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Many problems in data science can be treated as estimating a low-rank matrix from highly incomplete, sometimes even corrupted, observations. One popular approach is to resort to matrix factorization, where the low-rank matrix factors are…
We consider a novel algorithm, for the completion of partially observed low-rank tensors, as a generalization of matrix completion. The proposed low-rank tensor completion (TC) method builds on the conventional nuclear norm (NN)…
This work proposes an efficient batch algorithm for feature selection in reinforcement learning (RL) with theoretical convergence guarantees. To mitigate the estimation bias inherent in conventional regularization schemes, the first…
This paper concerns with a noisy structured low-rank matrix recovery problem which can be modeled as a structured rank minimization problem. We reformulate this problem as a mathematical program with a generalized complementarity constraint…
Low-rank matrix completion is a problem of immense practical importance. Recent works on the subject often use nuclear norm as a convex surrogate of the rank function. Despite its solid theoretical foundation, the convex version of the…
In low-rank matrix recovery, one aims to reconstruct a low-rank matrix from a minimal number of linear measurements. Within the paradigm of compressed sensing, this is made computationally efficient by minimizing the nuclear norm as a…
In many applications that require matrix solutions of minimal rank, the underlying cost function is non-convex leading to an intractable, NP-hard optimization problem. Consequently, the convex nuclear norm is frequently used as a surrogate…
In many applications that require matrix solutions of minimal rank, the underlying cost function is non-convex leading to an intractable, NP-hard optimization problem. Consequently, the convex nuclear norm is frequently used as a surrogate…
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…
We consider robust low rank matrix estimation as a trace regression when outputs are contaminated by adversaries. The adversaries are allowed to add arbitrary values to arbitrary outputs. Such values can depend on any samples. We deal with…
Low rank regularization, in essence, involves introducing a low rank or approximately low rank assumption for matrix we aim to learn, which has achieved great success in many fields including machine learning, data mining and computer…
We propose a penalty-based smoothing framework for convex nonsmooth functions with a supremum structure. The regularization yields a differentiable surrogate with controlled approximation error, a single-valued dual maximizer, and explicit…
The completion of matrices with missing values under the rank constraint is a non-convex optimization problem. A popular convex relaxation is based on minimization of the nuclear norm (sum of singular values) of the matrix. For this…
One of the tasks in color image processing and computer vision is to recover clean data from partial observations corrupted by noise. To this end, robust quaternion matrix completion (QMC) has recently attracted more attention and shown its…
Efficient algorithms for the sparse solution of under-determined linear systems $Ax = b$ are known for matrices $A$ satisfying suitable assumptions like the restricted isometry property (RIP). Without such assumptions little is known and…
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…
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…
This paper is concerned with a class of zero-norm regularized piecewise linear-quadratic (PLQ) composite minimization problems, which covers the zero-norm regularized $\ell_1$-loss minimization problem as a special case. For this class of…
Numerous applications in data mining and machine learning require recovering a matrix of minimal rank. Robust principal component analysis (RPCA) is a general framework for handling this kind of problems. Nuclear norm based convex surrogate…
Group-prior based regularization method has led to great successes in various image processing tasks, which can usually be considered as a low-rank matrix minimization problem. As a widely used surrogate function of low-rank, the nuclear…