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Optimization problems with rank constraints arise in many applications, including matrix regression, structured PCA, matrix completion and matrix decomposition problems. An attractive heuristic for solving such problems is to factorize the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-09-11 Yudong Chen , Martin J. Wainwright

Low Rank Approximation (LRA) of a matrix is a hot research subject, fundamental for Matrix and Tensor Computations and Big Data Mining and Analysis. Computations with low rank matrices can be performed at sublinear cost -- by using much…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-11 Qi Luan , Victor Y. Pan , John Svadlenka , Liang Zhao

We use available measurements to estimate the unknown parameters (variance, smoothness parameter, and covariance length) of a covariance function by maximizing the joint Gaussian log-likelihood function. To overcome cubic complexity in the…

Computation · Statistics 2018-09-13 Alexander Litvinenko , Ying Sun , Marc G. Genton , David Keyes

We propose practical algorithms for entrywise $\ell_p$-norm low-rank approximation, for $p = 1$ or $p = \infty$. The proposed framework, which is non-convex and gradient-based, is easy to implement and typically attains better…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-25 Anastasios Kyrillidis

In applications such as natural language processing or computer vision, one is given a large $n \times d$ matrix $A = (a_{i,j})$ and would like to compute a matrix decomposition, e.g., a low rank approximation, of a function $f(A) =…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Yifei Jiang , Yi Li , Yiming Sun , Jiaxin Wang , David P. Woodruff

Randomized sampling has recently been proven a highly efficient technique for computing approximate factorizations of matrices that have low numerical rank. This paper describes an extension of such techniques to a wider class of matrices…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-25 Per-Gunnar Martinsson

We overcome two major bottlenecks in the study of low rank approximation by assuming the low rank factors themselves are sparse. Specifically, (1) for low rank approximation with spectral norm error, we show how to improve the best known…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-02 David P. Woodruff , Taisuke Yasuda

Rank deficient Hankel matrices are at the core of several applications. However, in practice, the coefficients of these matrices are noisy due to e.g. measurements errors and computational errors, so generically the involved matrices are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-15 Antonio Fazzi , Nicola Guglielmi , Ivan Markovsky

Given a linear subspace of $n \times n$ matrices over $\mathbb F_{2^r}$ that is promised to contain a matrix of rank $1$, we prove that it is hard to find a matrix of rank $n^{o(1/\log \log n)}$, assuming NP doesn't have sub-exponential…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Venkatesan Guruswami , Xuandi Ren , Shaoxuan Tang

Matrix rank minimization problems are gaining a plenty of recent attention in both mathematical and engineering fields. This class of problems, arising in various and across-discipline applications, is known to be NP-hard in general. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-10-06 Yun-Bin Zhao

Recently, Musco and Woodruff (FOCS, 2017) showed that given an $n \times n$ positive semidefinite (PSD) matrix $A$, it is possible to compute a $(1+\epsilon)$-approximate relative-error low-rank approximation to $A$ by querying…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Ainesh Bakshi , Nadiia Chepurko , David P. Woodruff

We propose a computational framework for computing low-rank approximations to the ensemble of solutions of a parametrized system of the form $A(\xi)x(\xi)+g(x(\xi))=b(\xi)$ for multiple parameter values. The central idea is to reinterpret…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-09 Marco Sutti , Tommaso Vanzan

Randomized algorithms for low-rank approximation of quaternion matrices have gained increasing attention in recent years. However, existing methods overlook pass efficiency, the ability to limit the number of passes over the input…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-25 Salman Ahmadi-Asl , Malihe Nobakht Kooshkghazi , Valentin Leplat

The low-rank matrix approximation problems within a threshold are widely applied in information retrieval, image processing, background estimation of the video sequence problems and so on. This paper presents an adaptive randomized…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Qiaohua Liu , Yuejuan Yu

We present a general technique for approximating bicriteria minimization problems with positive-valued, polynomially computable objective functions. Given $0<\epsilon\leq1$ and a polynomial-time $\alpha$-approximation algorithm for the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-16 Pascal Halffmann , Stefan Ruzika , Clemens Thielen , David Willems

We propose a method for rank $k$ approximation to a given input matrix $X \in \mathbb{R}^{d \times n}$ which runs in time \[ \tilde{O} \left(d ~\cdot~ \min\left\{n + \tilde{sr}(X) \,G^{-2}_{k,p+1}\ ,\ n^{3/4}\, \tilde{sr}(X)^{1/4}…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-12 Alon Gonen , Shai Shalev-Shwartz

We initiate the study of the algorithmic problem of certifying lower bounds on the discrepancy of random matrices: given an input matrix $A \in \mathbb{R}^{m \times n}$, output a value that is a lower bound on $\mathsf{disc}(A) = \min_{x…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Prayaag Venkat

The paper addresses the problem of low-rank trace norm minimization. We propose an algorithm that alternates between fixed-rank optimization and rank-one updates. The fixed-rank optimization is characterized by an efficient factorization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-06-04 B. Mishra , G. Meyer , F. Bach , R. Sepulchre

Weighted low-rank approximation (WLRA), a dimensionality reduction technique for data analysis, has been successfully used in several applications, such as in collaborative filtering to design recommender systems or in computer vision to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-08-13 Nicolas Gillis , François Glineur

Low-rank approximation of a matrix by means of random sampling has been consistently efficient in its empirical studies by many scientists who applied it with various sparse and structured multipliers, but adequate formal support for this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-07 Victor Y. Pan , Liang Zhao