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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

We study the problem of finding structured low-rank matrices using nuclear norm regularization where the structure is encoded by a linear map. In contrast to most known approaches for linearly structured rank minimization, we do not (a) use…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-09-09 Adams Wei Yu , Wanli Ma , Yaoliang Yu , Jaime G. Carbonell , Suvrit Sra

In this paper, we develop a relative error bound for nuclear norm regularized matrix completion, with the focus on the completion of full-rank matrices. Under the assumption that the top eigenspaces of the target matrix are incoherent, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Lijun Zhang , Tianbao Yang , Rong Jin , Zhi-Hua Zhou

The problem of estimating ARMA models is computationally interesting due to the nonconcavity of the log-likelihood function. Recent results were based on the convex minimization. Joint model selection using penalization by a convex norm,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-08-10 Stéphane Chrétien , Tianwen Wei , Basad Ali Hussain Al-sarray

Matrix completion has attracted much interest in the past decade in machine learning and computer vision. For low-rank promotion in matrix completion, the nuclear norm penalty is convenient due to its convexity but has a bias problem.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Fei Wen , Rendong Ying , Peilin Liu , Trieu-Kien Truong

The problem of recovering a low-rank matrix from a set of observations corrupted with gross sparse error is known as the robust principal component analysis (RPCA) and has many applications in computer vision, image processing and web data…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-09-27 Necdet Serhat Aybat , Donald Goldfarb , Shiqian Ma

An incoherent low-rank matrix can be efficiently reconstructed after observing a few of its entries at random, and then solving a convex program that minimizes the nuclear norm. In many applications, in addition to these entries,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-14 Armin Eftekhari , Dehui Yang , Michael B. Wakin

Recht, Fazel, and Parrilo provided an analogy between rank minimization and $\ell_0$-norm minimization. Subject to the rank-restricted isometry property, nuclear norm minimization is a guaranteed algorithm for rank minimization. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-05-01 Kiryung Lee , Yoram Bresler

Low-rank matrix approximation is one of the central concepts in machine learning, with applications in dimension reduction, de-noising, multivariate statistical methodology, and many more. A recent extension to LRMA is called low-rank…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-09-24 Elena Tuzhilina , Trevor Hastie

We study extensions of compressive sensing and low rank matrix recovery to the recovery of low rank tensors from incomplete linear information. While the reconstruction of low rank matrices via nuclear norm minimization is rather…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-16 Holger Rauhut , Željka Stojanac

The problem of recovering a low $n$-rank tensor is an extension of sparse recovery problem from the low dimensional space (matrix space) to the high dimensional space (tensor space) and has many applications in computer vision and graphics…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-04-09 Min Zhang , Lei Yang , Zheng-Hai Huang

Principal component analysis (PCA) is one of the most commonly used statistical procedures with a wide range of applications. This paper considers both minimax and adaptive estimation of the principal subspace in the high dimensional…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-01-08 T. Tony Cai , Zongming Ma , Yihong Wu

The recently established RPCA method provides us a convenient way to restore low-rank matrices from grossly corrupted observations. While elegant in theory and powerful in reality, RPCA may be not an ultimate solution to the low-rank matrix…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-07-17 Guangcan Liu , Ping Li

Computing the dominant eigenvalue is important in nuclear systems as it determines the stability of the system (i.e. whether the system is sub or supercritical). Recently, the work of Kusch, Whewell, McClarren and Frank \cite{KWMF} showed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-24 C. Scalone , L. Einkemmer , J. Kusch , R. J. McClarren

Low rank approximation of a matrix (LRA) is a highly important area of Numerical Linear and Multilinear Algebra and Data Mining and Analysis. One can operate with an LRA superfast -- by using much fewer memory cells and flops than an input…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-16 Soo Go , Qi Luan , Victor Y. Pan , John Svadlenka , Liang Zhao

This paper is concerned with the problem of recovering an unknown matrix from a small fraction of its entries. This is known as the matrix completion problem, and comes up in a great number of applications, including the famous Netflix…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-03-10 Emmanuel J. Candes , Terence Tao

We study robust PCA for the fully observed setting, which is about separating a low rank matrix $\boldsymbol{L}$ and a sparse matrix $\boldsymbol{S}$ from their sum $\boldsymbol{D}=\boldsymbol{L}+\boldsymbol{S}$. In this paper, a new…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-29 HanQin Cai , Jian-Feng Cai , Ke Wei

Principal component analysis (PCA) is possibly one of the most widely used statistical tools to recover a low-rank structure of the data. In the high-dimensional settings, the leading eigenvector of the sample covariance can be nearly…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-04-06 Chao Gao , Harrison H. Zhou

We propose a simple, scalable, and fast gradient descent algorithm to optimize a nonconvex objective for the rank minimization problem and a closely related family of semidefinite programs. With $O(r^3 \kappa^2 n \log n)$ random…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-03-25 Qinqing Zheng , John Lafferty

Reduced rank regression (RRR) is a fundamental tool for modeling multiple responses through low-dimensional latent structures, offering both interpretability and strong predictive performance in high-dimensional settings. Classical RRR…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-01-01 The Tien Mai