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Substantial progress has been made recently on developing provably accurate and efficient algorithms for low-rank matrix factorization via nonconvex optimization. While conventional wisdom often takes a dim view of nonconvex optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Yuejie Chi , Yue M. Lu , Yuxin Chen

Recovering a low-rank signal matrix from its noisy observation, commonly known as matrix denoising, is a fundamental inverse problem in statistical signal processing. Matrix denoising methods are generally based on shrinkage or thresholding…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-01-23 Santosh Kumar Yadav , Rohit Sinha , Prabin Kumar Bora

We study the problem of recovery of matrices that are simultaneously low rank and row and/or column sparse. Such matrices appear in recent applications in cognitive neuroscience, imaging, computer vision, macroeconomics, and genetics. We…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-04-11 Ming Yu , Varun Gupta , Mladen Kolar

Quantum state tomography is a key technique for quantum information processing, but is challenging due to the exponential growth of its complexity with the system size. In this work, we propose an algorithm which iteratively finds the best…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-13 Donghong Han , Chu Guo , Xiaoting Wang

This paper investigates the asymmetric low-rank matrix completion problem, which can be formulated as an unconstrained non-convex optimization problem with a nonlinear least-squares objective function, and is solved via gradient descent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Xu Zhang , Shuo Chen , Jinsheng Li , Xiangying Pang , Maoguo Gong

In this paper, we present a sharp analysis for a class of alternating projected gradient descent algorithms which are used to solve the covariate adjusted precision matrix estimation problem in the high-dimensional setting. We demonstrate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-13 Xiao Lv , Wei Cui , Yulong Liu

The low-rank matrix recovery problem seeks to reconstruct an unknown $n_1 \times n_2$ rank-$r$ matrix from $m$ linear measurements, where $m\ll n_1n_2$. This problem has been extensively studied over the past few decades, leading to a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-02 Zhenxuan Li , Meng Huang

In this paper, we present several descent methods that can be applied to nonnegative matrix factorization and we analyze a recently developped fast block coordinate method called Rank-one Residue Iteration (RRI). We also give a comparison…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2009-08-25 Ngoc-Diep Ho , Paul Van Dooren , Vincent D. Blondel

We consider the rank minimization problem from quadratic measurements, i.e., recovering a rank $r$ matrix $X \in \mathbb{R}^{n \times r}$ from $m$ scalar measurements $y_i=a_i^{\top} XX^{\top} a_i,\;a_i\in \mathbb{R}^n,\;i=1,\ldots,m$. Such…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-05 Meng Huang , Zhiqiang Xu

Interpretability has become an important issue in the machine learning field, along with the success of layered neural networks in various practical tasks. Since a trained layered neural network consists of a complex nonlinear relationship…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-05-22 Chihiro Watanabe , Kaoru Hiramatsu , Kunio Kashino

Structure learning methods for covariance and concentration graphs are often validated on synthetic models, usually obtained by randomly generating: (i) an undirected graph, and (ii) a compatible symmetric positive definite (SPD) matrix. In…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-10-02 Irene Córdoba , Gherardo Varando , Concha Bielza , Pedro Larrañaga

Based on the method of FGD, we apply the method of adaptive gradient descent which uses different step length at different epoch. Adaptive gradient descent performs much better than FGD in the tests and keeps the guarantee of convergence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-21 Dan Qiao

We develop an efficient stochastic variance reduced gradient descent algorithm to solve the affine rank minimization problem consists of finding a matrix of minimum rank from linear measurements. The proposed algorithm as a stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-08 Ningning Han , Juan Nie , Jian Lu , Michael K. Ng

Matrix decomposition is ubiquitous and has applications in various fields like speech processing, data mining and image processing to name a few. Under matrix decomposition, nonnegative matrix factorization is used to decompose a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-14 R. Jyothi , P. Babu , R. Bahl

Matrix factorization techniques, especially Nonnegative Matrix Factorization (NMF), have been widely used for dimensionality reduction and interpretable data representation. However, existing NMF-based methods are inherently single-scale…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Jichao Zhang , Ran Miao , Limin Li

The task of recovering a low-rank matrix from its noisy linear measurements plays a central role in computational science. Smooth formulations of the problem often exhibit an undesirable phenomenon: the condition number, classically…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-24 Vasileios Charisopoulos , Yudong Chen , Damek Davis , Mateo Díaz , Lijun Ding , Dmitriy Drusvyatskiy

Traditional nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) learns a new feature representation on the whole data space, which means treating all features equally. However, a subspace is often sufficient for accurate representation in practical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Junhang Li , Jiao Wei , Can Tong , Tingting Shen , Yuchen Liu , Chen Li , Shouliang Qi , Yudong Yao , Yueyang Teng

Semi-Nonnegative Matrix Factorization (semi-NMF) extends classical Nonnegative Matrix Factorization (NMF) by allowing the basis matrix to contain both positive and negative entries, making it suitable for decomposing data with mixed signs.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Lu Chenggang

In this article, we introduce a novel normalization technique for neural network weight matrices, which we term weight conditioning. This approach aims to narrow the gap between the smallest and largest singular values of the weight…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Hemanth Saratchandran , Thomas X. Wang , Simon Lucey

Tensor ring (TR) decomposition is a powerful tool for exploiting the low-rank nature of multiway data and has demonstrated great potential in a variety of important applications. In this paper, nonnegative tensor ring (NTR) decomposition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Yuyuan Yu , Guoxu Zhou , Ning Zheng , Shengli Xie , Qibin Zhao