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Low rank matrix recovery is the focus of many applications, but it is a NP-hard problem. A popular way to deal with this problem is to solve its convex relaxation, the nuclear norm regularized minimization problem (NRM), which includes…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-17 Pan Shang , Lingchen Kong

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

This preliminary note presents a heuristic for determining rank constrained solutions to linear matrix equations (LME). The method proposed here is based on minimizing a non-convex quadratic functional, which will hence-forth be termed as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-10 Shravan Mohan

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

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

Matrix rank minimizing subject to affine constraints arises in many application areas, ranging from signal processing to machine learning. Nuclear norm is a convex relaxation for this problem which can recover the rank exactly under some…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-08-20 Zhao Kang , Chong Peng , Qiang Cheng

Recovering a low-rank tensor from incomplete information is a recurring problem in signal processing and machine learning. The most popular convex relaxation of this problem minimizes the sum of the nuclear norms of the unfoldings of the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-08-16 Cun Mu , Bo Huang , John Wright , Donald Goldfarb

For the problem of reconstructing a low-rank matrix from a few linear measurements, two classes of algorithms have been widely studied in the literature: convex approaches based on nuclear norm minimization, and non-convex approaches that…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-07-29 Dominik Stöger , Yizhe Zhu

We study the problem of finding structured low-rank matrices using nuclear norm regularization where the structure is encoded by a linear map. In contrast to most known approaches for linearly structured rank minimization, we do not (a) use…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-09-09 Adams Wei Yu , Wanli Ma , Yaoliang Yu , Jaime G. Carbonell , Suvrit Sra

This paper studies noisy low-rank matrix completion: given partial and noisy entries of a large low-rank matrix, the goal is to estimate the underlying matrix faithfully and efficiently. Arguably one of the most popular paradigms to tackle…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-10-08 Yuxin Chen , Yuejie Chi , Jianqing Fan , Cong Ma , Yuling Yan

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

For the problems of low-rank matrix completion, the efficiency of the widely-used nuclear norm technique may be challenged under many circumstances, especially when certain basis coefficients are fixed, for example, the low-rank correlation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-06-23 Weimin Miao , Shaohua Pan , Defeng Sun

Low-rank matrix completion (LRMC) has demonstrated remarkable success in a wide range of applications. To address the NP-hard nature of the rank minimization problem, the nuclear norm is commonly used as a convex and computationally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Zhijie Wang , Liangtian He , Qinghua Zhang , Jifei Miao , Liang-Jian Deng , Jun Liu

Trace norm regularization is a widely used approach for learning low rank matrices. A standard optimization strategy is based on formulating the problem as one of low rank matrix factorization which, however, leads to a non-convex problem.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Carlo Ciliberto , Dimitris Stamos , Massimiliano Pontil

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 considers the problem of minimizing the sum of a smooth function and the Schatten-$p$ norm of the matrix. Our contribution involves proposing accelerated iteratively reweighted nuclear norm methods designed for solving the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-27 Hao Wang , Ye Wang , Xiangyu Yang

We analyze a class of estimators based on convex relaxation for solving high-dimensional matrix decomposition problems. The observations are noisy realizations of a linear transformation $\mathfrak{X}$ of the sum of an approximately) low…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2012-08-09 Alekh Agarwal , Sahand N. Negahban , Martin J. Wainwright

This work investigates the geometry of a nonconvex reformulation of minimizing a general convex loss function $f(X)$ regularized by the matrix nuclear norm $\|X\|_*$. Nuclear-norm regularized matrix inverse problems are at the heart of many…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2017-04-07 Qiuwei Li , Zhihui Zhu , Gongguo Tang

Low-rank matrix recovery is well-known to exhibit benign nonconvexity under the restricted isometry property (RIP): every second-order critical point is globally optimal, so local methods provably recover the ground truth. Motivated by the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-22 Richard Y. Zhang

Recent work established that rank overparameterization eliminates spurious local minima in nonconvex low-rank matrix recovery under the restricted isometry property (RIP). But this does not fully explain the practical success of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-07 Richard Y. Zhang