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Many real world datasets subsume a linear or non-linear low-rank structure in a very low-dimensional space. Unfortunately, one often has very little or no information about the geometry of the space, resulting in a highly under-determined…
This work studies the recursive robust principal components' analysis(PCA) problem. Here, "robust" refers to robustness to both independent and correlated sparse outliers. If the outlier is the signal-of-interest, this problem can be…
Low-rank matrix completion is a problem of immense practical importance. Recent works on the subject often use nuclear norm as a convex surrogate of the rank function. Despite its solid theoretical foundation, the convex version of the…
Low-rank matrices play a fundamental role in modeling and computational methods for signal processing and machine learning. In many applications where low-rank matrices arise, these matrices cannot be fully sampled or directly observed, and…
Motivated by robust matrix recovery problems such as Robust Principal Component Analysis, we consider a general optimization problem of minimizing a smooth and strongly convex loss function applied to the sum of two blocks of variables,…
Nonconvex methods have emerged as a dominant approach for low-rank matrix estimation, a problem that arises widely in machine learning and AI for learning and representing high-dimensional data. Existing analyses for these methods often…
Tensor robust principal component analysis (TRPCA) is a classical way for low-rank tensor recovery, which minimizes the convex surrogate of tensor rank by shrinking each tensor singular value equally. However, for real-world visual data,…
Many machine learning systems are vulnerable to small perturbations made to inputs either at test time or at training time. This has received much recent interest on the empirical front due to applications where reliability and security are…
We present a new algorithm for finding a near optimal low-rank approximation of a matrix $A$ in $O(nnz(A))$ time. Our method is based on a recursive sampling scheme for computing a representative subset of $A$'s columns, which is then used…
The optimization problem of sparse and low-rank matrix recovery is considered, which involves a least squares problem with a rank constraint and a cardinality constraint. To overcome the challenges posed by these constraints, an asymptotic…
We describe and analyze a simple algorithm for principal component analysis and singular value decomposition, VR-PCA, which uses computationally cheap stochastic iterations, yet converges exponentially fast to the optimal solution. In…
Low-rank matrix recovery problems involving high-dimensional and heterogeneous data appear in applications throughout statistics and machine learning. The contribution of this paper is to establish the fundamental limits of recovery for a…
Tremendous efforts have been made to study the theoretical and algorithmic aspects of sparse recovery and low-rank matrix recovery. This paper fills a theoretical gap in matrix recovery: the optimal sample complexity for stable recovery…
Tremendous efforts have been made to study the theoretical and algorithmic aspects of sparse recovery and low-rank matrix recovery. This paper fills a theoretical gap in matrix recovery: the optimal sample complexity for stable recovery…
We consider the problem of low-rank rectangular matrix completion in the regime where the matrix $M$ of size $n\times m$ is ``long", i.e., the aspect ratio $m/n$ diverges to infinity. Such matrices are of particular interest in the study of…
We study the low-rank phase retrieval problem, where we try to recover a $d_1\times d_2$ low-rank matrix from a series of phaseless linear measurements. This is a fourth-order inverse problem, as we are trying to recover factors of matrix…
We show that when a high-dimensional data matrix is the sum of a low-rank matrix and a random error matrix with independent entries, the low-rank component can be consistently estimated by solving a convex minimization problem. We develop a…
The matrix factor model has drawn growing attention for its advantage in achieving two-directional dimension reduction simultaneously for matrix-structured observations. In this paper, we propose a simple iterative least squares algorithm…
In this paper we analyze several new methods for solving nonconvex optimization problems with the objective function formed as a sum of two terms: one is nonconvex and smooth, and another is convex but simple and its structure is known.…
We analyze the decomposition of a data matrix, assumed to be a superposition of a low-rank component and a component which is sparse in a known dictionary, using a convex demixing method. We provide a unified analysis, encompassing both…