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In this paper, we theoretically investigate the low-rank matrix recovery problem in the context of the unconstrained regularized nuclear norm minimization (RNNM) framework. Our theoretical findings show that, the RNNM method is able to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-09 Wendong Wang , Feng Zhang , Jianjun Wang

We show that solutions to the popular convex matrix LASSO problem (nuclear-norm--penalized linear least-squares) have low rank under similar assumptions as required by classical low-rank matrix sensing error bounds. Although the purpose of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-16 Andrew D. McRae

It is an efficient and effective strategy to utilize the nuclear norm approximation to learn low-rank matrices, which arise frequently in machine learning and computer vision. So the exploration of nuclear norm minimization problems is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-11-24 Guangcan Liu , Ju Sun , Shuicheng Yan

For a given matrix subspace, how can we find a basis that consists of low-rank matrices? This is a generalization of the sparse vector problem. It turns out that when the subspace is spanned by rank-1 matrices, the matrices can be obtained…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2016-06-29 Yuji Nakatsukasa , Tasuku Soma , André Uschmajew

Affine rank minimization algorithms typically rely on calculating the gradient of a data error followed by a singular value decomposition at every iteration. Because these two steps are expensive, heuristic approximations are often used to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-06-04 Stephen Becker , Volkan Cevher , Anastasios Kyrillidis

Low-rank approximation of a matrix by means of random sampling has been consistently efficient in its empirical studies by many scientists who applied it with various sparse and structured multipliers, but adequate formal support for this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-07 Victor Y. Pan , Liang Zhao

The $k$-support norm is a regularizer which has been successfully applied to sparse vector prediction problems. We show that it belongs to a general class of norms which can be formulated as a parameterized infimum over quadratics. We…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-03-07 Andrew M. McDonald , Massimiliano Pontil , Dimitris Stamos

Subspace clustering refers to the task of finding a multi-subspace representation that best fits a collection of points taken from a high-dimensional space. This paper introduces an algorithm inspired by sparse subspace clustering (SSC) [In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-05-26 Mahdi Soltanolkotabi , Ehsan Elhamifar , Emmanuel J. Candès

Clustering is a long-standing research problem and a fundamental tool in AI and data analysis. The traditional k-center problem, a fundamental theoretical challenge in clustering, has a best possible approximation ratio of 2, and any…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Chaoqi Jia , Longkun Guo , Kewen Liao , Zhigang Lu , Chao Chen , Jason Xue

In color image processing, image completion aims to restore missing entries from the incomplete observation image. Recently, great progress has been made in achieving completion by approximately solving the rank minimization problem. In…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-06 Liqiao Yang , Jifei Miao , Kit Ian Kou

This paper considers the optimization problem in the form of $\min_{X \in \mathcal{F}_v} f(x) + \lambda \|X\|_1,$ where $f$ is smooth, $\mathcal{F}_v = \{X \in \mathbb{R}^{n \times q} : X^T X = I_q, v \in \mathrm{span}(X)\}$, and $v$ is a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-21 Wen Huang , Meng Wei , Kyle A. Gallivan , Paul Van Dooren

Adaptive regularized framework using cubics has emerged as an alternative to line-search and trust-region algorithms for smooth nonconvex optimization, with an optimal complexity amongst second-order methods. In this paper, we propose and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-30 El houcine Bergou , Youssef Diouane , Serge Gratton

Low-rank inducing unitarily invariant norms have been introduced to convexify problems with low-rank/sparsity constraint. They are the convex envelope of a unitary invariant norm and the indicator function of an upper bounding rank…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-17 Christian Grussler , Pontus Giselsson

Low rank matrix approximation (LRMA), which aims to recover the underlying low rank matrix from its degraded observation, has a wide range of applications in computer vision. The latest LRMA methods resort to using the nuclear norm…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-03 Yuan Xie , Shuhang Gu , Yan Liu , Wangmeng Zuo , Wensheng Zhang , Lei Zhang

Low-rank matrix regression is a fundamental problem in data science with various applications in systems and control. Nuclear norm regularization has been widely applied to solve this problem due to its convexity. However, it suffers from…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-04 Mingzhou Yin , Matthias A. Müller

Trace norm regularization is a widely used approach for learning low rank matrices. A standard optimization strategy is based on formulating the problem as one of low rank matrix factorization which, however, leads to a non-convex problem.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Carlo Ciliberto , Dimitris Stamos , Massimiliano Pontil

Structured low-rank approximation is the problem of minimizing a weighted Frobenius distance to a given matrix among all matrices of fixed rank in a linear space of matrices. We study exact solutions to this problem by way of computational…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-02-23 Giorgio Ottaviani , Pierre-Jean Spaenlehauer , Bernd Sturmfels

This letter presents a new spectral-clustering-based approach to the subspace clustering problem. Underpinning the proposed method is a convex program for optimal direction search, which for each data point d finds an optimal direction in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Mostafa Rahmani , George Atia

The low-rank matrix reconstruction (LRMR) approach is widely used in direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation. As the rank norm penalty in an LRMR is NP-hard to compute, the nuclear norm (or the trace norm for a positive semidefinite (PSD)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-07 Xiaohuan Wu , Wei-Ping Zhu , Jun Yan

This paper studies noisy low-rank matrix completion: given partial and noisy entries of a large low-rank matrix, the goal is to estimate the underlying matrix faithfully and efficiently. Arguably one of the most popular paradigms to tackle…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-10-08 Yuxin Chen , Yuejie Chi , Jianqing Fan , Cong Ma , Yuling Yan