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Suppose we are given a matrix that is formed by adding an unknown sparse matrix to an unknown low-rank matrix. Our goal is to decompose the given matrix into its sparse and low-rank components. Such a problem arises in a number of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-08-09 Venkat Chandrasekaran , Sujay Sanghavi , Pablo A. Parrilo , Alan S. Willsky

We study high-dimensional sparse estimation tasks in a robust setting where a constant fraction of the dataset is adversarially corrupted. Specifically, we focus on the fundamental problems of robust sparse mean estimation and robust sparse…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Ilias Diakonikolas , Sushrut Karmalkar , Daniel Kane , Eric Price , Alistair Stewart

Can one recover a matrix efficiently from only matrix-vector products? If so, how many are needed? This paper describes algorithms to recover matrices with known structures, such as tridiagonal, Toeplitz, Toeplitz-like, and hierarchical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-31 Diana Halikias , Alex Townsend

Principal component analysis (PCA) is a widely used technique for data analysis and dimension reduction with numerous applications in science and engineering. However, the standard PCA suffers from the fact that the principal components…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-07-14 Zhaosong Lu , Yong Zhang

The robust principal component analysis (RPCA) decomposes a data matrix into a low-rank part and a sparse part. There are mainly two types of algorithms for RPCA. The first type of algorithm applies regularization terms on the singular…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-02 Ningyu Sha , Lei Shi , Ming Yan

Matrix recovery from sparse observations is an extensively studied topic emerging in various applications, such as recommendation system and signal processing, which includes the matrix completion and compressed sensing models as special…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-13 Ziyuan Chen , Ying Yang , Fang Yao

In this paper, we study the problem of decomposing a superposition of a low-rank matrix and a sparse matrix when a relatively few linear measurements are available. This problem arises in many data processing tasks such as aligning multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-03-01 Arvind Ganesh , Kerui Min , John Wright , Yi Ma

This paper studies tensor-based Robust Principal Component Analysis (RPCA) using atomic-norm regularization. Given the superposition of a sparse and a low-rank tensor, we present conditions under which it is possible to exactly recover the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-31 Derek Driggs , Stephen Becker , Jordan Boyd-Graber

Robust low-rank approximation under row-wise adversarial corruption can be achieved with a single pass, randomized procedure that detects and removes outlier rows by thresholding their projected norms. We propose a scalable, non-iterative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Aidan Tiruvan

We study an estimator with a convex formulation for recovery of low-rank matrices from rank-one projections. Using initial estimates of the factors of the target $d_1\times d_2$ matrix of rank-$r$, the estimator admits a practical…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-01-12 Sohail Bahmani , Kiryung Lee

In this paper, we consider the problem of learning high-dimensional tensor regression problems with low-rank structure. One of the core challenges associated with learning high-dimensional models is computation since the underlying…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-12-01 Han Chen , Garvesh Raskutti , Ming Yuan

Robust principal component analysis (RPCA) is a widely used tool for dimension reduction. In this work, we propose a novel non-convex algorithm, coined Iterated Robust CUR (IRCUR), for solving RPCA problems, which dramatically improves the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-02-09 HanQin Cai , Keaton Hamm , Longxiu Huang , Jiaqi Li , Tao Wang

We consider the problem of recovering an unknown effectively $(s_1,s_2)$-sparse low-rank-$R$ matrix $X$ with possibly non-orthogonal rank-$1$ decomposition from incomplete and inaccurate linear measurements of the form $y = \mathcal A (X) +…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-29 Massimo Fornasier , Johannes Maly , Valeriya Naumova

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

We propose a prox-regular-type low-rank constrained nonconvex nonsmooth optimization model for Robust Low-Rank Matrix Recovery (RLRMR), i.e., estimate problem of low-rank matrix from an observed signal corrupted by outliers. For RLRMR, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Keita Kume , Isao Yamada

Recently, Musco and Woodruff (FOCS, 2017) showed that given an $n \times n$ positive semidefinite (PSD) matrix $A$, it is possible to compute a $(1+\epsilon)$-approximate relative-error low-rank approximation to $A$ by querying…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Ainesh Bakshi , Nadiia Chepurko , David P. Woodruff

Tensor, also known as multi-dimensional array, arises from many applications in signal processing, manufacturing processes, healthcare, among others. As one of the most popular methods in tensor literature, Robust tensor principal component…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-18 Bo Shen , Yutong Zhang , Zhenyu , Kong

We develop a novel primal-dual algorithm to solve a class of nonsmooth and nonlinear compositional convex minimization problems, which covers many existing and brand-new models as special cases. Our approach relies on a combination of a new…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-20 Yuzixuan Zhu , Deyi Liu , Quoc Tran-Dinh

This paper considers the problem of recovering an unknown sparse p\times p matrix X from an m\times m matrix Y=AXB^T, where A and B are known m \times p matrices with m << p. The main result shows that there exist constructions of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-03-27 Gautam Dasarathy , Parikshit Shah , Badri Narayan Bhaskar , Robert Nowak

Composite convex optimization problems which include both a nonsmooth term and a low-rank promoting term have important applications in machine learning and signal processing, such as when one wishes to recover an unknown matrix that is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-28 Dan Garber , Atara Kaplan