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Matrix completion is a classical problem that has received recurring interest across a wide range of fields. In this paper, we revisit this problem in an ultra-sparse sampling regime, where each entry of an unknown, $n\times d$ matrix $M$…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Hongyang R. Zhang , Zhenshuo Zhang , Huy L. Nguyen , Guanghui Lan

The problem of predicting unobserved entries in a binary matrix, known as 1-bit matrix completion, has found diverse applications in fields such as recommendation systems. In this study, we develop an empirical Bayes method for 1-bit matrix…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-12 Takeru Matsuda

While the matrix completion problem has attracted considerable attention over the decades, few works address the nonignorable missing issue and all have their limitations. In this article, we propose a nuclear norm regularized row- and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-30 Yuanhong A , Guoyu Zhang , Yongcheng Zeng , Bo Zhang

Currently, there is renewed interest in the problem, raised by Shafer in 1985, of updating probabilities when observations are incomplete. This is a fundamental problem in general, and of particular interest for Bayesian networks. Recently,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Gert de Cooman , Marco Zaffalon

This work applies Matrix Completion (MC) -- a class of machine-learning methods commonly used in the context of recommendation systems -- to analyse economic complexity. MC is applied to reconstruct the Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA)…

General Economics · Economics 2021-09-10 Gnecco Giorgio , Nutarelli Federico , Riccaboni Massimo

The problem of completing high-dimensional matrices from a limited set of observations arises in many big data applications, especially, recommender systems. Existing matrix completion models generally follow either a memory- or a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-30 Duc Minh Nguyen , Robert Calderbank , Nikos Deligiannis

A new message-passing (MP) method is considered for the matrix completion problem associated with recommender systems. We attack the problem using a (generative) factor graph model that is related to a probabilistic low-rank matrix…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-07-06 Byung-Hak Kim , Arvind Yedla , Henry D. Pfister

Bayesian model comparison (BMC) offers a principled approach for assessing the relative merits of competing computational models and propagating uncertainty into model selection decisions. However, BMC is often intractable for the popular…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-11-27 Lasse Elsemüller , Martin Schnuerch , Paul-Christian Bürkner , Stefan T. Radev

Robust matrix completion (RMC) is a widely used machine learning tool that simultaneously tackles two critical issues in low-rank data analysis: missing data entries and extreme outliers. This paper proposes a novel scalable and learnable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-22 HanQin Cai , Chandra Kundu , Jialin Liu , Wotao Yin

The matrix completion problem aims to reconstruct a low-rank matrix based on a revealed set of possibly noisy entries. Prior works consider completing the entire matrix with generalization error guarantees. However, the completion accuracy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Elad Hazan , Adam Tauman Kalai , Varun Kanade , Clara Mohri , Y. Jennifer Sun

In this work, we consider the matrix completion problem, where the objective is to reconstruct a low-rank matrix from a few observed entries. A commonly employed approach involves nuclear norm minimization. For this method to succeed, the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-25 Hamideh. Sadat Fazael Ardakani , Sajad Daei , Arash Amini , Mikael Skoglund , Gabor Fodor

We consider the statistical inference for noisy incomplete binary (or 1-bit) matrix. Despite the importance of uncertainty quantification to matrix completion, most of the categorical matrix completion literature focuses on point estimation…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-01-20 Yunxiao Chen , Chengcheng Li , Jing Ouyang , Gongjun Xu

Matrix completion refers to completing a low-rank matrix from a few observed elements of its entries and has been known as one of the significant and widely-used problems in recent years. The required number of observations for exact…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Hamideh. Sadat Fazael Ardakani , Niloufar Rahmani , Sajad Daei

Currently, there is renewed interest in the problem, raised by Shafer in 1985, of updating probabilities when observations are incomplete (or set-valued). This is a fundamental problem, and of particular interest for Bayesian networks.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-08-08 Gert de Cooman , Marco Zaffalon

We present a novel method for matrix completion, specifically designed for matrices where one dimension is significantly larger than the other. Our Columns Selected Matrix Completion (CSMC) method combines Column Subset Selection with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Antonina Krajewska , Ewa Niewiadomska-Szynkiewicz

The adequate use of information measured in a continuous manner along a period of time represents a methodological challenge. In the last decades, most of traditional statistical procedures have been extended for accommodating these…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-12-04 Pablo Martinez-Camblor

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

Matrix completion has received vast amount of attention and research due to its wide applications in various study fields. Existing methods of matrix completion consider only nonlinear (or linear) relations among entries in a data matrix…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Saeid Mehrdad , Mohammad Hossein Kahaei

Recommender systems are essential tools in the digital landscape for connecting users with content that more closely aligns with their preferences. Matrix completion is a widely used statistical framework for such systems, aiming to predict…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-07-30 Aurore Archimbaud , Andreas Alfons , Ines Wilms

Consider a movie recommendation system where apart from the ratings information, side information such as user's age or movie's genre is also available. Unlike standard matrix completion, in this setting one should be able to predict…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-06-05 Prateek Jain , Inderjit S. Dhillon