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The optimal transport problem has many applications in machine learning, physics, biology, economics, etc. Although its goal is very clear and mathematically well-defined, finding its optimal solution can be challenging for large datasets…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-14 Roozbeh Yousefzadeh

Imaging Inverse problems aim to reconstruct an underlying image from undersampled, coded, and noisy observations. Within the wide range of reconstruction frameworks, the unrolling algorithm is one of the most popular due to the synergistic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-16 Roman Jacome , Romario Gualdrón-Hurtado , Leon Suarez-Rodriguez , Henry Arguello

Low-rank tensor completion problem aims to recover a tensor from limited observations, which has many real-world applications. Due to the easy optimization, the convex overlapping nuclear norm has been popularly used for tensor completion.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-24 Quanming Yao , James T Kwok , Bo Han

This paper addresses the challenge of efficient principal component analysis (PCA) in high-dimensional spaces by analyzing a compressively sampled variant of Oja's algorithm with adaptive sensing. Traditional PCA methods incur substantial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Alex Saad-Falcon , Brighton Ancelin , Justin Romberg

This paper studies the computational and statistical aspects of quantile and pseudo-Huber tensor decomposition. The integrated investigation of computational and statistical issues of robust tensor decomposition poses challenges due to the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-09-07 Yinan Shen , Dong Xia

High-dimensional tensors or multi-way data are becoming prevalent in areas such as biomedical imaging, chemometrics, networking and bibliometrics. Traditional approaches to finding lower dimensional representations of tensor data include…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2012-02-14 Genevera I. Allen

This paper is concerned with the computation of the principal components for a general tensor, known as the tensor principal component analysis (PCA) problem. We show that the general tensor PCA problem is reducible to its special case…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-11-19 Bo Jiang , Shiqian Ma , Shuzhong Zhang

We introduce Probabilistic Gaussian Homotopy (PGH), a probability-space continuation framework for nonconvex optimization. Unlike classical Gaussian homotopy, which smooths the objective and uniformly averages gradients, PGH deforms the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Eshed Gal , Samy Wu Fung , Eldad Haber

We analyze the Accelerated Noisy Power Method, an algorithm for Principal Component Analysis in the setting where only inexact matrix-vector products are available, which can arise for instance in decentralized PCA. While previous works…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-04 Pierre Aguié , Mathieu Even , Laurent Massoulié

Tensor classification has become increasingly crucial in statistics and machine learning, with applications spanning neuroimaging, computer vision, and recommendation systems. However, the high dimensionality of tensors presents significant…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-09-24 Elynn Chen , Yuefeng Han , Jiayu Li

High-dimensional linear regression under heavy-tailed noise or outlier corruption is challenging, both computationally and statistically. Convex approaches have been proven statistically optimal but suffer from high computational costs,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-05-11 Yinan Shen , Jingyang Li , Jian-Feng Cai , Dong Xia

Unsupervised learning aims at the discovery of hidden structure that drives the observations in the real world. It is essential for success in modern machine learning. Latent variable models are versatile in unsupervised learning and have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-06-13 Furong Huang

Sparse principal component analysis (PCA) is an important technique for dimensionality reduction of high-dimensional data. However, most existing sparse PCA algorithms are based on non-convex optimization, which provide little guarantee on…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-11-20 Yixuan Qiu , Jing Lei , Kathryn Roeder

The graduated optimization approach, also known as the continuation method, is a popular heuristic to solving non-convex problems that has received renewed interest over the last decade. Despite its popularity, very little is known in terms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-07-28 Elad Hazan , Kfir Y. Levy , Shai Shalev-Shwartz

We present a homotopic approach to solving challenging, optimization-based motion planning problems. The approach uses Homotopy Optimization, which, unlike standard continuation methods for solving homotopy problems, solves a sequence of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Shayan Pardis , Matthew Chignoli , Sangbae Kim

Low-rank matrix recovery problems involving high-dimensional and heterogeneous data appear in applications throughout statistics and machine learning. The contribution of this paper is to establish the fundamental limits of recovery for a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-03-22 Joshua K. Behne , Galen Reeves

Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is a classical method for reducing the dimensionality of data by projecting them onto a subspace that captures most of their variation. Effective use of PCA in modern applications requires understanding…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-06-14 David Hong , Laura Balzano , Jeffrey A. Fessler

Tensor clustering, which seeks to extract underlying cluster structures from noisy tensor observations, has gained increasing attention. One extensively studied model for tensor clustering is the tensor block model, which postulates the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-11-07 Yuchen Zhou , Yuxin Chen

This work studies the problem of maximizing a higher degree real homogeneous multivariate polynomial over the unit sphere. This problem is equivalent to finding the leading eigenvalue of the associated symmetric tensor of higher order,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-02 Yuning Yang , Guoyin Li

The Homotopy paradigm, a general principle for solving challenging problems, appears across diverse domains such as robust optimization, global optimization, polynomial root-finding, and sampling. Practical solvers for these problems…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Jiayao Mai , Bangyan Liao , Zhenjun Zhao , Yingping Zeng , Haoang Li , Javier Civera , Tailin Wu , Yi Zhou , Peidong Liu