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Robust matrix completion aims to recover a low-rank matrix from a subset of noisy entries perturbed by complex noises, where traditional methods for matrix completion may perform poorly due to utilizing $l_2$ error norm in optimization. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Yicong He , Fei Wang , Yingsong Li , Jing Qin , Badong Chen

We consider the matrix completion problem under a form of row/column weighted entrywise sampling, including the case of uniform entrywise sampling as a special case. We analyze the associated random observation operator, and prove that with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-05-17 Sahand Negahban , Martin J. Wainwright

To address difficult optimization problems, convex relaxations based on semidefinite programming are now common place in many fields. Although solvable in polynomial time, large semidefinite programs tend to be computationally challenging.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-05-31 Afonso S. Bandeira , Nicolas Boumal , Vladislav Voroninski

The problem of low-rank approximation with convex constraints, which appears in data analysis, system identification, model order reduction, low-order controller design and low-complexity modelling is considered. Given a matrix, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-12 Christian Grussler , Anders Rantzer , Pontus Giselsson

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

Low-rank matrix recovery from structured measurements has been a topic of intense study in the last decade and many important problems like matrix completion and blind deconvolution have been formulated in this framework. An important…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-13 Felix Krahmer , Dominik Stöger

This paper focuses on recovering an underlying matrix from its noisy partial entries, a problem commonly known as matrix completion. We delve into the investigation of a non-convex regularization, referred to as transformed $L_1$ (TL1),…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-03-05 Kun Zhao , Jiayi Wang , Yifei Lou

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

Low-rank matrix completion is a widely studied problem with many variants. Inductive matrix completion (IMC) incorporates row and column side information to significantly narrow the search space. Prior work falls into two regimes: methods…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-19 Yuepeng Yang , Cong Ma

Unlike the matrix case, computing low-rank approximations of tensors is NP-hard and numerically ill-posed in general. Even the best rank-1 approximation of a tensor is NP-hard. In this paper, we use convex optimization to develop…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-09-14 Anil Aswani

We study the problem of recovering an incomplete $m\times n$ matrix of rank $r$ with columns arriving online over time. This is known as the problem of life-long matrix completion, and is widely applied to recommendation system, computer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-12-04 Maria-Florina Balcan , Hongyang Zhang

Many applications require recovering a matrix of minimal rank within an affine constraint set, with matrix completion a notable special case. Because the problem is NP-hard in general, it is common to replace the matrix rank with the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-07-08 Bo Xin , David Wipf

We address the collective matrix completion problem of jointly recovering a collection of matrices with shared structure from partial (and potentially noisy) observations. To ensure well--posedness of the problem, we impose a joint low rank…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-04-09 Suriya Gunasekar , Makoto Yamada , Dawei Yin , Yi Chang

We consider an extension of the Newton-MR algorithm for nonconvex unconstrained optimization to the settings where Hessian information is approximated. Under a particular noise model on the Hessian matrix, we investigate the iteration and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-16 Alexander Lim , Fred Roosta

This paper investigates statistical inference for noisy matrix completion in a semi-supervised model when auxiliary covariates are available. The model consists of two parts. One part is a low-rank matrix induced by unobserved latent…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-03-27 Shujie Ma , Po-Yao Niu , Yichong Zhang , Yinchu Zhu

We address the rectangular matrix completion problem by lifting the unknown matrix to a positive semidefinite matrix in higher dimension, and optimizing a nonconvex objective over the semidefinite factor using a simple gradient descent…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-11-23 Qinqing Zheng , John Lafferty

The problem of structured matrix estimation has been studied mostly under strong noise dependence assumptions. This paper considers a general framework of noisy low-rank-plus-sparse matrix recovery, where the noise matrix may come from any…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-04-07 Jinhang Chai , Jianqing Fan

This work studies low-rank approximation of a positive semidefinite matrix from partial entries via nonconvex optimization. We characterized how well local-minimum based low-rank factorization approximates a fixed positive semidefinite…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-08 Ji Chen , Xiaodong Li

Matrix learning is at the core of many machine learning problems. A number of real-world applications such as collaborative filtering and text mining can be formulated as a low-rank matrix completion problem, which recovers incomplete…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Yaqing Wang , Quanming Yao , James T. Kwok

Recent years have seen a flurry of activities in designing provably efficient nonconvex procedures for solving statistical estimation problems. Due to the highly nonconvex nature of the empirical loss, state-of-the-art procedures often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Cong Ma , Kaizheng Wang , Yuejie Chi , Yuxin Chen