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Low rank approximation of matrices has been well studied in literature. Singular value decomposition, QR decomposition with column pivoting, rank revealing QR factorization (RRQR), Interpolative decomposition etc are classical deterministic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-22 N. Kishore Kumar , Jan Shneider

The problem of finding the missing values of a matrix given a few of its entries, called matrix completion, has gathered a lot of attention in the recent years. Although the problem under the standard low rank assumption is NP-hard,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-12-01 Vassilis Kalofolias , Xavier Bresson , Michael Bronstein , Pierre Vandergheynst

Matrix completion, i.e., the exact and provable recovery of a low-rank matrix from a small subset of its elements, is currently only known to be possible if the matrix satisfies a restrictive structural constraint---known as {\em…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-07-22 Yudong Chen , Srinadh Bhojanapalli , Sujay Sanghavi , Rachel Ward

Despite the popularity of low-rank matrix completion, the majority of its theory has been developed under the assumption of random observation patterns, whereas very little is known about the practically relevant case of non-random…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Manolis C. Tsakiris

Constrained low-rank matrix approximations have been known for decades as powerful linear dimensionality reduction techniques to be able to extract the information contained in large data sets in a relevant way. However, such low-rank…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Pierre De Handschutter , Nicolas Gillis , Xavier Siebert

This paper studies the inference about linear functionals of high-dimensional low-rank matrices. While most existing inference methods would require consistent estimation of the true rank, our procedure is robust to rank misspecification,…

Econometrics · Economics 2024-10-21 Jungjun Choi , Hyukjun Kwon , Yuan Liao

Robust low-rank matrix estimation is a topic of increasing interest, with promising applications in a variety of fields, from computer vision to data mining and recommender systems. Recent theoretical results establish the ability of such…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-09-29 Ignacio Ramírez , Guillermo Sapiro

Motivated by the popularity of stochastic rounding in the context of machine learning and the training of large-scale deep neural network models, we consider stochastic nearness rounding of real matrices $\mathbf{A}$ with many more rows…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Gregory Dexter , Christos Boutsikas , Linkai Ma , Ilse C. F. Ipsen , Petros Drineas

The rank of neural networks measures information flowing across layers. It is an instance of a key structural condition that applies across broad domains of machine learning. In particular, the assumption of low-rank feature representations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Ruili Feng , Kecheng Zheng , Yukun Huang , Deli Zhao , Michael Jordan , Zheng-Jun Zha

Low Rank Approximation (LRA) of a matrix is a hot research subject, fundamental for Matrix and Tensor Computations and Big Data Mining and Analysis. Computations with low rank matrices can be performed at sublinear cost -- by using much…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-11 Qi Luan , Victor Y. Pan , John Svadlenka , Liang Zhao

The singular value decomposition is widely used to approximate data matrices with lower rank matrices. Feng and He [Ann. Appl. Stat. 3 (2009) 1634-1654] developed tests on dimensionality of the mean structure of a data matrix based on the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-02-28 Xingdong Feng , Xuming He

In this paper we introduce min-plus low rank matrix approximation. By using min and plus rather than plus and times as the basic operations in the matrix multiplication; min-plus low rank matrix approximation is able to detect…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-23 James Hook

Gradient descent for matrix factorization exhibits an implicit bias toward approximately low-rank solutions. While existing theories often assume the boundedness of iterates, empirically the bias persists even with unbounded sequences. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Yikun Hou , Suvrit Sra , Alp Yurtsever

Modern technologies are producing datasets with complex intrinsic structures, and they can be naturally represented as matrices instead of vectors. To preserve the latent data structures during processing, modern regression approaches…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-16 Hang Zhang , Fengyuan Zhu , Shixin Li

Low-rank matrix approximations, such as the truncated singular value decomposition and the rank-revealing QR decomposition, play a central role in data analysis and scientific computing. This work surveys and extends recent research which…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-04-29 Nathan Halko , Per-Gunnar Martinsson , Joel A. Tropp

Even in times of deep learning, low-rank approximations by factorizing a matrix into user and item latent factors continue to be a method of choice for collaborative filtering tasks due to their great performance. While deep learning based…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Marcel Kurovski , Florian Wilhelm

Training deep neural networks in low rank, i.e. with factorised layers, is of particular interest to the community: it offers efficiency over unfactorised training in terms of both memory consumption and training time. Prior work has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Siddhartha Rao Kamalakara , Acyr Locatelli , Bharat Venkitesh , Jimmy Ba , Yarin Gal , Aidan N. Gomez

We address the problem of minimizing a convex function over the space of large matrices with low rank. While this optimization problem is hard in general, we propose an efficient greedy algorithm and derive its formal approximation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2011-06-09 Shai Shalev-Shwartz , Alon Gonen , Ohad Shamir

The aim of reduced rank regression is to connect multiple response variables to multiple predictors. This model is very popular, especially in biostatistics where multiple measurements on individuals can be re-used to predict multiple…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-06-20 The Tien Mai , Pierre Alquier

Recently, fundamental conditions on the sampling patterns have been obtained for finite completability of low-rank matrices or tensors given the corresponding ranks. In this paper, we consider the scenario where the rank is not given and we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-03 Morteza Ashraphijuo , Xiaodong Wang , Vaneet Aggarwal