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For reconstruction of low-rank matrices from undersampled measurements, we develop an iterative algorithm based on least-squares estimation. While the algorithm can be used for any low-rank matrix, it is also capable of exploiting a-priori…
In low-rank tensor completion tasks, due to the underlying multiple large-scale singular value decomposition (SVD) operations and rank selection problem of the traditional methods, they suffer from high computational cost and high…
This work presents a general framework for solving the low rank and/or sparse matrix minimization problems, which may involve multiple non-smooth terms. The Iteratively Reweighted Least Squares (IRLS) method is a fast solver, which smooths…
Tensor completion is a challenging problem with various applications. Many related models based on the low-rank prior of the tensor have been proposed. However, the low-rank prior may not be enough to recover the original tensor from the…
We propose an iterative algorithm for low-rank matrix completion that can be interpreted as an iteratively reweighted least squares (IRLS) algorithm, a saddle-escaping smoothing Newton method or a variable metric proximal gradient method…
To alleviate the bias generated by the l1-norm in the low-rank tensor completion problem, nonconvex surrogates/regularizers have been suggested to replace the tensor nuclear norm, although both can achieve sparsity. However, the…
We present Nesterov-type acceleration techniques for Alternating Least Squares (ALS) methods applied to canonical tensor decomposition. While Nesterov acceleration turns gradient descent into an optimal first-order method for convex…
Affine sum-of-ranks minimization (ASRM) generalizes the affine rank minimization (ARM) problem from matrices to tensors. Here, the interest lies in the ranks of a family $\mathcal{K}$ of different matricizations. Transferring our priorly…
In this paper we provide a latent-variable formulation and solution to the recommender system (RS) problem in terms of a fundamental property that any reasonable solution should be expected to satisfy. Specifically, we examine a novel…
Using the matrix product state (MPS) representation of tensor train decompositions, in this paper we propose a tensor completion algorithm which alternates over the matrices (tensors) in the MPS representation. This development is motivated…
Regularization by the sum of singular values, also referred to as the trace norm, is a popular technique for estimating low rank rectangular matrices. In this paper, we extend some of the consistency results of the Lasso to provide…
Canonical Polyadic (CP) tensor decomposition is a fundamental technique for analyzing high-dimensional tensor data. While the Alternating Least Squares (ALS) algorithm is widely used for computing CP decomposition due to its simplicity and…
This paper presents a multigrid algorithm for the computation of the rank-R canonical decomposition of a tensor for low rank R. Standard alternating least squares (ALS) is used as the relaxation method. Transfer operators and coarse-level…
Low-rank structures play important role in recent advances of many problems in image science and data science. As a natural extension of low-rank structures for data with nonlinear structures, the concept of the low-dimensional manifold…
The alternating least squares (ALS/AltLS) method is a widely used algorithm for computing the CP decomposition of a tensor. However, its convergence theory is still incompletely understood. In this paper, we prove explicit quantitative…
In this work we present a novel optimization strategy for image reconstruction tasks under analysis-based image regularization, which promotes sparse and/or low-rank solutions in some learned transform domain. We parameterize such…
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…
In recent studies, the tensor ring (TR) rank has shown high effectiveness in tensor completion due to its ability of capturing the intrinsic structure within high-order tensors. A recently proposed TR rank minimization method is based on…
Stochastic Alternating Least Squares (SALS) is a method that approximates the canonical decomposition of averages of sampled random tensors. Its simplicity and efficient memory usage make SALS an ideal tool for decomposing tensors in an…