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Shitov recently gave a counterexample to Comon's conjecture that the symmetric tensor rank and tensor rank of a symmetric tensor are the same. In this paper we show that an analog of Comon's conjecture for the G-stable rank introduced by…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-03-08 Zhi Jiang

We investigate the computational complexity of tensor rank, a concept that plays fundamental role in different topics of modern applied mathematics. For tensors over any integral domain, we prove that the rank problem is polynomial time…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-11-08 Yaroslav Shitov

For a class of integral operators with kernels metric functions on manifold we find some necessary and sufficient conditions to have finite rank. The problem we pose has a stochastic nature and boils down to the following alternative…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2009-04-24 Nikolay H. Balov

Compressed sensing extends from the recovery of sparse vectors from undersampled measurements via efficient algorithms to the recovery of matrices of low rank from incomplete information. Here we consider a further extension to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-11-04 Holger Rauhut , Reinhold Schneider , Zeljka Stojanac

Tensor regression has attracted significant attention in statistical research. This study tackles the challenge of handling covariates with smooth varying structures. We introduce a novel framework, termed functional tensor regression,…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-06-12 Tongyu Li , Fang Yao , Anru R. Zhang

A symmetric tensor of small rank decomposes into a configuration of only few vectors. We study the variety of tensors for which this configuration is a unit norm tight frame.

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-11-18 Luke Oeding , Elina Robeva , Bernd Sturmfels

In this short pedagogical note we clarify some subtleties concerning the symmetries of the coefficients of a Riemann-Cartan connection and the symmetries of the coefficients of the contorsion tensor that has been a source of some confusion…

General Physics · Physics 2011-09-27 J. Fernando T. Giglio , Waldyr A. Rodrigues

The log-rank conjecture is a longstanding open problem with multiple equivalent formulations in complexity theory and mathematics. In its linear-algebraic form, it asserts that the rank and partitioning number of a Boolean matrix are…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Lianna Hambardzumyan , Shachar Lovett , Morgan Shirley

A numerical algorithm to decompose an exact low-rank skew-symmetric tensor into a sum of elementary (rank-$1$) skew-symmetric tensors is introduced. The algorithm uncovers this Grassmann decomposition based on linear relations that are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Nick Vannieuwenhoven

We construct a lower bound of the tensor rank for a new class of tensors, which we call persistent tensors. We present three specific families of persistent tensors, of which the lower bound is tight. We show that there is a chain of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-07 Masoud Gharahi , Vladimir Lysikov

We show how well known tools of algebraic geometry for the study of finite sets can be fruitfully applied to the study of Waring decompositions of symmetric tensors (forms). We mainly focus on the uniqueness of a given decomposition (the…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2018-07-03 Luca Chiantini

We revisit a geometric lower bound for Waring rank of polynomials (symmetric rank of symmetric tensors) of Landsberg and Teitler and generalize it to a lower bound for rank with respect to arbitrary varieties, improving the bound given by…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-07-09 Zach Teitler

Persistent tensors, introduced in [Quantum 8 (2024), 1238], and inspired by quantum information theory, form a recursively defined class of tensors that remain stable under the substitution method and thereby yield nontrivial lower bounds…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-10 Masoud Gharahi , Giorgio Ottaviani

Tensor parameters that are amortized or regularized over large tensor powers, often called "asymptotic" tensor parameters, play a central role in several areas including algebraic complexity theory (constructing fast matrix multiplication…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Jop Briët , Matthias Christandl , Itai Leigh , Amir Shpilka , Jeroen Zuiddam

Tensors decompositions are a class of tools for analysing datasets of high dimensionality and variety in a natural manner, with the Canonical Polyadic Decomposition (CPD) being a main pillar. While the notion of CPD is closely intertwined…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-15 Giuseppe G. Calvi , Bruno Scalzo Dees , Danilo P. Mandic

In this note we take a new look at the local convergence of alternating optimization methods for low-rank matrices and tensors. Our abstract interpretation as sequential optimization on moving subspaces yields insightful reformulations of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-01-14 Ivan Oseledets , Maxim Rakhuba , André Uschmajew

Tensor models play an increasingly prominent role in many fields, notably in machine learning. In several applications, such as community detection, topic modeling and Gaussian mixture learning, one must estimate a low-rank signal from a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-06-16 José Henrique de Morais Goulart , Romain Couillet , Pierre Comon

Tensor decomposition on big data has attracted significant attention recently. Among the most popular methods is a class of algorithms that leverages compression in order to reduce the size of the tensor and potentially parallelize…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Georgios Tsitsikas , Evangelos E. Papalexakis

In this article the notion of the nondecreasing (ND) rank of a matrix or tensor is introduced. A tensor has an ND rank of r if it can be represented as a sum of r outer products of vectors, with each vector satisfying a monotonicity…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-21 Andrew McCormack

This paper addresses the detection of a low rank high-dimensional tensor corrupted by an additive complex Gaussian noise. In the asymptotic regime where all the dimensions of the tensor converge towards $+\infty$ at the same rate, existing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-02-21 Antoine Chevreuil , Philippe Loubaton