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We study the robust matrix completion (RMC) problem subject to both sparse outliers and stochastic noise. A non-convex method termed Accelerated Robust Matrix Completion (ARMC) is proposed, which accelerates a prior non-convex approach by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Yichen Fu , Tianming Wang , Ke Wei

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

High-dimensional matrix regression has been studied in various aspects, such as statistical properties, computational efficiency and application to specific instances including multivariate regression, system identification and matrix…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-03-06 Xin Li , Dongya Wu

This paper considers a large class of problems where we seek to recover a low rank matrix and/or sparse vector from some set of measurements. While methods based on convex relaxations suffer from a (possibly large) estimator bias, and other…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-09-28 April Sagan , John E. Mitchell

We study a noisy tensor completion problem of broad practical interest, namely, the reconstruction of a low-rank tensor from highly incomplete and randomly corrupted observations of its entries. While a variety of prior work has been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Changxiao Cai , Gen Li , H. Vincent Poor , Yuxin Chen

The problem of matrix sensing, or trace regression, is a problem wherein one wishes to estimate a low-rank matrix from linear measurements perturbed with noise. A number of existing works have studied both convex and nonconvex approaches to…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-26 Joshua Agterberg , René 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

The matrix recovery (completion) problem, a central problem in data science and theoretical computer science, is to recover a matrix $A$ from a relatively small sample of entries. While such a task is impossible in general, it has been…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-03-06 BaoLinh Tran , Van Vu

Low-rank matrix models have been universally useful for numerous applications, from classical system identification to more modern matrix completion in signal processing and statistics. The nuclear norm has been employed as a convex…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-03-06 Kiryung Lee , Rakshith Sharma Srinivasa , Marius Junge , Justin Romberg

Many high dimensional sparse learning problems are formulated as nonconvex optimization. A popular approach to solve these nonconvex optimization problems is through convex relaxations such as linear and semidefinite programming. In this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-03-17 Zhaoran Wang , Quanquan Gu , Han Liu

We investigate the effectiveness of convex relaxation and nonconvex optimization in solving bilinear systems of equations under two different designs (i.e.$~$a sort of random Fourier design and Gaussian design). Despite the wide…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-07-14 Yuxin Chen , Jianqing Fan , Bingyan Wang , Yuling Yan

In this paper, we investigate the matrix estimation problem in the multi-response regression model with measurement errors. A nonconvex error-corrected estimator based on a combination of the amended loss function and the nuclear norm…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-09-19 Xin Li , Dongya Wu

This paper is concerned with the problem of recovering an unknown matrix from a small fraction of its entries. This is known as the matrix completion problem, and comes up in a great number of applications, including the famous Netflix…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-03-10 Emmanuel J. Candes , Terence Tao

This paper concerns with a noisy structured low-rank matrix recovery problem which can be modeled as a structured rank minimization problem. We reformulate this problem as a mathematical program with a generalized complementarity constraint…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-14 Shujun Bi , Shaohua Pan , Defeng Sun

Despite the recent development in machine learning, most learning systems are still under the concept of "black box", where the performance cannot be understood and derived. With the rise of safety and privacy concerns in public, designing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Shuai Zhang

We consider the densest submatrix problem, which seeks the submatrix of fixed size of a given binary matrix that contains the most nonzero entries. This problem is a natural generalization of fundamental problems in combinatorial…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-13 Valentine Olanubi , Phineas Agar , Brendan Ames

Matrix completion has been well studied under the uniform sampling model and the trace-norm regularized methods perform well both theoretically and numerically in such a setting. However, the uniform sampling model is unrealistic for a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-01 T. Tony Cai , Wen-Xin Zhou

In this article, we develop methods for estimating a low rank tensor from noisy observations on a subset of its entries to achieve both statistical and computational efficiencies. There have been a lot of recent interests in this problem of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-03-21 Dong Xia , Ming Yuan , Cun-Hui Zhang

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

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…

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