrix $A$ is a fundamental numerical primitive. For a number of reasons, one often seeks an approximation whose rows are sampled from those of $A$. Row sampling improves…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-04-20 Michael B. Cohen , Cameron Musco , Jakub Pachocki

Recent work in the matrix completion literature has shown that prior knowledge of a matrix's row and column spaces can be successfully incorporated into reconstruction programs to substantially benefit matrix recovery. This paper proposes a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Oscar López

The matrix recovery (completion) problem, a central problem in data science and theoretical computer science, is to recover a matrix $A$ from a relatively small sample of entries. While such a task is impossible in general, it has been…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-03-06 BaoLinh Tran , Van Vu

We propose novel randomized optimization methods for high-dimensional convex problems based on restrictions of variables to random subspaces. We consider oblivious and data-adaptive subspaces and study their approximation properties via…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Jonathan Lacotte , Mert Pilanci

Matrix completion is a classical problem that has received recurring interest across a wide range of fields. In this paper, we revisit this problem in an ultra-sparse sampling regime, where each entry of an unknown, $n\times d$ matrix $M$…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Hongyang R. Zhang , Zhenshuo Zhang , Huy L. Nguyen , Guanghui Lan

The matrix completion problem aims to reconstruct a low-rank matrix based on a revealed set of possibly noisy entries. Prior works consider completing the entire matrix with generalization error guarantees. However, the completion accuracy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Elad Hazan , Adam Tauman Kalai , Varun Kanade , Clara Mohri , Y. Jennifer Sun

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

Matrix completion problem has been investigated under many different conditions since Netflix announced the Netflix Prize problem. Many research work has been done in the field once it has been discovered that many real life dataset could…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Jafar Jafarov

This paper examines the problem of locating outlier columns in a large, otherwise low-rank, matrix. We propose a simple two-step adaptive sensing and inference approach and establish theoretical guarantees for its performance; our results…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-22 Xingguo Li , Jarvis Haupt

The problem of low-rank matrix completion has recently generated a lot of interest leading to several results that offer exact solutions to the problem. However, in order to do so, these methods make assumptions that can be quite…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-07-14 Srinadh Bhojanapalli , Prateek Jain