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Over the past years Robust PCA has been established as a standard tool for reliable low-rank approximation of matrices in the presence of outliers. Recently, the Robust PCA approach via nuclear norm minimization has been extended to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-06-15 Clemens Hage , Martin Kleinsteuber

Matrix low rank approximation including the classical PCA and the robust PCA (RPCA) method have been applied to solve the background modeling problem in video analysis. Recently, it has been demonstrated that a special weighted low rank…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-21 Aritra Dutta , Xin Li

We consider the problem of recovering a lowrank matrix M from a small number of random linear measurements. A popular and useful example of this problem is matrix completion, in which the measurements reveal the values of a subset of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-10-05 Emmanuel J. Candes , Yaniv Plan

Low-rank matrix completion (LRMC) has demonstrated remarkable success in a wide range of applications. To address the NP-hard nature of the rank minimization problem, the nuclear norm is commonly used as a convex and computationally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Zhijie Wang , Liangtian He , Qinghua Zhang , Jifei Miao , Liang-Jian Deng , Jun Liu

In this manuscript, we research on the behaviors of surrogates for the rank function on different image processing problems and their optimization algorithms. We first propose a novel nonconvex rank surrogate on the general rank…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Cho-Ying Wu , Jian-Jiun Ding

Low-rank modeling has many important applications in computer vision and machine learning. While the matrix rank is often approximated by the convex nuclear norm, the use of nonconvex low-rank regularizers has demonstrated better empirical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Quanming Yao , James T. Kwok , Taifeng Wang , Tie-Yan Liu

For the problems of low-rank matrix completion, the efficiency of the widely-used nuclear norm technique may be challenged under many circumstances, especially when certain basis coefficients are fixed, for example, the low-rank correlation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-06-23 Weimin Miao , Shaohua Pan , Defeng Sun

Rank minimization (RM) is a wildly investigated task of finding solutions by exploiting low-rank structure of parameter matrices. Recently, solving RM problem by leveraging non-convex relaxations has received significant attention. It has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-17 Zaiyi Chen

Nonconvex regularization has been popularly used in low-rank matrix learning. However, extending it for low-rank tensor learning is still computationally expensive. To address this problem, we develop an efficient solver for use with a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Quanming Yao , Yaqing Wang , Bo Han , James Kwok

In this paper, we consider the problem of Robust Matrix Completion (RMC) where the goal is to recover a low-rank matrix by observing a small number of its entries out of which a few can be arbitrarily corrupted. We propose a simple…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-12-09 Yeshwanth Cherapanamjeri , Kartik Gupta , Prateek Jain

Robust low-rank matrix completion (RMC), or robust principal component analysis with partially observed data, has been studied extensively for computer vision, signal processing and machine learning applications. This problem aims to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Minhui Huang , Shiqian Ma , Lifeng Lai

This work studies low-rank approximation of a positive semidefinite matrix from partial entries via nonconvex optimization. We characterized how well local-minimum based low-rank factorization approximates a fixed positive semidefinite…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-08 Ji Chen , Xiaodong Li

Recovering intrinsic low dimensional subspaces from data distributed on them is a key preprocessing step to many applications. In recent years, there has been a lot of work that models subspace recovery as low rank minimization problems. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-12-09 Hongyang Zhang , Zhouchen Lin , Chao Zhang , Junbin Gao

For the problem of reconstructing a low-rank matrix from a few linear measurements, two classes of algorithms have been widely studied in the literature: convex approaches based on nuclear norm minimization, and non-convex approaches that…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-07-29 Dominik Stöger , Yizhe Zhu

Robust Principal Component Analysis (PCA) (Candes et al., 2011) and low-rank matrix completion (Recht et al., 2010) are extensions of PCA to allow for outliers and missing entries respectively. It is well-known that solving these problems…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-12 Jared Tanner , Andrew Thompson , Simon Vary

Low-rank matrix models have been universally useful for numerous applications, from classical system identification to more modern matrix completion in signal processing and statistics. The nuclear norm has been employed as a convex…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-03-06 Kiryung Lee , Rakshith Sharma Srinivasa , Marius Junge , Justin Romberg

We propose a novel value function approximation technique for Markov decision processes. We consider the problem of compactly representing the state-action value function using a low-rank and sparse matrix model. The problem is to decompose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-09-02 Hao Yi Ong

In a broad range of computer vision applications, the purpose of Low-rank matrix approximation (LRMA) models is to recover the underlying low-rank matrix from its degraded observation. The latest LRMA methods - Robust Principal Component…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-27 K. V. Sridhar , Raghu vamshi Hemadri

This paper is about a curious phenomenon. Suppose we have a data matrix, which is the superposition of a low-rank component and a sparse component. Can we recover each component individually? We prove that under some suitable assumptions,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-12-21 Emmanuel J. Candes , Xiaodong Li , Yi Ma , John Wright

Given a limited number of entries from the superposition of a low-rank matrix plus the product of a known fat compression matrix times a sparse matrix, recovery of the low-rank and sparse components is a fundamental task subsuming…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2013-10-01 Morteza Mardani , Gonzalo Mateos , Georgios B. Giannakis