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In practical instances of nonconvex matrix factorization, the rank of the true solution $r^{\star}$ is often unknown, so the rank $r$ of the model can be overspecified as $r>r^{\star}$. This over-parameterized regime of matrix factorization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-15 Gavin Zhang , Salar Fattahi , Richard Y. Zhang

Low rank matrix recovery problems, including matrix completion and matrix sensing, appear in a broad range of applications. In this work we present GNMR -- an extremely simple iterative algorithm for low rank matrix recovery, based on a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-28 Pini Zilber , Boaz Nadler

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

In this paper we develop a new framework that captures the common landscape underlying the common non-convex low-rank matrix problems including matrix sensing, matrix completion and robust PCA. In particular, we show for all above problems…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-04-04 Rong Ge , Chi Jin , Yi Zheng

The task of recovering a low-rank matrix from its noisy linear measurements plays a central role in computational science. Smooth formulations of the problem often exhibit an undesirable phenomenon: the condition number, classically…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-24 Vasileios Charisopoulos , Yudong Chen , Damek Davis , Mateo Díaz , Lijun Ding , Dmitriy Drusvyatskiy

Affine matrix rank minimization problem is a fundamental problem with a lot of important applications in many fields. It is well known that this problem is combinatorial and NP-hard in general. In this paper, a continuous promoting low rank…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-02 Angang Cui , Jigen Peng , Haiyang Li , Chengyi Zhang , Yongchao Yu

In this paper, the problem of matrix rank minimization under affine constraints is addressed. The state-of-the-art algorithms can recover matrices with a rank much less than what is sufficient for the uniqueness of the solution of this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Mohammadreza Malek-Mohammadi , Massoud Babaie-Zadeh , Arash Amini , Christian Jutten

This paper studies the matrix completion problem under arbitrary sampling schemes. We propose a new estimator incorporating both max-norm and nuclear-norm regularization, based on which we can conduct efficient low-rank matrix recovery…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-09-27 Ethan X. Fang , Han Liu , Kim-Chuan Toh , Wen-Xin Zhou

Low-rank matrix estimation plays a central role in various applications across science and engineering. Recently, nonconvex formulations based on matrix factorization are provably solved by simple gradient descent algorithms with strong…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-07 Cong Ma , Yuanxin Li , Yuejie Chi

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

Semi-Nonnegative Matrix Factorization (semi-NMF) extends classical Nonnegative Matrix Factorization (NMF) by allowing the basis matrix to contain both positive and negative entries, making it suitable for decomposing data with mixed signs.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Lu Chenggang

The multiplicative update (MU) algorithm has been extensively used to estimate the basis and coefficient matrices in nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) problems under a wide range of divergences and regularizers. However, theoretical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-06-08 Renbo Zhao , Vincent Y. F. Tan

We develop a rigorous framework for global non-convex optimization by reformulating the minimization problem as a discounted infinite-horizon optimal control problem. For non-convex, continuous, and possibly non-smooth objective functions…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Yuyang Huang , Dante Kalise , Hicham Kouhkouh

We propose a unified framework for estimating low-rank matrices through nonconvex optimization based on gradient descent algorithm. Our framework is quite general and can be applied to both noisy and noiseless observations. In the general…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-10-18 Lingxiao Wang , Xiao Zhang , Quanquan Gu

We extend the standard notion of self-concordance to non-convex optimization and develop a family of second-order algorithms with global convergence guarantees. In particular, two function classes -- \textit{weakly self-concordant}…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Donald Goldfarb , Lexiao Lai , Tianyi Lin , Jiayu Zhang

Tensor completion is a natural higher-order generalization of matrix completion where the goal is to recover a low-rank tensor from sparse observations of its entries. Existing algorithms are either heuristic without provable guarantees,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-14 Allen Liu , Ankur Moitra

Matrix completion is a modern missing data problem where both the missing structure and the underlying parameter are high dimensional. Although missing structure is a key component to any missing data problems, existing matrix completion…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-03-23 Xiaojun Mao , Raymond K. W. Wong , Song Xi Chen

In this paper, we develop a nonconvex approach to the problem of low-rank and sparse matrix decomposition. In our nonconvex method, we replace the rank function and the $l_{0}$-norm of a given matrix with a non-convex fraction function on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-14 Angang Cui , Meng Wen , Haiyang Li , Jigen Peng

The common task in matrix completion (MC) and robust principle component analysis (RPCA) is to recover a low-rank matrix from a given data matrix. These problems gained great attention from various areas in applied sciences recently,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-01-06 Hui Zhang , Jian-Feng Cai , Lizhi Cheng , Jubo Zhu

Sparse matrix factorization is a popular tool to obtain interpretable data decompositions, which are also effective to perform data completion or denoising. Its applicability to large datasets has been addressed with online and randomized…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-15 Arthur Mensch , Julien Mairal , Bertrand Thirion , Gaël Varoquaux