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Originally developed for imputing missing entries in low rank, or approximately low rank matrices, matrix completion has proven widely effective in many problems where there is no reason to assume low-dimensional linear structure in the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-05-06 Yunhua Xiang , Tianyu Zhang , Xu Wang , Ali Shojaie , Noah Simon

This paper develops a new class of nonconvex regularizers for low-rank matrix recovery. Many regularizers are motivated as convex relaxations of the matrix rank function. Our new factor group-sparse regularizers are motivated as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Jicong Fan , Lijun Ding , Yudong Chen , Madeleine Udell

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

We study implicit regularization when optimizing an underdetermined quadratic objective over a matrix $X$ with gradient descent on a factorization of $X$. We conjecture and provide empirical and theoretical evidence that with small enough…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-05-26 Suriya Gunasekar , Blake Woodworth , Srinadh Bhojanapalli , Behnam Neyshabur , Nathan Srebro

This paper considers the problem of finding a low rank matrix from observations of linear combinations of its elements. It is well known that if the problem fulfills a restricted isometry property (RIP), convex relaxations using the nuclear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-13 Carl Olsson , Marcus Carlsson , Erik Bylow

Many applications require recovering a matrix of minimal rank within an affine constraint set, with matrix completion a notable special case. Because the problem is NP-hard in general, it is common to replace the matrix rank with the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-07-08 Bo Xin , David Wipf

Low-rank modeling has a lot of important applications in machine learning, computer vision and social network analysis. While the matrix rank is often approximated by the convex nuclear norm, the use of nonconvex low-rank regularizers has…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2016-05-02 Quanming Yao , James T. Kwok , Wenliang Zhong

This paper studies the relationship between the nuclear norm-regularized minimization problem, which minimizes the sum of a $C^2$ function $h$ and a positive multiple of the nuclear norm, denoted by $f$, and its factorized problem obtained…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-06 Wenqing Ouyang , Ting Kei Pong , Man-Chung Yue

We present a converged algorithm for Tikhonov regularized nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF). We specially choose this regularization because it is known that Tikhonov regularized least square (LS) is the more preferable form in solving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Andri Mirzal

Techniques involving factorization are found in a wide range of applications and have enjoyed significant empirical success in many fields. However, common to a vast majority of these problems is the significant disadvantage that the…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2015-06-26 Benjamin D. Haeffele , Rene Vidal

We consider the problem of recovering low-rank matrices from random rank-one measurements, which spans numerous applications including covariance sketching, phase retrieval, quantum state tomography, and learning shallow polynomial neural…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Yuanxin Li , Cong Ma , Yuxin Chen , Yuejie Chi

We consider the nonconvex regularized method for low-rank matrix recovery. Under the assumption on the singular values of the parameter matrix, we provide the recovery bound for any stationary point of the nonconvex method by virtue of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-24 Xin Li , Dongya Wu

Nonnegative matrix factorization is the following problem: given a nonnegative input matrix $V$ and a factorization rank $K$, compute two nonnegative matrices, $W$ with $K$ columns and $H$ with $K$ rows, such that $WH$ approximates $V$ as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-10 Valentin Leplat , Yurii Nesterov , Nicolas Gillis , François Glineur

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 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

Low-rank matrix regression is a fundamental problem in data science with various applications in systems and control. Nuclear norm regularization has been widely applied to solve this problem due to its convexity. However, it suffers from…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-04 Mingzhou Yin , Matthias A. Müller

Minimization of the nuclear norm is often used as a surrogate, convex relaxation, for finding the minimum rank completion (recovery) of a partial matrix. The minimum nuclear norm problem can be solved as a trace minimization semidefinite…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-16 Shimeng Huang , Henry Wolkowicz

Recovering a large matrix from limited measurements is a challenging task arising in many real applications, such as image inpainting, compressive sensing and medical imaging, and this kind of problems are mostly formulated as low-rank…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-06-12 Yilun Wang , Xinhua Su

We study a general matrix optimization problem with a fixed-rank positive semidefinite (PSD) constraint. We perform the Burer-Monteiro factorization and consider a particular Riemannian quotient geometry in a search space that has a total…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-30 Yuetian Luo , Nicolas Garcia Trillos

The matrix rank minimization problem has applications in many fields such as system identification, optimal control, low-dimensional embedding, etc. As this problem is NP-hard in general, its convex relaxation, the nuclear norm minimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-01-04 Donald Goldfarb , Shiqian Ma